Get Your Game On!

If you’re a PC gamer or HTPC enthusiast looking for the best graphics cards on the market at every price point, you’ve come to the right place! Our list profiles the 10 best video cards on the market, starting at $100 and going up well into the thousands!

The Sky is Falling on GPU Prices, Hoorah!

For Fall 2024, our top picks have all been on the market for a while, as we’re now around two years into the launch of Nvidia’s 4000 series and AMD’s 7000 series. One thing is for sure – the top end RTX 4090 is as dominant now as it was when it launched, so of course it makes our list (although it’s sadly more expensive that it was at launch, but apparently Nvidia didn’t quite now what it had on it’s hands back then!). Lower down in the ranks, there’s some pretty intense competition between AMD and Nvidia, which allows for greater bargains. Basically, AMD sweeps in the low- to mid-range, and Nvidia owns the high -end.

You still have to be an informed buyer, because many of Nvidia’s lower-end cards sell for outrageous premiums, and in fact Nvidia has re-released several of its most popular cards with gimped performance, despite using the same name. Not cool, but also not Nvidia’s first go-round with these schemes. For example, a new RTX 4070 was launched for the very same price as the original RTX 4070, but about two years later, and with lower performance due to GDDR6 rather than GDDR6X memory. Yeah, that one didn’t make our list, for obvious reasons! By the way, these shenanigans might have been less acceptable if we had more competition, but Intel’s foray into making GPUs has gone nowhere, and we don’t recommend you consider their offerings. They gave it a good try, but Intel will almost certainly be forced to bow out of the market after its second generation of GPUs flops.

To keep this simple, if you need a GPU under $500 for gaming, go AMD, if you need a GPU over $500 for gaming, go Nvidia, and if you need a GPU for content creation, go Nvidia. But read on for all of our specific picks at every pricepoint! And by the way, come back in 2025 when we expect AMD and Nvidia to have a whole new batch of GPUs to reshuffle the rankings!

Parting Thoughts

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