Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs ranked by bang for the buck — Prime Day offers allow you to break 60 fps for $280

Group photo of some of the latest graphics cards

A set of a number of the newest Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs. (Picture credit score: Tom’s {Hardware})

If you happen to’re in search of a brand new graphics card, Prime Day tech offers are a good time to improve. We’re seeing a number of the lowest costs ever throughout the gamut of GPUs, from Nvidia’s base mannequin RTX 4060 Ada card up by means of AMD’s RX 7900 XTX and the whole lot in between. These are a number of the greatest graphics playing cards obtainable, with restricted time gross sales dropping them to ranges we’re not prone to match till Black Friday rolls round this fall.

How do the assorted GPUs stack up by way of total worth, although? We have gathered the bottom costs from our GPU value index and sorted the whole lot by FPS per greenback at 1080p. We chosen that decision as a number of the playing cards merely do not make sense at 1440p and particularly 4K, just like the Arc A380. However we do have the FPS values at these greater resolutions in our efficiency desk, for those who’re extra enthusiastic about selecting up a extra performant card.

It is also price contemplating that 1080p represents the approximate base decision for each 1440p with High quality mode upscaling and 4K with Efficiency mode upscaling. Nvidia DLSS, AMD FSR 2/3, and Intel XeSS every have their very own methods of doing issues, however we have discovered High quality mode not less than would not compromise picture constancy a lot if in any respect. This is how the playing cards stack up.

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Provided that it is Prime Day — although lots of the greatest offers are from Newegg’s competing Fantastech initiative somewhat than from Amazon — it’s best to anticipate most of those costs to be comparatively short-lived, and we have already seen loads of fluctuations and out of inventory playing cards. If you happen to’re available in the market for a brand new GPU, saving $20 to $50 proper now could be sufficient to get you to fork over your pennies.

Whereas FPS/$ is not an ideal measure of worth, Intel’s Arc A580 and Arc A750 take the highest two spots. Each include 8GB of GDDR6 reminiscence, sufficient for operating most video games at 1080p and maxed out settings, although there are nonetheless the occasional driver hiccups on newly launched titles. You may get round 0.3 FPS per greenback with these playing cards, or alternatively, you’d must spend about $200 to common 60 fps at our check settings.

Besides, the drop off from the A750 to the following GPU, Nvidia’s RTX 4060, is kind of steep, with the 4060 solely providing just below 0.236 FPS/$. It does common 60 fps in our 19 sport suite not less than, however it’s additionally $100 greater than the Arc A750. Nvidia drew a great deal of criticism for equipping the 4060 with simply 8GB — the earlier technology RTX 3060 supplied 12GB — and it is principally the minimal you will want for operating many trendy video games at maxed out settings. Some video games will even exceed 8GB of VRAM use, like Horizon Forbidden West, although dropping to excessive settings ought to look almost pretty much as good with out exceeding your card’s VRAM.

Check Notes

All efficiency outcomes come from our 19-game check suite that features eight video games with ray tracing enabled and 11 video games that solely use rasterization rendering. Our check PC is that very same one utilized in our GPU critiques of the previous 12 months and a half, a Core i9-13900K.

Total rating do change based mostly on the video games and settings used for testing. For instance, eradicating ray tracing from the equation typically improves the rating of AMD GPUs in addition to the general common FPS. Verify our particular person GPU critiques for added particulars on efficiency with and with out ray tracing if that is one thing you wish to see.