A user on Reddit has seemingly picked up a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti for just $242 at a Walmart clearance section, which is well under half of what the card typically costs at other retailers right now.
The buyer, going by u/enigmussnake, posted the crazy find on r/gpu after spotting an MSI RTX 5060 Ti 8GB sitting in Walmart's clearance cage. With tax, the total came to close to $266, still a steep discount from the nearly $500 the card is currently going for elsewhere.
NVIDIA launched the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB at $379 last year, so even against the original MSRP, this is a solid deal. Against today's prices, driven up by ongoing memory shortages, it's an even better one. Retailers like Newegg currently list various RTX 5060 Ti 8GB models between $499 and $540, so this Walmart find represents a discount of well over 50%.
The 8GB variant of the RTX 5060 Ti has been criticized in the past for its limited VRAM, but that criticism looks a lot less relevant given where prices have gone. With 8GB GPUs now also commanding a premium due to the memory crunch, getting one for $242 is definitely a bigger win today than it would have been at launch.
We covered a similar story earlier this year where a different Redditor found an RTX 5060 Ti marked down to just $80 at another Walmart, apparently due to a pricing error. That case was more extreme, but it points to the same pattern: clearance sections at big-box retailers occasionally slip through with GPU pricing that doesn't reflect the current market.
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Deals like these are largely down to luck and timing rather than anything buyers can plan around. Still, with GPU prices climbing across the board, it's a reminder that checking clearance shelves in person can occasionally turn up something that online listings won't show you.
