Flagship Gaming Segment — 7 Graphics Cards Compared

Decision table

Flagship Gaming Segment: which one for what?

The 7 models on this page are scored only against each other, for the use you pick. Scores come from the spec sheets; no price and no advertising go in.

What will you use it for? Gaming Content Creation Quiet operation Films & Video

Leads for Gaming: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 509094%

Leads for Content Creation: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 509095%

Leads for Quiet operation: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti66%

Leads for Films & Video: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX74%

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 TiNVIDIA
24 GB · Ampere · 1860 MHz
76% 67% 53% 51%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXAMD
24 GB · 2500 MHz · 355 W
82% 78% 58% 74%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Films & Video
- AV1 decoder
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 TiNVIDIA
11 GB · Turing · 1640 MHz
74% 62% 66% 58%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
Why it ranks here
- 260 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- 260 W — among the frugal ones here
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090NVIDIA
24 GB · Ada Lovelace · 2520 MHz
76% 75% 53% 59%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090NVIDIA
24 GB · Ampere · 1700 MHz
76% 67% 61% 55%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
Why it ranks here
- 350 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- 350 W — among the frugal ones here
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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD
16 GB · 2310 MHz · 335 W
78% 52% 63% 65%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- 335 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
- 335 W — among the frugal ones here
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090NVIDIA
32 GB · Blackwell · 2410 MHz
94% 95% 55% 63%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 32 GB of memory
- 1792 GB/s memory bandwidth
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- 32 GB of memory
- AV1 encoder
- Current model — 20 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Current model — 20 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
- Current model — 20 months on the market