When is the next graphics card generation

See more. Darren Allan. See more Graphics cards news. Maybe the next next. True LolaGT, I gave up even looking at what's next considering you cant buy anything current at a reasonable price. I'm not financing scalpers so why bother. Sad state of the industry who as long as they are making money do nothing for the user base that made them. This could all be fixed by allowing email reservations at least at retail that assured regular users could buy a single or dual cards and no more.

Thank god for EVGA Most fair system of purchasing GPUs in the business! The first generation of ray tracing-capable cards required such a huge frame rate sacrifice that most people shied away from turning it on, but that's no longer the case with this generation. When you can now get ray-traced performance that exceeds the frame rates you'd get out of the top card of the RTX series when running without it, you know that this is a whole different beast. And hey, the RTX can actually run Crysis.

The RTX may need a fair chunk more power—you'll want at least an W PSU—and be tricky to get hold of, but this is the most desirable graphics card around today.

Which I guess is also why it's so tricky to get hold of. As a red team alternative to Nvidia's high-end graphics cards, there have been few finer than the RX XT. A highly competitive card that comes so close to its rival, with a nominal performance differential to the RTX , is truly an enthusiast card worth consideration for any PC gamer with 4K in their sights.

All are available today and with two year's worth of developer support in the bank. Yet we're still big fans of what AMD has managed to accomplish with the RX XT, a return to form for the Radeon Technology Group that injects some much-needed competition into the GPU market and offers a worthy red team alternative for any high-end gaming PC build. That's why we love it so; it's a great GPU for the full stack of resolutions and has decent ray tracing capability to boot, courtesy of second-generation RT Cores.

Perhaps most impressive of this graphics card is how it stacks up to the series generation: It topples the RTX Super in nearly every test.

Perhaps the only high-end Ampere that's anything close to reasonably affordable, the RTX is also impressive for its ability to match the top-string Turing graphics card, the RTX Ti, for less than half of its price tag.

In return, you're gifted a 4K-capable graphics card that doesn't require too much fiddling to reach playable, if not high, framerates.

And it'll absolutely smash it at p, no question about that. Its gaming performance credentials are undoubtedly impressive, but what makes the RTX our pick for the sensible PC gaming connoisseur is the entire Nvidia ecosystem underlying the RTX stack today. DLSS is a neat trick for improving performance, with only a nominal loss in clarity, and other features such as Broadcast and Reflex go a long way to sweetening the deal. And it gets kind of close, too, with 4K performance a little off the pace of the RTX —and all for one-third off the asking price.

For that reason, it's simply the better buy for any PC gamer without any ulterior motives of the pro-creator variety. But there's a reason it's not number one in our graphics card guide today, and that's simply due to the fact it's not that much better than an RTX , and sometimes not at all.

Yet, inevitably its ray-tracing acceleration lags behind the competition. With that in mind, for raw gaming alone, the RX XT is a cheaper alternative to the RTX is still a victim to its own extreme price tag. This colossal graphics card is supremely powerful but far more fitting of Titan credentials than GeForce ones.

It's not built with your average gamer in mind. All of the current RTX 30 GPUs continue to perform admirably well in , but that hasn't stopped some people from trying to figure out what's coming next.

For other people, however, talking about next-generation GPUs just isn't top of mind right now. Not only do the RTX 30 cards still have plenty to offer, but buying one remains an incredible feat. Thanks to a combination of chip shortages, scalpers, and cryptocurrency miners, it's been all but impossible for many gamers to buy an RTX 30 at retail price.

That can make the idea of new GPUs hard to get behind , but as with all things in the tech world, it slows down for no one. As spotted by the team at TweakTown , 3DCenter.