Our GPU benchmarks hierarchy ranks all the current and previous generation graphics cards by performance, including all of the best graphics cards. Whether it’s playing games or doing high-end creative work like 4K video editing, your graphics card typically plays the biggest role in determining performance, and even the best CPUs for Gaming take a secondary role.

We’ve revamped our GPU testbed and updated all of our benchmarks for 2022, and are now finished retesting nearly every graphics card from the past several generations, plus some even older GPUs. Our full GPU hierarchy using traditional rendering comes first, and below that we have our ray tracing GPU benchmarks hierarchy. Those of course require a ray tracing capable GPU so only AMD’s RX 6000-series, Intel’s Arc, and Nvidia’s RTX cards are present. The results are all without enabling DLSS, DLSS 3, or XeSS on the various cards, mind you.

Nvidia launched the GeForce RTX 4090, which as expected leaped to the top of our GPU benchmarks. It’s definitely a fast card, so fast that if you’re not gaming at 4K, you might not need everything it can offer. It followed up with the GeForce RTX 4080, which has the same Ada Lovelace architecture but far fewer shaders and compute. AMD has now followed up by launching it’s own Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT, based on its RDNA 3 architecture.

At the other end of the pricing spectrum, the Intel Arc A770 and Intel Arc A750 finally arrived, and while they’re not the fastest GPUs, they have promise and are priced below their direct Nvidia competition while basically tying their AMD equivalents. Speaking of, we also have the Sapphire RX 6700 10GB (opens in new tab) in the list now — we’ll have the review done as soon as we’re able.

Below our main tables, you’ll find our 2020–2021 benchmark suite, which has all of the previous generation GPUs running our older test suite running on a Core i9-9900K testbed. We also have the legacy GPU hierarchy (without benchmarks) at the bottom of the article for reference purposes.

The following tables sort everything solely by our performance-based GPU gaming benchmarks, at 1080p “ultra” for the main suite and at 1080p “medium” for the DXR suite. Factors including price, graphics card power consumption, overall efficiency, and features aren’t factored into the rankings here. We’ve switched to a new Alder Lake Core i9-12900K testbed, changed up our test suite, and retested all of the past several generations of GPUs. Now let’s hit the benchmarks and tables.

GPU Benchmarks Ranking 2022

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