Now that Nvidia and AMD’s new desktop GPU lineups have had some time to settle into the local market, we can check out\u00a0the top-performing consumer graphics cards on the market and how they measure up in terms of pricing and power.<\/p>\n
While power is important for gamers and enthusiasts, value is equally important.<\/p>\n
Even if you are aiming to build a monster system, two higher-value cards in SLI or Crossfire may outperform one expensive powerful card.<\/p>\n
We’ve conducted an extensive performance and pricing comparison, ranking the best high-end graphics cards you can buy in South Africa.<\/p>\n
We’ve ranked the most powerful consumer graphics card according to their PassMark<\/strong> <\/a>score, which is regularly updated and comprises\u00a0an average of thousands of user benchmarks.<\/p>\n While Radeon graphics cards were not specifically excluded from this comparison, the latest generation of graphics architecture has raised the bar with regards to GPU performance, and AMD has not yet delivered a next-generation high-end GPU.<\/p>\n Although the Radeon RX 480 is AMD’s most powerful Polaris-based card, it is ranked below graphics cards such as the GeForce GTX 970 and and GTX 780, which no longer deliver high-end performance\u00a0compared to the new generation of graphics cards.<\/p>\n This means that Nvidia’s high-end GTX 10 Series graphics cards dominate the chart, in addition to older powerful Maxwell cards.<\/p>\n We have excluded graphics cards not readily available in South Africa, such as the Nvidia Titan X Pascal.<\/p>\n Below are the performance scores of various high-end graphics cards along with their South African pricing:<\/p>\n