Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs ranked by bang for the buck — Prime Day deals let you break 60 fps for $280

Group photo of some of the latest graphics cards — A collection of some of the latest Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs. (Image credit: Tom's Hardware)

If you're looking for a new graphics card, Prime Day tech deals are a great time to upgrade. We're seeing some of the lowest prices ever across the gamut of GPUs, from Nvidia's base model RTX 4060 Ada card up through AMD's RX 7900 XTX and everything in between. These are some of the best graphics cards available, with limited time sales dropping them to levels we're not likely to match until Black Friday rolls around this fall.

How do the various GPUs stack up in terms of overall value, though? We've gathered the lowest prices from our GPU price index and sorted everything by FPS per dollar at 1080p. We selected that resolution as some of the cards simply don't make sense at 1440p and especially 4K, like the Arc A380. But we do have the FPS values at those higher resolutions in our performance table, if you're more interested in picking up a more performant card.

It's also worth considering that 1080p represents the approximate base resolution for both 1440p with Quality mode upscaling and 4K with Performance mode upscaling. Nvidia DLSS, AMD FSR 2/3, and Intel XeSS each have their own ways of doing things, but we've found Quality mode at least doesn't compromise image fidelity much if at all. Here's how the cards stack up.

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Graphics Card	Online Price	Value (1080p FPS/$)	Efficiency (1080p FPS/W)	1080p FPS	1440p FPS	4K FPS	Avg Power
Intel Arc A580	$160	0.307	0.255	49.1	34.6	—	193W
Intel Arc A750	$180	0.295	0.265	53.2	38.4	19.2	201W
GeForce RTX 4060	$280	0.236	0.523	66.0	44.5	22.2	126W
Radeon RX 7700 XT	$360	0.233	0.355	83.7	60.4	31.5	236W
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti	$370	0.221	0.577	81.6	55.2	28.1	142W
Radeon RX 7600	$250	0.221	0.352	55.1	35.9	14.8	157W
Intel Arc A770 16GB	$270	0.218	0.278	58.8	43.5	—	211W
Radeon RX 7800 XT	$450	0.212	0.383	95.2	70.2	37.9	249W
Radeon RX 7600 XT	$285	0.211	0.317	60.1	40.3	19.9	190W
GeForce RTX 4070 Super	$570	0.205	0.578	116.8	84.5	46.1	202W
GeForce RTX 4070	$500	0.204	0.547	101.9	73.5	38.9	186W
Radeon RX 7900 GRE	$525	0.196	0.390	103.1	76.7	40.8	264W
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB	$420	0.194	0.540	81.4	56.1	29.2	151W
Intel Arc A380	$100	0.190	0.272	19.0	—	—	70W
Radeon RX 7900 XT	$650	0.181	0.382	117.5	89.2	49.3	308W
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti	$710	0.175	0.520	124.1	90.6	50.4	239W
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super	$760	0.172	0.506	130.6	97.8	55.1	258W
GeForce RTX 4080 Super	$965	0.152	0.577	146.3	112.7	65.4	254W
GeForce RTX 4080	$950	0.151	0.557	143.5	110.0	63.6	257W
Radeon RX 7900 XTX	$870	0.148	0.372	128.8	100.5	58.1	346W
GeForce RTX 4090	$1,620	0.103	0.496	166.7	139.2	87.4	336W

Given that it's Prime Day — though many of the best deals are from Newegg's competing Fantastech initiative rather than from Amazon — you should expect most of these prices to be relatively short-lived, and we've already seen plenty of fluctuations and out of stock cards. If you're in the market for a new GPU, saving $20 to $50 right now might be enough to get you to fork over your pennies.

While FPS/$ isn't a perfect measure of value, Intel's Arc A580 and Arc A750 take the top two spots. Both come with 8GB of GDDR6 memory, enough for running most games at 1080p and maxed out settings, though there are still the occasional driver hiccups on newly released titles. You'll get around 0.3 FPS per dollar with these cards, or alternatively, you'd need to spend about $200 to average 60 fps at our test settings.

Except, the drop off from the A750 to the next GPU, Nvidia's RTX 4060, is quite steep, with the 4060 only offering just under 0.236 FPS/$. It does average 60 fps in our 19 game suite at least, but it's also $100 more than the Arc A750. Nvidia drew a good deal of criticism for equipping the 4060 with just 8GB — the previous generation RTX 3060 offered 12GB — and it's basically the minimum you'll need for running many modern games at maxed out settings. Some games will even exceed 8GB of VRAM use, like Horizon Forbidden West, though dropping to high settings should look nearly as good without exceeding your card's VRAM.

Test Notes

All performance results come from our 19-game test suite that includes eight games with ray tracing enabled and 11 games that only use rasterization rendering. Our test PC is that same one used in our GPU reviews of the past year and a half, a Core i9-13900K.

Overall rankings do change based on the games and settings used for testing. For example, removing ray tracing from the equation generally improves the ranking of AMD GPUs as well as the overall average FPS. Check our individual GPU reviews for additional details on performance with and without ray tracing if that's something you want to see.

AMD takes fourth place overall with its RX 7700 XT, coming in just behind the 4060 at 0.233 FPS/$. It's also the first card in our rankings to give you more than 8GB VRAM. We didn't love the card when it launched, but dropping from $450 down to just $360 drastically changes the picture. It's an excellent option right now at this price, though also an $80 jump from the 4060's price. It's also fully capable of running games at 1440p ultra, the least expensive card to average more than 60 fps at that resolution.

If you want a 16GB card, the least expensive option in our list goes back to Intel with its Arc A770 16GB. Initially launched with a competitive $349 MSRP, over 20 months later it's now routinely sitting at $270–$280. Unfortunately, while it offers twice as much VRAM as the RTX 4060, in general the Nvidia card still offers higher performance — and that's without factoring in DLSS support, which is in far more games than XeSS or FSR 2.

You can see how the rest of the GPUs stack up, and it should come as little surprise that the more expensive cards fall to the bottom of the list. Some of that will be due to CPU bottlenecks that become more of a factor on high-end GPUs at 1080p, but the rankings don't change much if we use the 1440p results. The 4060 drops behind the 7700 XT and A770 in that case, but the A580 and A750 keep their top spots and still deliver nearly twice the FPS/$ as GPUs like the 7900 XTX and 4080 Super.

Sorting by 4K FPS/$ eliminates a few cards from consideration, as we didn't benchmark them at 4K. Of those that remain, the A750 still sits at the top, but it's sub-20 FPS result means it's not playable in many of the games we tested. The 7700 XT and 7800 XT take the next two spots, followed by the 4070 Super, but getting up to 60 fps average on our game suite would require spending at least $965 on an RTX 4080 Super, with AMD's 7900 XTX coming up just short of that mark.

We do expect to see a couple of new GPUs launch this fall, but those will be extreme parts from the Nvidia Blackwell RTX 50-series lineup, likely just the RTX 5090 and 5080 (or whatever they end up being called). AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs aren't expected until next year, while Intel's Battlemage GPUs could still arrive in late 2024, but we're less certain about what to expect from either of those if and when they arrive. So if you're not planning on buying a top-tier card, this is a good time to pick up a budget to mainstream GPU.

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Jarred Walton is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware focusing on everything GPU. He has been working as a tech journalist since 2004, writing for AnandTech, Maximum PC, and PC Gamer. From the first S3 Virge '3D decelerators' to today's GPUs, Jarred keeps up with all the latest graphics trends and is the one to ask about game performance.

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punkncat

Not for nothing, but probably worthwhile to list the new XFX RX 580 they have going for $119. Quite a lot of bang for the buck, well stronger than its competitors at the price point in spite of release date.
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JarredWaltonGPU

punkncat said:
Not for nothing, but probably worthwhile to list the new XFX RX 580 they have going for $119. Quite a lot of bang for the buck, well stronger than its competitors at the price point in spite of release date.
You can pick those things up for a song on eBay. I realize that's used, but the going price tends to be $50~$60 if an RX 580 8GB is all you're after.

Note also that I'm no longer testing/retesting older GPUs that don't at least have ray tracing hardware, so I can't easily provide comparative performance figures for a 580 vs. something like the RX 6500 XT. But the last time I tested for the GPU benchmarks hierarchy, RX 580 8GB ended up being about 10% faster than the 6500 XT in rasterization performance while using about 75% more power.
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Alvar "Miles" Udell

punkncat said:
Not for nothing, but probably worthwhile to list the new XFX RX 580 they have going for $119. Quite a lot of bang for the buck, well stronger than its competitors at the price point in spite of release date.

The RX 580 is in AMD's legacy support, so it only gets sporadic driver updates (latest drivers are from March), so it shouldn't be on anyone's recommended buy list for gaming purposes unless it's an older machine only for MMOs and older games, but if you're buying that old then you're better off with a GTX 1660.
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vijosef

Bang for the buck is worthless information, because it is one-dimensional.

It cannot replace a 2D scatter plot chart of price vs performance. 1D does not conveys the information.
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mitch074

JarredWaltonGPU said:
You can pick those things up for a song on eBay. I realize that's used, but the going price tends to be $50~$60 if an RX 580 8GB is all you're after.

Note also that I'm no longer testing/retesting older GPUs that don't at least have ray tracing hardware, so I can't easily provide comparative performance figures for a 580 vs. something like the RX 6500 XT. But the last time I tested for the GPU benchmarks hierarchy, RX 580 8GB ended up being about 10% faster than the 6500 XT in rasterization performance while using about 75% more power.
So, why is the RX6600 not in the chart? It does support RT, and is still the value champion. True, its RT performance is abysmal, but other cards in that segment can't really play RT games at 1080p either.
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vanadiel007

The best bang for the buck is the one that works best for you and is within your price range.
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JarredWaltonGPU

mitch074 said:
So, why is the RX6600 not in the chart? It does support RT, and is still the value champion. True, its RT performance is abysmal, but other cards in that segment can't really play RT games at 1080p either.
Honestly, it's a matter of having up to date benchmarks for all the GPUs. I've recently (past two months) retested every RTX 40 / RX 7000 / Arc A graphics card with a replacement 13900K CPU (after my previous chip gave up the ghost). I have some RX 6000 results, and a few RTX 30 results as well. Many of those chips aren't readily available these days, so should I just add RX 6400/6500 XT/6600 and maybe a few others? Well, I don't have recent 6400/6500 numbers, so then it starts looking like I'm cherry picking because I don't include everything from the RDNA 2 generation. Also, when there's only one seller with a reasonable price on a card, which is often the case with the previous generation, it can go out of stock quickly.

Basically, the current generation is "safe" to discuss in terms of supply. Previous gen has some good deals (like 6750 XT for $270 that I wrote up yesterday), but I don't want to open up the whole can of worms.
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JarredWaltonGPU

JarredWaltonGPU said:
Basically, the current generation is "safe" to discuss in terms of supply. Previous gen has some good deals (like 6750 XT for $270 that I wrote up yesterday), but I don't want to open up the whole can of worms.
But, you know what, for you forum regulars that care, here's the full list of the past two generations, sorted by "best FPS per dollar at 1080p" using the best Prime Day pricing we could find. Obviously, a lot of the previous gen cards have some stupidly high prices, but we'll just ignore those. Also, as noted above, some of these results are older and using my previous "dying" 13900K, which in some cases was slightly slower than the new chip I think. (Or maybe that was just driver and game update differences.) Grains of salt in other words, and maybe a slightly higher ~3% margin of error on previous gen performance.

Graphics CardPriceFPS/$Val RankFPS/WEff Rank1080p1440p4KPowerIntel Arc A580$1600.30710.2554249.134.6
193Intel Arc A750$1800.29520.2654153.238.419.2201Radeon RX 6750 XT$2700.25930.2743869.848.324.9255Radeon RX 6600$1800.23950.3093142.927.811.9139Radeon RX 6800$3400.23860.3531880.957.930.8229GeForce RTX 4060$2800.23670.523766.044.522.2126Radeon RX 6700 XT$2800.23480.3033465.545.123.4216Radeon RX 6650 XT$2190.23490.3083251.233.8
167Radeon RX 7700 XT$3600.233100.3551783.760.431.5236Radeon RX 6600 XT$2200.224110.3232249.332.2
153GeForce RTX 4060 Ti$3700.221120.577381.655.228.1142Radeon RX 7600$2500.221130.3521955.135.914.8157Intel Arc A770 16GB$2700.218140.2783758.843.5
211GeForce RTX 3050$1850.215150.3182639.727.113.8125Radeon RX 7800 XT$4500.212160.3831295.270.237.9249Radeon RX 7600 XT$2850.211170.3172760.140.319.9190GeForce RTX 3060$2600.209180.3402054.437.920.1160Radeon RX 6800 XT$4400.208190.3103091.767.135.8296GeForce RTX 4070 Super$5700.205200.5781116.884.546.1202GeForce RTX 4070$5000.204210.5475101.973.538.9186Radeon RX 6950 XT$5000.201220.31129100.574.240.2323Radeon RX 7900 GRE$5250.196230.39011103.176.740.8264GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB$4200.194240.540681.456.129.2151Radeon RX 6700 10GB$3000.194250.3073358.138.918.7189Intel Arc A380$1000.190260.2724019.0

70GeForce RTX 3060 Ti$3950.183270.3561672.149.925.3202Radeon RX 7900 XT$6500.181280.38213117.589.249.3308Radeon RX 6900 XT$5360.180290.3222396.871.038.2301GeForce RTX 3070$4530.178300.3721580.856.228.9217GeForce RTX 3080$5790.177310.32024102.574.840.5320GeForce RTX 4070 Ti$7100.175320.5208124.190.650.4239GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super$7600.172330.5069130.697.855.1258GeForce RTX 3070 Ti$5000.171340.3112885.660.031.3275GeForce RTX 4080 Super$9650.152350.5772146.3112.765.4254GeForce RTX 4080$9500.151360.5574143.5110.063.6257GeForce RTX 3080 12GB$7400.150370.29435111.181.545.9377Radeon RX 7900 XTX$8700.148380.37214128.8100.558.1346GeForce RTX 3090$9300.125390.33021116.385.748.9353GeForce RTX 3080 Ti$9150.124400.31925113.783.647.1357GeForce RTX 4090$1,6200.103410.49610166.7139.287.4336GeForce RTX 3090 Ti$1,3990.089420.28936124.392.553.3431
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artk2219

JarredWaltonGPU said:
But, you know what, for you forum regulars that care, here's the full list of the past two generations, sorted by "best FPS per dollar at 1080p" using the best Prime Day pricing we could find. Obviously, a lot of the previous gen cards have some stupidly high prices, but we'll just ignore those. Also, as noted above, some of these results are older and using my previous "dying" 13900K, which in some cases was slightly slower than the new chip I think. (Or maybe that was just driver and game update differences.) Grains of salt in other words, and maybe a slightly higher ~3% margin of error on previous gen performance.

Graphics CardPriceFPS/$Val RankFPS/WEff Rank1080p1440p4KPowerIntel Arc A580$1600.30710.2554249.134.6
193Intel Arc A750$1800.29520.2654153.238.419.2201Radeon RX 6750 XT$2700.25930.2743869.848.324.9255Radeon RX 6600$1800.23950.3093142.927.811.9139Radeon RX 6800$3400.23860.3531880.957.930.8229GeForce RTX 4060$2800.23670.523766.044.522.2126Radeon RX 6700 XT$2800.23480.3033465.545.123.4216Radeon RX 6650 XT$2190.23490.3083251.233.8
167Radeon RX 7700 XT$3600.233100.3551783.760.431.5236Radeon RX 6600 XT$2200.224110.3232249.332.2
153GeForce RTX 4060 Ti$3700.221120.577381.655.228.1142Radeon RX 7600$2500.221130.3521955.135.914.8157Intel Arc A770 16GB$2700.218140.2783758.843.5
211GeForce RTX 3050$1850.215150.3182639.727.113.8125Radeon RX 7800 XT$4500.212160.3831295.270.237.9249Radeon RX 7600 XT$2850.211170.3172760.140.319.9190GeForce RTX 3060$2600.209180.3402054.437.920.1160Radeon RX 6800 XT$4400.208190.3103091.767.135.8296GeForce RTX 4070 Super$5700.205200.5781116.884.546.1202GeForce RTX 4070$5000.204210.5475101.973.538.9186Radeon RX 6950 XT$5000.201220.31129100.574.240.2323Radeon RX 7900 GRE$5250.196230.39011103.176.740.8264GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB$4200.194240.540681.456.129.2151Radeon RX 6700 10GB$3000.194250.3073358.138.918.7189Intel Arc A380$1000.190260.2724019.0

70GeForce RTX 3060 Ti$3950.183270.3561672.149.925.3202Radeon RX 7900 XT$6500.181280.38213117.589.249.3308Radeon RX 6900 XT$5360.180290.3222396.871.038.2301GeForce RTX 3070$4530.178300.3721580.856.228.9217GeForce RTX 3080$5790.177310.32024102.574.840.5320GeForce RTX 4070 Ti$7100.175320.5208124.190.650.4239GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super$7600.172330.5069130.697.855.1258GeForce RTX 3070 Ti$5000.171340.3112885.660.031.3275GeForce RTX 4080 Super$9650.152350.5772146.3112.765.4254GeForce RTX 4080$9500.151360.5574143.5110.063.6257GeForce RTX 3080 12GB$7400.150370.29435111.181.545.9377Radeon RX 7900 XTX$8700.148380.37214128.8100.558.1346GeForce RTX 3090$9300.125390.33021116.385.748.9353GeForce RTX 3080 Ti$9150.124400.31925113.783.647.1357GeForce RTX 4090$1,6200.103410.49610166.7139.287.4336GeForce RTX 3090 Ti$1,3990.089420.28936124.392.553.3431
Thank you for putting that together, that's quite a list.
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mitch074

JarredWaltonGPU said:
But, you know what, for you forum regulars that care, here's the full list of the past two generations, sorted by "best FPS per dollar at 1080p" using the best Prime Day pricing we could find. Obviously, a lot of the previous gen cards have some stupidly high prices, but we'll just ignore those. Also, as noted above, some of these results are older and using my previous "dying" 13900K, which in some cases was slightly slower than the new chip I think. (Or maybe that was just driver and game update differences.) Grains of salt in other words, and maybe a slightly higher ~3% margin of error on previous gen performance.

Graphics CardPriceFPS/$Val RankFPS/WEff Rank1080p1440p4KPowerIntel Arc A580$1600.30710.2554249.134.6
193Intel Arc A750$1800.29520.2654153.238.419.2201Radeon RX 6750 XT$2700.25930.2743869.848.324.9255Radeon RX 6600$1800.23950.3093142.927.811.9139Radeon RX 6800$3400.23860.3531880.957.930.8229GeForce RTX 4060$2800.23670.523766.044.522.2126Radeon RX 6700 XT$2800.23480.3033465.545.123.4216Radeon RX 6650 XT$2190.23490.3083251.233.8
167Radeon RX 7700 XT$3600.233100.3551783.760.431.5236Radeon RX 6600 XT$2200.224110.3232249.332.2
153GeForce RTX 4060 Ti$3700.221120.577381.655.228.1142Radeon RX 7600$2500.221130.3521955.135.914.8157Intel Arc A770 16GB$2700.218140.2783758.843.5
211GeForce RTX 3050$1850.215150.3182639.727.113.8125Radeon RX 7800 XT$4500.212160.3831295.270.237.9249Radeon RX 7600 XT$2850.211170.3172760.140.319.9190GeForce RTX 3060$2600.209180.3402054.437.920.1160Radeon RX 6800 XT$4400.208190.3103091.767.135.8296GeForce RTX 4070 Super$5700.205200.5781116.884.546.1202GeForce RTX 4070$5000.204210.5475101.973.538.9186Radeon RX 6950 XT$5000.201220.31129100.574.240.2323Radeon RX 7900 GRE$5250.196230.39011103.176.740.8264GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB$4200.194240.540681.456.129.2151Radeon RX 6700 10GB$3000.194250.3073358.138.918.7189Intel Arc A380$1000.190260.2724019.0

70GeForce RTX 3060 Ti$3950.183270.3561672.149.925.3202Radeon RX 7900 XT$6500.181280.38213117.589.249.3308Radeon RX 6900 XT$5360.180290.3222396.871.038.2301GeForce RTX 3070$4530.178300.3721580.856.228.9217GeForce RTX 3080$5790.177310.32024102.574.840.5320GeForce RTX 4070 Ti$7100.175320.5208124.190.650.4239GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super$7600.172330.5069130.697.855.1258GeForce RTX 3070 Ti$5000.171340.3112885.660.031.3275GeForce RTX 4080 Super$9650.152350.5772146.3112.765.4254GeForce RTX 4080$9500.151360.5574143.5110.063.6257GeForce RTX 3080 12GB$7400.150370.29435111.181.545.9377Radeon RX 7900 XTX$8700.148380.37214128.8100.558.1346GeForce RTX 3090$9300.125390.33021116.385.748.9353GeForce RTX 3080 Ti$9150.124400.31925113.783.647.1357GeForce RTX 4090$1,6200.103410.49610166.7139.287.4336GeForce RTX 3090 Ti$1,3990.089420.28936124.392.553.3431
OK ! Thanks. I think I'll keep recommending the 6600 for people who want a good 1080P card without breaking the bank and without compatibility problems. The Intel cards are becoming more and more attractive though.
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