*Unveiling Powerhouses: A Guide to the Top 10 Gaming and Professional Graphics Cards*

Top 10 most powerful video cards for games and other tasks

ByVasily Antonov 

hyperpc.ru

7 min

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Typically, the most expensive component of a gaming computer is the graphics card. The picture quality of digital content is steadily increasing, and a powerful GPU capable of displaying detailed and realistic images on the screen is becoming increasingly important.

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This creates a race among manufacturers to see who can create the most powerful graphics card. Today we will look at the best of the best.

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The very best video cards for games

Modern games are huge worlds with a high degree of detail. To render them dynamically, you need powerful GPUs. For the user, the question of whether his computer can handle a new game also most often comes down to the video card.

Today, NVIDIA confidently holds the leadership in the field of gaming video devices.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

A kind of star among all NVIDIA models, the most powerful video card in all respects:

The card uses the latest 24 GB GDDR6X video memory standard, PCI Express 4.0x16 bus, supports the latest Direct3D 12_2, OpenGL 4.6 and other latest APIs.

RTX stands for Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme: support for ray tracing technology that brings new levels of light, shadows, reflections and ultimately game realism.

You have to pay for all this with a large power consumption - 450 W, so a computer with this video card needs a powerful power supply. In terms of money, it is also not cheap: the recommended price from the manufacturer is $1,600, and is often more expensive at retail.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

This video card is one step lower than the flagship, but with the same architecture it is already noticeably inferior to it. In particular, it has 45.9 billion transistors, 9728 CUDA cores and 304 tensor cores. Performance, accordingly, drops to 48.7 TFLOPS.

If we compare in relative numbers, the older brother outperforms the RTX 4080 in various tests by 1.6-1.8 times. However, the difference in price is not that significant. The GeForce RTX 4080 costs 1,200 bucks, so the more advanced RTX 4090 is only a third more expensive. When converted to dollars per unit of performance, the older model is a better buy.

Nevertheless, the GeForce RTX 4080 is still a very cool video card that can confidently handle any modern game. And if the difference of $400 is critical for you, or the RTX 4090 is not on sale and is not expected, the GeForce RTX 4080 will be an excellent choice for a gaming PC.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

If we talk about AMD, NVIDIA’s main competitor in the video card market, their flagship today is the Radeon RX 7900 XTX. It’s fair to say that for now it is inferior to its rival’s top models:

While losing in performance, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX may well make up for it in price. The recommended $1,000 is noticeably lower than the cost of the GeForce RTX 4090 and somewhat cheaper than the RTX 4080. However, since it is inferior in performance to both, it makes sense to buy this card only for convinced AMD fans and those for whom solutions from NVIDIA are not available for some reason.

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Top video cards for professional design

Creating video games, digital content, and designing cars and buildings place their demands on the GPU. And since this activity brings money, developers can afford models that are much more expensive than those for whom a video card only provides access to cool games.

AMD Radeon Pro W7900

Introduced in April of this year, the video card is AMD's most powerful solution for workstations. At the same time, if we evaluate the number of transistors, it is very similar to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX: the same 57.7 billion transistors, 96 computing units and 6144 stream processors. The Radeon Pro 7900 also supports hardware ray tracing.

The difference in RAM is very significant: the Radeon Pro W7900 has 48 GB, twice as much as the gaming version. And this memory has an error correction function (ECC-support). Another advantage of a professional video card from AMD is lower power consumption: 295 versus 355 W.

However, for double the amount of memory and other advantages of the AMD Radeon Pro W7900 you will have to pay significantly extra: the price of the video card starts at 4 thousand dollars. The flagship model has a younger brother - Radeon Pro W7800. It has a reduced RAM of 32 GB, but also costs significantly less: 2500 bucks.

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Ada generation

In the NVIDIA line, cards for graphic design professionals are traditionally released under the Quadro brand. The most powerful NVIDIA solution today is the RTX 6000 Ada generation.

The video card is built on Ada Lovelace architecture processors, has 18176 CUDA cores, 142 3rd generation ray tracing cores and 568 4th generation tensor cores. Their total computing power is colossal: the card produces 91.1 TFLOPS in single-precision calculations, and 1457 TFLOPS in tensor calculations.

The video card has 48 GB of memory, supports 4 monitors with a resolution of 4096x2160 or 2 monitors 7680x4320.

With enormous processing power, the power consumption of the RTX 6000 Ada remains at a moderate level of 300 W. But the price is more than respectable - only professionals who solve very serious problems will shell out $6,800 for a video card.

NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000

The previous version of NVIDIA workstation cards RTX A6000 is built on the Ampere architecture. It has the same 48 GB of memory, but significantly fewer CUDA cores - 10752. There are also fewer tensor cores - 336, and, more importantly, they are only 3rd generation. Therefore, the performance gap with the RTX 6000 Ada generation is frightening.

38.7 TFLOPS for single precision calculations, 309.7 TFLOPS for tensor calculations. The difference with the leader is not in percentage, but in times. At the same time, the price of the older video card remains impressive - $3,900, and, obviously, is no longer justified if you can buy NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada generation.

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Video cards for science, data centers, AI

The most powerful video cards are not gaming or designer ones, but those designed for truly large tasks: scientific research, information processing in data centers, training graphic neural networks. The solutions here are often specific, optimized for specific calculations, and the price is several times higher than the cost of conventional GPUs.

NVIDIA Quadro GV100

This video card was released in 2018 and used the most advanced Volta architecture at that time. Back then it was a very cool video card: 5120 CUDA cores, 640 tensor cores and an impressive 32 GB of ECC-support memory. For comparison, the top gaming video cards at that time, the GeForce 20, had only 6-8 GB of memory.

The Quadro GV100 used NVLink technology, which allows you to connect multiple video cards to work in data centers. At the time of release, the official price of the GV100 was 9 thousand dollars, the market price reached 12 thousand.

AMD Instinct MI100

Advanced Micro Devices presented its first specialized video card for data centers in 2020. Unlike gaming models based on RDNA architecture, the MI100 card used CDNA architecture, which is more suitable for processing large volumes of scientific data and AI training.

This card has 7680 cores manufactured using 7 nm technology and 32 GB of memory. In terms of performance at that moment, it was already inferior to the GV100, and NVIDIA was already preparing the A100 series for release. Nevertheless, the price of $7,200 left AMD with a chance to find its customers.

NVIDIA Tesla A100

Impressive a few years ago, now the Instinct MI100 and Quadro GV100 are far from leaders. Today, NVIDIA's flagship in the science and AI segment is the A100 series.

This video card has as much as 80 GB of HBM2e memory, and the video memory bandwidth is 1900-2040 GB/s. In double-precision floating-point calculations, its performance is 9.7 TFLOPS, and in the case of tensor cores on FP16, it reaches 312 TFLOPS.

NVIDIA A100 is intended for data centers engaged in research in the field of artificial intelligence. It must work as part of certified NVIDIA servers with up to 8 such GPUs. You cannot buy such cards on the regular market (and they are not needed), and the price of one video card exceeds 17 thousand dollars.

NVIDIA Hopper H100

If the developers used the Ampere architecture in both conventional (GeForce 30 series) and server (Tesla A100) video cards, then the architectures decided to separate the areas of application. For regular GPUs this is Ada Lovelace in the GeForce 40 series, and for servers this is Hopper in H100 cards.

This graphics accelerator has 80 billion transistors, 80 GB of memory, 2 TB/s bandwidth, and uses the PCIe 5.0 or SMX5 standard. Its performance is three times higher than the NVIDIA A100. The price also jumped up noticeably: more than 40 thousand dollars.

Due to the specificity of the AI ​​training task in gaming tests, the Hopper H100 shows results at the level of very mediocre video cards. Thus, it will not give anything to the average user - it is a tool of narrow application.

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What to look for when choosing a GPU

As you can see, big money does not always mean top results in games. What should you look for when choosing a GPU?

If you are building a new computer, then it is better to take the most powerful gaming video card - today it is the GeForce RTX 4090. It will be sufficient for the most demanding modern games and those that will be released in the foreseeable future. New expenses will not be required soon.

If you are looking for a video card to upgrade your existing computer, then you need to look at compatibility with your hardware. It will not be possible to achieve maximum performance, but the quality of the game image will be very decent.

**Summary: Top 10 Most Powerful Video Cards for Games and Other Tasks**

*By Vasily Antonov | hyperpc.ru | 7 min*

The graphics card often stands as the most expensive component in gaming computers, given the rising demand for detailed and realistic images in digital content. Manufacturers engage in a competitive race to produce the most powerful GPUs, and this article explores the top contenders.

**The Best Video Cards for Games:**

1. **NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090:**

   - 24 GB GDDR6X video memory

   - PCI Express 4.0x16 bus

   - Supports Direct3D 12_2, OpenGL 4.6, and other latest APIs

   - Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme (RTX) technology for advanced realism

   - Power consumption: 450 W

   - Price: $1,600 (recommended)

2. **NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080:**

   - One step below the flagship with similar architecture

   - 45.9 billion transistors, 9728 CUDA cores, 304 tensor cores

   - Performance: 48.7 TFLOPS

   - Price: $1,200

3. **AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX:**

   - AMD's flagship for gaming

   - Price: $1,000 (recommended)

**Top Video Cards for Professional Design:**

1. **AMD Radeon Pro W7900:**

   - 57.7 billion transistors, 96 computing units, 6144 stream processors

   - 48 GB ECC-support memory

   - Power consumption: 295 W

   - Price: Starting at $4,000

2. **NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Ada generation:**

   - Ada Lovelace architecture

   - 18176 CUDA cores, 142 3rd generation ray tracing cores, 568 4th generation tensor cores

   - 48 GB memory, supports 4 monitors (4096x2160) or 2 monitors (7680x4320)

   - Price: $6,800

3. **NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000:**

   - Ampere architecture

   - 10752 CUDA cores, 336 3rd generation tensor cores

   - Price: $3,900

**Video Cards for Science, Data Centers, AI:**

1. **NVIDIA Quadro GV100:**

   - Released in 2018 with Volta architecture

   - 5120 CUDA cores, 640 tensor cores, 32 GB ECC-support memory

   - Price: Market reached $12,000

2. **AMD Instinct MI100:**

   - CDNA architecture for scientific data and AI training

   - 7680 cores, 32 GB memory

   - Price: $7,200

3. **NVIDIA Tesla A100:**

   - A100 series, 80 GB HBM2e memory

   - Performance: 9.7 TFLOPS (double-precision), 312 TFLOPS (tensor cores on FP16)

   - Price: Exceeds $17,000

4. **NVIDIA Hopper H100:**

   - Hopper architecture for server applications

   - 80 billion transistors, 80 GB memory, PCIe 5.0 or SMX5 standard

   - Performance: Three times higher than NVIDIA A100

   - Price: Over $40,000

**Considerations When Choosing a GPU:**

- For a new computer, consider the most powerful gaming video card, like the GeForce RTX 4090.

- When upgrading, ensure compatibility with existing hardware for decent game image quality.

- Professional advice from HYPERPC employees is available for optimal component selection and system assembly.

In the competitive landscape of GPUs, price doesn't always correlate with gaming performance, and choosing the right GPU depends on individual needs and tasks.

HYPERPC employees are ready to professionally advise you on all issues related to the selection of components and the preparation of the optimal assembly for your tasks.