The demand for a good mid-range graphics card is increasing day by day among gamers, video editors, 3D graphics renderers, etc. Moreover, now it’s the perfect time to buy a new graphics card for your PC because the market has now become more stable than before. The only problem with upgrading to a new card right now is that it’s entirely possible that prices will continue to drop even further. Naturally, this is just what happens to products that have been on the market for enough time. For users who don’t currently have a build and desperately need or want one, buying a GPU for a build right now is still a great option, but one that’s likely to become even cheaper as 2023 just started and things are starting to get interesting.
AMD RX 6650 XT
The best budget king graphics card in the market right now. It is simply an overclocked 6600 XT with faster memory. The cores are clocked -2% higher and the GDDR6 memory is 9% faster, both of which have increased the board power rating by 13% to 180 watts. It’s the best 1080p graphics card money can buy. You will not be dissatisfied with its cooling performance. One major flaw with AMD graphics card is that it’s not good for editing but who cares if you are a hardcore gamer. It’s a beast of a card. We highly suggest you buy this card.
Specifications
GPU: Navi23
Stream Processors: 2,048
Ray Accelerators: 32
TGP: 176W
Base clock: 2,192 MHz
Boost clock: 2,694 MHz
VRAM: 8GB GDDR6
Memory speed: 2,190 MHz
Memory Bus: 128-bit
Interface: PCIe 4.0
Bandwidth: 280.3 GB/s
Outputs: 1 x HDMI 2.1, 3 x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power connector: 1 x 8-pin
Recommended PSU: 650W.
NVIDIA RTX 2060
This graphics card has been the gamer’s favorite go to choose for a very long time. In 2023 its decently fast with bargain price. It handles 1080p gaming very well. This card will be for the entry level video editors no doubt in that. It has very good cooling system and good thermals. Only downside of this Nvidia graphics cards are they require high power consumptions.
Specifications
Model Name GeForce RTX™ 2060 GAMING 6G
Graphics Processing Unit NVIDIA®
GeForce® RTX 2060
Interface PCI Express x16 3.0
Core Clocks Boost: 1680 MHz
CUDA® CORES 1920 Units
Memory Speed 14 Gbps
Memory 6GB GDDR6
Memory Bus 192-bit
Output DisplayPort x 3 (v1.4a)
HDMI x 1(Supports 4K@60Hz as specified in
HDMI 2.0b)
HDCP Support 2.2
Power consumption 160 W
Power connectors 8-pin x 1
Recommended PSU 500 W
Card Dimension (mm) 247 x 129 x 52 mm
Weight (Card / Package) 957 g / 1525 g
DirectX Version Support 12 API
OpenGL Version Support 4.5
Afterburner OC Y
Maximum Displays 4
VR Ready Y
G-SYNC®
technology Y
Adaptive Vertical Sync Y
Digital Maximum Resolution 7680×4320
- Nvidia RTX 3060
This mid-range graphics card is our favorite out of these 5. Oh boy! It’s a good graphics card without breaking the buck and its worth every penny. It’s a good graphics card for 1440p gaming too. It has plenty of VRAM for the future also. You can do streaming with NVENC encoder as well as gaming with no compromise in performance. But keep in mind you have to invest a good PSU behind a such a good graphics card.
Specifications
Codename Ampere-GA106
Architecture- Ampere
Pipelines 3584 – unified
TMUs- 112
ROPs- 48
Raytracing Cores- 28
Tensor / AI Cores- 112
Core Speed 1320 – 1777 (Boost) MHz
Memory Speed- 15000 effective = 1875 MHz
Memory Bus Width- 192 Bit
Memory Type- GDDR6
Max. Amount of Memory- 12 GB
Shared Memory- no
Memory Bandwidth- 360 GB/s
API DirectX 12_2, Shader 6.6, OpenGL 4.6
Power Consumption- 170 Watt
Transistor Count- 12 Billion
Die Size 13250 mm²
technology 8 nm
PCIe 4.0
Displays- HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a
Features- NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, Resizable BAR, NVIDIA Broadcast, NVIDIA Ansel, NVIDIA Shadow Play®, NVIDIA G-SYNC®, VR-ready, Nvidia Omniverse
- AMD RX 6500 XT
This graphics card is known as the Return of the budget king of AMD lineup. It requires very low power consumption but delivers frame rates at good level. This graphics card has very high clocks. It will be the graphics card who is still using older CPU, ram and motherboard. Perfect of low budget gamers. Not forget the RDNA 2 capabilities this graphics card offers.
Specifications
Architecture Navi / RDNA2
Pipelines 1024 – unified
TMUs 64
ROPs 32
Raytracing Cores 16
Core Speed 2310 MHz
Shader Speed 2815 MHz
Memory Speed 18000 MHz
Memory Type GDDR6
Max. Amount of Memory 4GB MB
Shared Memory no
API DirectX 12_2, Shader 6.6, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL 2.2, Vulkan 1.3
Power Consumption 107 Watt
Transistor Count 5.4 Billion
Die Size 107 mm²
technology 7 nm
PCIe 4.0 x4
Displays 2 Displays (max.), HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a
- Nvidia RTX 3050
If you don’t want to go with AMD RX 6500xt than Nvidia RTX 3050 would be the best alternative for you. Some specialist (including us) feels like it’s a much better graphics than RX 6500xt but you have to remember that its priced little higher than the 6500xt and consume more power. It may be not an ideal graphics card for a too old computer system. It comes with plenty of VRAM and Full PCIe 4.0 x16 connection. We highly recommend you buy this graphics card.
Specifications
Codename Ampere GA106
Architecture Ampere
Pipelines 2560 – unified
Core Speed 1552 – 1777 (Boost) MHz
Memory Speed 1750 MHz
Memory Bus Width 128 Bit Bit
Memory Type GDDR6
Max. Amount of Memory 8 GB
Shared Memory no
API DirectX 12_2, Shader 6.6, OpenGL 4.6
Power Consumption 130 Watt
Transistor Count 12 Billion
technology 8 nm.
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