How To Choose Best gaming PCs in 2025
By Admin
18/04/2024
How To Choose a Best gaming PC
Before buying a gaming PC, ask yourself a few important questions:
– For what purposes am I buying it? What games do I plan to play?
– What budget can I set aside for its purchase?
– What screen resolution will I be playing at?
If you’re going to play undemanding games like Overwatch, Rainbow Six Siege, or Fortnite, you won’t need a powerful PC, even at maximum settings. But for demanding games like Cyberpunk 2077, Metro Exodus, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, and upcoming AAA titles from 2024–2025 (e.g. Starfield, The Elder Scrolls VI, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora), you’ll need a powerful build with a good graphics card. Below, you’ll see a table with FPS rates for various games and graphics cards to help you figure out how powerful a graphics card you need. If you want to stream or work with content, you’ll need a powerful processor and plenty of RAM.
Video Card
The graphics card is the most important component in a gaming computer. It has the greatest impact on how many frames per second (FPS) your PC can produce and how smooth and high-quality the gameplay will be. Other PC components, such as the processor and power supply, are selected based on the graphics card’s power.
How many FPS do you need?
The more the better, the smoother the gaming process will be, and you will see more details. The minimum required for comfortable gaming is 60 FPS. However, FPS is limited by the monitor refresh rate. If the monitor refresh rate is 60 Hz, you will only see 60 frames, even if the video card gives 200 FPS. To get more than 60 FPS on the monitor, you need a monitor with a refresh rate of 120, 144, 165 Hz or higher.
Screen resolution and video card selection
The higher the resolution, the more powerful the video card must be to get acceptable FPS:
- 1920×1080 (FHD): from RTX 3050 to RTX 4060
- 2560×1440 (2K, QHD): RTX 4060 / RTX 4060 Ti and above
- 3840×2160 (4К): RTX 4070 – RTX 4090
In 2025, special attention should be paid to new ray tracing technologies (Ray Tracing) and DLSS 3.5/4.0 (Deep Learning Super Sampling) technology, which significantly improve graphics quality and performance. For example, RTX 5000 series graphics cards support a more advanced DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation algorithm and a new version of Reflex 2 technology. These technologies are especially relevant for modern AAA games, where graphics are becoming increasingly realistic.
Average FPS in popular games
To gauge the differences between graphics cards and decide which one you need, check out the average FPS in the following games: Borderlands 3, Far Cry 6, Flight Simulator, Forza Horizon 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, Red Dead Redemption 2, Total War Warhammer 3, and Watch Dogs Legion.
| Video card | 1080p, medium | 1080p, ultra | 2K, Ultra | 4K, ultra |
| GeForce RTX 4090 | 196 FPS | 154 FPS | 146 FPS | 115 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 4080 Super | 193 FPS | 148 FPS | 133 FPS | 92 FPS |
| Radeon RX 7900 XTX | 187 FPS | 148 FPS | 134 FPS | 93 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 4080 | 184 FPS | 143 FPS | 129 FPS | 89 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super | 189 FPS | 142 FPS | 122 FPS | 79 FPS |
| Radeon RX 7900 XT | 183 FPS | 141 FPS | 124 FPS | 80 FPS |
| Radeon RX 7900 GRE | 184 FPS | 136 FPS | 114 FPS | 69 FPS |
| Radeon RX 6950 XT | 187 FPS | 136 FPS | 114 FPS | 68 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | 181 FPS | 135 FPS | 115 FPS | 72 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Super | 185 FPS | 134 FPS | 110 FPS | 66 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | 180 FPS | 132 FPS | 114 FPS | 76 FPS |
| Radeon RX 7800 XT | 182 FPS | 127 FPS | 104 FPS | 61 FPS |
| Radeon RX 6800 XT | 180 FPS | 127 FPS | 103 FPS | 59 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 3090 | 178 FPS | 127 FPS | 107 FPS | 69 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 3080 12GB | 178 FPS | 125 FPS | 104 FPS | 66 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 4070 | 176 FPS | 124 FPS | 99 FPS | 57 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | 175 FPS | 123 FPS | 103 FPS | 67 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 3080 | 173 FPS | 116 FPS | 96 FPS | 61 FPS |
| Radeon RX 7700 XT | 169 FPS | 114 FPS | 91 FPS | 50 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 3070 Ti | 161 FPS | 106 FPS | 84 FPS | 48 FPS |
| Radeon RX 6750 XT | 165 FPS | 104 FPS | 78 FPS | 43 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 4060 Ti | 160 FPS | 102 FPS | 76 FPS | 40 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 3070 | 156 FPS | 101 FPS | 79 FPS | 44 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | 148 FPS | 92 FPS | 71 FPS | – |
| Radeon RX 7600 XT | 151 FPS | 92 FPS | 66 FPS | 37 FPS |
| GeForce RTX 4060 | 142 FPS | 85 FPS | 61 FPS | 32 FPS |
| Radeon RX 7600 | 144 FPS | 82 FPS | 56 FPS | 29 FPS |
| Radeon RX 6650 XT | 138 FPS | 80 FPS | 57 FPS | – |
| GeForce RTX 3060 | 121 FPS | 73 FPS | 54 FPS | – |
| GeForce RTX 2060 Super | 106 FPS | 65 FPS | 48 FPS | – |
| GeForce RTX 2060 | 97 FPS | 55 FPS | 39 FPS | – |
| GeForce RTX 3050 | 89 FPS | 52 FPS | 39 FPS | – |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Super | 82 FPS | 45 FPS | 32 FPS | – |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | 82 FPS | 45 FPS | 32 FPS | – |
| GeForce GTX 1660 | 75 FPS | 40 FPS | 29 FPS | – |
| GeForce GTX 1650 Super | 68 FPS | 34 FPS | 23 FPS | – |
| Radeon RX 6500 XT | 66 FPS | 31 FPS | – | – |
| GeForce GTX 1650 | 57 FPS | 29 FPS | – | – |
