Gadgetory

picking a graphics card can make or break your system well not literally but you'll regret it for a long time if you don't do sufficient research beforehand and it's got to be smart research you've got to ask yourself the right questions perhaps the most important of these in what resolution do you intend to game 1080p 4k the second question follows suit at what refresh rate do you intend to game 60 Hertz 120 240 your answers to these two questions will define your PC build without a doubt they'll influence your CPU choice your power supply choice and maybe even your case choice a lots riding on this one here's a quick rundown picture the graphics card as the foundation on which all other computer components rely and if you aren't interested in discrete graphics for gaming then your CPU becomes the foundation it's my personal belief that your entire budget should revolve around this graphics card choice which as we just discussed is dependent on gaming resolution and refresh rate I should also mention that these recommendations assume a minimal CPU bottleneck 16 gigabytes of system ram which should remove any Ram bottleneck and moderately demanding current gaming titles so let's start with the lower end and work our way up we've got a few contenders way down at the base of the spectrum something like this Nvidia g2 10 may seem appealing on paper thanks to its extremely low price but you'd almost be better off sporting just a CPU and your PC and running off of integrated graphics in some cases you actually would be better off no joke serious gamers even in lower resolutions should be prepared to spend anywhere from 50 to 100 US dollars at least that's roughly arcs for 60 territory just on the upper edge and the arcs for 60 is a much more powerful car than these two from Nvidia mind you we have to bump up to the GTX 1050 for a fair fight from the Green Team so all of these GPUs fit into what I would call the 1080p 60fps category as in don't expect to attain much higher than this without serious graphical compromises any resolution below this with modern games and you should be okay 720p you should be fine with any of these graphics cards as long as you're willing to adjust a few in-game settings the ten-thirty isn't an interesting price point but if you AskMe pay a little extra for the RX 460 or the gtx 10 Fifty's again 1080p gaming here wouldn't push these cards above that and pairing either of these with a 144 Hertz monitor for example wouldn't make much sense unless the game in question fare somewhere along the lines of csgo our next category is the 1080p 1440p category the cards listed here are very fluid in that they can easily run a majority of games in 1080p and even light 1440p with adjusted settings there you go dropping texture quality from very high to high high to normal you get the point included here are the arcs for 70 through the 580 r9 380 390 and everything in between along with the gtx 960 1060 and 970 remember that these aren't absolutes there are certainly circumstances in which these general rules are a bit of a stretch but for any beginner this should give you a good idea of what to expect I also have several links to benchmarks down below to back up these claims all in all expect to spend anywhere from two to three hundred US dollars for one of these cards up next is the 1440p category the cards listed here are without a doubt 1440p powerhouses and can even handle refresh rates exceeding 100 Hertz pushing that 4k boundary you'll find the gtx 1070 to be an excellent performer here for the price as well as the late 1980s umph ssin should be considered vSphere your lineup is a great fit here as well and you can usually pick these up for considerably less than their Nvidia counterparts see this video right here for more details though do keep in mind these cards are very power hungry you could probably make the case for the GTX 1080 here as well seeing it so the 1080 Ti has lowered prices a bit the 1080 is a large leap above the 1070 from a performance perspective but may prove to be a bit overkill for anyone locked at 60 Hertz below 4k the last category then is the 4k category up to 120 Hertz if you're gaming a resolution higher than this or with multiple monitors you probably already know what you're doing and you're just watching this video for sig kicks which is still cool packed into here or the priciest of the pricey graphics cards available and even a few crossfire SLI configurations for cards that won't perform up to spec by themselves first and foremost of the prominent GT X 1080 Ti is an excellent 4k graphics card even intensive Witcher 3 is crushed by this Nvidia powerhouse and for around the same price as its 90 DTI counterpart this time two years ago technology has made leaps and bounds just two years that's incredible and the prices haven't gone up accordingly from AMD it's difficult to recommend anything reasonably priced at this point since we're largely anticipating Vega but we aren't certain of performance numbers some expect Avego won't touch the 1080i others wholeheartedly think that it will but for now as of may 2017 the best I can do for the red team is recommend the crossfire configuration to Theory X's should do the trick but at the expense of some serious power consumption - GTX 1080s would also work here as well as to GTX 10 70s though the latter would certainly struggle with anything above 60 fps in the 4k resolution so that's my breakdown in my experience when friends and family asked for gaming advice I break it down like this identify your constants or gaming resolution and your gaming refresh rate and then pick your graphics card from there everything else in your PC if it is a gaming PC should follow suit if you liked this video be sure to give it a thumbs up thumbs down for the obstacle to subscribe on if you haven't already not we'll catch you in the next video this is science studio thanks for learning with us