Top Graphics Cards 2023

The jump from Maxwell to Pascal is exceptional. The GTX 1080 sealed the high end with an almost 50% improvement over last generation's equivalent, and the same can be said for the GTX 1060. It's cool, quiet, and fantastically well rounded for a card at this price point.

The TUF GTX 1660 slots into a very narrow space in a crowded market but performs well. You can get a GTX 1660 card for a bit less money but this one runs silent and is a no-drama 60fps 1440p card, which makes more expensive GPUs seem less relevant. It's really all you need for gaming these days unless you're pushing super high resolutions and/or frame rates.

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1660 and EVGA’s superb XC Ultra custom design result in a new mainstream gaming champion. This is the graphics card you want for 1080p gaming at 60 frames per second.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti XC Ultra strips out fancy extras to focus purely on great performance in all functional areas. It’s an outstanding all-around graphics card for 1080p and 1440p gaming.

MSI's GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X 6G is exceptional at doing what it's designed to do: deliver a moderate-cost GPU option to gamers in search of high refresh rates in 1080p.

The GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition is the most well-rounded RTX 2060 we've reviewed, complete with a VirtualLink port and excellent overclocking capability.

AMD’s Radeon VII is a fast, memory-rich graphics card loaded down with the latest technologies. It trades blows with Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080 in 4K gaming.

If you ignore power consumption, the Radeon RX 590 is the best-performing midrange card you can buy (as tested in this XFX model), showing double-digit gains over the GeForce GTX 1060. However, the existing Radeon RX 580 has the economic edge.

Gigabyte’s GeForce RTX 2070 Gaming OC 8G serves up better performance than Nvidia’s Founders Edition card, and at a lower price. Its thermal solution isn’t built for aggressive overclocking, but the card offers great frame rates at 2560 x 1440 with maxed-out detail settings right out of the box.

Gigabyte’s GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming OC 8G offers great performance at 2560x1440 on high-refresh displays, the luxury of a semi-passive fan mode, and a quiet cooling solution. Now that it costs less than Nvidia’s sturdily-built Founders Edition model, we're willing to consider it a viable alternative for enthusiasts looking to save some money.