The best AMD graphics card in 2023 delivers unparalleled performance without breaking the bank, making them an excellent option for budget-conscious gamers. AMD consistently showcases its knack for crafting economical solutions with its latest RDNA 3 generation.
While many recognize AMD for its affordability, the best AMD GPU options, like the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, not only stand out for their value but also their stellar performance, earning coveted spots on our best graphics card list. If you're hunting for a bargain, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 reigns supreme as one of the best cheap graphics cards available today.
With our extensive experience reviewing and testing AMD offerings in various gaming and creative scenarios for many years now, we're committed to guiding you towards the ideal AMD GPU tailored to your needs and budget, whether you're in the market for the best 1080p graphics card, the best 1440p graphics card, or the best 4K graphics card from Team Red.
The best AMD graphics cards in 2023
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We've pulled together the best 4K graphics cards, the best 1440p graphics cards, and the best 1080p graphics cards in AMD's lineup to help you find the right card for you.
The best AMD graphics card overall
The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT was AWOL for most of 2023, coming nearly a year after the announcement of AMD's flagship RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT cards, but that just made it all that much sweeter when it finally launched and gave gamers everywhere the midrange graphics card they've been waiting for years now.
Powered by AMD's RNDA 3 GPU architecture, the RX 7800 XT avoided Nvidia's stubbles this generation and shipped the card with 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM and a wide enough memory bus to allow 4K textures to load quickly and render efficiently. That means that even though AMD is technically marketing the RX 7800 XT as a 1440p graphics card, it is more than capable of gaming at 4K.
If our testing, the RX 7800 XT battled the previous graphics card champion, the GeForce RTX 4070, to an effective Rocky-style draw (while coming up about 2% better in overall gaming performance). While the RTX 4070 has better ray tracing, the RX 7800 XT is a very capable ray tracer in its own right, with absolutely outstanding rasterization performance, so you're not missing out on anything like you were in the last generation AMD cards.
To top it all off, the RX 7800 XT has a much lower MSRP than Nvidia's rival card, making this card a no brainer when it comes to offering outstanding performance at a great price. If there's a caveat here, it's that the 7800 XT's gen-on-gen performance isn't as good as some might have hoped for, but even with that its performance still makes it Best-in-Class as far as we're concerned.
- Read the full AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT review
The Best Budget AMD Graphics Card
The AMD Radeon RX 7600 is here to bring AMD RDNA 3 to the under-$300/£300 segment, and it's got plenty of performance despite its lower price tag.
It's 1080p performance is absolutely fantastic for the price, even giving the Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 12GB a run for its money. It's 1440p performance is also pretty decent considering that the card only has 8GB VRAM and a 128-bit memory bus.
In terms of gaming performance, you can easily get 60 fps on all of the best PC games at 1080p, with most of those running on the highest graphics settings. For more demanding games like Cyberpunk 2077, there might need to be some settings tweaks, but it's still definitely doable, especially with AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution.
Its ray tracing performance is still behind Nvidia's last-gen midrange cards, but RDNA 3 has definitely closed much of the gap between the two, so you don't have to sacrifice ray tracing completely just by going with a cheaper AMD card.
- Read the full AMD Radeon RX 7600 review
The best 4K graphics card from AMD
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX had a lot to prove when it hit the scene at the end of 2022, but it succeeds brilliantly in being the most powerful gaming GPU on the market for under $1,000 while outperforming Nvidia's RTX 4080 overall, which costs 20% more.
The new 2nd-gen ray accelerators in the RX 7900 XTX makes 4K gaming on ultra settings with ray tracing a reality on an AMD card, something that the last flagship AMD card, the RX 6950 XT, couldn't quite accomplish. It's not without faults, including falling behind the Nvidia RTX 4000-series in terms of ray tracing (while still beating out the RT performance of the Nvidia RTX 3090) and some uneven creative workload performance, but overall, this is the one graphics card we would recommend to just about anybody who are looking to finally upgrade their GPU after years of graphics card shortages.
- Read the full AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX review
The best 1440p graphics card from AMD
Believe it or not, I'm still working on our full AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT review (I'm going for the full last-gen completion acheivement!). But with all the latest-gen cards dropping over the past few months, I've actually put more time in with the RX 6750 XT than I would have if I'd just reviewed it, and I have to say, the performance on this card is pretty spectacular.
It has its limitations, to be fair, and mostly that comes in the form of lagging ray-tracing performance, something that plagued the entire RDNA 2 generation. But for pure rasterization performance at 1440p, the RX 6750 XT is one hell of a contender. If you don't factor in ray tracing or upscaling tech, the RX 6750 XT is able to easily clear 80 fps on maximum settings at 1440p, on average.
This puts it even ahead of the Nvidia RTX 3070! Of course, once you turn on ray tracing, that all changes, with the RX 6750 XT averaging about 32 fps at 1440p with max settings, compared to the RTX 3070's 47 fps average over the same test suite. AMD FSR helps close the gap with an average of 52 fps with RT turned on and FSR set to performance. The RTX 3070, meanwhile, pumps out 68 fps with DLSS set to performance and RT turned on.
And while the Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti has much better ray tracing and upscaling performance, the RX 6750 XT manages to beat Nvidia's midrange GPU pretty handily in pure raster gaming performance, 82 fps to 73 fps, on average.
We'll have more when we formally review the card in the next few weeks, but given everything I've seen, you definitely don't want to sleep on this card, especially now that it's price has dropped considerably now that AMD RDNA 3 and Nvidia Lovelace cards are on the market.
- John Loeffler, Components Editor
The best AMD RDNA 2 graphics card
Though most AMD graphics cards are great thanks to their value to power ratio, there are a few AMD models that have the muscle to compete for space in the high-end GPU market. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT is one of those cards with its robust 4K performance.
Yes, its ray tracing isn’t as good as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080. And, its performance lags a little behind in some instances as well. But, in others, it actually outperforms the RTX 3080, specifically when running on DX11. In our testing, we found the 6800 XT to be up to 9% faster in certain games such as Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and Grand Theft Auto V. If you’re looking for a GPU from Team Red to work or play in 4K, then consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT.
- Read our full AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT review
The best last-gen budget AMD graphics card
The AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT is possibly the best option in the company’s lineup if you’re looking for a GPU for 1080p gaming. It might not be the cheapest but it’s still affordable so you don’t have to splurge for that power. And, it can handle just about anything at 1080p with aplomb. It also offers great thermal performance and doesn’t consume too much power.
Its fiercest competition is the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060. And, while the 3060 is $50 / £50 cheaper, we found the 6600 XT to perform ten to fifteen percent better in most of our testing. That difference in pricing and performance does make choosing between the two a bit more difficult than it should be.
While its ray tracing leaves a bit to be desired – an ongoing theme with AMD cards – the inclusion of Radeon Boost, a software feature that prioritizes performance over image fidelity, will appeal to competitive gamers.
- Read our full AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT review
How we test the best graphics cards
When it comes to the best graphics cards, it's incredibly important to make sure we're testing everything on an equal playing field. That's why, whenever a new graphics card comes out, we test it in a suite of around 11-12 games and across several resolutions, all on current drivers.
During this process, we re-test all current-generation graphics cards whenever a new one comes out and ensure that all of the cards are tested on the same hardware – the same processor, the same memory at the same speed, the same motherboard, and the same SSD. That way, we can be sure that we're measuring how the graphics card itself is performing, and we can more reliably compare it against its rivals.
We also make sure to log how much power its consuming and the temperatures it reaches under load, to make sure we can recommend it to people that may be concerned about high temperatures in their PCs.
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