Real World Speed
Performance profile from 461,318 user samples
447,556 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 106% MSI(1462 397D)
Worst Bench: 90% Asus(1043 87F3) ≥ 4GB
Poor: 90% Great: 106%
SPEED RANK: 64th / 714
13,762 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 106% AMD(1002 081E)
Worst Bench: 91% AMD(1002 081E)
Poor: 91% Great: 106%
SPEED RANK: 62nd / 714
Effective 3D Speed
Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed
100 % 101 % +1%
Lighting
Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
131 fps 131 fps
Reflection
Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
122 fps Slightly better reflection handling.
+9%
112 fps
MRender
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)
140 fps Much faster multi rendering.
+35%
104 fps
Gravity
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)
102 fps 153 fps Much faster NBody calculation.
+50%
Lighting
Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
142 fps +1% 140 fps
Reflection
High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
151 fps Better peak reflection handling.
+23%
123 fps
MRender
Render target array GShader (Sphere)
147 fps Much faster peak multi rendering.
+36%
108 fps
Gravity
NBody particle system (Galaxy)
108 fps 161 fps Much faster peak NBody calculation.
+49%
Market Share
Based on 67,419,594 GPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
4.51 % Insanely higher market share.
+45,000%
0.01 %
Value
Value For Money
87.8 % Hugely better value.
+209%
28.4 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating
96 % Much more popular.
+63%
59 %
Price
Price (score)
$270 Much cheaper.
+68%
$841
Age
Newest
37 Months Much more recent.
+40%
62 Months
Parallax
Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
138 fps 230 fps Much better peak texture detail.
+67%
Splatting
Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
96.6 fps Faster peak complex splatting.
+13%
85.6 fps
Parallax
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
123 fps 209 fps Much better texture detail.
+70%
Splatting
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
88.6 fps Slightly faster complex splatting.
+5%
84.1 fps
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The RTX 3060 is Nvidia’s latest 3000 series GPU. Even if it (ever…) comes into stock at $330 USD, it will struggle to match the groundbreaking 3060 Ti in terms of value for money. Nvidia’s new Ampere architecture, which supersedes Turing, offers both improved power efficiency and performance. The 3060 features 3,584 CUDA cores, 112 Tensor cores, it has a boost clock of 1.78 GHz, 12 GB of memory and a power draw of just 170 W. The 3060 offers similar performance to the previous generation’s 2060 Super at an 18% MSRP discount. Given the widespread issues AMD users are facing with 5000 series GPUs (blue/black screens etc.), AMD’s 6000 series GPU’s will have to see substantial price cuts and a huge marketing effort in order to gain any traction. Meanwhile PC gamers can look forward to an unparalleled gaming experience in class leading titles such as Cyberpunk 2077. At ultra settings, with ray tracing enabled, Cyberpunk 2077 redefines the boundaries of immersive gaming. It makes GTA5 look like Tetris in comparison. The combination of RTX+DLSS delivers stunning graphics that are several tiers higher than both AMD's best discrete GPUs and the upcoming consoles. In terms of real world performance, Nvidia’s 3000 series has more or less put AMD’s Radeon group in checkmate. Nonetheless, AMD’s marketers are capable of delivering elaborate BS albeit whilst struggling to keep a straight face. Their marketing infrastructure outsold Intel in the CPU market despite a 15% performance deficit. Without an appropriate social media marketing strategy, Nvidia will probably lose considerable market share, for all the wrong reasons. [Feb '21 GPUPro]

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The widely anticipated (albeit currently not widely available) prosumer AMD Radeon VII is finally available. It features a next generation Vega 20 GPU which is based on a 7nm manufacturing process, compared to 14nm in the first generation flagship: the RX Vega 64. The Radeon VII has a massive 16GB of expensive high-bandwidth memory (HBM2) which offers a decent degree of future proofing and also makes it a good choice for memory hungry applications, however most current games do not require more than the 8GB that comes with both NVIDIA's RTX 2080 and AMD’s RX Vega 64. The Radeon VII has fewer cores than the RX Vega 64 (3840 vs 4096) but clock speeds have been boosted up to 1800 MHz compared to 1546 MHz in the RX Vega 64, the net result is 13.8 TFLOPS single precision computations (versus 13.4 TFLOPS for the RX Vega 64). On the negative side, the Radeon VII is designed with three cooling fans which can get noisy and early software drivers are reported to be buggy. Whilst there is a modest 16% performance advantage over the RX Vega 64, initial benchmarks indicate that the Radeon VII has an effective speed which is 6% short of the similarly priced RTX 2080.  [Feb '19 GPUPro]

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Graphics Card Rankings (Price vs Performance) April 2024 GPU Rankings

We calculate effective 3D speed which estimates gaming performance for the top 12 games. Effective speed is adjusted by current prices to yield value for money. Our figures are checked against thousands of individual user ratings. The customizable table below combines these factors to bring you the definitive list of top GPUs. [GPUPro]

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