The NVIDIA-based video card market is a bit more splintered than the ATI one, and we still have the older GeForce cards available at street level, and competing at the entry-level and mainstream sectors. Naturally, the GeForce 8 and 9 Series lines receive a greater number of listings, especially as we move to the popular GeForce 8400/8600/8800 and GeForce 9600/9800 levels. NVIDIA gets the same overall coverage as the ATI list, starting at the entry-level GeForce FX, moving to the GeForce 9600 series, and ending with the powerful GeForce GTX 260 896MB and GTX 280 1GB cards. But just like ATI, some NVIDIA models are becoming increasingly hard to locate, and we continue to adjust our list accordingly.
It wasn't such a wild time when it came to NVIDIA-based video cards, and we could only locate five price drops of the double-digit variety. The largest decreases included the GeForce GTX 260 896MB (-$19), GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (-$18), GeForce 7600 GS 256MB (-$16), and GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB (-$15) graphics cards. This looks alright, but there were also a pair of similar price increases, as the GeForce 7300 GS 128MB increased by $10 while the GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB jumped by $19. The led to a rather sedate week for GeForce cards, as the overall chart fell by only $104, which was well off the massive $689 chart decrease we had in August.