5 Best VGA (GPU) in Nowadays

The following five cards represent the pinnacle of modern graphics performance. These are cards that are beyond the sweet spot of what's needed in order to enjoy the latest games at reasonable resolutions.

And These are 5 Best VGA (GPU) in Nowadays. you can make your choice to buy one oh them.

AMD Radeon HD 6970 (£260)

Given that the AMD Radeon HD 6970 is simply a faster spin of the Radeon HD 6950 with more of everything that makes that card so great, surely this is a fine card worthy of the money? Not quite.

The problem is, while Radeon HD 6950 is slower than this, it's only just slower. At the higher resolutions, which is all that really matters for these high-end cards, we're talking a few frames per second different at most.

In real terms you'd be hard pushed to spot such differences, which means that the extra £50 you pay for this over the cheaper card doesn't really pay off. That and the fact that the first slew of Radeon HD 6950s can be flashed to essentially turn them into 6970s conspire to make this a card that doesn't quite add up.

The fact of the matter is: if you want the kind of performance that will drive a bigger display, you're going to need to spend more than this.


* Read TechRadar's AMD Radeon HD 6970 review
* Read TechRadar's Asus Radeon HD 6970 DirectCU II review

Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 (£584)

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 is a dual-GPU graphics card, similar in performance and guise to the Radeon HD 6990 that proceeded it into the market by roughly a month.

This means that inside that huge cooler you'll find a pair of GTX 580 cores humming away at not-quite GTX 580 speeds. In real terms that equates to a whopping 1024 CUDA cores, 96 ROPs and access to a healthy 3GB of GDDR5.

In order to fit a pair of GPUs inside a single card, though, speed sacrifices have had to be made.

In the case of the GeForce GTX 590, that means dropping the core clock from the GTX 580's 772MHz down to 607MHz. The memory speed has been slashed too, from 1.02GHz down to 853MHz.

As with the Radeon HD 6990, anyone looking for the ultimate in performance should really look at pairing up two GTX 580s, although that will cost you considerably more.

We've given the Radeon HD 6990 the slight nod over the GTX 590 simply because it has the lead in the titles that matter, however slight that may be.


* Read TechRadar's Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 review

AMD Radeon HD 6990 (£550)

The Radeon HD 6990 is the second of two cards to utilise a pair of graphics processors to produce out of this world frame rates. Although as you can see, this come with an obvious downside – the price.
The Radeon HD 6990 utilises a new graphics processor, named Antilles, which is a slightly tweaked take on the Cayman core that can be found in the Radeon HD 6870, albeit not at the full speed of that GPU. This means you get the full 4GB of GDDR5 memory, strong tessellation performance and a stunning 3,072 streaming processors for handling your games.
Unfortunately, in order to cram two GPUs into the power footprint of a single graphics card, the core clock speed has had to be reduced from 880MHz to 830MHz. Similarly, the memory is running at 1.25GHz as opposed to the 1.375GHz of the 6970.
In truth there really isn't a lot between this and the previous card, the GTX 590 – they offer roughly the same performance and cost about the same.
If you're in the market for a dual-GPU graphics card, then your preference comes down to whether you prefer AMD's drivers and support, or Nvidia's.

* Read TechRadar's AMD Radeon HD 6990 review

Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 (£280)

Value for money may seem like a strange metric to pull out of the hat at this end of the graphics market, but the GTX 570 does a decent turn at making your investment feel prudent rather than simply excessive.
Essentially a replacement for the soon to be retired GTX 480, here's a card that does everything that Nvidia's last-generation top dog did, but without the problems that card suffered from when it shipped.
The cooler is quiet and more efficient, and the raw power on offer from this sub-£300 card is stunning. This is a slightly cut down version of the GTX 580, losing one Streaming Multiprocessor (or 32 CUDA cores, to put it another way) and 8 ROPs.
The GTX 570's core operates at 732MHz as opposed to the GTX 580's 772MHz, while the 1,280MB of GGDR5 memory speeds along at 950MHz, as opposed to the GTX 580's 1,002MHz.
For the money, there isn't a lot out there that can touch the GTX 570 in terms of pure performance, apart from possibly a pair of GTX 460s in SLI – but such a configuration requires an SLI motherboard

*  Read TechRadar's Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 review

Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 (£395)

The GeForce GTX 580 is the fastest single-GPU graphics card currently available, and probably will be the only option for some time to come yet.
Created as the spiritual successor to the much-maligned GTX 480, Nvidia took the problems it had with its first DX11 graphics card and corrected them.
This means you get a full-fat core boasting 512 CUDA cores and 48 ROPS, not one that has been cut down to achieve better yields. And all running at a healthy 772MHz with a 1,002MHz memory bus for the 1,384MB of GDDR5 memory.
Not everyone needs the power of a GTX 580 – only those with serious screens to power. This is a market targeted by the twin-GPU Goliaths that are the AMD Radeon HD 6990 and Nvidia's own GeForce GTX 590.
The GTX 580 still has the nod, however, because those cards have had to be throttled back to fit on a single card, while here you know nothing is being constrained. This is still the most sensible option for anyone looking for unfettered speed from a single GPU.
*  Read TechRadar'sNvidia GeForce GTX 580 review
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