The Best Graphics Cards: Top GPU Choices for Every Budget

[Magneto10]

Which is the best for 900p?

 

[Stark]

I love your work Steve, and the videos are awesome, right now you and Tom's are the top two sites I refer for hardware analysis.
keep up the great work and thanks for keeping Techspot cutting edge.
Have a good one this weekend.
(I know its unrelated but saw you in comments and could not resist)

 

[Jules Mark]

Forget about Nvidia cards and G-Sync.

Get a cheap Korean FreeSync Monitor Crossover 3412UM AH-IPS BOOST CLOCK FreeSync range 47Hz-95Hz
3440 x 1440 34" Ultrawide gaming monitor ~550$

And a RX Vega 56 flashed with Vega 64 BIOS, overclock it to gain performance beyond a GTX 1080.

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Profit!

 

[enemys]

Forget about Nvidia cards and G-Sync.

Get a cheap Korean FreeSync Monitor Crossover 3412UM AH-IPS BOOST CLOCK FreeSync range 47Hz-95Hz
3440 x 1440 34" Ultrawide gaming monitor ~550$

And a RX Vega 56 flashed with Vega 64 BIOS, overclock it to gain performance beyond a GTX 1080.

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Profit!

Uhm... But Vega 56 costs as much as a GTX 1080 in my area, and it's a stock card, while GeForce comes with an aftermarket cooler and is factory overclocked. FreeSync price advantage is obvious, but the price of Radeons is just too damn high to make much use of it.

 

[Amet Monegro]

Which is the best for 900p?

RX560 or GTX1050 is enought

 

[NightAntilli]

This is a good article... And even though in this article FreeSync has been considered in a fair manner, I still have to point out its importance. The link below is the experience of one person, but, don't undermine the value of FreeSync in terms of providing smooth gameplay;

http://www.overclock.net/t/1547314/...o-duo-fiji-owners-club/11440_20#post_26363886

 

[OutlawCecil]

GFX card numbers don't mean anything anymore. My GTX970 will beat the GeForce GT 1030 anyday. No reason for me to upgrade to a 10xx GPU.

 

[Shoam]

GFX card numbers don't mean anything anymore. My GTX970 will beat the GeForce GT 1030 anyday. No reason for me to upgrade to a 10xx GPU.

Of course they do! 9/10 is the series number, and 70/30 is the card's rating within the series. That means that 970 is one of the best cards of the previous series, and 1030 is the weakest card of the current series.

 

[Sausagemeat]

I’ve built a lot of PCs in my life. And in the last 5 years I think Nvidia cards really have taken quite a lead over AMD cards. This was fine, it meant that you could get good deals on AMD cards giving accces to higher performance if you didn’t mind the lesser driver support and more heat & noise. But now, with these prices I’m not surprised that this reviewer recommended Nvidia at every price point. Sad really.

 

[Ian Taylor]

One of the best options you can choose when building your PC on your own

 

[Kimdankun]

One of the best options you can choose when building your PC on your own

durring the rx 580/480 mining craze you could of bought a cheap prebuilt (around 600 bucks in the US) with a Rx 480/580, sell that and their components and get a really good custom built computer.

 

[SoundFX09]

I actually ended up Going for a Used MSI GTX 780 Lightning off of Craigslist. Got it for $100 (I'm not kidding), and while it can't overclock at all (Any OC causes Freezing or Random Color Changes currently, May sub in some new Thermal Paste though as temps reach 80' C Easily under Gaming Load), it does perform decently well for the price.

I'll have a Video Up on the GTX 780 soon on my Channel (It'll be my first Tech Video, So I'll need feedback on what I can do to improve).

 

[gamoniac]

I'm glad I got my 4gb 580 for $160 (after rebate) before this blew up.

Good for you. For the rest of us poor souls, we will have to dream on and wait : (

 

[Evernessince]

I really, really wanted to buy Vega, but those prices... Ended up getting a 1080Ti. So far so good, though I'm yet to get a decent G-Sync screen. For now, I can run The Witcher 3 in 5880x1080 ultra 60-70fps, which is definitely awesome, if totally impractical.

Adaptive sync is kind of meh for me. I bought a 144 Hz monitor with adaptive sync and it does nothing for me. I would recommend a high refresh rate monitor far before I recommended an adaptive sync monitor, it just does so much more for you. Just for an example, the entire time I've had this monitor with adaptive sync off and the only games where tearing was a problem were older titles, and I fixed that by simply limiting the FPS. If your frame-rate isn't going over your refresh rate (in this case 144 Hz) then you won't see tearing. Heck, even when I was seeing 218 FPS in overwatch I wasn't getting tearing, although that may have to do with the reduced buffering I had enabled in the game.

 

[Evernessince]

I actually ended up Going for a Used MSI GTX 780 Lightning off of Craigslist. Got it for $100 (I'm not kidding), and while it can't overclock at all (Any OC causes Freezing or Random Color Changes currently, May sub in some new Thermal Paste though as temps reach 80' C Easily under Gaming Load), it does perform decently well for the price.

I'll have a Video Up on the GTX 780 soon on my Channel (It'll be my first Tech Video, So I'll need feedback on what I can do to improve).

That's surprising, the Lightning is supposed to be MSI's top of the line OC certified card. They even come with a little certificate of authenticity.

 

[LNCPapa]

The crazy bump in prices made it easy for me to make a case for my employer to buy me a Titan V instead of a super inflated 1080Ti for my work desktop. All I had to say was "I was planning to get a pair of 1080Ti but the Titan V actually ends up being less expensive since it's still selling for MSRP." They agreed.

 

[MoeJoe]

299 for a XFX RX 570 8GB RS Black Edition did it for me. This beast Ultra's to my hearts content...

 

[NightAntilli]

I'd never recommend anyone to buy a 3GB mid range card at this point, especially at inflated prices. Not even for 1080p.

 

[ShadowDeath]

Hmm, so basically, AMD is never a good option?

I mean... this isn't the first time they've done an article where they use even the most trivial excuse to recommend an Nvidia card over AMD.

 

[Steve]

I mean... this isn't the first time they've done an article where they use even the most trivial excuse to recommend an Nvidia card over AMD.

Nvidia pay us well, what can I say. Also we LOVED the GPP, best program ever! We're still coming to grips with it's death.

</sarcasm>

 

[Cycloid Torus]

I just plain find it impossible to plan on spending more for a GPU than the rest of the system. These are crazy prices. I will get by with what I have for a bit longer. I expect new crop of GPUs from nVidia, AMD, (Intel?) and the changes in the bitcoin landscape to return some sanity (soon!).

 

[jsevr]

This is a pretty good article, but with prices shifting all the time, I think it would have been better to give some price brackets. Like for example: "if the GTX1060 6GB or RX580 8GB drop to $300 then we would recommend those over the GTX1060 3GB". And right now (about 1 week after this article) there are some RX580 8GB for $300-320 on NewEgg which is a reasonable jump over the $240 GTX1060 3GB for me. I'll wait another 2 weeks to see if more RX580s join this $300-320 group.