Yes, that’s with all the graphics options enabled-except ray tracing. ![]() This $999 can keep a 4K/60 monitor maxed out without breaking a sweat, and often flirts with maxing out 4K monitors with higher refresh rates. If you’ve got a 4K monitor and want to put all those pixels to work, the RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 are decent cheaper options-but they’re last-generation GPUs with still-inflated price tags that simply don’t make sense now that a new breed of graphics cards are here. One the flip side, the Radeon RX 6700 XT can take advantage of AMD’s awesome performance-boosting Smart Access Memory feature if you’re running a modern Ryzen system that supports it. The one downside? AMD’s card is only capable of playing ray-traced games at 1080p resolution unless you activate Radeon Super Resolution, or FSR 1 or 2 in games that support it. It’s plenty fast for 1440p gaming at 60fps+ without compromise, while its beefy 12GB of GDDR6 memory provides plenty of headroom for flipping on all the most intense graphical features. Get AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 XT instead, for a whole lot less. Nvidia’s RTX 3070, ostensibly $500, goes for $650 to $700 online. But we still aren’t living in a sane world, and the RTX 3060 Ti is going for $500+ on the streets, and often $550 to $600. It’s that good, and it offers superior ray tracing performance to AMD’s Radeon rivals. In a sane world, Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti would dominate 1440p gaming at its $400 MSRP. ![]() But if your focus is mostly on ray tracing and triple-A games, the Intel Arc A750 is a much better option at the same $250 price point as the 6600. Performance remains hit-or-miss on older DirectX 11 titles, which is why the Radeon RX 6600 remains our top pick overall, but its definitely good enough-and still getting better. Since then, the company worked diligently to improve its drivers at a torrid pace, unleashing exceptional performance improvements in DX9 games (read: esports and classics) while also squashing the most worrisome bugs. Why compare the A750 against that $400ish card rather than the $300ish RTX 3050? Because if you’re playing newer games running on modern DirectX 12 or Vulkan APIs-most triple-A games, in other words-the Arc A750 meets or beats the RTX 3060 there, too.Īt launch, Intel’s GPUs were plagued by bugs and odd performance. Intel’s debut Arc graphics cards best even Nvidia’s vaunted RTX 30-series graphics cards at ray tracing in this price class, and the newly $250 Arc A750 does it for about $150 less than the popular GeForce RTX 3060.
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