What are the best game graphics cards of the 2016

How to buy the most cost-effective products within budget? Aside from the need to consider performance, noise, drive and software experience, the sudden launch of new products by Nvidia and AMD makes recommendations more difficult.

Best Getting Started video card: AMD Radeon RX 460

If you want to find an entry-level game card, the AMD Radeon RX 460 (110 USD, about 730 RMB) is a good choice. AMD calls RX 460 the perfect upgrade for electric competition enthusiasts. The graphics card also does a good job of accomplishing its mission: in the Games "Dota 2", "Watch Pioneer" and "Counter strike: Global Offensive", you can get 100fps of frames in high quality. This is obviously a huge boost compared to integrated graphics.

The RX 460 card is small in size and requires power below 75W, which allows it to be placed in a compact chassis space without additional power. As a result, users have little effort to turn a branded desktop computer that has less power and chassis space into a game pc. Coupled with support for HDMI 2.0b and HDR, RX 460 is also well suited to the needs of home theater PCs.

The 2GB video memory version is the most desirable version of RX 460, which meets all of the requirements of the electronic athletics game. If the upgrade to the 4GB version (130 U.S. dollars, about 862 yuan), then use it to play some relatively new game is not a problem, such as "The Island of Fright" and "Tomb Raider: Rise." When running these games, RX 460 can reach more than 40fps frames in 1080p, medium-high quality-but this is based on the premise that you can buy it at a price of about 120 dollars. If the price is higher than the cost, especially considering the Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 of the price is not only 135 U.S. dollars (about 895 yuan).

If you can match a monitor that supports Freesync or g-sync, you'll get a smoother gaming experience, and the AMD Freesync displays are not as expensive in the market as Nvidia G-sync. A 22-Inch 1080p Freesync display price of about 110 dollars (about 730 yuan), 144Hz 1080p model is about 200 dollars (about 1326 yuan). By contrast, the cheapest 1080p 144Hz g-sync display is also to be sold at 259 dollars (about 1717 yuan).

Best 1080p video card: AMD Radeon RX (4GB)

200-250 dollars This price range is called the best balance point of PC games, where you can find a lot of so-called "best mainstream graphics", such as Radeon RX 470 (recommended retail price of 180 dollars, about 1194 yuan), RX 4GB (200 USD), About 1326 yuan), RX 8GB (240 U.S. dollars, about 1591 yuan) and GeForce GTX 1060 (260 U.S. dollars, about 1724 yuan).

Some of the above graphics cards are very good quality, buy any one can not be wrong. But Rx's 470 high (the actual price of $200) makes the 20-dollar RX 480 seem more appealing. If the RX 4GB as the benchmark line, RX 470 performance slightly worse, providing uncompromising 1080p gaming experience slightly powerless, while the heat and power consumption lower GTX 1060 performance than slightly stronger. However, both RX 480 and GTX 1060 can present a uncompromising 1080p gaming experience under 60FPS, raising the resolution to 2560x1440 as well, even running VR games.

For most people, RX 4GB should be the best choice. This video card has no doubt about the price/performance and can provide uncompromising gaming experience. Although the performance of GTX 1060 is stronger than that, given that RX 480 has been able to achieve 60fps frames in 1080p super quality, why not save that extra 50 dollars? But if you're going to upgrade the 1440p display or play VR games, then Rx GTX 8GB and 1060 may be a better choice.

Best 1440p Game graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

At the price range of more than 200 dollars, Nvidia is the only brand worth choosing. Given the existence of GTX 1070 (380 US dollars, about 2520 yuan), those video cards are hard to recommend. But if you can buy Fury x or 980 Ti at a low price of 350 dollars (about 2321 yuan), or buy Radeon Fury with 300 dollars (about 1989 yuan), then don't hesitate, but this level of discount is very rare.

Although the proposed retail price of GTX 1070 is 380 US dollars, its non-public version is probably more than 430 dollars (about 2852 yuan). This is not surprising given its high demand and limited supply. But then again, this video card can show you the performance is absolutely amazing, basic and Titan x equivalent. In the actual use, it in any game can be 1440p resolution, ultra-high quality to achieve 60fps frame number. Even for 4K games, it's OK to turn the picture to high, if you don't mind the number of frames around 40fps.

The G-sync Monitor will be able to make up for the screen flaw in the lower frame, but the 4K g-sync display is not cheap, even the cheapest model (Acer XB280HK) is as high as $640 (about 4244 yuan), and its TN screen in color performance is inferior to the IPS panel. And if the IPS panel model, the price is more than 800 U.S. dollars (about 5306 yuan).

The best location for GTX 1070 is the uncompromising 1440p graphics card, which is a bit overqualified for playing 1080p games. Even better, Nvidia's Pascal-GPU architecture is impressive in terms of heat and energy efficiency controls. GTX 1070 has a huge performance boost, but power consumption and GTX 1070 remain at the same level.

Best Temperature video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

GTX 1080 is a fantastic graphics card, although the price is up to 600 dollars (about 3979 yuan), but the demand is still very high. Compared to the previous GTX 980, this video card also brings a huge performance improvement, in the running of almost every game can provide more than 70% of the frame number, while the power consumption is maintained at the same level.

If you want to get the ultimate picture at 144Hz 1440p, or you can get a stable frame of 60fps at 4k resolution, it's perfectly up to it. Although GTX 1080 may not be the best effect at 4K resolution, it is already quite close. If coupled with its strong ability to overclocking, the performance of the graphics card is even more impressive. Although GTX 1080 Founders Edition can not maintain the available 2GHz frequency, the third party manufacturer's non-public version of the model is not the problem.

Tyrants exclusively: NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

If you want to pursue extreme performance and don't care how expensive it is, nvidia Titan X Pascal is clearly tailored for you. It is the only one that can reach 60fps in 4K ultra-high quality graphics card, because the performance is too strong, when using two block Titan X to build SLI, only the resolution to 5K to see it compared to two block GTX 1080 performance improvement.

Of course, the ultimate performance also means a very high price. The graphics card is priced at 1200 dollars (about 7959 yuan) at the NVIDIA website. But if you have enough patience, you can also wait for the advent of GTX 1080 TI. Although the authorities did not disclose any information, it should use the same processor as Titan X, except that the performance would be reduced slightly. But even if such a video card does exist, it may also be priced at 900 dollars (about 5969 yuan).