Best Graphics Cards for Gaming 2023

This article contains the best video cards for games 2023. In the table you can compare gaming performance and plus the 3DMark Time Spy test. Of course, when choosing, look at the tests of different users. We tried to highlight the models taking into account the price – quality.

10 Best Graphics Cards for Gaming 2023

4K resolution: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Same design with silver trim and black heatsink. As before, two fans, one in the front and one in the back. New power connector 12VHPWR, not the standard 8-pin ATX 2.0. In short, higher clock speeds, fourth-generation Tensor Cores, and DLSS 3 technology.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. The RDNA3 architecture is the introduction of computing units with the launch of two instructions for execution simultaneously. It is worth noting the use of a chiplet layout, similar to Ryzen 7000. AMD Radiance Display Engine technology supports P/S up to 54 Gbps via DP 2.1. And this is an 8K display with a frequency of 165 Hz and USB-C.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080. The physical dimensions of the graphics card are the same as the RTX 4090. As for the power adapter, the RTX 4080 still uses the new power connector. The adapter requires three 8-pin cables. NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture and 16 GB of GDDR6X memory. Three DP 1.4a and one HDMI 2.1, which is 4K at 240 Hz or 8K at 60 Hz. Here is PCI Express 4.0, and motherboards received PCIe Gen5.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT. AMD engineers separated the Infinity Cache and GDDR6 memory controllers and moved them from the big main die to six smaller ones. The new architecture delivers up to 54% more performance per watt. Everything is a little smaller: 80 MB of cache, a 320-bit memory interface, and 800 Gbps of bandwidth, and it uses 20 Gbps of GDDR6X.

2K gaming: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. It contains half as many transistors (35.8 billion) as the RTX 4090, and 22% fewer than the RTX 4080. However, it still surpasses the older RTX 3090 Ti chip in this parameter. The references indicate a power consumption of 285 W. For a second, the RTX 3090 Ti is 450 W. They say that this is the initially announced RTX 4080 with 12 GB.

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT. There is a more productive GDDR6 memory, at an effective frequency of 18 GHz, which gave an increase in P/S to 576 GB/s. And the performance is 5%-10% higher. Including support for the HDMI 2.1 standard, USB-C connector, AMD FSR 2.0, Smart Access Memory and Radeon Anti-Lag technologies. Design of the RX 6900 XT and RX 6800 XT.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. The update received 80 execution units and RT cores against 68 in the basic version. The GDDR6X video memory capacity increased from 10 to 12 GB, and the bus width increased from 320 to 384 bits. Due to this, the memory bandwidth jumped to 912 GB/s. The power of the Ti version is approximately 15% greater than that of the standard one.

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT. Previously, it was compared with the previous generation. AMD reworked most of the architecture and achieved a clock frequency of over 2.5 GHz. They left two standard 8-pin power connectors. The features include a new memory system and the appearance of Infinity Cache. Its weak point is ray tracing.

FullHD games: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 and AMD Radeon RX 6800

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070. The GA104 used retains all the key features of the older GA102 chip. It differs from the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 only in the use of the GDDR6 memory type. As for speed, it provides 20 teraflops of performance in FP32 calculations. It supports all the technologies of that time: DLSS and ray tracing.

AMD Radeon RX 6800. Operates 3840 stream processors with 240 texture units and 60 trace processing cores with 96 rasterization units. The operating frequencies of the GPU have been reduced – 1815 MHz with a boost of 2105 MHz. But there are still 16 GB of GDDR6 video memory, which is a lot compared to… The effective memory frequency is 16 GHz. Such a reduction allowed to reduce the TDP to 250 W.

Graphics Card Performance Table 2023 – 2024

Only a head-to-head comparison will show the real situation. With the 3DMark Time Spy test, everything is clear – this is the number of “parrots”. With games, everything is more interesting: 3 FPS values, resolution Full HD, QHD and 4K respectively. The video card can give more points, but less FPS.

#	Video card	3DMark Time Spy	PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (2017)	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
1.	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	36067	342| 227 | 120	246 | 182 | 117
2.	* AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX	36435	230 | 174 | 89	244 | 177 | 108
3.	* NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080	33415	255 | 169 | 89	197 | 147 | 92
4.	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT	31775	202 | 152 | 78	231 | 168 | 102
5.	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti	25411	238 | 158 | 83	150 | 109 | 65
6.	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti	26447	229 | 152 | 80	103 | 115 | 70
7.	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090	28079	224 | 149 | 78	126 | 95 | 59
8.	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT	27880	191 | 144 | 74	177 | 129 | 77
9.	*AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT	28356	184 | 138 | 71	159 | 118 | 69
10.	* NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti	24670	214 | 142 | 75	131 | 100 | 63
11.	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	21566	202 | 134 | 71	127 | 93 | 55
12.	* AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT	24925	162 | 122 | 63	153 | 113 | 65
13.	AMD Radeon RX 6800	20239	137 | 103 | 53	134 | 96 | 56
14.	* NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti	18501	157 | 104 | 55	103 | 75 | 45
15.	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	16769	146 | 100 | 51	100 | 73 | 44
16.	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti	21029	144 | 95 | 50	97 | 69 | 42
17.	NVIDIA TITAN RTX	20969	144 | 95 | 50	90 | 66 | 39
18.	* AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT	15353	120 | 91 | 46	109 | 77 | 41
19.	* NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti	14513	134 | 89 | 47	89 | 63 | 37
20.	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super	14774	132 | 88 | 46	78 | 57 | 33
21.	AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT	15168	111 | 84 | 43	102 | 73 | 41
22.	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080	16216	154 | 84 | 61	74 | 52 | 29
23.	Intel Arc A770	15460	124 | 83 | 46	67 | 64 | 37
24.	NVIDIA TITAN Xp	15193	122 | 80 | 48	76 | 56 | 33
25.	AMD Radeon VII	17725	102 | 77 | 39	85 | 60 | 37
26.	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti	15639	105 | 85 | 47	68 | 46 | 26
27.	AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT	11746	99 | 75 | 38	95 | 65 | 37
28.	* NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super	12385	102 | 76 | 57	73 | 51 | 29
29.	* AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT	15224	94 | 71 | 36	82 | 57 | 32
30.	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	19405	107 | 71 | 38	68 | 49 | 30

Which video card is better, price – quality? It all depends on your tasks. Agree, GeForce RTX 4090 is difficult to classify as such. Especially at the start of sales, except for 8K gaming. Several such models are marked with an asterisk. Well, the best video cards for games in 2022.

Graphics Card Performance Chart 2023 – 2024

For a visual comparison, check out this chart by Jarred Walton from Tom’s Hardware. The test setup uses an Intel Core i9-12900K. No DLSS or ray tracing, so you can squeeze out more. For example, the RTX 4090 is 51% faster than the 3090 Ti at 4K.

Conclusion

So, the RTX 4090 is 50% faster than the RTX 3090 Ti. At 1080p, the gap grows to 56%, and at 1440p, it’s almost 70%. The company itself said that it’s “2-4x faster” — taking into account DLSS 3 technology. And the RTX 4080 graphics card is on par with the RX 7900 XTX, but significantly more expensive.

The RX 7900 XT model basically corresponds to the RTX 3080 Ti, and is slightly higher than the RX 6950 XT and RTX 4070 Ti. Well, the RTX 3070 and RX 6700 XT video cards will cope with the FullHD resolution. The minimum level for it is the RX 580 8 GB or GTX 1060 6 GB. For me, a Radeon VII or GTX 1080 Ti would be more than enough…