It's a tough time to be a gamer on a tight budget. The AI boom has made fab time a precious resource. There's no business case for GPU vendors to use their precious TSMC wafers to churn out low-cost, low-margin, entry-level chips, much as we might want them to.
The ever-shifting tariff situation in the USA means prices are constantly in flux. And ever-increasing VRAM requirements mean that the 4GB and 6GB graphics cards of yore are being crushed by the latest games. Even if you can still find those cards on shelves, they're not smart buys.
