Video Card Guide 2024 – second half

Video card up to R$1 thousand

Something that has been our mission, in these video card guide articles, is to encourage purchases in this segment. The crowd below R$1,000 tends to be made up of several “stolen”, with products that will only perform OK in light games, and with no chance of playing more recent games.

Here too there is the first deception. The RTX 3050 4GB has the same name as the original RTX 3050, but in addition to the reduction in memory, it also has about 10% fewer CUDA cores. The result? We don’t have tests with it, but the guys at Hardware Unboxed tested it and saw an average drop of 22%, putting it halfway between the GTX 1650 Super and the “real RTX 3050”.

These graphics include the RX 6600 and the RTX 3050, which are outside this price range, but which serve to give an insight into the performance gains that may be possible in some games. That’s if you can spend about 20 to 30% money on purchasing your next graphics card.

Which video card in 2024 is between R$1,000 and R$1,500

Now we have arrived at the place we recommend you assemble your machine. The R$1,000 to R$1,500 range will house the two models with which we recommend starting your gaming machine, the Radeon RX 6600 and the GeForce RTX 3050.

Here the cards are already able to deliver 1080p gameplay in intermediate quality in several games, maintaining an average above 60fps. Recent heavier games, however, are already a problem for this segment, forcing intermediate settings and even low pre-sets, in some cases.

The Radeon RX 6600 continues to be the highlight, performing much better than the RTX 3050 in games focused on rasterization and remaining almost at the same level in games that include light Ray Tracing effects.

Video card between R$ 1.5 and 2 thousand

When we get to models above R$1,500, we already have the most robust cards that deliver 1080p gameplay more smoothly, despite not necessarily having an Ultra configuration.

The main news here is that we finally have the GeForce RTX 4060 starting to become competitive. It delivers a performance gain proportional to the increase in cost over the RTX 3060, but has the advantage of technologies such as the DLSS frame generator and also greater efficiency in dealing with Ray Tracing.

The Radeon RX 7600 also has more attractive prices than in the previous article, and is starting to be a relevant option compared to the RX 6600. It costs around 30% more, but delivers this performance gain, and can reach around 40% in games with Ray Tracing, a technology that it performs best.

Which video card 2024 between R$ 2 and 3 thousand

The immortal combo of this segment, the Radeon RX 6750 XT and the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is still going strong. That is, not the RTX 3060 Ti, but its successor and almost equal card, the RTX 4060 Ti.

We have reached a level that already reaches 1080p in maximum quality, and which will also face Quad HD resolution (1440p) with a good level of quality, being an initial option for those who want to play games at that resolution. Anyone who wants to go heavy on the settings at this resolution, however, should buy cards with more performance margin.

Video card between R$ 3 thousand and 4 thousand

This is a curious price segment. We have two cards with the sole objective of delivering 16GB of VRAM. While the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB performs in games almost equal to the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, the Radeon RX 7600 XT only has more VRAM than the RX 7600, also delivering the same performance.

This emphasis on 16GB has more to do with other niche uses, such as machine learning in broad language models, LLMs, which make good use of 16GB. For gamers, more VRAM space is always welcome, but without an increase in graphics chip performance, little will be gained in this segment.

Therefore, only the Radeon RX 7700 XT is relevant, as it brings a noticeable gain in performance over previous price segments.

Which 2024 video card costs R$4,000 or more

While we had more limited options in the initial ranges, if your budget exceeds R$4,000, both AMD and Nvidia will readily offer a good set of card options. The highlights go to the RTX 4070, which opens this segment, along with the RX 7800 XT, with options with a good level of performance.

Going towards maximum performance, at AMD we have strong options with the RX 7900 GRE, with an interesting relationship between cost and performance, as well as the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super, which is one of the most relevant in the high-end segment.

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX stands out for its very high performance in games that don’t involve Ray Tracing, at times approaching Nvidia cards that cost almost twice as much.

RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4090 and haunts segment

Our last price level includes the two most expensive video cards on the market and several of the “haunts” we mentioned previously. These ghosts are products lost in outdated offers, and as the product is discontinued, it ends up being the only price record for this graphics chip.

But speaking of the only two really viable products in this ostentatious and bonanza segment, the RTX 4080 Super only makes any sense if it costs almost the same as the RTX 4080, as it only adds 5% of performance, on average. This is not the case here in our data, so it is not very relevant. The performance gain over the RTX 4070 Ti Super is also debatable, compared to the increase in price.

And finally, the RTX 4090 is a card that lives in its own reality. It is insanely expensive, but it also performs well above other current cards on the market. In rasterization only, it is not that much more powerful than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

But if you want to put the latest Ray Tracing technologies to the test, this is the only card that will take an Alan Wake 2 or a Cyberpunk 2077 in their most advanced Ray Tracing configuration and still manage to deliver a satisfactory frame rate. . It’s a lot of money, but it also comes with a lot of performance.

This concludes another guide for choosing video cards. As is traditional, now we go to the processor guide, doing this same analysis but now with the CPUs on the market, and finally the recommendation for complete machines. Until the next article!