GPU Guide for 2020-choose the right card for you!

It’s time to buy a graphics card…or a video card or a display adapter🙄. Never mind, I’m gonna stick with graphics card itself😀. Okay, so now you have saved some money and decided to buy/upgrade your graphics card. But confused between a tons of options from team red and green army? In this post I’m gonna disregard all those cards which cannot perform well in 1080p gaming because c’mon, its 2020 and no one is going to play games at 720p🤢. So cards like GTX 750, Radeon RX 540x and HD series are not included here👋. Alright then, let’s have a look at some cool graphics cards suitable at various resolutions🤩.

Full HD(1080p)

I would say that 1080p is still a decent gaming res in 2020. In fact, 65% of the gamers are still playing in this sector🙌. And obviously you got so many choices to make here.

⭕For  very basic gaming at this res, I would suggest the AMD RX-570 which is an entry level card but will just do the job at a fair price. It got GDDR5 and 256-bit@224GB/s memory bus with a maximum clock speed of 1284 Mhz.

⭕If you are looking for a mid-range one, the GTX 1650 super would be a great choice from Nvidia. Since it’s build on the Turing architecture, you are getting the beloved NVENC encoder for recording and streaming😍. It’s equipped with the latest GDDR6 and 128bit@192GB/s memory bus with clock speeds maxing out at 1725 Mhz.

⭕for high-end 1080p gaming, you want to make a choice here👇.

(i)If NVENC is a must for you and you are willing to pay for the premium💥, the GTX 1660ti is the best choice right now. It comes with GDDR6, 192-bit@288GB/s and clock speed maxing out at 1770 Mhz.

(ii)If you don’t care about the NVENC encoder, going with the RX-5600XT is great considering its price-to-performance ratio. It supports the much faster PCIe 4.0 x16(Gen4) with GDDR6, 192-bit@288GB/s memory bus and a max clock speed of 1375 Mhz.

QHD(1440p)

You want a little more details than full HD but don’t want to go with the massive 4K. Fine, 1440p is your choice then✔. Although red team only got a few options here, they are absolutely worth it as well as their Nvidia counterparts✌.

⭕for the lower end of this spectrum, you better go with the RX-5700 since this is the more economical choice here. With a boost frequency up to 1725 Mhz, this beast is equipped with GDDR6 memory bus with support for 256-bit@448GB/s and PCIe Gen4.0👍.

⭕If you want enter into a ray-traced⚡ world, RTX 2060 super got you covered. It will definitely make your gaming experience better with its ray-tracing capabilities. It comes with a boost clock of 1650 Mhz and comes with GDDR6, 256-bit@488GB/s.

 

⭕Coming to the high-end in 1440p, it’s the top high performing graphics card from AMD,
(i) the 5700XT. With a whopping 1905 Mhz boost clock🤩 and like its little brother, support for GDDR6, 256-bit@488GB/s is also here. This one is also PCIe(Gen4.0) ready. This card is based on the latest Navi 10 architecture. There is also a 50^th anniversary edition with a slightly higher clock speed😎.

(ii)The ultimate 1440p graphics card is definitely the RTX 2070 super. You are getting full ray-tracing support without compromising on FPS. It has a max speed of 1770 Mhz and memory specs are same as that of the 2060s. The difference comes in 2560 CUDA cores instead of 2176😉.

4K(2160p)

So you are one of those PC master race and want the best quality graphics at 4K and of course, you are willing to pay for the premium😋. Obviously AMD does not have a place here and this entire segment is owned by the green army-Nvidia🤴. Good job there Nvidia! 😎

Couple of things to note here:👇

⚫unless your work software is based on Open CL, choosing the Radeon VII is not at all recommended❌ and since AMD has no other competitor here, all that is left is RTX cards.

⚫If you are willing to turn down some of the settings from ultra, you still can use the RTX 2070 super in 4K sector also.

⭕RTX 2080(OC) makes sense in 4K gaming while being an overkill for all the lower resolutions like 1080p and 1440p. Its top of the line performance is backed up by 1800 Mhz boost clock and an astonishing 2944 CUDA cores. It also has GDDR6,256-bit@488GB/s memory bus.

⭕ RTX 2080 super sits nicely in between ti and non-ti model in both price and performance. This one is a real beast with 1815 Mhz boost and also has a much greater memory bandwidth of 496GB/s, 256-bit, GDDR6.

⭕The ultimate king of all time in 4K ray-traced gaming, the RTX 2080ti😍. It’s the best graphics card you can get for gaming🎮. Every spec of this piece of engineering marvel is just great. 4352 CUDA cores, 1635 Mhz clock boost, massive 352-bit@616GB/s memory bus with 11GB GDDR6. 4K, Ray-tracing ON, HDR, Ultra pre-set, I mean c’mon, you can’t ask more than that😀.

Anything other than 2080ti for gaming is total overkill🥱. Titan RTX and Quadro cards are designed for extreme computing power for professional workstations, virtual workspaces and stuffs like AI deep learning etc🤔. So, I believe this post made it easier for selecting your next graphics card. Happy gaming folks🤗