This week's Market Watch refresh landed with an unusual split: the GPU numbers are almost identical to last week's, and the CPU numbers actually moved. RAM adds one new tracked kit and one listing worth a raised eyebrow. Figures below are US, tax excluded, unless a region is named.
GPUs: the same prices, wearing new percentages
Current US medians: RTX 5090 $4,000 (nine samples, $3,749 to $4,999.99), RTX 5080 $1,250, RTX 5070 Ti $949, RTX 5070 $599, RX 9070 XT $690. Every one of those sits within a few dollars of last week's published read, which makes this week's reported 7-day changes hard to take at face value: the RTX 5070 Ti shows a 58 percent gain, the RTX 5080 28 percent, the RTX 5070 11 percent, on medians that did not actually move. A card priced exactly where it was priced seven days ago does not need a percentage sign to prove it did something. The one figure with real trailing history behind it is the RTX 5090's 30-day trend, down 4 percent and still roughly double its $1,999 MSRP.
CPUs: three Ryzen chips actually got cheaper
The Ryzen 7 9700X refreshed to $293 (six samples, $274.99 to $400), comfortably under its $359 MSRP and down from last week's published $295. The Ryzen 9 9900X3D dropped to $500, a hundred dollars under its $599 MSRP and down from last week's $550, though on three samples that reading is directional rather than settled. The Ryzen 9 9950X held close to flat at $510 (five samples, $474.58 to $600), still under its $649 MSRP. Unlike the GPU cluster above, these are real week-over-week moves against real prior numbers, not a thin sample suddenly acquiring a percentage. CPUs remain the only lane in this dataset where every tracked chip sits under its launch price; GPUs have not managed that on a single SKU in weeks.
RAM: one new kit found, one number worth a second look
The G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB 32GB DDR5-6000 CL30 kit gets its first tracked reading this week, $495 median across five samples ($484.99 to $599.99), after five straight refresh passes failed to find the exact SKU on Market Watch's usual source. The Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5-6000 CL30 kit is unchanged at $480 (seven samples), still the closest thing to a control group in this dataset. The Patriot Viper Venom kit sits at $410 (four samples, $380 to $592) in the US and €429 in Germany, VAT included, on three samples; its own reported 30-day trend flipped from a 32 percent gain last week to a 16 percent loss this week on similarly thin sampling, which says more about how little data one SKU carries than about a real price move. The Crucial Pro Overclocking 32GB DDR5-6000 kit's retail median still reads $372, but the only listing anyone could actually buy jumped from $460 to $929 on a single eBay row, low-confidence and not worth acting on until it repeats.
CPUs are the lane where waiting has paid off this week. GPU prices haven't punished waiting either, mostly because they haven't gone anywhere. Any RAM figure built from a single listing, in either direction, isn't a price yet, just a data point asking for a second one.