Top Graphics Cards 2023

The XFX Speedster SWFT 210, based on AMD's midrange Radeon RX 6600 GPU, is an able-enough 1080p-gaming card, but so-so cooling and performance with older games add shine to Nvidia's competing RTX 3060 (and AMD's older GPUs).

Zotac’s tricked-out RTX 3080 Ti Amp Holo has a capable cooler and lots of RGB. But its price puts it above a 3090, while its performance barely edges above a 3080 TI Founders Edition. And of course, it’s sold out everywhere anyway.

The fantastic Radeon RX 6900 XT goes toe-to-toe with Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3090 for $500 less, but doesn’t carve out a strong position for itself. Most pure gamers should opt for the Radeon RX 6800 XT instead, while content creators and performance enthusiasts might find the 3090 more compelling.

The Gigabyte RTX 3090 Eagle is basically a base model implementation of the GPU. Its 30 MHz factory overclock doesn't really matter, and for the price, the Founders Edition is the better choice. But if you're jonesing for a 3090 and can find the Gigabyte card in stock, it's still an extremely powerful card, with a price to match.

The RTX 2060 Super isn’t quite the bargain as its non-super equivalent or AMD’s Radeon RX 5700, but still offers an excellent Quad HD performance as well as the exciting ray tracing technology.

We're glad to see AMD launching a high-end gaming graphics card capable of contending with GeForce RTX 2080. Its 16GB of HBM2 convey big benefits in gaming and content creation workloads alike, and a three-game bundle adds value above and beyond Radeon VII's $700 price tag. But we'd like to see a lower price, particularly given similar performance as the GeForce in today's titles and no provisions for real-time ray tracing in future games.

The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy uses brute force and an improved 12nm process to muscle past Nvidia’s GTX 1060, but it doesn’t displace the RX 580 completely.

Asus did a great job designing a sharp-looking Radeon RX Vega 64 card that performs better than AMD's reference implementation. We would have liked to see the company put a thermal pad between its PCB and backplate, though, to counter high board temperatures under load, along with using slightly higher fan speeds. Regardless, the prices of all Radeon RX Vega 64 models remain a little too high for a recommendation at this time.

The RTX 4080 has all the technological advancements of the Ada Lovelace architecture, with a price that's difficult to justify. It's too close to the 4090 to entice extreme performance enthusiasts, and soon it will have to contend with AMD's RX 7900 series. But lots of people prefer Nvidia and want DLSS and are willing to pay the piper his dues.

The new Radeon RX 590 beats Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060 6GB across our benchmark suite at 1920 x 1080 and 2560 x 1440. However, AMD took a truncheon to the card’s power limit in order to motivate its Polaris GPU. We think you’re better off scooping up great deals on older Radeon RX 580 8GB cards for high-quality gaming at FHD.