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The Ultimate Graphics Card Tier List 2025: Ranking NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs!
This video presents a tier list of current graphics cards from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, considering current market price and availability. The presenter ranks various GPUs, discusses their pros and cons, and considers the impact of upcoming GPU releases such as the RTX 50 Super series.
1. 🎮 Intro to the Ultimate GPU Tier List
- ✅ The video will combine AMD, Nvidia, and Intel GPUs into a single tier list.
- ✅ The ranking is based on current market prices and availability.
- ✅ The video will also consider where upcoming GPU releases, such as the RTX 50 Super series, would fall in the ranking.
00:00 - 00:45
1. 🎮 Intro to the Ultimate GPU Tier List
- ✅ The video will combine AMD, Nvidia, and Intel GPUs into a single tier list.
- ✅ The ranking is based on current market prices and availability.
- ✅ The video will also consider where upcoming GPU releases, such as the RTX 50 Super series, would fall in the ranking.
00:46 - 01:25
2. 🎮 Lowest Tier: Intel Arc B570
- ✅ The Intel Arc B570 is the cheapest GPU on the market right now.
- ⚠️ It has 10GB of VRAM, but it doesn't have enough horsepower to take advantage of it.
- ❌ The Arc B580 and RTX 5060 cost a little bit more and offer a significant performance uplift, making the B570 hard to recommend.
01:26 - 02:13
3. 🎮 Low Tier: RTX 5050
- ✅ The RTX 5050 retails for $249 and can consistently be found for the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP).
- ⚠️ It is slower than the RTX 5060 and only has 8GB of GDDR6 video memory.
- ✅ The RTX 5050 outperforms the B570 across the board.
02:14 - 03:03
4. 🎮 Tier C: Intel Arc B580
- ✅ The Arc B580 is better than the 5050.
- ✅ At launch, the B580 outperformed the 460 and RX 7600 and has 12GB of VRAM.
- ❌ The direct rasterization performance is outperformed by the RTX 5060 and RX 9060 XT, which cost a little bit more.
03:04 - 04:06
5. 🎮 Tier C: RTX 5060 (8GB)
- ⚠️ The RTX 5060 is better than the B580, but it still has some issues.
- ❌ Both the RTX 5060 and RX 9060 XT 8GB do not have enough VRAM for the card's horsepower.
- ✅ VRAM is more important in newer titles like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Hogwarts Legacy, and Alan Wake.
04:07 - 05:00
6. 🎮 Tier A: RX 9060 XT (16GB)
- ✅ The RX 9060 XT 16GB is very well-priced.
- ✅ The manufacturer's suggested retail prices (MSRP) are fairly attainable.
- ✅ The gaming performance is fantastic.
- ✅ It is the cheapest card that is easy to recommend.
05:01 - 05:23
7. 🎮 Lowest Tier: RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
- ❌ The RTX 5060 Ti 8GB has a powerful chip, but it is expensive, and the VRAM is pathetic.
05:24 - 05:59
8. 🎮 Tier C: RTX 5060 Ti (16GB)
- ❌ The biggest problem with the RTX 5060 Ti is the cost.
- ❌ It doesn't make a lot of sense at its current price.
06:00 - 07:26
9. 🎮 Tier B: RTX 5070 vs. RX 9070
- ✅ The RTX 5070 is not as good as the RX 9060 XT 16GB in balance, but it's not that bad.
- ✅ The 12GB of VRAM on this card is sufficient.
- ✅ The RTX 5070 has good performance.
- ✅ The RTX 5070 costs $549, while the RX 9070 costs $599.
- ✅ Nvidia wins in ray tracing and DLSS versus FSR.
07:27 - 07:53
10. 🎮 Tier C: RX 9070
- ❌ The RX 9070 has a good overall GPU design.
- ❌ It doesn't seem like AMD has been all that truthful with their manufacturer's suggested retail prices (MSRP) or done much to try to enforce them at retail stores.
07:54 - 08:21
11. 🎮 Tier C: RX 9070 XT
- ✅ The RX 9070 XT is a little bit better than the RX 9070.
- ❌ The RX 9070 XT is overpriced.
- ❌ The RX 9070 XT has a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $599 and sells for almost $700, making it hard to recommend.
08:22 - 09:07
12. 🎮 Tier C/B: RTX 5070 Ti
- ❌ The RTX 5070 Ti is expensive, $789.
- ✅ The RTX 5070 Ti fixes a lot of the problems that Nvidia GPUs have in terms of VRAM and has 16GB.
- ✅ The DLSS ray tracing on this is really good.
- ❌ Rasterization is now slower than the RX 9070 XT given some of its recent driver updates in many titles.
09:08 - 09:37
13. 🎮 Tier A: RTX 5080
- ✅ The RTX 5080 is a little bit better in terms of price.
- ✅ AMD doesn't have anything that competes with it.
- ❌ It's expensive for what it is.
- ❌ It doesn't have enough video memory.
- ✅ It's a good product.
09:38 - 09:56
14. 🎮 Tier S: RTX 5090
- ✅ The RTX 5090 goes straight to the top.
- ❌ The RTX 5090 is extortionate.
- ✅ If you have a big budget to spend, it's the best.
- ✅ AMD doesn't have anything that even remotely comes close.
- ✅ The RTX 5090 in some cases will get 50-70% more FPS than AMD's current high-end offering in the RX 9070 XT.
09:57 - 10:41
15. 🎮 Final Adjustments to the Tier List
- ✅ The host is happy with their low and C tiers.
- ⚠️ The only cards that they would maybe move up are the B580 if you want 1440p gaming.
- ⚠️ The RX 9060 8GB being B maybe feels a little generous.
- ✅ We could potentially move the RX 9070 XT up to an A tier.
10:42 - 11:28
16. 🎮 Where Would NVIDIA's Upcoming SUPER Cards Rank?
- ✅ Super seems to be more about video memory than anything else.
- ✅ The RTX 5070 Super, if it went up to 16GB, would be a rival for at least the high end of the A tier, if not potentially approaching the RTX 5090 type of territory.
- ⚠️ There's not a lot to be gained from the RTX 5080 Super.
- ⚠️ Unless the performance really massively increases, I don't think the VRAM is a big problem right now for a lot of people.
- ⚠️ The RTX 5070 Ti Super, I don't think 16GB of VRAM is the main problem.
- ✅ The VRAM advantage of Super comes more with the RTX 5070 and RTX 5080 Super than with the 70 Ti.
11:29 - 12:10
17. 🎮 Desired Changes in the GPU Market
- ✅ He would like to see the price of the RX 9070 XT drop.
- ✅ If you could buy the RX 9070 XT for the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP), it would be right there for me.
- ✅ AMD has done an amazing job with that particular skew.
- ✅ Even the RX 9070 as MSRP is trading blows with the RTX 5070 and is arguably a better buy than both it and the RX 9060 XT 16GB.