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Any gaming PC worth playing is driven by a pulsating heart with is its graphics card. There is no simple solution as each game has its own requirements. Some do not look at the price and simply want the best out there, others look at the best value while the majority want the fastest video card. Since a video card is a component that significantly impacts gaming experiences, a balance of efficiency, features, price, and performance are considered. The graphics cards play a huge role inimage rendering by data conversion into signals that monitors understand. Video editors and gamers especially find this an essential component. It is only natural that a specialized technology like GPU video cards come with a hefty price tag. These that we list, however, are from the best in the world, NVIDIA and remains affordable.

NVIDIA v100 NV Link GPU

NVIDIA v100 NVLink - engineers, researchers, and data scientists can spend much less time to optimize memory usage while having a lot more time to design another breakthrough in AI. The V100 Tensor Core is the world’s most advanced data center GPU that accelerates data science and graphics, high-performance computing, and AI. NVIDIA Volta architecture powers it and is available in both 16GB and 32GB configurations. It is a near-range protocol that accelerates and facilitates control code in systems between GPUs.

NVIDIA v100 NVLink Specs

●     Max power consumption – 300 Watts

●     Memory capacity – 32/16 GB HBM2

●     Bandwidth 1134 GB

●     GPU Boost deep learning – 125 teraFLOPS

●     GPU single precision – 15.7 tera Flops

●     Double precision 7.8 teraFLOPS

●     Interconnect bi-directional bandwidth 300 GB/s

●     640 Tensor Cores

●     NVIDIA Volta architecture

●     GPU Maximum clock – 1530 MHz

●     SXM2 form factor

●     Supports 6 NVLink connections

GeForce RTX 3090 GPU

GeForce RTX 3090 – with its Titan class performance the RTX 3090 is ferocious and powered by second generation NVIDIA architecture. It doubles down on AI performance and ray tracing with also containing new streaming multiprocessors, Tensor Cores, and enhanced Ray Tracing Cores. It also has as taggering 24 Gigabytes of G6X memory for outstanding gaming performance.Players and users can watch, capture, play, and connect magnificent HDR with resolutions of up to 8K using this video card.

GeForce RTX 3090 Specs

●     Required system power – 750

●     Graphics card power – 350

●     Maximum GPU Power – 93

●     HDCP – 2.3

●     Multi monitor – 4

●     Maximum digital resolution – 7680 x 4320

●     NVIDIA Decoder – 5th generation

●     NVIDIA Encoder – 7th generation

●     HDMI 2.1

●     Vulkan RT API OpenGL 4.6

●     NVIDIA NVLink

●     NVIDIA GPU Boost

●     NVIDIA Studio Drivers

●     NVIDIA G-SYNC

●     NVIDIA Shadowplay

●     NVIDIA Ansel

●     PCI Express Gen 4

●     Architecture – Ampere

●     Memory Interface width – 384 bit

●     Standard memory config – 24 GB GDDR6X

●     NVIDIA CUDA Cores 10496

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GPU

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti – the GTX 1080 Ti is the latest flagship gaming GPU from NVIDIA and the architecture used is the trademarkedPascal. This is one of their latest editions and packed with a massive 11 GB frame buffer, next-generation 11 GBPS GDDR5X memory with extreme gaming power.The dominant performance features 12 billion transistors couples with 3582NVIDIA CUDA cores. This means that players and users have three times the performance compared to previous generation cards.

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Specs

●     Maximum digital resolution - 7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz

●     OS Certification – Linux and Windows 7 – 10

●     Open GL – 4.5

●     NVIDIA GameStream Ready

●     NVIDIA G-SYNC Ready

●     NVIDIA Ansel

●     Simultaneous Multi-Projection

●     Memory Bandwith 484

●     Memory interface width – 352- bit

●     Memory speed - 11 Gbps

●     Boost clock – 1582

●     NVIDIA CUDA Cores 3584

●     Microsoft DirectX – 12 API

●     OpenGL

●     Bus Support – PCLe 3.0

Titan RTX GPU

Titan RTX – the RTX was designed for creators, developers, and researchers, and the driving force behind this NVIDIA is trademarked Turing architecture. You get a massive amount of ultra-fast GDDR6 memory of 24Gigabytes to your PC. This is coupled by 576 tensor cores, with 130 TensorTFLOPs of performance. Demanding users require the best tool which is what theTitan RTX offers through ray tracing and increased AI. Work much faster with optimal results.

NVIDIA Titan TRX Specs

●     Thermal Threshold – 89 degrees

●     Thermal design power -280 Watts

●     Recommended power supply - 650 Watts

●     Power connectors – two 8-pin

●     OS Certification -  Linux 64-bit, Windows 10 64 bit, Windows 7 64bit

●     Transistor count – 19.6 billion

●     Fabrication process – 12 nm FFN

●     Total memory bandwidth – 672 GB

●     Memory Interface – 384 bit

●     Memory data rate – 14 GBPS

●     Memory Clock – 7000 MHz

●     Graphics Processing Clusters – 6

●     Streaming multiprocessors - 72

Conclusion

These are a mere drop in the bucket in an ocean of video cards, however, while the top of the range with ultimate performance, these remain in the affordable price bracket. Features that we looked at and that you must consider when buying graphics cards include the GPU engine specs, the memory specs, graphics card power as well as technologies supported as well as delivered speeds and increased performance.

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