GPU Rankings & Ladder
GPU rankings and ladder chart with 271 entries (Desktop, Laptop, iGPU). Switch between gaming, single-core, multi-core, efficiency and value; AMD, Intel and NVIDIA side by side. Data updated 2026-08-29.
Desktop GPU
- GeForce RTX 5090 — NVIDIA · 2025-01 · Fastest desktop card today; power and price equally shocking.
- GeForce RTX 5080 — NVIDIA · 2025-01 · Second-tier flagship; 16GB is a bit conservative.
- GeForce RTX 4090 — NVIDIA · 2022-10 · Last-gen flagship; 24GB still a productivity weapon.
- GeForce RTX 5070 Ti — NVIDIA · 2025-02 · 1440p high-refresh sweet spot; 16GB is enough.
- Radeon RX 9070 XT — AMD · 2025-03 · RDNA 4 makes big RT gains; good value.
- GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER — NVIDIA · 2024-01 · Last-gen 1440p sweet spot, easy 220W.
- Radeon RX 7800 XT — AMD · 2023-09 · Enough raster, weak RT, affordable 16GB.
- RTX 5070 — NVIDIA · 2025-03 · 12GB is conservative; the 1440p mainstream card.
- RTX 5060 Ti 16GB — NVIDIA · 2025-04 · Only the 16GB version is worth buying.
- RTX 5060 — NVIDIA · 2025-05 · 8GB VRAM is the fatal flaw.
- RTX 4080 SUPER — NVIDIA · 2024-01 · Last-gen 4K second-tier flagship.
- RTX 4070 Ti SUPER — NVIDIA · 2024-01 · 1440p high-refresh card with 16GB.
- RTX 4070 — NVIDIA · 2023-04 · Quiet 200W 1440p card.
- RTX 4060 Ti 8GB — NVIDIA · 2023-05 · Both bus width and VRAM were cut.
- RTX 4060 — NVIDIA · 2023-06 · Low power; the net-café and entry favorite.
- RTX 3080 10GB — NVIDIA · 2020-09 · Two-gen-old flagship, still capable used.
- RTX 3070 — NVIDIA · 2020-10 · 8GB VRAM starting to run tight.
- RTX 3060 12GB — NVIDIA · 2021-02 · Big-VRAM entry classic.
- RX 9070 — AMD · 2025-03 · Great 220W efficiency, more balanced than the XT.
- RX 9060 XT 16GB — AMD · 2025-06 · 16GB at the same price, aimed at the 5060 Ti.
- RX 7900 XTX — AMD · 2022-12 · 24GB with strong raster, average RT.
- RX 7900 XT — AMD · 2022-12 · Great value after price cuts.
- RX 7700 XT — AMD · 2023-09 · Sits between the 7800 XT and 7600.
- RX 7600 — AMD · 2023-05 · 1080p entry.
- RX 6800 XT — AMD · 2020-11 · Two-gen-old 16GB, good used value.
- RX 6600 — AMD · 2021-10 · The budget 1080p king.
- Arc B580 — Intel · 2024-12 · Battlemage 12GB; drivers vastly improved.
- Arc B570 — Intel · 2025-01 · Cut-down B580.
- Arc A770 16GB — Intel · 2022-10 · First-gen Arc; older games can be hit-or-miss.
- GeForce 8800 GT — NVIDIA · 2007-10 · Popularized unified shaders; a value legend.
- GeForce GTX 280 — NVIDIA · 2008-06 · 512-bit big-die flagship.
- GeForce GTX 480 — NVIDIA · 2010-03 · Fermi debut — the "nuclear" card.
- GeForce GTX 580 — NVIDIA · 2010-11 · Fermi fully realized.
- GeForce GTX 680 — NVIDIA · 2012-03 · Kepler; a big efficiency leap.
- GeForce GTX 780 Ti — NVIDIA · 2013-11 · Kepler big-die flagship.
- GeForce GTX 970 — NVIDIA · 2014-09 · The 3.5GB memory scandal, yet a huge seller.
- GeForce GTX 980 — NVIDIA · 2014-09 · Maxwell efficiency benchmark.
- GeForce GTX 980 Ti — NVIDIA · 2015-06 · Last 28nm flagship.
- GeForce GTX 1060 6GB — NVIDIA · 2016-07 · King of the Steam hardware survey.
- GeForce GTX 1070 — NVIDIA · 2016-06 · 8GB VRAM, long-lived.
- GeForce GTX 1080 — NVIDIA · 2016-05 · Pascal launch flagship.
- GeForce GTX 1080 Ti — NVIDIA · 2017-03 · Widely considered the best-value flagship ever.
- GeForce GTX 1650 — NVIDIA · 2019-04 · Entry card with no external power.
- GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER — NVIDIA · 2019-10 · Turing sweet spot without RT.
- GeForce RTX 2060 — NVIDIA · 2019-01 · Cheapest first-gen RT card.
- GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER — NVIDIA · 2019-07 · Turing upper-mid.
- GeForce RTX 2080 Ti — NVIDIA · 2018-09 · RT year-one flagship, four-figure pricing.
- GeForce RTX 3050 8GB — NVIDIA · 2022-01 · Ampere entry.
- GeForce RTX 3060 Ti — NVIDIA · 2020-12 · The pre-mining-boom sweet spot.
- GeForce RTX 3080 Ti — NVIDIA · 2021-06 · Close to a 3090.
- GeForce RTX 3090 — NVIDIA · 2020-09 · The BFGPU, 24GB.
- Radeon HD 4870 — AMD · 2008-06 · GDDR5 debut; a value comeback.
- Radeon HD 5870 — AMD · 2009-09 · First DX11 GPU.
- Radeon HD 6970 — AMD · 2010-12 · VLIW4 architecture.
- Radeon HD 7970 — AMD · 2011-12 · GCN and 28nm debut.
- Radeon R9 290X — AMD · 2013-10 · "Hawaii" — the reference cooler was a disaster.
- Radeon R9 Fury X — AMD · 2015-06 · HBM debut with a liquid-cooled reference card.
- Radeon RX 480 8GB — AMD · 2016-06 · Polaris sweet spot.
- Radeon RX 580 8GB — AMD · 2017-04 · King of mining cards, flooding the used market.
- Radeon RX Vega 64 — AMD · 2017-08 · HBM2, power hungry.
- Radeon RX 5700 XT — AMD · 2019-07 · RDNA debut, no RT.
- Radeon RX 5600 XT — AMD · 2020-01 · Pre-launch BIOS clock bump.
- Radeon RX 6650 XT — AMD · 2022-05 · 1080p mainstream.
- Radeon RX 6700 XT — AMD · 2021-03 · 12GB 1440p card.
- Radeon RX 6900 XT — AMD · 2020-12 · RDNA2 flagship; raster matches the 3090.
- Arc A750 — Intel · 2022-10 · Intel returns to discrete GPUs.
- RTX 5060 Ti 8GB — NVIDIA · 2025-04 · The 8GB version stumbles in newer games.
- RTX 4070 Ti — NVIDIA · 2023-01 · The original "4080 12GB", 12GB VRAM.
- RTX 4080 — NVIDIA · 2022-11 · Overpriced at launch, replaced by the SUPER.
- RTX 4060 Ti 16GB — NVIDIA · 2023-07 · Double the VRAM, same narrow bus.
- RTX 3080 12GB — NVIDIA · 2022-01 · Mining-era 3080 refresh.
- RTX 3070 Ti — NVIDIA · 2021-06 · GDDR6X 3070 with much higher power.
- RTX 3060 8GB — NVIDIA · 2022-10 · Cut-down bus; approach with caution.
- RTX 3050 6GB — NVIDIA · 2024-02 · An RTX with no external power.
- RTX 2080 SUPER — NVIDIA · 2019-07 · Refreshed Turing second-tier.
- RTX 2070 — NVIDIA · 2018-10 · First-gen RT mid-range.
- RTX 2060 SUPER — NVIDIA · 2019-07 · The 2060 with 8GB.
- GTX 1660 Ti — NVIDIA · 2019-02 · Strongest non-RT Turing.
- GTX 1660 — NVIDIA · 2019-03 · GDDR5 1660.
- GTX 1650 SUPER — NVIDIA · 2019-11 · A good budget 1080p pick.
Laptop GPU
- GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU — NVIDIA · 2025-03 · Mobile flagship; the die is really desktop-5080 class.
- GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU — NVIDIA · 2025-03 · High-end gaming-laptop mainstay with good efficiency.
- GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU (115W) — NVIDIA · 2025-04 · Full 115W version; 8GB VRAM is the weak point.
- GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU (80W) — NVIDIA · 2025-04 · 80W thin-and-light version, ~20% slower than full power.
- GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU — NVIDIA · 2023-02 · Last-gen mainstream, still competitive at full TGP.
- RTX 5070 Ti Laptop — NVIDIA · 2025-03 · 12GB VRAM, the high-end gaming-laptop mainstream.
- RTX 5060 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2025-05 · Full-power 5060 for mainstream gaming laptops.
- RTX 5060 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2025-05 · 80W version for thin gaming laptops.
- RTX 5050 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2025-06 · Entry discrete-GPU laptop part.
- RTX 4090 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2023-02 · Last-gen mobile flagship; the die is a desktop 4080.
- RTX 4080 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2023-02 · Last-gen second-tier mobile flagship.
- RTX 4070 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2023-02 · 90W thin version, 10%+ slower than full power.
- RTX 4060 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2023-02 · The best-selling gaming-laptop GPU.
- RTX 4060 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2023-02 · Common 90W version in all-rounders.
- RTX 4050 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2023-02 · 6GB entry discrete GPU.
- RX 7900M — AMD · 2023-10 · AMD mobile flagship, in very few laptops.
- RX 7700S — AMD · 2023-02 · Found in a few models like the Framework 16.
- GTX 1060 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2016-08 · Where mobile started matching desktop.
- GTX 1070 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2016-08 · GTX 1070 Laptop.
- GTX 1650 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2019-04 · Entry discrete-GPU laptop.
- GTX 1660 Ti Laptop — NVIDIA · 2019-04 · GTX 1660 Ti Laptop.
- RTX 2060 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2019-01 · RTX 2060 Laptop.
- RTX 2070 Max-Q — NVIDIA · 2019-01 · Max-Q thin gaming laptops.
- RTX 2080 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2019-01 · RTX 2080 Laptop.
- RTX 3050 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2021-05 · 4GB VRAM is a tight squeeze.
- RTX 3060 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2021-01 · 30-series gaming-laptop mainstay.
- RTX 3070 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2021-01 · RTX 3070 Laptop.
- RTX 3080 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2021-01 · 16GB VRAM; the die is a desktop 3070.
- Radeon RX 6800M — AMD · 2021-06 · AMD mobile high-end, few models.
- RTX 5090 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2025-03 · 150W flagship variant.
- RTX 5080 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2025-03 · 120W version for thin gaming laptops.
- RTX 4090 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2023-02 · 150W 4090 Laptop.
- RTX 4080 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2023-02 · 150W 4080 Laptop.
- RTX 4070 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2023-02 · 115W mainstream version.
- RTX 4050 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2023-02 · 60W thin-and-light version.
- RTX 3080 Ti Laptop — NVIDIA · 2022-01 · 30-series mobile flagship.
- RTX 3070 Ti Laptop — NVIDIA · 2022-01 · Faster 3070 Laptop.
- RTX 3060 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2021-01 · 80W 3060 Laptop.
- RTX 3050 Ti Laptop — NVIDIA · 2021-05 · 4GB entry.
- RTX 2080 Super Max-Q — NVIDIA · 2020-04 · Max-Q 2080 Super.
- RTX 2070 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2019-01 · Full-power 2070 Laptop.
- GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q — NVIDIA · 2019-04 · Thin-and-light 1660 Ti.
- GTX 1650 Ti Laptop — NVIDIA · 2020-04 · Slightly faster 1650 Laptop.
- GTX 1050 Ti Laptop — NVIDIA · 2017-01 · Entry gaming-laptop classic.
- GTX 1080 Laptop — NVIDIA · 2016-08 · Near-identical to the desktop 1080.
- GTX 980M — NVIDIA · 2014-10 · Maxwell mobile flagship.
- GTX 970M — NVIDIA · 2014-10 · 2015 gaming-laptop mainstream.
- RX 7600M XT — AMD · 2023-01 · AMD mobile mainstream.
- RX 7600S — AMD · 2023-01 · AMD card for thin gaming laptops.
- RX 6700S — AMD · 2022-01 · As seen in the ROG Zephyrus G14.
- RX 6600M — AMD · 2021-06 · RDNA2 mobile mainstream.
- RX 6850M XT — AMD · 2022-01 · Higher-clocked 6800M.
- RX 5600M — AMD · 2020-07 · As seen in the Dell G5 SE.
iGPU GPU
- M4 Max 40-core GPU — Apple · 2024-11 · iGPU ceiling: weak RT, strong productivity.
- M4 Pro GPU (20核) — Apple · 2024-11 · Rivals a low-TGP 4060 Laptop.
- M4 GPU (10核) — Apple · 2024-05 · Air-class iGPU.
- Radeon 8060S — AMD · 2025-02 · x86 iGPU ceiling, close to a 4070 Laptop.
- Radeon 890M — AMD · 2024-07 · One of the strongest x86 iGPUs for thin-and-lights.
- Radeon 780M — AMD · 2023-01 · Common in handhelds and thin laptops.
- Arc 140V — Intel · 2024-09 · Lunar Lake iGPU with excellent efficiency.
- Arc 140T — Intel · 2025-01 · Arrow Lake-H iGPU.
- Adreno X1-85 — Qualcomm · 2024-06 · ARM-laptop iGPU with many compatibility limits.
- Iris Xe (96EU) — Intel · 2020-09 · iGPU of 12th-gen H and 11th-gen thin-and-lights.
- UHD 770 — Intel · 2021-11 · Desktop display-out iGPU.
- UHD 630 — Intel · 2017-10 · 8th–10th gen iGPU.
- Arc 130V — Intel · 2024-09 · Lower-end Lunar Lake iGPU.
- Radeon 680M — AMD · 2022-01 · First RDNA2 iGPU.
- Radeon 760M — AMD · 2023-04 · 8-CU version of the 780M.
- Radeon Vega 8 (Renoir) — AMD · 2020-01 · iGPU of 4000/5000-series laptops.
- Adreno X1-45 — Qualcomm · 2024-09 · iGPU of the 8-core X Plus.
- M3 GPU (10核) — Apple · 2023-11 · First Mac iGPU with hardware RT.
- M3 Max GPU (40核) — Apple · 2023-11 · Last-gen iGPU ceiling.
- M2 GPU (10核) — Apple · 2022-06 · M2 Air / Pro iGPU.
- M2 Max GPU (38核) — Apple · 2023-01 · 400 GB/s bandwidth.
- M1 GPU (8核) — Apple · 2020-11 · First Apple Silicon iGPU.
- M1 Max GPU (32核) — Apple · 2021-10 · First 400 GB/s unified-memory GPU.