

Factors including price, graphics card power consumption, overall efficiency, and other features aren't factored into the rankings here. The following tables sort everything solely by our performance-based GPU gaming benchmarks, at 1080p "ultra" for the main suite and at 1080p "medium" for the DXR suite. We also have the legacy GPU hierarchy (without benchmarks) at the bottom of the article. Below our main tables, you'll find our 2020–2021 benchmark suite, which has all of the previous generation GPUs running our older test suite running on a Core i9-9900K testbed.


Those of course require a ray tracing capable GPU so only AMD's RX 6000-series and Nvidia's RTX cards are present. We've got our full hierarchy using traditional rendering first, and below that, we have our ray tracing GPU benchmarks. We'll continue to flesh out the remaining holes with more GPUs as we complete testing. Most of what remains are either budget offerings or extreme Titan cards, or cards that are no longer supported with the current drivers. We have completed testing of the current generation AMD RDNA 2 and Nvidia Ampere GPUs, the Turing and RDNA series as well, and many of the other generations as well.

We've revamped our GPU testbed and updated all of our benchmarks for 2022, and are nearly finished retesting every graphics card from the past several generations. Whether it's playing games or doing high-end creative work like 4K video editing, your graphics card typically plays the biggest role in determining performance, and even the best CPUs for Gaming take a secondary role. Our GPU benchmarks hierarchy ranks all the current and previous generation graphics cards by performance, including all of the best graphics cards.
