That brought the effective price down to $510, for a $750 card that was often hard to find for under a grand. For the sake of comparison, I checked the current price on that same Zotac RTX 5070 Ti. A mid-range, pre-built gaming desktop that I recommended for a friend at around the same time was $1000, which I considered a good deal. So even if the “AI” bubble pops today, we’re in for a year or more of wildly inflated prices. But that might just slow the price problems, not reverse them.