Tencent digital hearing (Eskimo) how to buy the most cost-effective products in the budget? This is probably the question that every PC user who plans to purchase a new graphics card will ask. However, answering this question is not always easy. In addition to the need to consider performance, noise, drivers, and software experiences, a host of new products from NVIDIA and AMD has suddenly made recommendation even more difficult. However, PCWorld, the technology website, recently looked at five of the most recommended cards. They cover the low-end model of $100 and the high-end model of $1200, which is believed to satisfy most people's needs in the game.
Best Starter Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 460
If you're looking for an entry-level gaming graphics card, the AMD Radeon RX 460 ($110, or about RMB 730) is a good choice. AMD calls the RX 460 an excellent upgrade for e-sports enthusiasts. This video card is indeed able to accomplish its mission outstandingly: In "Dota 2", "watch pioneer" and "Counter Strike: Global Offensive" these games, you can get 100fps frames in high quality. Compared with integrated graphics, this is obviously a huge improvement.
The small size of the RX 460 Public Edition card requires less than 75W of power, which allows it to be placed in a compact chassis space without requiring additional power. As a result, users can easily turn their brand desktops, which lack power and chassis space, into a gaming PC. Coupled with HDMI 2.0b and HDR support, the RX 460 is also fully qualified for home theater PCs.
2GB memory version is the most worthy version of the RX 460, it can meet all the needs of e-sports games. If you upgrade to the 4GB version ($130, or RMB 862), it wouldn't be a problem to use it to play some new games, such as Far Cry and Tomb Raider: Rise. When running these games, the RX 460 can achieve more than 40fps frames in 1080p, medium-high quality - but this is based on the premise that you can buy it at around $120. If it is higher than this price, it will be no longer worthwhile, especially considering that the price of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 is only 135 US dollars (about 895 yuan).
If you can match a monitor that supports FreeSync or G-Sync, then you can get a smoother gaming experience, and AMD FreeSync monitors are not as expensive in the market as NVIDIA G-Sync. A 22-inch 1080p FreeSync display costs about $110 (about 730 yuan), while the 144-Hz 1080p model costs about $200 (about 1,326 yuan). In comparison, the cheapest 1080p 144Hz G-Sync monitor is currently sold at 259 US dollars (about 1717 yuan).
Best 1080p Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 480 (4GB)
This price range of 200-250 US dollars is called the best balance point for PC games, where you can find a lot of so-called "best mainstream graphics card", such as Radeon RX 470 (recommended retail price of 180 US dollars, about 1194 yuan Yuan), RX 480 4GB (200 US dollars, approximately 1326 yuan), RX 480 8GB (240 US dollars, approximately 1591 yuan) and GeForce GTX 1060 (260 US dollars, approximately 1724 yuan).
The quality of the above graphics cards is excellent, and you can't go wrong with any one of them. However, the high price of the RX 470 (actual price of US$200) makes the RX 480, which costs only 20 US dollars, more attractive. If the RX 480 4GB is used as a baseline, the RX 470 performs slightly worse, providing an uncompromising 1080p gaming experience with little power; the GTX 1060, which generates less heat and power, performs slightly better. However, both the RX 480 and the GTX 1060 are capable of presenting an uncompromising 1080p gaming experience at 60fps, and raising the resolution to 2560x1440 also has a good performance, even running VR games.
For most people, the RX 480 4GB should be the best choice. This card is unquestionably cost-effective and offers an uncompromising gaming experience. Although the performance of the GTX 1060 is better than that, but considering that the RX 480 has been able to achieve 60fps frames at 1080p ultra-high quality, why not save that extra $50? But if you plan to upgrade 1440p monitors or play VR games, the RX 480 8GB and GTX 1060 may be a better choice.
Best 1440p Gaming Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
In the $200 or more price range, NVIDIA is the only brand to choose from. Taking into account the existence of the GTX 1070 (380 US dollars, about RMB 2520), those previous generations of graphics cards are really difficult to recommend. But don't hesitate to buy Fury X or 980 Ti at a price below 350 U.S. dollars, or Radeon Fury at 300 U.S. dollars. The degree of discount is very rare.
Although the suggested retail price of GTX 1070 is 380 US dollars, but its non-public version is probably more than 430 US dollars (about 2852 yuan). Considering its higher demand and limited supply, this situation is not surprising. But having said that, the performance that this video card can present to you is astonishing absolutely, the basic and previous generation Titan X is quite. In actual use, it can achieve 60fps frames with 1440p resolution and ultra-high image quality in any game. Even for 4K games, there is no problem if the picture quality is high, if you don't mind about 40fps frames.
The G-Sync monitor can be used to compensate for the picture frames appearing at lower frame rates, but the price of the 4K G-Sync monitor is not cheap, and even the cheapest model (Acer XB280HK) is up to $640. RMB 4244), and its TN screen is inferior to the IPS panel in terms of color. And if it is an IPS panel model, then the price is more than 800 US dollars (about 5306 yuan).
The best positioning of the GTX 1070 is the uncompromising 1440p graphics card. Playing 1080p games with it is a bit overkill. Even better, NVIDIA's Pascal GPU architecture is amazing in terms of heat and energy efficiency control. Although the GTX 1070 has a huge performance boost, power consumption and the GTX 1070 remain at the same level.
Best Fever Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
The GTX 1080 is a fantastic video card. Although the price is as high as 600 US dollars (about 3979 yuan), the demand is still very high. Compared to the previous generation of the GTX 980, this graphics card also brings a huge performance increase, which can provide more than 70% increase in the number of frames when running almost every game, but the power consumption is maintained at the same level.
If you want to get the ultimate picture quality at 144Hz 1440p, or get a stable frame rate of 60fps at 4k resolution, then it's quite competent. Although the GTX 1080 may not be able to deliver the best results at 4K resolution, it is already quite close. If coupled with its powerful ability in overclocking, this graphics card's performance is even more amazing. Although GTX 1080 Founders Edition cannot maintain the available 2GHz frequency, non-public version of third-party manufacturers do not have this problem.
Local tyrants exclusively for: NVIDIA Titan X Pascal
If you want to pursue extreme performance and don't care how much it costs, the NVIDIA Titan X Pascal is clearly tailored for you. It is currently the only graphics card that can achieve 60fps in 4K ultra-high image quality. Due to its high performance, when using two Titan Xs to build an SLI, it can only be seen by comparing the resolution to 5K. Two GTX 1080 performance improvements.
Of course, extreme performance also means high prices. This graphics card sells for 1200 US dollars on the NVIDIA official website (about 7959 yuan). But if you have enough patience, you can also wait for the advent of the GTX 1080 Ti. Although the official did not disclose any news, it should adopt the same processor as the Titan X, but the performance will be slightly reduced. However, even if such a video card does exist, its price may be more than 900 US dollars (about 5969 yuan).
Source: PCWorld
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