Everything is ranked from fastest to slowest, using the results from our test suite consisting of nine games for our GPU benchmarks, running at 'medium' and 'ultra' settings with resolutions of 1080p, 1440p, and 4K. Which graphics card do you need? To help you decide, we've created this GPU benchmarks hierarchy consisting of dozens of GPUs from the past four generations of hardware. With the chip and substrate shortages expected to last well into 2022, by the time retail outlets have inventory just sitting on the shelves, we might be looking at Nvidia's 5nm Lovelace GPUs and AMD's RDNA 3 architecture. Otherwise, eBay has cards, at even more extreme prices - our GPU price index has the details on what you should expect to pay there, which usually means 50% to 100% over MSRP. You can always give the Newegg Shuffle a try, but fair warning: I've done that on most days and have only been selected for the opportunity to buy an overpriced bundle three times, and if you limit your selections to the better deals, your chances will be substantially worse. If you're looking to buy a graphics card right now, unfortunately the options are limited. The profitability of Ethereum mining continues to be a major influence on GPU prices, despite the volatility of Ethereum and Bitcoin prices. With continuing chip shortages across the globe affecting all industries, we don't expect pricing to improve on graphics cards until 2022.
In fact, most of the AIB (add-in board) graphics card manufacturers have jacked up prices by 30% or more relative to the AMD and Nvidia 'official' starting prices. Everything is selling out, at higher than "suggested" pricing, so there's no incentive for any company to cut prices. For this GPU benchmarks hierarchy, the most recent addition is AMD's Radeon RX 6600 XT that launched on August 11, along with the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti that launched in June.ĭeals on new graphics cards are still non-existent. We have a separate article that lists the best graphics cards, which looks at all factors, including price, graphics card power consumption, and overall efficiency. The following table sorts everything solely by our performance-based GPU gaming benchmarks. Whether it's playing games or doing high-end creative work like 4K video editing, your graphics card typically plays the biggest role in determining performance, and even the best gaming CPUs take a secondary role. Our GPU benchmarks hierarchy ranks all the current and previous generation graphics cards by performance, including all of the best graphics cards.