Rating of the best video cards for PC in 2012

Last year we published our ranking of the best PC graphics cards of 2011 by performance, it's time to update the numbers and present you with an updated lineup and graphics cards rating 2019... There was no fundamental difference in the composition of manufacturers, and there is still no. For several years now, the main struggle has been unfolding between Radeon and GeForce, which are clearly not going to concede the pedestal of the rating to each other.

Let's compare the changes in the top ten for 2011 and 2012. If a year earlier in the top ten there were 6 places for AMD and 4 for NVidia, this time the gap has widened: 7 Radeon video cards against 3 GeForce.

Let's move on to the final table, so:

Rating of the best video cards for PC in 2012

Let's take a closer look at the top three best video cards for PC 2012.

Radeon HD 6990 - built on Antilles core, 0.040 micron process technology, with 5289 million transistors.With a peak current consumption of 375 watts, the core frequency is 830 MHz, and 512-bit GDDR5 memory runs at 1250 MHz, allowing you to expand the bandwidth up to 320 GB / sec. There is support for DirectX 11, HDTV, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.

GeForce GTX 590 - core GF110x2, power consumption 365 W, core frequency 607 MHz, GDDR5 memory 854 MHz and 768 bits. Also Supported: DirectX 11, nVidia PhysX, nVidia 3D Vision, HDTV, 7.1 Sound, Dolby Digital Plus (DD +).

Radeon HD 5970 - main differences from the above-described video cards: Hemlock core, power consumption 294 W, core frequency 725 MHz, memory - 1000 MHz, with 512-bit bus.
After reviewing our rating of the best video cards for PC, it will be easier for you to choose the model that suits your needs, and if you are faced with the choice of a laptop, readrating of mobile video cards 2012.