Real World Speed
Performance profile from 250,909 user samples
158,856 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 230% EVGA(3842 3982) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 185% EVGA(3842 3982) ≥ 4GB
Poor: 185% Great: 230%
SPEED RANK: 10th / 714
92,053 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 85% Sapphire(1DA2 E376)
Worst Bench: 71% AMD(1002 0B36) ≥ 4GB
Poor: 71% Great: 85%
SPEED RANK: 93rd / 714
Effective 3D Speed
Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed
210 % Hugely faster effective speed.
+169%
78 %
Lighting
Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
310 fps Hugely better lighting effects.
+215%
98.3 fps
Reflection
Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
302 fps Hugely better reflection handling.
+188%
105 fps
MRender
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)
350 fps Hugely faster multi rendering.
+295%
88.6 fps
Gravity
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)
254 fps Hugely faster NBody calculation.
+123%
114 fps
Lighting
Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
349 fps Hugely better peak lighting effects.
+220%
109 fps
Reflection
High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
386 fps Hugely better peak reflection handling.
+245%
112 fps
MRender
Render target array GShader (Sphere)
378 fps Hugely faster peak multi rendering.
+302%
94.1 fps
Gravity
NBody particle system (Galaxy)
274 fps Hugely faster peak NBody calculation.
+114%
128 fps
Market Share
Based on 67,446,628 GPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
1.01 % Insanely higher market share.
+1,920%
0.05 %
Value
Value For Money
38.1 % 109 % Hugely better value.
+186%
User Rating
UBM User Rating
71 % More popular.
+22%
58 %
Price
Price (score)
$1,306 $170 Hugely cheaper.
+87%
Age
Newest
43 Months Much more recent.
+46%
80 Months
Parallax
Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
373 fps Hugely better peak texture detail.
+113%
175 fps
Splatting
Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
196 fps Hugely faster peak complex splatting.
+153%
77.6 fps
Parallax
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
329 fps Hugely better texture detail.
+112%
155 fps
Splatting
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
186 fps Hugely faster complex splatting.
+150%
74.5 fps
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The RTX 3090 is Nvidia’s 3000 series flagship. It takes the crown as the fastest consumer graphics card money can buy. Nvidia’s new Ampere architecture, which supersedes Turing, offers both improved power efficiency and performance. The 3090 features 10,496 CUDA cores and 328 Tensor cores, it has a base clock of 1.4 GHz boosting to 1.7 GHz, 24 GB of memory and a power draw of 350 W. The 3090 offers more than double the memory and beats the previous generation’s flagship RTX 2080 Ti significantly in terms of effective speed. That said, the 3090 also comes with a hefty $1,500 price tag. Professional users, such as game developers, that can make use of 24 GB of memory, may find value in the 3090. Regular users should be wary of the hype around 8k gaming. High end gamers ought to consider the 3080 which offers comparable gaming performance for less than half the money. 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. [Sep '20 GPUPro]

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The Radeon RX Vega 56 is the weakest member of AMD's Vega GPU family. The Vega architecture is built on 14 nm silicon and contains next-generation compute units (nCUs). Each NCU houses 64 steam processors, of which the Vega 56 has 3584 vs. 4096 in the Vega 64. The new architecture employs 8GB of second generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM2). In terms of compatibility all of the games we tested were fine apart from GTAV where enabling reflection MSAA resulted in very poor, almost matt, reflection fidelity (the same bug appeared on several Navi and Vega cards). Although the Vega 56 has 12.5% less processing units, users have found that by flashing an RX 64 BIOS into an RX 56 card allows a 10% increase in OC headroom which effectively brings a BIOS flashed RX 56 onto par with a stock RX 64 and just 12.5% slower than a fully overclocked RX 64. All of this OC headroom is great on paper but in the real world the reference Vega 56 is far too noisy. Hair dryer levels of noise at stock clocks are unacceptable for most users. Provided you are partially deaf or happy to use noise canceling headphones the Vega 56 “can” deliver levels of performance that approach an RTX 2060 but prices need to drop below $200 before the Vega 56 is competitive. [Nov '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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Intel Core i5-13600K $273Nvidia RTX 4060 $295Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $15Nvidia RTX 4070 $539Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52
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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
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