Used Price Minimum
Used minimum tracks the lowest recent qualifying sold price found in the imported market data. It is useful for finding the floor of the market, but it can also be noisy when one especially cheap sale slips through.
PC Part ValueUsed GPU price and value
Used GPU Price-to-Performance Chart
This page explains how PC Part Value ranks used graphics cards, what the chart is measuring, and how to read the site without over-trusting a single cheap listing. The goal is simple: show what GPUs are actually selling for and line that up with usable performance data, instead of treating MSRP or asking prices like the market.
The live tool compares recent used pricing against relative performance, 3DMark Time Spy, TFLOPS, memory, release year, and power draw. That makes it useful for budget upgrades, second-hand gaming builds, and sanity checks when a listing looks too good or too expensive.
What The Chart Measures
The chart is built for used GPU shoppers first, not launch-day product research.
Used 25th Percentile
The 25th percentile is usually the better budget-shopping baseline because it is harder for one outlier sale to distort it. That is why the guide pages prefer the 25th percentile when the site has it.
Performance Inputs
Relative performance is imported from TechPowerUp data. Time Spy scores from 3DMark and FP32 TFLOPS provide secondary views, so you can compare cards through more than one benchmark lens.
Value Versus Efficiency
Value helps answer which card buys the most speed per dollar. Efficiency helps answer which card buys the most speed per watt. Those rankings can point to different cards, especially when older GPUs are cheap but power-hungry.
Budget Guides
These guides match common shopping questions and link back into the live chart and GPU detail pages.
Budget guide
Best used GPUs under $100
Ranked picks based on recent used pricing and relative performance, with caveats for older cards, low VRAM, and thin sold-listing samples.
Budget guideBest used GPUs under $150
Ranked picks based on recent used pricing and relative performance, with caveats for older cards, low VRAM, and thin sold-listing samples.
Budget guideBest used GPUs under $200
Ranked picks based on recent used pricing and relative performance, with caveats for older cards, low VRAM, and thin sold-listing samples.
Budget guideBest used GPUs under $300
Ranked picks based on recent used pricing and relative performance, with caveats for older cards, low VRAM, and thin sold-listing samples.
Featured GPU Pages
These individual GPU pages are the dedicated pages behind the live table and chart.
- #1
Radeon R9 FURY Fiji | HBM | 4 GB
Recent used pricing around $63.75, and it still reaches 6 relative performance. Its 2015 release date helps explain where it fits in the current used stack.
used 25th percentile: $63.75relative perf: 6memory: 4 GBreleased: 2015 - #2
Radeon RX 7650 GRE Navi 33 | GDDR6 | 8 GB
This card pairs 18 relative performance with recent used pricing around $199.99, and a 2025 release makes it newer than many alternatives in the same range.
used 25th percentile: $199.99relative perf: 18memory: 8 GBreleased: 2025 - #3
Radeon RX 7600 Navi 33 | GDDR6 | 8 GB
17 relative performance at recent used pricing around $209.99 is the main reason it stands out here; a 2023 release makes it newer than many alternatives in the same range.
used 25th percentile: $209.99relative perf: 17memory: 8 GBreleased: 2023 - #4
Radeon R9 FURY X Fiji | HBM | 4 GB
Compared with most cards nearby, it gets to 7 relative performance on recent used pricing around $84.34, with its 2015 release date helps explain where it fits in the current used stack.
used 25th percentile: $84.34relative perf: 7memory: 4 GBreleased: 2015 - #5
Radeon RX 7900 GRE Navi 31 | GDDR6 | 16 GB
Recent used pricing around $459.21, and it still reaches 37 relative performance. 16 GB of VRAM gives it more headroom than most cards near this price.
used 25th percentile: $459.21relative perf: 37memory: 16 GBreleased: 2023 - #6
Radeon R9 390X Grenada | GDDR5 | 8 GB
This card pairs 5 relative performance with recent used pricing around $63.73, and 8 GB of VRAM still clears the baseline many used-market buyers want.
used 25th percentile: $63.73relative perf: 5memory: 8 GBreleased: 2015 - #7
Radeon RX 580 Polaris 20 | GDDR5 | 8 GB
5 relative performance at recent used pricing around $67.4 is the main reason it stands out here; 8 GB of VRAM still clears the baseline many used-market buyers want.
used 25th percentile: $67.4relative perf: 5memory: 8 GBreleased: 2017 - #8
Radeon RX 590 Polaris 30 | GDDR5 | 8 GB
Compared with most cards nearby, it gets to 6 relative performance on recent used pricing around $78.98, with 8 GB of VRAM still clears the baseline many used-market buyers want.
used 25th percentile: $78.98relative perf: 6memory: 8 GBreleased: 2018 - #9
GeForce RTX 3080 GA102 | GDDR6X | 10 GB
Recent used pricing around $330.5, and it still reaches 24 relative performance. 10 GB of VRAM still clears the baseline many used-market buyers want.
used 25th percentile: $330.5relative perf: 24memory: 10 GBreleased: 2020 - #10
Radeon RX 7900 XT Navi 31 | GDDR6 | 20 GB
This card pairs 41 relative performance with recent used pricing around $592.73, and 20 GB of VRAM gives it more headroom than most cards near this price.
used 25th percentile: $592.73relative perf: 41memory: 20 GBreleased: 2022
How To Interpret The Rankings
A chart like this is most useful when it gives you a shortlist, not when it makes the final buying decision for you.
Start With Budget, Then Read The Caveats
A card that ranks well under a budget cap is not automatically the best purchase. Check memory capacity, age, power draw, codec support, and the number of recent sold listings before treating it as the obvious winner.
Cheap Older Cards Need More Scrutiny
Older cards often score well on price-to-performance because they have fallen hard in resale value. That does not always mean they are the best modern gaming or creator choice once VRAM limits, feature support, and efficiency matter.
Use The Live Chart For Shortlists
After you land on a few candidates, switch over to the live chart to change price mode, sort by 3DMark per dollar or relative performance per dollar, and compare the exact cards side by side.
Use The GPU Pages For Specific Cards
When a card looks promising, open its dedicated page to review the used-price history, current percentile snapshot, spec sheet, and any data gaps before you buy.
FAQ
Short answers to the questions that matter most when using the site.
What does the used GPU price-to-performance chart measure?
The guide combines recent used-market pricing with imported performance data so you can compare what cards cost against what they deliver.
How is used price defined on PC Part Value?
When the site has enough sold listings, it prefers the used 25th percentile because it is usually more stable than a single floor sale. If that is unavailable, it falls back to the used minimum.
What is the difference between value and efficiency?
Value favors more performance per dollar. Efficiency favors more performance per watt. A card can rank well on one and look weaker on the other.
What can make a high value score misleading?
Low VRAM, older media engines, thin sold-listing samples, and high power draw can all make a cheap GPU look better on paper than it feels in a real build.