Graphics Card Companies List

With shortages everywhere it can seem like its near enough impossible to get your hands on a graphics card these days. We’ve put together a list of graphics card companies and manufacturers to help you in your search to get your hands on one. Both component shortages and demand have created an unfortunate blend which has lead to todays shortage. However we’ve got a lot of advice on how to find a graphics card.

One piece of advice we recommend is to consider purchasing a prebuilt laptop or desktop that has your GPU of choice within. you can either pull the card and resell the PC, or choose a gaming desktop you really get on with and make the upgrade. If you’d like help on choosing your graphics card, please see the end of this article

Popular Graphics Card Companies

• AFOX
• Albatron
• AMD
• ASRock
• Asus
• BFG
• Club3d
• Colorful
• Diamond
• ECS
• EVGA
• Foxconn
• Galax
• Gigabyte
• HIS
• Innovision 3D
• Intel
• Leadtek
• Manli
• MSI
• Nvidia
• Palit
• PNY
• Point of View
• Powercolor
• PowerVR
• Sapphire
• Sparkle
• Via
• VisionTek
• XFX
• Zotac

Less popular Graphics Card Companies

• BFG
• Biostar
• Diamond Multimedia
• Maxsun
• PixelView
• Jetway
• Onda
• Leadtek
• Point of View (POV)
• Club 3D
• Zogis
• Colorful
• Gainward
• ECS
• Sparkle
• ViewMax
• Chaintech
• ELSA
• Dataland
• Yeston
• Ocamo
• Macy
• Forsa
• Emtek
• Kinology
• VTX3D
• Axle3D
• PCYES
• KUROTOSHIKOU
• Axigon
• GEIL
• ASL
• AXLE
• CAT
• ColorFire
• PRADEON

Choosing your graphics card

Which graphics card do you need? To help you decide, we’ve created this GPU benchmarks hierarchy consisting of dozens of GPUs from the past four generations of hardware. Everything is ranked from fastest to slowest, using the results from our test suite consisting of nine games for our GPU benchmarks, running at ‘medium’ and ‘ultra’ settings with resolutions of 1080p, 1440p, and 4K. For comparison purposes, the fastest card, based on the combination of all nine GPU benchmarks, three resolutions, and two settings, gets normalized to 100 percent, and all others are graded relative to it.

Not surprisingly, the fastest cards use either Nvidia’s Ampere architecture or AMD’s Big Navi. We’re not testing with ray tracing or DLSS here, as most of the previous generation cards don’t support those features, but even in traditional rasterization rendering the new GPUs come out on top. You can check out full launch reviews of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, GeForce RTX 3080, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, GeForce RTX 3070, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, and GeForce RTX 3060 12GB; and there’s also AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT, Radeon RX 6800 XT, Radeon RX 6800, Radeon RX 6700 XT, Radeon RX 6600 XT, and now Radeon RX 6600. At present, only one of the ten highest performance GPUs doesn’t use either Ampere or RDNA2 — and that’s the Titan RTX, which hardly counts.

Of course it’s not just about playing games. Many applications use the GPU for other work, and we covered some professional GPU benchmarks in our RTX 3090 review. But a good graphics card for gaming will typically do equally well in complex GPU computational workloads. Buy one of the top cards and you’ll can run games at high resolutions and frame rates with the effects turned all the way up, and you’ll be able to do content creation work equally well. Drop down to the middle and lower portions of the list and you’ll need to start dialing down the settings to get acceptable performance in regular game play and GPU benchmarks.

It’s not just about high-end GPUs, of course. We also recently tested Intel’s Xe Graphics DG1, which basically competes with integrated graphics solutions. The results weren’t pretty, and we didn’t even try running any of those at settings beyond 1080p medium. Still, you can see where those GPUs land at the very bottom of the GPU benchmarks list. Thankfully, Intel’s Arc Alchemist, aka DG2, appears to be cut from entirely different cloth.

Again, all of the games and settings we’re using for testing have to conform to the lowest common denominator. That means ray tracing and proprietary tech like Nvidia’s DLSS aren’t enabled, even where they’re supported. You can see how the GPUs stack up in DXR performance in our AMD vs. Nvidia ray tracing article, and we’ve also included RT and DLSS results in recent reviews like the RX 6600 XT, RTX 3070 Ti, and RTX 3080 Ti launch reviews. None of those scores are factored into the GPU benchmarks rankings, but the short summary is that Nvidia is usually quite a bit faster at RT, and DLSS provides a significant boost to performance for a minimal loss in image quality.

If your main goal is gaming, you can’t forget about the CPU. Getting the best possible gaming GPU won’t help you much if your CPU is underpowered and/or out of date. So be sure to check out the Best CPUs for gaming page, as well as our CPU Benchmarks Hierarchy to make sure you have the right CPU for the level of gaming you’re looking to achieve.

GPU Benchmarks Ranking