In brief: If anything illustrates just how bad today'south graphics card market is, it's this: the acknowledged GPU on both Amazon and Newegg isn't one of the RTX 3000 or Radeon RX 6000 series. It's not even from the RTX 2000 line. It'southward the two-year-old, underwhelming GTX 1650.

We're all familiar with the problems that come up with trying to buy a graphics carte du jour today. The principal culprit is the chip shortage, which many in the industry, including Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, believe will non convalesce until 2023. The obscene prices and general lack of availability are exacerbated by scalpers looking to brand a quick profit and miners taking reward of cryptos' high price.

The result of all this mess is that many people, especially those building PCs from scratch, only can't afford to add a modern GPU. Tom's Hardware reports that the situation has led to the Turing-era GTX 1650 condign the best-selling carte du jour on both Amazon and Newegg.

The news won't surprise those paying attention to the Steam Hardware & Software Survey. The GTX 1650 is the second-most-popular card amid participants and saw the fifth-highest (0.xvi%) gains final calendar month.

That's not to say that the GTX 1650 is selling anywhere near its original $150 MSRP. Newegg's number ane—the MSI Ventus—is $355, while Amazon's Zotac Gaming GTX 1650 is $324. Strangely, MSI's GDDR5 card is more expensive than Zotac's GDDR6-sporting model.

The GTX 1650 will become you near 60fps on Battlefield 5. Would you pay $324 - $355 for that?

Tom'south notes that in addition to existence 1 of the cheapest cards available that can clasp out around 60fps@1080p on many modern(ish) games, the card's four different versions fabricated with 3 different dies and two unlike memory modules are as well helping its cause, allowing Nvidia to produce it in large quantities and recycle defective TU116 and TU106 dies to be used in the GTX 1650.

We awarded the GTX 1650 a score of sixty in our 2022 review, noting that it wasn't a bad product at its $150 MSRP—still, drastic times and all that.