It’s time to update our 2025 Graphics Card Guide! A semi-annual article that we produce with the best and main video cards / GPUs on the market for you to update your gaming or professional PC.
Our references are data from performance tests, gameplays and also current market prices. AND It is always important to remember that prices in Brazil vary a lot, so check that the reality of costs has not changed much in relation to the date this article will be published, before making your choice.
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Semester releases – Video Cards Guide
This semester was slow, almost stopping in releases. Intel at most brought a little something in boards for workstations and data centers, with the ARC Pro B60 and B50. We saw them there at Computex, so let’s say they were from the very end of the first semester.
AMD even released a new graphics card. We had the arrival of the AMD Radeon RX 9060. Or rather, it didn’t arrive. The board is exclusive to OEM, that is, only systems assembled by integrators will carry this model.
For what interests us, only Nvidia has news. In July, Nvidia released the GeForce RTX 5050 onto the world – the card didn’t even have a presentation event before simply appearing on the market. Despite arriving without pomp or circumstance, this is a very important card to be included in our evaluation, after all it is low cost. And the average Brazilian is struggling with what he can afford to play a little something.
Time to update our video card recommendations, using the price and performance of products available on the market as a reference.
As always, we will use the price comparison chart to generally understand the cost progression of these cards, in addition to comparing the value of different products. We will use cost data from 07/01, until 10/29.
It’s good to note that, sometimes, you will find some plates with bizarrely high prices, this is caused by registration errors, products that are out of stock or are just scams, so just ignore the abnormal peaks.
You can use this graphic below at will, and once again we would like to thank Edno Silva for his excellent work on PC Build Wizard (@pcbuildwizard), which made it possible for us to generate this content:
We also have our chart by price segment, using the price averages of the last 60 days as a reference:
Performance and cost per resolution – Video Cards Guide
Let’s make a comparison between the cards in three resolutions: 1080p (Full HD), 1440p (Quad HD) and 2160p (4K). We used the performance achieved in 9 games that we tested, in this case they are STALKER 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Black Myth Wukong, Call of Duty Black Ops 6, Counter Strike 2, Cyberpunk 2077, F1 24, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Resident Evil 4 Remake.
We crossed the performance achieved in these games with the cost of the cards, bringing in the cost that each frame per second each card brings. This way we can see in this graph the cost of the card, the performance and finally which card is delivering the most per dollar spent.
Reaching 100FPS on average is the value that indicates that the card is running all games smoothly and in high quality at a given resolution
For reference, we consider 100FPS or more to be the average number of frames where we see cards running smoothly at high settings across all games at one resolution.
Summary of recommended cards:
Despair below R$1,000:
Video card from R$1,000 to R$1,500:
Video card from R$1,500 to R$2,000:
Video card from R$2,000 to R$3,000:
Video card from R$3,000 to R$5,000:
Infinite Budget Graphics Card:
Video card up to R$1 thousand
From the thousand reais the “recommendations” become scarce, usually being entry-level models from very old generations. So much so that we wouldn’t even cover plates in this price range, but as we think it’s worth giving due recognition to the warrior plate, here we are.
Being a complicated segment because it offers little for today’s demands, they appear here because many people don’t have that much money to invest in something better. On the other hand, some of these products have lower performance than the integrated graphics of some processors.
Video Card Guide between R$ 1 thousand and 1.5 thousand
There are a lot of people here, right? The segment between R$1,000 and R$1,500 is mainly made up of entry-level models with a few years on the market, such as the RTX 2060 or GTX 1660 Super.
Of what we have here, the highlight continues to be the sign that seems to refuse to retire: a Radeon RX 6600. This, which is already the potential successor to the RX 580 as an immortal card, still delivers a good level of performance, above most of what is in this segment. And it has been the main driver of PC Baratinho in recent years, practically handling any launch.
But if you can invest more, it’s better to go a little further. Looking at our cost and performance comparison chart, you can see that the most efficient use of money is not with the RX 6600, which is already halfway between the cards we tested. It is in the next segment that we have the most paintings per real spent.
Video Card Guide between R$ 1.5 and 2 thousand
Here we have another price segment with some interesting cards. A Radeon RX 7600 It brings a balance of price and performance very similar to the Radeon RX 6600, so basically what you invested more will be returned in frames.
Another model that we no longer tested, but which we included again, was a GeForce RTX 3060 12GB. It has interesting features like DLSS support and a generous amount of VRAM. Given the performance it has, and that it won’t go much further than 1080p in games, it’s not a crucial item. But memory is always welcome, and it’s even better to have it in an amount higher than today’s recommended minimum, which is 8GB.
Now for those who want to be more up to date with technologies and need more performance than the RTX 3060 or the RX 7600, the GeForce RTX 5050 It reduced its price a little, and because of that, it improved its relationship between price and performance. It still doesn’t match the next segment, but if your portfolio only goes this far, it’s more interesting now. But if you can give a few more details, let’s move on to the cost versus performance champions.
Here is another recommendation for those who want to have a good memory. A Intel ARC B580 It has a strong relationship between cost and performance, and in a recent live we did it performed very well in practically all the games we tested.
Video Card Guide between R$2 and 3 thousand
We reached the champions in the relationship between cost and performance, and they are the ideal point for those who want to play at 1080p. The podium belongs to the duo GeForce RTX 5060 e Radeon RX 9060 XTwith just 17 reais for the frame they deliver.
In addition to these two, he highlighted two more for different reasons. A Radeon RX 9060
XT also has a 16GB versionand it is relevant for those who want to guarantee more longevity, or for those who don’t want to be afraid of putting things on Ultra and lacking space for textures.
16GB can also be a magic number for some professional uses, especially AI folks. The 16GB Radeon RX 9060 XT It is also a choice for those who want to have a break in 1080p and play in 1440p, but with less margin in Quad HD. So you will probably need to adjust the graphics at this higher resolution, but you will still be able to play several games well at this screen resolution.
The other recommendation increases performance, but is in a dangerous zone. THE GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB It’s a card with the performance to push up to 1440p, but without the memory for all that. It’s an interesting model due to the chip’s performance, but very complicated due to the need for graphical adjustments that the amount of VRAM may require.
Personally, I prefer that you spend more and get the 16GB version for all the performance that the 5060 Ti has, but if you want to face it, here’s a warning.
Video Card Guide between R$3,000 and R$5,000
If the best in terms of performance per cost has passed, why continue investing more? Two good reasons are that more powerful cards can run games in good quality for more years. And another is to cater to those who want to play at higher resolutions, and extreme graphical adjustments.
Moving up to the next segment we have cards that won’t just face 1080p. These are models to start playing with at 1440p. The first to have this peace of mind is the RTX 5060 Ti, which already delivers around 107 frames per second on average across the 9 games in our tests.
But if you want to play comfortably at this resolution, and with a card that still delivers a good relationship between cost and performance, we have another card that stands out: a GeForce RTX 5070. At R$29 per frame generated, it is among the best results at this resolution.
And to close the recommendations, almost approaching R$5,000, we have the Radeon RX 9070 XT. This is a card to crush at 1440p, handily, exceeding 168 FPS on average across the 9 games, in addition to costing little per frame, it is R$30, one of the best values in this segment. And it has so much performance, that even 4K it can handle high qualities.
Guide to Video Cards from R$5,000 and up
From now on, our recommendations guide starts to break down. It’s because our main basis is the comparison between price and performance, and these cards skyrocket in value, so they start to have a very high cost per frame they deliver.
While the RX 9070 XT costs R$30 per frame it generates, the RTX 5070 Ti costs R$34, the RTX 5080 costs R$40 and the RTX 5090 goes up to an insane R$60!
But if you want to keep increasing your system’s performance, it’s only these cards that will keep pushing the frame rate to higher levels. You can see this in the graph below:
Even with this high cost, it is only necessary to make this additional investment to continue pushing the FPS to an average above 100FPs and beyond. The RTX 5090, in fact, shows how it is practically a card that is out of touch with the others, both in terms of price and performance.
So if you want to not only play in 4K, but enable games at extremely high graphics settings, such as using Ray Tracing at extremely high levels, it is only these cards that will continue to increase your PC’s performance. To the limit. From your wallet, in this case.
This concludes another guide for choosing video cards. As is tradition, now we go to the processor guide, doing this same analysis with the CPUs on the market, and finally the recommendation for complete machines.
Source: https://www.adrenaline.com.br/hardware/guia-de-placas-de-video-2025-segundo-semestre/
