Finding one? Even harder. We'll help you get started with everything you need to know. If you're like most people, you're probably using a graphics card that's several years old. And with PC gaming , video editing, animation and other graphics-intensive activities, that few years is forever in performance.
A lot has changed in the past few years, so chances are you're no longer using the best graphics card available for taking advantage of modern technologies like smart resolution upscaling and ray-tracing acceleration. Meanwhile, games and software used for applications like 3D tools and video editors have only become more demanding. Even if you just need the basics for streaming video or surfing the web, a good graphics card can make your system feel snappier by improving the acceleration of video decoding or redrawing your screens faster, especially if you had previously used a budget GPU.
With a Thunderbolt 3 -equipped laptop or iMac, you can even upgrade the graphics using an external graphics processing unit an eGPU with its own power supply or a dedicated graphics card. But let's be frank: This is a horrible time to shop for a new video card.
The now-current generation of flagship cards from Nvidia and AMD launched in October , with new models rolling out regularly since then, but they all continue to be in the LOL-try-to-get-one stage. And prices for anything you can find remain out of control.
While they're not nearly as high as they were six months ago, they remain substantially higher than the manufacturers' fantasy target prices at launch and are slowly starting to rise again. We expect the same from Nvidia's workstation versions of the series, the A, A and A But you can't get one -- or anything, really -- because cryptocurrency mining and bots have once again bogarted the entire available stock , creating shortages and driving up prices.
Nvidia started throttling its cards for crypto mining when it launched the RTX as a deterrent to having them snapped up by miners and announced an alternate GPU line specifically for that purpose, the CMP. It's a driver-based solution -- the driver handshakes with the card's firmware to detect and throttle mining-specific operations.
But given its price and performance niche between the RTX and RTX Ti and intent of fast, high-quality p gameplay, it's unlikely to remain the lowest-end card in that line. AMD chooses to take a more traditional approach to managing availability at launch -- bringing as many cards as possible to market on day one and attempting to limit sales to one per customer.
But as with the rest of GPUs, the bots 'n' middlemen who broker the cards to sell them at least twice the list price jumped into action, so you certainly can't find either at their nominal prices. DLSS provides intelligent upscaling and anti-aliasing to boost performance with similar image quality, but it's only on Nvidia RTX cards.
Note: Prices on most of the graphics cards remain seriously messed up right now. We've listed the official MSRPs, which is what we would expect to pay under normal circumstances.
You shouldn't pay significantly more than the above prices, and nearly all of the top GPUs remain out of stock. While we sorted the above list in order of performance, we've sorted the cards below based on performance as well as our own subjective rankings.
We look at performance, price, power, and features and then adjust things accordingly, though opinions naturally differ. Plus, it's very hard to know how to rank anything given the current prices. The new RTX Ti didn't manage to supplant the incumbent, thanks to its significantly higher pricing. If you're serious about maxing out all the graphics settings and you want to play at 4K or p, this is the card to get — it's mostly overkill for p gaming, though enabling all ray tracing effects in games that support the feature makes p still reasonable.
With potentially double the ray tracing performance of Turing, and games like Cyberpunk using even more ray tracing effects, the RTX is your best bet at playing games in all their ray traced glory without nuking the piggy bank. Ampere also brings improved tensor cores for DLSS, a technology we're bound to see more of in future games now that it doesn't require per-game training by a supercomputer. We're seeing a lot more games with DLSS 2. Nvidia's RT and DLSS performance are also quite a bit faster than what you get from AMD's new RX cards, which is a good thing as Nvidia sometimes falls behind in traditional rasterization performance which is what our raw numbers are based on.
The biggest problem with RTX by far is going to be finding one in stock, at prices that aren't straight up terrible. Given the high price of the Ti, though, this remains our best pick for a fast GPU right now. That's not a great deal, at all, especially since you don't get more VRAM or any other extras. The GPU was affectionately dubbed 'Big Navi' prior to launch by the enthusiast community, and we got exactly what we wanted.
Navi 21 is over twice the size of Navi 10, with twice the shader cores and twice the RAM. Clock speeds are also boosted into the 2. We're confident that few if any games in the coming years are going to need more than 16GB, so the XT is in a great position in that area.
What's not to like? Well, the ray tracing performance is a bit mediocre. For some, the best card is the fastest card — pricing be damned! It's basically a replacement for the Titan RTX, at a still extreme price. It sports nearly a complete GA chip, based off the Ampere architecture , so there's not really room for a new Titan card. If you simply must have the fastest graphics card available, that's the RTX It's not just about gaming, of course.
Just watch out for lower than expected performance in some of the SPECviewperf 13 apps, where Titan RTX has additional features turned on in its drivers that aren't enabled for GeForce cards.
It also gets some wins in a few SPECviewperf tests. But if you want the absolute fastest graphics card right now, Nvidia wins, especially if you run games with ray tracing and DLSS enabled.
Nvidia's Ampere march continues with what might just be the best of the bunch. In theory, of course, as it naturally sold out just as quickly as all the other new graphics cards. The Ti ends up beating the previous gen Super in performance, winning every test we ran. It's also only about 9 percent slower than the but costs 20 percent less.
The only real concern is the lack of VRAM. Of course you can drop the texture quality a notch, and you might not even notice the difference, but deep down inside you'll feel regret. Not really — high settings often look indistinguishable from ultra settings.
It's percent faster than the Super, and percent faster than the RX XT, all for the same nominal asking price. The biggest concern right now is just finding one of these cards for sale. Mining performance pretty much matches the at least for the non-LHR models and AMD's latest gen cards, which means prices are often triple the official launch price. Also, 8GB still feels a bit stingy, considering the had that much memory over four years ago.
It's too bad all of the cards will likely continue to sell out for quite some time. It's about percent faster but costs 25 percent more. Especially at current shortage-induced prices. We do have some reservations, however. While p and 4K gaming are totally possible, 4K at maximum quality often drops below 60 fps.
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Only post pics of rigs in this thread.. Look Here. But, when Nvidia released their newest GPUs, they dropped the price to be more competitive. So, the difference in price is not so stark, though it should still be a consideration. One important metric for finding out how powerful a GPU is how much memory it comes with. Where the performance between the companies differ is in ray tracing - new rendering technology that improves reflections, shadows, and more realistically mimics light.
The newest arrival in the RTX line, this graphics card punches way above its weight class, delivering a performance that could rival that of the RTX Super while keeping its price tag incredibly affordable for most people. However, with the next generation of Nvidia graphics cards, the price of 4K gaming has been cut nearly in half, thanks to the RTX This is both an absolute powerhouse of a graphics card and a great value, if you have a bit of extra cash lying around.
Delivering RTX level performance, an impressive feat in its own right, the long-awaited RTX Ti comes with an even better price tag, making all that sheer power more accessible than ever. It continues what the RTX has started — to take 4K gaming into the mainstream arena — with its breathtaking 4K at 60fps performance while slashing a few hundred dollars off the steep price.
This is the best graphics card on the market right now, especially if you care about ray tracing. With a whopping 24GB of RAM, no game or, more importantly, heavy graphics project will suffer performance issues. In fact, you can even get some 8K performance at 60 fps out of the It is an incredibly expensive unit, and quite large too, so it will probably be too much GPU for most users.
And did we mention the fact that this GPU is incredibly cheap? If you think AMD is still stuck in the budget and mid-range markets, think again.
If you're after the Nvidia GeForce RTX , you're going to want one with a cooler that's more than powerful enough to handle the full brunt of the power on offer. Generally speaking, the best graphics card for gaming is going to depend on several factors. Things like what kind of games you like to play, what resolution you play at and whether or not you care about fancy features like ray tracing and DLSS are incredibly important.
But if you want to play everything totally maxed out with ray tracing at 4K, you're probably going to want to go for something like the RTX Ti instead. When it comes to the best graphics cards, it's incredibly important to make sure we're testing everything on an equal playing field.
That's why, whenever a new graphics card comes out, we test it in a suite of around games and across several resolutions, all on current drivers. That means that we re-test all current-generation graphics cards whenever a new one comes out.
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