You might be better off buying a console or turning to cloud gaming instead. Most people should get the Ti if they can find one at a semi-reasonable price. You may need to turn down the graphics settings a bit in especially intense games to hit 60fps, but this should have no problem surpassing that hallowed target in every title. The same concerns we listed about last-gen cards in our p section continue here. The biggest considerations between AMD and Nvidia up here in the high end?
Ray tracing and memory capacity. But the RTX series offer vastly superior ray tracing performance, both in raw horsepower and with the huge uplift provided by DLSS 2. They kick ass, take names, and trade performance blows. There are no games in our test suite that fail to clear a frames-per-second average at 4K resolution with all possible visuals effects enabled on these cards, and they often exceeds that mark by far.
The feature differences are especially key here. It could also be a solid option for Linux users, since AMD drivers perform with much less headache there. Hot-rodded custom versions of this GPU could hold a lot of potential when they hit the streets, though. If you want to shop beyond the scope of our picks, know that finding the right graphics card can be tricky. Various vendors offer customized versions of every GPU. To help narrow down the options and find the right card for you, you should consider the following things when doing your research:.
Nvidia's Ampere generation has set the bar high for any prospective contenders. Okay, right now, the RTX is rare as pigeon eyelashes, but there is no doubt Nvidia's new RTX is the best graphics card today. It represents a huge generational performance boost over the previous RTX series. The thing which really stands out from our testing is the difference it makes to ray-tracing performance. The first generation of ray tracing-capable cards required such a huge frame rate sacrifice that most people shied away from turning it on, but that's no longer the case with this generation.
When you can now get ray-traced performance that exceeds the frame rates you'd get out of the top card of the RTX series when running without it, you know that this is a whole different beast. And hey, the RTX can actually run Crysis. The RTX may need a fair chunk more power—you'll want at least an W PSU—and be tricky to get hold of, but this is the most desirable graphics card around today.
Which I guess is also why it's so tricky to get hold of. As a red team alternative to Nvidia's high-end graphics cards, there have been few finer than the RX XT. A highly competitive card that comes so close to its rival, with a nominal performance differential to the RTX , is truly an enthusiast card worth consideration for any PC gamer with 4K in their sights. All are available today and with two year's worth of developer support in the bank. Yet we're still big fans of what AMD has managed to accomplish with the RX XT, a return to form for the Radeon Technology Group that injects some much-needed competition into the GPU market and offers a worthy red team alternative for any high-end gaming PC build.
That's why we love it so; it's a great GPU for the full stack of resolutions and has decent ray tracing capability to boot, courtesy of second-generation RT Cores. Perhaps most impressive of this graphics card is how it stacks up to the series generation: It topples the RTX Super in nearly every test.
Perhaps the only high-end Ampere that's anything close to reasonably affordable, the RTX is also impressive for its ability to match the top-string Turing graphics card, the RTX Ti, for less than half of its price tag. In return, you're gifted a 4K-capable graphics card that doesn't require too much fiddling to reach playable, if not high, framerates.
And it'll absolutely smash it at p, no question about that. Its gaming performance credentials are undoubtedly impressive, but what makes the RTX our pick for the sensible PC gaming connoisseur is the entire Nvidia ecosystem underlying the RTX stack today.
DLSS is a neat trick for improving performance, with only a nominal loss in clarity, and other features such as Broadcast and Reflex go a long way to sweetening the deal. And it gets kind of close, too, with 4K performance a little off the pace of the RTX —and all for one-third off the asking price.
For that reason, it's simply the better buy for any PC gamer without any ulterior motives of the pro-creator variety. But there's a reason it's not number one in our graphics card guide today, and that's simply due to the fact it's not that much better than an RTX , and sometimes not at all.
Yet, inevitably its ray-tracing acceleration lags behind the competition. With that in mind, for raw gaming alone, the RX XT is a cheaper alternative to the RTX is still a victim to its own extreme price tag.
This colossal graphics card is supremely powerful but far more fitting of Titan credentials than GeForce ones. It's not built with your average gamer in mind. Instead, it's targeting creative professionals and compute-intensive application acceleration, and that's why it doesn't come with your average price tag, either. As immense in price tag as it is in stature, the question on everyone's lips is: Is it worth it?
For gamers, no. 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.
Not only is that less memory on a narrower bus than the , but it's clocked quite a bit lower. We've already encountered a few games where 8GB starts to be a bit limiting at maximum quality, and that's only going to get worse in the future.
It's the 'best' overall card, after all. That's the problem with looking at higher cost cards, and the law of diminishing returns.
For now, if you've always wanted an RTX Ti but couldn't justify the cost, the price of entry has been sort of slashed in half. With some tuning and overclocking, we were able to hit speeds of 2. That's very impressive, though we're a bit sad that it 'only' has GPU cores. The real issue is the same as with everything else. RX XT just launched, and it immediately sold out, even at radically inflated prices. It's definitely not worth that, even if you want to mine Ethereum.
Unfortunately, the prospects of finding a XT card at a more reasonable price are slim. It's a reasonable compromise, but we think the XT is the better option all things considered unless pricing eventually drops a bit more on the vanilla cards.
The real concerns are the same as with the XT: Ray tracing performance looks a bit weak, basically matching Nvidia's previous generation RTX Super. For now, we'd grab a more for the rasterization prowess and not worry so much about ray tracing. Not that you can find one in stock. The lowest price and performance addition to Nvidia's desktop Ampere lineup is where the cuts to processing power might have gone too far.
Or that's the theory. That's despite the measures Nvidia took to cut Ethereum mining performance in half, which ended up being meaningless when Nvidia hacked its own drivers on accident.
Word is miners had already found other workaround, and the pricing certainly suggests that's the case. VRAM capacity at least isn't a problem, and there are a few instances where the 12GB starts to close the gap with the Ti. It never quite gets there, however, and the Ti remains the better choice if you can find one at a reasonable price. Not exactly something to set the world on fire, but then that's typical of mainstream parts.
We can only hope supply and pricing return to nominal levels sooner rather than later. Performance ends up slightly above the previous gen RX XT, which is impressive considering the memory bus has been cut in half to just bits. Still, it's surprising how much even a 32MB Infinity Cache seems to boost performance, when you look at the memory bandwidth.
There are instances where it struggles, however, ray tracing being a big one. Perhaps drivers and other tweaks will smooth out some of those idiosyncrasies, but after delivering impressive amounts of VRAM on the other Big Navi chips, the RX XT feels like a letdown. This is the other end of the Navi 21 spectrum.
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