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CompareYourGPU
35 graphics cards tracked

Find the best graphics card for your PC

CompareYourGPU turns your resolution, frame-rate target and budget into one clear recommendation, and shows the reasoning behind it. Compare specifications, performance and value across NVIDIA, AMD and Intel without needing to already know what a memory bus is.

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Fastest cards tracked

1440p index
  1. 1RTX 5090100
  2. 2RTX 409082
  3. 3RTX 508074
  4. 4RX 7900 XTX69
  5. 5RTX 4080 SUPER68
  6. 6RTX 5070 Ti65

CompareYourGPU estimate at native 1440p, not a measured frame rate. How this is calculated.

Graphics cards
35
Games profiled
12
Buying guides
8
Head-to-heads
8

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Four ways to use CompareYourGPU

Whether you have no idea where to start, already have a shortlist, or own a card and want to know whether replacing it is worth the money, there is a route through the data that suits you.

If you do not know where to start

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Answer seven short questions about your monitor, your games and your budget. You get one recommendation, three alternatives, and the reasoning behind every criterion.

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If you already have a shortlist

Compare GPUs

Put two to four cards side by side across price, performance, memory, power and features. Every row marks a winner where there is one, and says so where there is not.

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If you already own a graphics card

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Tell us what you have and what you are eyeing. We work out the gain, what it costs per percent, and whether the money is better spent elsewhere — including saying no.

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If you want to understand the hardware

Browse the database

Every card has its own page: specifications, estimated performance at each resolution, technologies, strengths, weaknesses and sources. Technical terms are explained in place.

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Computed from the database

Best graphics cards by category

Each category applies a different weighting to the same data. Nothing here is a fixed editorial list: change a price or a performance figure and these picks change with it.

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Head to head

Popular GPU comparisons

The matchups people actually cross-shop, each with a full specification table, charts and a verdict for four different priorities.

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Most recent additions

Latest graphics card data

The newest in-production cards in the database, with the date their specifications were last reviewed.

Full directory

  • RTX 5050

    NVIDIA · RTX 50

    Performance index, 1440p22

    CompareYourGPU estimate, 100 = fastest card tracked

    VRAM
    8 GB
    Power
    130 W
    Price
    $383

    Launched July 2025 · reviewed August 22, 2026

  • RX 9060 XT 8GB

    AMD · RX 9000

    Performance index, 1440p31

    CompareYourGPU estimate, 100 = fastest card tracked

    VRAM
    8 GB
    Power
    150 W
    Price
    $561

    Launched June 5, 2025 · reviewed August 22, 2026

  • RX 9060 XT 16GB

    AMD · RX 9000

    Performance index, 1440p33

    CompareYourGPU estimate, 100 = fastest card tracked

    VRAM
    16 GB
    Power
    160 W
    Price
    $646

    Launched June 5, 2025 · reviewed August 22, 2026

Looking for something specific? The directory has all 35 graphics cards with filters for price, VRAM, power and ray tracing.

Written for people, not search engines

Buying guides

What actually matters at each resolution and price point, and how to think about the trade-offs before you look at a single product.

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  • How to choose a graphics card

    Most graphics card advice starts with a list of products. This guide starts with the four questions that decide which list you should even be looking at, because a card that is perfect for one build is a waste of money in another.

    Updated August 22, 2026

  • The best graphics cards right now

    This page ranks every in-production graphics card CompareYourGPU tracks on a blend of performance, memory, features and efficiency. The ranking is computed from the database, so it changes when the underlying data does.

    Updated October 11, 2026

  • The best graphics cards for 1080p gaming

    1080p is the resolution where spending more stops paying off fastest. This ranking weights performance per dollar heavily, because at 1920x1080 the difference between a good card and an expensive one is often frames your monitor cannot display.

    Updated October 11, 2026

  • The best graphics cards for 1440p gaming

    1440p is where most high-refresh gaming monitors sit, and where the price and performance curves meet most usefully. This ranking balances raw performance against memory headroom and value rather than optimising for any one of them.

    Updated October 11, 2026

  • The best graphics cards for 4K gaming

    4K is roughly 2.3 times the pixel count of 1440p, and it is unforgiving of a narrow memory bus or a small memory pool. This ranking weights 4K performance and VRAM heavily and excludes cards with under 12 GB of memory.

    Updated October 11, 2026

  • The best budget graphics cards

    This ranking covers cards priced at $350 or below. At this end of the market the differences between products are large in percentage terms and small in absolute money, so a careful choice is worth more here than anywhere else in the range.

    Updated October 11, 2026

Common questions about CompareYourGPU

How does CompareYourGPU decide which graphics card to recommend?
Your answers about resolution, frame-rate target, ray tracing and budget adjust a set of weights across six criteria: performance, value, VRAM, ray tracing, efficiency and features. Every card in the database is scored against those weights and the result is shown with the full breakdown, so you can see exactly which criterion produced the score and disagree with it if your priorities differ.
Are the frame-rate figures on this site measured?
No. CompareYourGPU publishes an estimated performance index aggregated from public review coverage, and models frame-rate ranges from it. Both are labelled as estimates everywhere they appear. The separate measured benchmark database only accepts runs that can be attributed to a named, linkable source, and it is empty until such runs are transcribed.
Why do some cards show no current price?
Because CompareYourGPU only shows a current price where it has actually observed and dated one. Cards without one are shown at launch MSRP and labelled as such, rather than printing a number it cannot stand behind. Value scores use the verified price where one exists and launch MSRP otherwise, and each figure says which.
Does CompareYourGPU get paid for its recommendations?
Some retailer links are affiliate links: if you buy through one, CompareYourGPU earns a small commission at no cost to you, and that is disclosed wherever they appear. They have no effect on scoring or ranking: every recommendation on the site is computed from the database by the same rules, and no manufacturer or retailer can change a placement.
How many graphics cards does CompareYourGPU track?
The database currently covers current and recent desktop cards from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel across every price segment. Coverage is deliberately narrower than an exhaustive specification database because every entry is checked against the manufacturer's published figures.