Update: At long last, AMD fans can junk their Fury X’s because Vega is finally here. Although the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 didn’t quite make our list of the best graphics cards, you can now find it as an honorable mention below the GTX 1080Ti. Read on to find out why!
With all eyes on the back and forth feud between AMD, with its mind-blowingly powerful Threadripper CPUs, and Intel, with its 18-core i9-7980XE, the latest and greatest processors have proven themselves a distraction from the top graphics cards. Fortunately, we haven’t blinked, as AMD has slowly teased its Nvidia flagship killer.
But, while we wait for Vega to make its way to the limelight, the question remains: what if you need a new GPU right now? Lucky for you, the best graphics cards are already here, designed from the ground up to rival – or, in some cases, even put to shame – the visual rendering capabilities demonstrated by consoles.
Whether you need to meet the bare minimum requirements to compete in Dota 2 or you want to run the impressively motion-captured Hellblade at the highest settings, we’ve sorted through every graphics card imaginable to bring you detailed recommendations of only the three best. For the best graphics cards on the high-end, mid-range and entry-level, keep reading.
If we’re being honest, the GTX 1080 Ti is exactly what the Titan X Pascal should have been. Thanks to its 11GB of GDDR5X VRAM, the 1080 Ti is wildly more capable than the GTX 1080 proper without costing an arm and a leg. Performance-wise, the GTX 1080 Ti can’t compete with dual-wielding 1080s, but it is cheaper and it does support a larger pool of games than two lesser cards with SLI. Aside from the mysterious absence of a DVI port, the GTX 1080 Ti is indistinguishable looks-wise from any of the other Pascal-series GPUs. Take a gander inside, however, and you’ll notice a sophisticated cooling system needed to keep all of your games running smoothly in resolutions up to 4K.
Read the full review: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Honorable mention: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
The flagship AMD Vega card may not have beaten out Nvidia for the title of best high-end graphics card on our list, but it is a return to form for the Red Team. After all, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 has proved itself every bit as capable as the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 and for a lower price. Donning 4,096 stream processors, 256 texture units and 8GB of HBM2 memory, this is – if nothing else – the AMD card to rule them all.
Read the full review: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
More of a souped-up version of last year’s Radeon RX 480 than a brand-new graphics card, the Radeon RX 580 takes the Polaris architecture and amps it up to new levels of performance at the same affordable price point. Although it clings to the same 8GB of GDDR5 memory as the RX 480, there are still clear cut performance upgrades in tow. The boost clock, for instance, is now up to 1,441MHz, which you can compare to the 1,266MHz boost of the 480. It still struggles to maintain a consistent 30+ frames per second (fps) running most triple-A titles in 4K, but for 1080p and 1440p gaming, the AMD Radeon RX 580 rules even harder than its predecessor.
Read the full review: AMD Radeon RX 580
Like the GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti from Nvidia, the RX 460 runs cheap. Versions of it can be had from XFX, Powercolor, Sapphire and other aftermarket card makers who have all sought out to accomplish the same task of producing a value GPU that can effortlessly run just about every game in your Steam library, so long as you don’t mind parting with the prospect of running The Witcher 3 at 60 fps on Ultra graphics settings. Capable and energy efficient and drawing all of its power straight from the motherboard without any 6- or 8-pin connectors required, the RX 460 is worth the money if you plan on spending a lot of time playing MOBA and RTS games. Otherwise, you’re better off saving for one of the other best graphics cards above.
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Author: Kane Fulton
Published at: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:12:00 +0000
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