Best graphic card ever for games

The best graphics cards are the beating heart of any gaming PC, and everything else comes second. Without a powerful GPU pushing pixels, even the fastest CPU won't manage much. While no one graphics card will be right for everyone, we'll provide options for every budget and mindset below. Whether you're after the fastest graphics card, the best value, or the best card at a given price, we've got you covered.Where our GPU benchmarks hierarchy ranks all of the cards based purely on performance, our list of the best graphics cards looks at the whole package. Current GPU pricing, performance, features, efficiency, and availability are all important, though the weighting becomes more subjective. Factoring in all of those aspects, these are the best graphics cards that are currently available.

NOVEMBER 2023 UPDATE

There haven't been any significant changes to our list since last month. Everything appears to be in a holding pattern while we await the potential arrival of the Nvidia RTX 4080 Super.

Our list now includes AMD's RX 7800 XT, which effectively replaces in price and performance the previous generation RX 6800 XT, plus a few extras. All current generation GPUs are now selling at or below their respective MSRPs, but generational pricing has trended upward in many cases.This month also marks the semi-official start of the holiday shopping season, and Black Friday will begin (or has already begun in some cases) over the coming days. Given the relatively high prices on GPUs, we expect we'll see a fair amount of decent deals in the next month or so. If you can hold tight until then, that might be the best time to pick up a new graphics card, but there are some deals going on right now.

AMD and Nvidia have now wrapped up their latest generation GPU lineups, unless there are still plans for an RTX 4050 at the bottom of the stack. It's not clear what such a chip might entail at this point, possibly 8GB of memory on a 128-bit interface (again), or could Nvidia try foisting a 96-bit 6GB card on the market? Hopefully the former rather than the latter.Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs meanwhile still rate more as previous generation hardware, as they're manufactured on TSMC N6 and compete more directly against the RTX 3060 and RX 6700 10GB instead of newer parts. However, Arc A750 priced at $199 remains a very competitive option, if you don't mind the occasional driver snafus and higher power use.

Graphics Card 1080p FPS 1440p FPS 4K FPS Price (MSRP) Power

GeForce RTX 4090 179.7 133.2 84.8 $1,649 ($1,600) 311W

GeForce RTX 4080 159.3 108.3 62.7 $1,090 ($1,200) 245W

Radeon RX 7900 XTX 144.4 96.6 56.3 $889 ($1,000) 338W

Radeon RX 7900 XT 134.1 86.2 47.8 $720 ($900) 301W

GeForce RTX 4070 125.5 73.7 39.5 $530 ($600) 184W

Radeon RX 7800 XT 115.3 69.7 37.7 $500 ($500) 245W

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 100.4 55.5 27.4 $370 ($400) 142W

Radeon RX 6700 XT 80.4 44.3 22.8 $310 ($480) 210W

GeForce RTX 4060 82.6 44.3 22.0 $290 ($300) 127W

Radeon RX 7600 68.6 34.3 — $240 ($270) 153W

Intel Arc A750 66.4 38.7 — $190 ($250) 199W

Intel Arc A380 25.0 — — $100 ($140) 71W

Note: We're showing current online prices alongside the official launch MSRPs in the above table, with the GPUs sorted by performance. Retail prices can fluctuate quite a bit over the course of a month; the table lists the best we could find at the time of writing.Our list now consists mostly of current generation cards, with only a single previous generation part still hanging around (RX 6750 XT) — unless you want to classify Arc as previous gen. Those older parts are near the bottom of the performance list, though they can still offer an incredible value if you're not after maximum performance or efficiency.The performance ranking (above) incorporates 15 games from our updated test suite, with both rasterization and ray tracing performance included. While we previously had DXR (DirectX Raytracing) as a separate column, we feel there are enough RT-enabled games now to aggregate the scores. Note that we are not including upscaling results in the table, which would generally skew things more in favor of Nvidia GPUs, depending on the selection of games, but the DXR games at least partially account for that.The above table is sorted by performance, which is why the RTX 4090 sits at the top, and why the RTX 4070 edges past the 7800 XT. Our subjective rankings below factor in price, power, and features colored by our own opinions. Others may offer a slightly different take, but all of the cards on this list are worthy of your consideration.