by Alex â‹® A list of Nvidia Graphics Cards in order of performance is something I keep looking for myself. That is why I have put together this page for you with the most recent and some older but still widely used Nvidia Graphics Cards in a list that you can sort to your liking.
The performance metrics that you see in the list cover different areas:
Nvidia Graphics Cards have lots of technical features like shaders, cuda cores, memory size and speed, core speed, overclockeability and many more.
The list could go on, but what I want to give you here is a quick and easy overview of Nvidia Graphics Cards in order of Performance throughout two of the most popular use cases on this site.
Rendering and Gaming.
I have taken the performance average of currently Popular gaming benchmarks such as Futuremark and assigned points depending on the benchmark score.
To find the best performing Nvidia Graphics Cards in Rendering I took the average of the three most popular GPU Render Engines: Redshift, Octane and Vray-RT and gave points depending on the score.
What you ultimately get from this list is a Nvidia Graphics Cards comparison:
Nvidia Graphics Cards List In Order Of Performance
| Graphics Card | Rendering Performance | Gaming Performance | Performance Total | Performance / Dollar | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | Rendering Performance | Gaming Performance | Performance Total | Performance / Dollar | Price |
| Nvidia Titan V | 396 | 190 | 586 | 0.19 | 3000 |
| Nvidia RTX Titan | 326 | 229 | 555 | 0.20 | 2700 |
| Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti | 304 | 196 | 500 | 0.42 | 1199 |
| Nvidia Titan Pascal | 250 | 151 | 401 | 0.24 | 1650 |
| Nvidia GTX 1080Ti | 221 | 154 | 375 | 0.53 | 700 |
| Nvidia RTX 2080 | 226 | 147 | 373 | 0.46 | 799 |
| Nvidia RTX 2070 | 210 | 132 | 342 | 0.62 | 550 |
| Nvidia RTX 2060 | 170 | 107 | 277 | 0.79 | 350 |
| Nvidia GTX 1080 | 148 | 124 | 272 | 0.54 | 500 |
| Nvidia GTX 1070Ti | 153 | 116 | 269 | 0.67 | 400 |
| Nvidia GTX 1070 | 132 | 98 | 230 | 0.66 | 350 |
| Nvidia GTX 1060 | 95 | 71 | 166 | 0.66 | 250 |
| Nvidia GTX 1050Ti | 54 | 38 | 92 | 0.61 | 150 |
| Nvidia GTX 1050 | 46 | 34 | 80 | 0.72 | 110 |
What Nvidia Graphics Card do you want to buy?
Hi Alex,
Approximately how much will it cost to build a computer with CPU Intel 19 900k – 8 cores/ 16 Threads, 3.6GHz Base Clock, Turbo Boost 5Ghz , Graphics Card: Nvida Quadro Series, RAM: 64 GB?
Hey Samuel,
That depends on the Quadro card you are planning to get. I’d ballpark it around 2200$. To find the best components for your PC within your budget, have a look at the PC-Builder Tool here:
https://www.cgdirector.com/pc-builder/
Hope this helps,
Alex
Hi Alex,
thanks so much for your fantastic website. It helps me so much. I need a new build and based on your recommendations, I’m leaning toward the i9 99ooK – decided to favor modeling/anim over rendering although would love to have both :). I have 2 questions though.
1) regarding the GPU, is putting 2 x RTX 2060 better than having 1 RTX 2080 (around $700 vs $800 for a performance of 2 x 277 vs 373)? Are the GPU performances addable like this?
2) I’m using Maya and render with Arnold (for now mostly CPU-render oriented). I get what you said about modeling vs rendering and to favor faster CPU instead of cores. But do you know if this stands for simulation (fluid, nparticles, VFX in general) in Maya? I’ve read somewhere that for some software like Houdini it still helps to have more cores vs faster CPU for effects and simulations.
Could you help me on this?
Thanks in advance!
Hey John,
If you are aiming at using GPU render engines then yes you can add the GPU render performance, as the Benchmark points in this list are based off of octane bench gpu render engine. 2x 2060 RTX will be (340 vs 226) faster than a 2080 RTX, but of course each of those cards only has 6gb of VRAM so keep that in mind. I am not quite sure about the Maya viewport 2.0 and if it can make use of multiple GPUs, so i would say it’s better to go with one stronger one for this, if you are not looking into gpu rendering at all.
Usually most of the stuff you do when actively sitting in front of your computer benefits from high core clocks. This is also true for particle sims and vfx, unless of course you set it up in a way that multiple cores can work on your sim. Such as using multiple intersecting sim systems that don’t interact with each other.
You can’t do much wrong with an i9 9900K as it has an good amount of cores but also very high clock speeds. If you know you will spend lots of time on renderings and sims that CAN be calculated on multiple cores, you might also want to take alook at cpus such as the 9800x, 9900x, and that Intel X-Series HEDT platform series in general.
Cheers,
Alex
Thank you for the informations , i am using Nvidia GTX 1050Ti and i have an issue , when i open (substance painter) or any (Real Time Render) program , the laptop got freeze and then i have to restart the laptop , dose the Nvidia GTX 1060 work good with (substance painter) ?
Hey aye,
There shouldn’t be all that big a difference between the 1050Ti and the 1060. Seems to me like the problems lies elsewhere such as a bad driver or OS installation. Maybe try updating your drivers or reinstalling the OS if this is something you want to do. What other software crashes when you start it apart from substance?
Alex
Thank you ! for fast reply, aw yes In fact i have a doubt that it is possible that the problem exists only in my laptop and not a problem of specifications or capabilities of the graphic card. This freeze usually happens when I run a very large file in a 3Ds Max for example a file that contain 1 Million Polygons or more, when the program is running on (Nitrous Direct3D 11) the freez happen,
But if i run it on (intel hd graphic card or open GL) it just work fine .
also when I’m using V-Ray GPU render or V-Ray RT
and PS 3D painting or Foundry Mari , And things like that
Will you be adding the 2060 to this list?
Hey Olly,
Yes, absolutely, I will test the RTX 2060 very soon!
Cheers,
Alex
Hey Olly,
I added the 2060 & Titan RTX to the List.
Cheers,
Alex
how do i know if my motherboard’s m.2 doesnt share pcie lanes with my gpu?
Hey RUTWIK,
This question is asked a lot and I wrote some Info about that over here:
https://www.cgdirector.com/best-computer-3d-modeling-rendering/
Section: About PCIE-Lanes
TLDR: They never do. CPU – GPU pcie lanes interconnect are only for the gpu. The Chipsets pcie lanes are in most cases additional 24 pcie-lanes (on mainstream platforms) that you can use, but the chipset pcie lanes are connected to the cpu via 4 pcie lane. So if you saturate the 4, you’ll see a bottleneck, but his seldomly happens.
Let me know if this helps!
Cheers,
Alex
Thanks man!U have been very helpful as usual, cheers!
I can’t see how you calculate your results, but I think you should update your performance chart – The performance pr dollar for a 1070Ti = 0,615, 1080Ti = 0,486, 1070 = 0,62 and 1080 = 0,52 as far as I can see??!
Hey Lards,
Thanks, not sure how I got those Numbers mixed up. Should be fixed now.
Cheers,
Alex
We all need a good excuse for bying the 2080 🙂