AMD and Nvidia, the two remaining manufacturers of graphic chips, have competed strongly in recent months. They both released new models and started a price war. If you need a new video card, it is good to know what the best card is for your situation. We viewed 65 recently released video cards.
Games demand more and more from your computer. After a while the performance of your computer will stay behind and your games will no longer run smoothly. If your processor is still OK, then it is obvious that your video card no longer meets the requirements of your games or applications. High time for a new graphic card. In this article you can read about the best video cards for the different screen resolutions. We discuss the different graphic chips and the different versions that can be purchased.
Format by resolution
People often ask us what the best video card is for their budget. In addition to price range, we also have other starting points to help you find the best video card. We need to know at what resolution you play games and what the resolution of your monitor is. Your expectations regarding graphic details and speed are also important. In this article you can read per resolution recommendations for recommenders and sometimes also against users.
How do you check which resolution your monitor has? Right-click on your Desktop, followed by Display Settings. Bee Screen resolution state the current setting, for example 1920 x 1080 or 2560 x 1440, with (recommended) behind the optimum setting.
The refresh rate of your monitor also plays an important role. Many standard screens are set to 60 to 75 Hz; the number of times per second that the image is refreshed. Game monitors do this faster, up to 240 Hz. Do you have such a screen? Then of course you want a faster video card to get the most out of your system. In the Settings window from the preceding paragraph, click Advanced display settings and you see the current setting at Refresh rate. In this article we mean a fast monitor with a minimum of 100 Hz.
And if you don’t gamet?
Most people buy a powerful video card to play games with. But they are also useful for non-gamers. Heavy graphics applications also demand a lot from the video card. Programs for video editing, designing, Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom benefit from a heavier graphics card. Giving general advice is difficult, because each program has different requirements for the video card. The Adobe programs, for example, benefit more from Nvidia cards than from AMD, for example the GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti. High-end video editors of, for example, 4K images also benefit more from a heavier Nvidia video card.
(G) a winner
Whatever brand of video card you buy, the chip in it is always from Nvidia or AMD. Both chip manufacturers do their utmost to convince you that their product is better than that of the competitor. Every manufacturer has its strengths and weaknesses and we believe there is no real winner in general. When choosing Nvidia or AMD you have to take one important aspect into account: the so-called sync. In other words: how the chip handles image synchronization.
Image by half
Without sync technology, a monitor refreshes on its own every few milliseconds. If your video card produces a new image halfway through refreshing, you get something called screen tearing, where the top half and the bottom half of your screen display different images. The effect is stronger with 60 or 75 Hz monitors than with fast monitors. The only way to really solve it is by using the FreeSync technology from AMD or the G-Sync from Nvidia cards. Your monitor and video card must both support the same technology. So check whether your monitor supports FreeSync or G-Sync and adjust your choice for a video card accordingly.
If your monitor supports FreeSync, then you are usually better off with an AMD video card. If you have a G-Sync monitor, then Nvidia is preferred. Nowadays many monitors can handle both techniques and you can follow the advice of the following pages without taking this aspect into account.
