Rather than do our usual revisit where we compare the RX 580 head-to-head with the GTX 1060 6GB or a range of newer GPUs, today's comparison is going to be very different and not something we've done before. So I guess the next question is, just how well does the RX 580 8GB handle games in 2021? The Radeon RX 580 8GB option only makes sense if you can't afford to spend more than $500 on a graphics card and you have no way of gaming right now.
Or I suppose you could continue hanging in there and try to get a 3070 at a more reasonable price, but good luck with that. The alternative should you have $1300 right now, is to just buy the RTX 3070, it'll cost around $400 more than the second hand stop-gap scenario, but you can enjoy 3070-like performance today. Buying the RX 580 now in hopes that in a year from today, RTX 3070-like performance will be achievable for $500, that transaction will end up costing you $900 in total, $400 for the hit on the Radeon, and then $500 for the new graphics card in a year's time. Let's say the goal is to secure RTX 3070 performance, but you can't afford to drop over $1000 on a graphics card. But if you pay $1300 for an RTX 3070, which should only be worth $500, you'd stand to lose $800.
If you land an RX 580 8GB for even $500, under normal market conditions you'd be able to sell it for at least $100, so you'd potentially lose $400 on that transaction. When we made that recommendation last time, you could snap one up for around $300, today though they're more like $400+. This is why we've been recommending you get rolled on a much cheaper and older second hand graphics card like the Radeon RX 580 8GB. That's an insane markup but with virtually zero chance of snapping up a $500 model over at places like Newegg or Amazon, some gamers are taking the hit. Even the RTX 3060 is regularly selling for over $800. Over at eBay people are selling them for well over $1000, most models fetch between $1300 and $1400. Take the GeForce RTX 3070 for example, it's meant to cost $500 but due to limited supply and high demand just getting your hands on one for any price is extremely hard. If you're in that group of people, we've been recommending to avoid paying excessively high scalper prices for a shiny new Ampere or RDNA2 GPU, and instead look at the second hand market where you're still getting rolled, but you'll end up losing a lot less money. But for those of you who are rocking a super old graphics card, or don't have one at all, things might be getting desperate. If you already have a half decent GPU, then it's just been disappointing and perhaps a bit frustrating that you can't turn your cold hard cash into extra FPS. 2021 has been a rough year for gamers, particularly those looking for a new graphics card.
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