Still, you can see where those GPUs land at the very bottom of the GPU benchmarks list.

The results weren't pretty, and we didn't even try running any of those at settings beyond 1080p medium. We also recently tested Intel's Xe Graphics DG1, which basically competes with integrated graphics solutions. It's not just about high-end GPUs, of course. Drop down to the middle and lower portions of the list and you'll need to start dialing down the settings to get acceptable performance in regular game play and GPU benchmarks. Buy one of the top cards and you'll can run games at high resolutions and frame rates with the effects turned all the way up, and you'll be able to do content creation work equally well. But a good graphics card for gaming will typically do equally well in complex GPU computational workloads. Many applications use the GPU for other work, and we covered some professional GPU benchmarks in our RTX 3090 review. Of course it's not just about playing games.

At present, only one of the ten highest performance GPUs doesn't use either Ampere or RDNA2 - and that's the Titan RTX, which hardly counts. You can check out full launch reviews of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, GeForce RTX 3080, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, GeForce RTX 3070, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, and GeForce RTX 3060 12GB and there's also AMD's Radeon RX 6900 XT, Radeon RX 6800 XT, Radeon RX 6800, Radeon RX 6700 XT, Radeon RX 6600 XT, and now Radeon RX 6600.

We're not testing with ray tracing or DLSS here, as most of the previous generation cards don't support those features, but even in traditional rasterization rendering the new GPUs come out on top. Not surprisingly, the fastest cards use either Nvidia's Ampere architecture or AMD's Big Navi. For comparison purposes, the fastest card, based on the combination of all nine GPU benchmarks, three resolutions, and two settings, gets normalized to 100 percent, and all others are graded relative to it. Everything is ranked from fastest to slowest, using the results from our test suite consisting of nine games for our GPU benchmarks, running at 'medium' and 'ultra' settings with resolutions of 1080p, 1440p, and 4K. Which graphics card do you need? To help you decide, we've created this GPU benchmarks hierarchy consisting of dozens of GPUs from the past four generations of hardware.

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