OUR METHODOLOGY
A price is only useful with context.
How GPU identity, shipping, freshness and recorded history shape our comparisons. What our recorded lows mean—and what they do not.
First, identify the exact product.
A GPU family name is a starting point, not a complete identity. We distinguish board manufacturer, model, memory capacity and condition. A refurbished card is not interchangeable with a new one. Ambiguous or suspicious matches are held back rather than silently combined.
Family pages help you explore related boards. Price history is shown separately for each exact board and condition; a cheaper variant does not establish a price drop for another model.
Use approved, fresh merchant offers.
Publication requires an approved merchant program and an eligible offer. Feed access alone does not mean permission to promote a merchant. Inactive, stale, unavailable and suspicious listings are excluded from current offers. The time an offer was observed is shown in UTC.
A feed is an observation, not a reservation. Stock, checkout totals and merchant terms can change between collection and your visit. We are a comparison service, not the seller, and do not take payments for the products listed.
Shipping is part of the comparison.
An item price and an item-plus-shipping price answer different questions. When a feed provides shipping, we show the amount and a combined total. If shipping is unknown, we label it unknown—not free—and do not present a verified delivered total.
Taxes and location-dependent charges may not be available in the feed. Check the merchant’s final amount. Item-only and known-shipping histories are not blended into one series.
Daily observations, not manufactured history.
Charts use recorded daily minimum prices for the same board, condition and price basis. Several merchant checks on the same day do not become several equally weighted days. The median is the middle of the daily observations, not a merchant’s suggested list price.
Choose the last 30 days, last 90 days or all recorded observations. We display when tracking began, the dates covered by the selected window and how many days have observations. A line joins observed points; it does not prove that a price was available between checks. Empty periods are not filled with estimates.
A recorded low has a boundary.
“Recorded low” means the lowest eligible observation in the stated tracking window. It does not mean the lowest price ever, the lowest on every website, or a guarantee of the next price. Our tracking starts at the displayed date, which may be well after a product launched.
Deal labels depend on the recorded history, current comparable offers, price basis, freshness and product-identity confidence. Sparse or suspicious evidence does not earn a promotional claim. Price-drop pages compare the current price with our seven-day recorded median; they do not assert a drop since yesterday.
No commission-based price ranking.
Eligible offers are ordered by known item-plus-shipping cost first, with unknown-shipping offers clearly separated by their missing total. Affiliate commission does not buy a higher price ranking. Some merchant links may earn us a commission without changing the price you pay.
No language model is needed to produce the current price comparisons or recorded history. Optional text never replaces the source observations or changes whether an offer meets the rules. If the data service is unavailable, we say so instead of showing guessed numbers.
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Methodology · Data accuracy · Affiliate disclosure
PriceQuarry · Recorded observations, with their limits in view.