Watch BEFORE buying a graphics card!!! BEST GPUs to Buy in April 2024

Which video card should you buy in April of 2024? These are my picks for the best value GPUs at each price point:
Best GPU under $200
Best GPU near $200
Between $220 and $500
If you have to buy new:
Best GPU around $300
Best GPU around $400
Best GPU under $500
Best GPU around $550
Best $600 GPU:
Best $750 GPU
Past this point is diminishing returns on "value" but:
Best $1000 GPU:
I want High FPS 4K Ray Tracing, I don't care about price:

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Chapters:
0:00 We've seen some price drops this month
0:16 Best GPU around $200
1:42 Between $220 and $500 I recommend used market- Check out Jawa!
2:56 If you must buy new- What about the 4060 at $300?
4:02 If you must buy new - best $330 GPU
4:48 If you must buy new- best $400 GPU
6:04 The best VALUE heavy ray tracing GPU dropped to $750
10:14 At the high end, AMD is harder to recommend than at lower tiers
12:41 The $500 to $600 range is crowded with options, all have reasons to consider them
15:48 What about the left over 4070 Ti stock that's discounted?
16:11 Summary of recommendations at each price point

[dcemtp]

I secured an overheating 3080 for $200, turns out the seller replaced the thermal pads incorrectly with the wrong size! Replaced the thermal pads and no longer overheating even while OCing it! LETS GOOOO!

[WyFoster]

I love how thorough a job you do with all the product testing. Makes this channel a 1 stop shop if you're looking for buying a product.

[unitybeing]

P.S. Don't quit your day job ever for youtube, micromanage both please, I don't want hard times befalling on your awesome family.

[GoonyMclinux]

7900gre is pretty decent, been playing on one for two days. Definitely worth the price for performance.

[kristaps]

there is nobody else on youtube who will guide us through buying a GPU in this exclusive manner. Thank you fo your hard work. Very valuable information.

[Bulkyninja]

My ass that scored a Sapphire Nitro + 7900 xtx for 800$ really feel lucky at this point.

[JediMastr]

I currently have a Sapphire Nitro+ RX 5700 XT (8 GB) that I bought back in 2019. I'm currently saving up and thinking about getting the RX 7900 XT.
While I was thinking of getting the RX 7900 XTX, I'll save some money by just going with the XT. That should be perfectly fine for me for a while until the RDNA 5 cards come out (probably in 2025). I don't do 4K gaming and mainly play 1440p so I don't need the top model and I've avoid anything Nvidia because I'm not dealing with that 12 pin connector bs.
Note: While I don't have a 7900 XT yet, I'll most likely get one by the end of the month to early next month.

For those that might ask why I didn't upgrade it sooner, well, I was saving up to upgrade the REST of my system. Since 2016, I've been using an i7 4790K. I only JUST recently in March 2024 upgraded that to a Ryzen 5950X with 64 GB of DDR4 (3600 MHz). I didn't go Ryzen 7000 because I didn't want to spend the extra $500 to 600 more (when you factor in all parts cost more and I want a motherboard with SPECIFIC things and no, not going into detail). I figure a 5950X paired up with a 7900 XT will do me fine for a while.

I will say, many games I struggle with, including having massive stuttering on my 4790K doesn't happen on my 5950x.

[SirThanksalott]

People are being realistic at $200 price instead of buying into the over inflated hype and honestly that's amazing to hear!

[solarwinds]

Went with RX 7900 XT, been great so far

[SicBro]

The most slept on card is always gonna be the 6800, even though there's no reason why. On top of the usual performance you can undervolt it to some pretty good results (185w for me, no performance hit) and then make another profile for overclocking it to be a fake 6800xt stock with not much more watts than the 6800 uses out the box. Its a great card and I feel so validated whenever it keeps surviving these list.

[syncmonism]

One of the biggest things which separates the 4080 and 4080 Super from the 4070 ti Super is the L2 cache capacity (48MB vs. 64MB). You can see in benchmarks that the 4070 ti Super doesn't perform as well per CUDA core as you might expect, relative to the 4080 and 4080 Super, and in most cases, the best explanation for this discrepency is the fact that the 4070 ti Super has a 25% smaller L2 Cache. The GPU die is actually the same, but 25% of the L2 cache is not active on the 4070 ti Super, and obviously fewer CUDA cores are active as well. Many reviewers didn't mention that this was a likely explanation, but I have definitely heard that the L2 cache is a very important feature with the 4000 series in general, and that the larger L2 cache of the 4090 is a big part of what makes it perform better in a lot of games vs. the 4080, so it stands to reason that the larger L2 cache used in the 4080 and 4080 Super explain the somewhat larger gap in performance between them and the 4070 ti Super than what many people were expecting. If it's not the L2 cache capacity, then what else could it be? Obviously the difference in CUDA cores also affects performance, but the difference in CUDA cores between these GPUs by themselves just don't explain the performance discrepencies between these different graphics cards in a lot of games.


All of these cards are rather expensive, especially considering that both AMD and Nvidia are going to be releasing new generation cards in less than a year, with new 5000 series cards coming out in about 6 months. They're definitely not terrible products for the price either though, so if you have a lot of money to spare, there's nothing much bad you can say about them aside from them being kinda expensive. It's not like they're horribly over-priced or anything (though actual prices at retail can still potentially be really bad, especially in some regions).

[JakkiPi]

So happy you started out this video with the 6650xt! Makes me very happy with my MERC!

[CeKoneR]

Crazy how different prices are in EU, the 7900 XTX is usually around 250-300 euros cheaper than the 4080 which makes it the better value, while in the US the difference in price is not that much which makes the 4080 usually the better choice

[michaeldidikof]

Bought 7900xtx with 7800x3d. Want raw power. Everything including VR looks amazing.

[tomthomas]

Horizon Forbidden West at 4k is so glorious, and that game doesn't need to forced us RT to achieve that.

[Thomas_Angelo]

just bought a 3060 12gb Asus Dual OC for 250 dollars usd with a 2 year warranty. I am loving it while playing rdr2 on 4k 80 fps on HUB settings.

[Norwolf]

I just got an ASUS DUAL OC 4060 for 300€ on sale and am very happy with that purchase (upgrading from a 5600XT). Energy prices are still really high where I live and 115W vs 250W from a 6750 XT does make quite the difference! On top of that it allows me to keep all my old components without having to upgrade.

[l.i.archer]

The physical hardware specs of the Arc A770 16GB for $300 is the best bang for the buck, but the drivers still aren't mature enough just yet. I'm sure they'll get there. In the meantime, the latest driver update broke my Halo Infinite when trying to match into a multiplayer game, constantly telling me, "The request to join has timed out..." just as the map loading reaches 100% and never even gets to "Other players loading." I do not have this issue on my PCs with an RX 6950 XT, or the RTX 4070. I bought the RX 6950 XT for $650 and is MY original best bang for the buck, when you consider the 12GB RTX 4070 was $600 when it came out. And, I don't have to worry about melting power connectors on any of these cards.
I don't do 4K or ray-tracing in gaming, because they're both useless on a 32", 165 Hz, 1440p gaming monitor, and I don't care for it as a pure gamer who only wants smooth gaming.

[nowknow]

I got a 7800XT for $430 and am very happy with it. FSR 3 is also a huge improvement over the previous generations. The only complaint I have about the 7800 xt is how power hungry it is.

[Ralipsi]

This is the monthly video to watch for gamer who wants to upgrade his gears! And, as always, your analysis is always spot on. Thanks again!