What's a good up-to-date graphics card that won't cost thousands?

The fuck are you talking about lol, the XT is only at best 10% faster

750 dollars is not "thousands".

Wait for the new console gen and RTX 3xxx series to drop. It's going to make current high-tiers like the 5700x and 2070S/2080S way cheaper.

Still makes way more sense to wait for the new consoles than buy now. Or rather, wait for AMD's RDNA2 and Nvidia's Ampere that will likely launch close to the new consoles and will in at least some sense compete with them, hopefully lowering prices at least a bit.

Seriously dude post proof, brick and mortar stores here never sell cheaper

Heavily assuming they launch on time which they probably won’t. They are still a year away.

Anything more than the PS3 launch price may as well be in the thousands. Especially for a card that's only marginally better than a 2070 Super. Really, the entire Turing series should be at least $100 cheaper than it is, but hey rushed out hardware ray tracing before it was ready just so they could promote their silly "RTX On" meme.

New GPUs or new consoles? Because in the end the new GPUs are what you're really waiting for. But those might get delayed too because of Coronabirus fucking everything over.

Radeon RX 570, 580, 590 OP

Both are getting delayed, pretty much guaranteed at this point.