If this breakdown of the full cost of producing your favourite graphics card is accurate, then prices for certain GPUs are going to make 64 GB DDR5 kits look cheap

Every week, I search through all of the major online retailers for the best graphics card deals, hunting down the lowest prices for the latest Arc, GeForce, and Radeon GPUs. Although a handful of models are wildly over their MSRP, many are still within an acceptable margin above it. However, according to a breakdown of the total cost of making a graphics card, certain GPUs are about to get a lot more expensive.

That's according to the figures presented by Igor's Lab, and while the report focuses on the current price and production cost of the Radeon RX 9070 XT for the European market, the same circumstances apply across all cards and sectors.

The primary reason why we've seen significant price hikes for certain graphics cards is, of course, the heavily constricted supply of DRAM modules, better known...