High-End Gaming Segment — 18 Graphics Cards Compared

Decision table

High-End Gaming Segment: which one for what?

The 18 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 508087%

Leads for Content Creation: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT88%

Leads for Quiet operation: AMD Radeon RX 907066%

Leads for Films & Video: AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE76%

#7#7#12#16
AMD Radeon VIIAMD
16 GB · 1750 MHz · 300 W
79% 73% 57% 53%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 2048 GB/s memory bandwidth
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.
#6#9#1#2
AMD Radeon RX 9070AMD
16 GB · 2520 MHz · 220 W
79% 66% 66% 66%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
- 220 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
- 220 W — among the frugal ones here
#13#13#9#15
AMD Radeon RX Vega 64AMD
8 GB · 1546 MHz · 295 W
72% 63% 60% 55%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
Why it ranks here
- 295 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- 295 W — among the frugal ones here
#11#5#15#11
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080NVIDIA
16 GB · Ada Lovelace · 2510 MHz
73% 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
#18#16#4#14
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SuperNVIDIA
8 GB · Turing · 1820 MHz
71% 62% 63% 57%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
Why it ranks here
- 250 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- 250 W — among the frugal ones here
#17#15#3#13
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080NVIDIA
8 GB · Turing · 1800 MHz
71% 62% 64% 57%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
Why it ranks here
- 225 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- 225 W — among the frugal ones here
#15#12#18#18
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 TiNVIDIA
12 GB · Ampere · 1670 MHz
72% 65% 51% 50%
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.
#14#11#17#17
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080NVIDIA
12 GB · Ampere · 1710 MHz
72% 65% 51% 50%
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.
#12#6#16#12
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPERNVIDIA
16 GB · Ada Lovelace · 2550 MHz
73% 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
#10#4#8#5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERNVIDIA
16 GB · Ada Lovelace · 2610 MHz
73% 75% 61% 64%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
- 285 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
- 285 W — among the frugal ones here
#16#14#2#7
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XTAMD
8 GB · 1905 MHz · 225 W
71% 62% 64% 61%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
Why it ranks here
- 225 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- 225 W — among the frugal ones here
#5#10#5#1
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GREAMD
16 GB · 2245 MHz · 260 W
79% 65% 62% 76%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
- 260 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Films & Video
- AV1 decoder
- 260 W — among the frugal ones here
#8#17#10#8
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XTAMD
16 GB · 2250 MHz · 300 W
77% 56% 57% 61%
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
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
#9#18#11#9
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD
16 GB · 2250 MHz · 300 W
77% 56% 57% 61%
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
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
#3#1#13#10
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTAMD
20 GB · 2400 MHz · 315 W
84% 88% 55% 60%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 20 GB of memory
- 800 GB/s memory bandwidth
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- 20 GB of memory
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
#4#8#7#3
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XTAMD
16 GB · RDNA 4 · 2970 MHz
84% 71% 61% 66%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- AV1 encoder
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
- Current model — 19 months on the market
#2#2#6#4
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TiNVIDIA
16 GB · Blackwell · 2452 MHz
86% 85% 62% 66%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 896 GB/s memory bandwidth
- Ray-tracing hardware
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- AV1 encoder
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
- Current model — 19 months on the market
#1#3#14#6
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080NVIDIA
16 GB · Blackwell · 2617 MHz
87% 85% 55% 63%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 960 GB/s memory bandwidth
- Ray-tracing hardware
- Current model — 20 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- 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