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 9400/9600/9800 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 older NVIDIA models are becoming increasingly hard to locate, and we continue to adjust our list accordingly.
There was quite a bit of movement in the NVIDIA-based video card listings, but unfortunately, the price changes were hitting on both ends of the chart. Nine GeForce cards fell by double digits, but the two largest were only a $21 drop to the GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB and a $16 cut to the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB. There were only four similar price increases, but these included some massive spikes, such as a $77 price jump to the GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB, which was on deep discount last month. The cost of a GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, another deal from September, jumped by $39, and helped the NVIDIA chart post an aggregate $6 chart increase.