BEST GPUs To Buy Right NOW! Don't pay More... For Less FPS.

this is a Nvidia RTX 3060 and this is an AMD RX 6700 XT and comparing these two graphics cards for one another would typically be an unfair comparison yes both of these gpus have 12 gigabytes of memory and they're both fundamentally achieve the same task but the RTX 3060 is the second lowest performing card Nvidia currently sells while the RX 6700 XT is right in the middle of the performance stack beating the 3060 by about 50 more frames which makes sense we're comparing a 330 RTX 3060 to a 480 RX 6700 XT and when you pay more you get more right well you would be very much mistaken right now because of how the GPU Market has been shaping up recently the 6700 XT has been consistently selling for less than the 3060 meaning the traditional way that you would buy a graphics card based on MSRP is currently the worst way to buy a GPU and could easily cost you more while providing less performance even if you compare Nvidia to a Media or AMD to AMD so because the GPU Market is an absolute Minefield right now we're going to go over each card's performance and real world pricing data to fully understand which GPU is going to offer you the best value and the most gaming performance for your money because that card that you've been eyeing could very well cost you more compared to another higher performing card that will render you more frames while also being cheaper and stay tuned to the end because I'm also going to give solid AMD and Nvidia recommendations at four different price ranges up to 250 dollars five hundred dollars one thousand dollars and over so GPU pricing and comparison let me explain so I have a question are you gonna have a PC Enthusiast stuck with that ugly ass Windows Watermark ruining your gaming and streaming experience well I have great news for you who Keys is a software licensing website dedicated to getting you affordable keys and the best part is you can get rid of that watermark in a matter of minutes all you need to do is head down to the video 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if you have a different CPU whether more or less powerful you can adjust the numbers appropriately so what we're going to do is take a look down here and what we have is frames per second the average frames per second for current generation and previous generation cards and what I want you to do when having a look at this graph is essentially if you want to achieve 60 frames per second which is kind of the minimum Baseline for most Gamers then anything on this sheet will essentially do justice you'll be be able to play most games at that resolution at that frame rate so for example the RX 6500 XT will be able to deliver about 65 frames per second at 1080p across our test Suite but if you want to achieve more than that say you have a high refresh monitor you're running 144 Hertz you realistically going to want to Target about 144 frames per second you'd then want to be stepping up to the RX 6700 on average providing 145 frames per second in our test suite and that's realistically the way that you have to look at this graph if I have a 1080p monitor 144 Hertz realistically anything 6700 caliber or above would do me Justice it would be a great experience that would match the refresh rate of my monitor pretty ideal but the 6700 may not necessarily be the best value card you may be able to find a card that has more performance at a lower price and that's pretty much the point of these videos so if you want to Target 1080p 60 frames per second you're looking at the RX 6500 XT or better from AMD and the RTX 3050 from Nvidia or better for stepping up to 144hz you'd be looking at the RX 6700 from AMD and more like the RTX 3060 TI the original version that came out a couple years ago and anything better than those cards is just going to give you a better experience so we'll see if we can find you a good price on something even better than that and then for 1440p for AMD you're looking at more like the RX 6800 XT I believe and then for NVIDIA right here you're looking at the RTX 3080 ti so let's hope that we can get a good price on that and then for 4K you can read it as you see fit so now you know which cards that you should be focusing on what your minimum Baseline is basically and what cards will be above that let's have a look and see what the prices look like starting with MSRP now MSRP is a bit of a funny Concept in theory it's meant to be the price of something that you would buy in reality it seems to be relatively meaningless let me show you this is what the pricing should be for all of these graphics cards with that shown on the left hand side right here and this will remain consistent throughout all of the graphs that you see the MSRP will be on the left hand side which will allow you to be able to compare it quite easily and realistically you would expect that performance and price should scale appropriately with this it makes sense right the more you pay the more performance you get in fact if we take the MSRP and we run the cost per frame analysis on that we get this result which don't look into it too deeply I mean you can if you want but it's going to be pretty much irrelevant because the likelihood of you getting an MSRP product is very very slim so what we need to do is essentially rerun this calculation on real world pricing because that's actually what you're going to get but for those of you that were wondering at MSRP the RTX 3060 TI the g6x version that came out quite recently not the one that came out two years ago thanks Nvidia it's very confusing but anyway if we assume that has the same MSRP as the origin original 36 DTI it actually has the best value across the board but that is with the assumption that the MSRP is 400 real world pricing does not reflect this we take a look down at the next chart right here we have MSRP versus current new listings as I mentioned before the MSRP for the cards is on the vertical axis allow you to be able to compare it quite easily but what I've also included is the current new listings of what I can find online and I've been tracking these prices for a very long time now so what we're going to do is scroll down right here and as you can see pricing compared to nsrp is kind of a bit all over the place most of amd's lineup especially RX 6000 has seen pretty decent discounts and a lot of these prices you could pretty consistently get especially nowadays now that rx7000 is out but Nvidia it's a bit of a different conversation at this point nearly all of them are above MSRP and bear in mind that when we're talking RTX 3000 Series this MSR RP for most of these cards is two years old at this point and you would expect to see a discount and part of me is kind of annoyed that it hasn't happened especially when AMD is providing a discount on their products but you also have to remember that it's built on a different node from a different manufacturer AMD being tsmc whereas for the 3000 Series for NVIDIA that was Samsung 8 nanometer node so there may be something that Nvidia can't control but I'm not saying that it is that it's just worth bearing in mind the first time that we see a discount on an Nvidia product is right up at the high end we're talking RTX 3080 TI which is already a 1200 card in fact probably the better way to show you this is if I go down here what I've done is I've graphed the lowest new price versus MSRP as a percentage so take the top result for example the RX 6500 XT MSRP of 200 can be had for 77.88 of that which means that the price for it was 100 154.99 makes sense right so you're getting about a 22 discount and what I've also done is given you the average for that for AMD rx6000 series it's about 20 discounted compared to its launch MSRP but for NVIDIA RTX 3000 Series as you can see right here on average you're paying about seven percent more than what you should be compared to launch MSRP so now that we know that we should ignore MSRP and follow the pricing that we have real actual listings for which I will provide links below for you and if I find anything cheaper I will make sure to keep them updated what we should do now is figure out which cards are the best value at 1080P 1440p and 4K [Music] so before I make solid recommendations at a given price point let's take a look at our cost per frame analysis starting at 1440p with real world pricing what I want to do is start by talking to you a bit about this graph and how to read this data the pink lines that you see here is the cost per frame how much you're paying for each and every frame rendered at 1440p for these results then the second line in the blue one is the real world pricing that I've been able to find and again pretty consistent pricing for a lot of these models but I will update them if I find something cheaper then on the left hand side is the actual frames rendered how much you should expect to achieve from those cards so let's take a look at a couple of these options which are either really good or absolutely terrible okay so starting out with the good the RX 66 which one is this RX 6650 XT which was actually a really good car the last time that we did this video again good card this time around 2.99 per frame at 1440p providing on average 92 frames per second so if you have a 1440p monitor you're a 1440p gamer this could be a really good option for you I mean it's not high refresh or mid to high refresh like 144 Hertz but it is going to provide a very solid experience for 274.99 right now I think it was a bit cheaper last time we did this video but only by about 25 in fact if you had that same budget and you wanted to go Nvidia you wouldn't be able to buy something with that same level of rasterization performance you would be with the RTX 3050 at 269.99 five dollars Delta but you'll be losing about 34 frames per second which is a pretty tough pill to swallow the best value card for NVIDIA 1440p ends up being the RTX 3060 TI the original One released in December 2020 so if you don't need Nvidia it's realistically looking at these charts one thing that I am noticing is that AMD is providing significantly a better value I mean there are reasons to go for NVIDIA and when we break down which cards to buy at which different price levels I will highlight both Nvidia and AMD because you may do other things with your card that actually may require you to buy an Nvidia GPU so I don't want to ignore that and leave people out of this scenario but we are just looking at Pure raterization Performance with these graphs but the one that actually surprised me a little bit was the RTX 1490 touted to be quite a good value GPU because although it's quite expensive it gives you a lot of performance for that money but the problem is in the retail market right now you're not paying sixteen hundred dollars for that card you're paying just shy of two grand and at two grand it becomes the worst value card on this list which is kind of crazy in fact the 3090 TI is better value than a 4090 which none of the reviews will say if they quote MSRP but when you're not paying MSRP msrps are relevant this is the data that actually matters how much are you paying versus how much are you getting and when the amount that you're paying is not the same amount that you've been quoted we need to redo this calculation to something which is far more accurate and something which is far more relevant to you which is the entire reason why videos like this are so important so for 1440p this is what it looks like so then let's move down into 4K 4K tells a bit of a different story actually the worst value card is the RTX 3090 providing 103 frames per second of raterization performance at a price of fourteen hundred dollars and that equates to 13.59 per frame in fact the RTX 1490 ends up beating it 4K gaming is a bit of a different Beast and the 1490 is very good at it so even at two grand it becomes a better value proposition compared to the 1400 1390 and the best value card ends up being the RX 6700 XT which generates what's that 65 frames per second at 4K at a price of 359.99 not bad for NVIDIA 4K the best value card is the RTX 3060 TI It generates on average 64 frames per second which is a bit lower I think compared to what do we have here the 6700 XT oh okay 65 frames per second versus 64 frames per second so they're basically on par with each other but you are paying a premium of about 70 cents per frame so before we get to the recommendations at a given price point because I understand that you guys probably have a rough budget in mind it's not as flexible as these graphs end up being what I want to do is show you the 1080p results the most popular resolution as we mentioned before everything is going to give you a pretty decent 1080p experience so everything on this list should be a consideration the only factor is what gives you the best value in fact let's start with the worst which is the RTX 1490 again I mean it's a two grand card in it's going to be running into bottlenecks of both CPU and potentially game engine so you're paying a lot for that card to potentially not be using the full performance from it it's a pretty poor recommendation at 1080p what is a good recommendation at 1080p is which one is this at 2.8 the RX 6650 XT which makes a ton of sense this card has been pretty well discounted and it makes it a great performing card at that price range and the best value card for NVIDIA 1080p is the RTX 3060 TI at a value of 2.77 it's about what's that that would be 60 69 nice more expensive per frame but just because something has exceptional value doesn't necessarily mean that you can afford it right you likely have a specific amount of money saved and if your budget is 250 for example you're unlikely to jump up to one thousand dollars regardless of the value proposition so let's cover which are the best performing graphics cards for both Nvidia and AMD at 250 500 up to one thousand dollars and over so what I'm going to do for you guys to make this significantly easier for you is have the specific cards shown here linked as a pin comment in this video's description I'll double check the pricing an hour before this video goes live and also update them daily until we do the next comparison video on this channel and if I find something even better I'll make sure to replace it in the comments section below so make sure that you do check those out because things will likely change and they will be the most up-to-date but let's start with our 250 budget for AMD the recommendation would be something in the region of the 6600 to 6650 XT range and if you can find a 6700 non XT for about that price that would be an excellent option the one that we found was the MSI Mech 6650xt for 260 dollars with a rebate card and a 15 promo providing close to a 1080p mid to high refresh rate experience in most games especially if you played around with the settings a little but it's not just a 1080p card and if you have a 1440p monitor or want to potentially upgrade to one in the future 92 FPS is incredibly playable for NVIDIA you're looking at more like the RTX 3050 for which we found this pmy version at 270 providing a decent 1080p experience but may struggle at 1440p depending on the game but what if you had a budget of say 500 well you would be able to jump up to the RX 6800 from AMD with this power color Fighter coming in at 480 at 1080p you would most often be exceeding the refresh rate of a 165 Hertz monitor making this an excellent card to facilitate that experience but at 1440p this card also shines providing closer to the mid to high refresh 144 FPS Mark in our test suite and 4K results are definitely playable the closest you can get from Nvidia right now is the RTX 3070 with this pmy version coming in at MSRP still a great card but there is a performance Delta in rasterize games of about 10 compared to the AMD card which is also slight be cheaper but where things start to get a bit more interesting is when we consider the up to one thousand dollar budget that starts to introduce the new generation honestly for AMD the RX 6950xt is still a standout option because of the discount and can be regularly had for around seven to eight hundred dollars like this gaming X Trio card from MSI making 1440p 165 Hertz and even 4K gaming definitely playable you could step up to the 7900 XT and XTX which do offer more performance if you need it but currently as the prices stand offer worse value in video on the other hand is where the current generation starts to make a bit more sense with the RTX 4070 TI especially when compared to high-end RTX 3000 prices right now and for over a thousand dollars well kind of depends on whether you can find a 4090 in stock at a quote-unquote reasonable price but there may be one more option to consider one that you may want to think about like how we built a full gaming computer for one thousand dollars with an RTX 3080 Insight you can check that out by clicking here to get that price we turn to the use market and follow this guide for making sure that you are protected for up to 90 days which I feel is more than enough time to test the GPU so make sure that you're protected when buying use by following this guide if you want to take price of performance to the next level otherwise guys share like subscribe they are always appreciated and I hope you have an amazing day

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Length: 18min 30sec (1110 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 28 2023