The Inquirer has run two articles the past two days that broke down the costs of video cards by looking at their individual components. First they started with nVidia and their 5750 card. When the card was retailing for $199, its bill of materials ran around $99.40. They followed this up with a look at ATI's X600PRO PCIe card.

ATI is getting $59.00 dollars for the chip. This card uses eight memory chips clocked and priced at $3.90 per piece. This makes the total cost of memory to $31.20 for a whole pack of 128MB of 128 bit memory. The PCB (printed circuit board) in this case costs $15 and makes a total bill of materials (BOM) for the card at $105.20.