Best Graphics Cards for Gaming in 2025. The best graphics cards are the beating heart of any gaming PC, and everything else comes second. Without a powerful GPU pushing pixels, even the fastest of the best CPUs for gaming won’t manage much. No one graphics card will be right for everyone, so we’ve provided options for every budget and mindset below. Whether you’re after the fastest graphics card, the best value, or the best card at a given price, we’ve got you covered.
Where our GPU benchmarks hierarchy ranks all of the cards based purely on performance, our list of the best graphics cards looks at the whole package. Current GPU pricing, performance, features, efficiency, and availability are all important, though the weighting becomes more subjective. Factoring in all of those aspects, these are the best graphics cards that are currently available.
We haven’t had a ‘new’ GPU launch since February’s RX 7900 GRE, joining the four GPUs that came out in January: RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, RTX 4070 Super, and RX 7600 XT. All of these are in our performance charts, and some make our overall picks, replacing former entries that are now officially discontinued (even if retail inventory remains).
We anticipate the Nvidia Blackwell and RTX 50-series, AMD RDNA 4, and Intel Battlemage GPUs will arrive in the next couple of months. Most likely all will see an early 2025 release, though there’s still a (slim) chance that a few new GPUs could slip out before the end of 2024.
Prices are mostly sitting at MSRP and below for the least expensive offering on each GPU. That applies to everything except the highest tier Nvidia GPU, which has been trending upward lately: The RTX 4090 now starts at $1,900, which is $300 more than the original launch price. Unless you really need such a GPU, you should just wait for the RTX 5090 at this point. Yes, it will probably cost $1,999 or more, but then if you’re already looking at $1,900, what’s another $100 for a potential 50% boost in performance?
That last bit of advice applies to all the high-end cards: If you haven’t already upgraded, waiting until the next-gen GPUs arrive makes a lot of sense.
Best graphics cards for gaming, at a glance
| Graphics Card | 1080p FPS | 1440p FPS | 4K FPS | Price (MSRP) | Avg. Power Draw |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce RTX 4090 | 187.6 | 139.2 | 87.4 | $1,900 ($1,600) | 310W |
| GeForce RTX 4080 Super | 167.4 | 112.6 | 65.4 | $990 ($1,000) | 240W |
| GeForce RTX 4080 | 164.7 | 110.0 | 63.6 | $1,000 ($1,200) | 241W |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super | 152.5 | 97.8 | 55.1 | $740 ($800) | 244W |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | 146.7 | 90.6 | 50.4 | $720 ($800) | 227W |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Super | 139.5 | 84.5 | 46.1 | $590 ($600) | 194W |
| GeForce RTX 4070 | 125.1 | 73.5 | 38.9 | $499 ($550) | 179W |
| GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | 101.3 | 56.1 | 29.2 | $449 ($500) | 148W |
| GeForce RTX 4060 Ti | 101.8 | 55.2 | 28.1 | $380 ($400) | 139W |
| GeForce RTX 4060 | 82.7 | 44.5 | 22.2 | $295 ($300) | 124W |
| Radeon RX 7900 XTX | 149.1 | 100.5 | 58.1 | $840 ($1,000) | 334W |
| Radeon RX 7900 XT | 138.5 | 89.2 | 49.3 | $640 ($900) | 299W |
| Radeon RX 7900 GRE | 124.4 | 76.7 | 40.8 | $530 ($550) | 251W |
| Radeon RX 7800 XT | 115.9 | 70.2 | 37.9 | $470 ($500) | 239W |
| Radeon RX 7700 XT | 103.7 | 60.4 | 31.4 | $390 ($450) | 227W |
| Radeon RX 7600 XT | 75.5 | 40.3 | 19.9 | $315 ($330) | 187W |
| Radeon RX 7600 | 71.2 | 35.9 | 14.8 | $250 ($270) | 151W |
| Intel Arc A770 16GB | 71.6 | 43.5 | — | $280 ($330) | 204W |
| Intel Arc A770 8GB | 68.6 | 38.6 | — | $350+ ($300) | 216W |
| Intel Arc A750 | 66.4 | 38.7 | — | $190 ($250) | 189W |
| Intel Arc A580 | 60.6 | 34.6 | — | $165 ($180) | 188W |
| Intel Arc A380 | 25.0 | — | — | $110 ($140) | 69W |
Note: We’re showing current online prices alongside the official launch MSRPs in the above table, with the GPUs sorted by performance. Retail prices can fluctuate quite a bit over the course of a month; the table lists the best we could find at the time of writing. Also note that the “average power draw” column is the average power across all of our testing for each GPU — so the 4090 in particular uses far less power when it’s CPU limited at 1080p, and that skews the overall average down.
The above list shows all the current generation graphics cards, grouped by vendor and sorted by reverse product name — so faster and more expensive cards are at the top of the chart. There are 22 current generation parts, and most of them are viable choices for the right situation. Previous generation cards are mostly not worth considering these days, as they’re either discontinued or in the process of being phased out. If you want to see how the latest GPUs stack up in comparison to older parts, check our GPU benchmarks hierarchy.
The performance ranking incorporates 19 games from our latest test suite, with both rasterization and ray tracing performance included. Note that we are not including upscaling results in the table, which would generally skew things more in favor of Nvidia GPUs, depending on the selection of games.
While performance can be an important criteria for a lot of gamers, it’s not the only metric that matters. Our subjective rankings below factor in price, power, and features colored by our own opinions. Others may offer a slightly different take, but all of the cards on this list are worthy of your consideration.
