The Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 is the best GPU you can buy in terms of performance / price

With all the GPUs going up in price, who would tell us that in 2021 the best graphics card you can buy today is none other than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, a graphics card launched in 2014 that today has become the best graphics card on the market in relation to the performance it offers for each euro invested, that is, it is the best option in terms of price / performance.

It should be remembered that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 makes use of a GM204-200-A1 graphics chip, that is, silicon with the Maxwell 2.0 graphics architecture at a 28nm manufacturing process by TSMC that offers 1664 CUDA Cores, 104 TMUs, and 56 ROPs at a Base / Turbo frequency of 1050/1178 MHz with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory @ 7.00 GHz that, with a 256-bit memory interface, offers a bandwidth of 224.4 GB / s with a TDP of 148W.

This graphic, according to the benchmarks made by Tom's Hardware, and the price at which it can be bought on eBay, each dollar invested translates into 0.1716 FPS, thus beating the 4 GB Radeon RX 570, a graphic that until now had the first place with 0.1712 FPS per dollar invested. If we talk about performance, the GeForce GTX 970 offers an average of 33.81 FPS, while the Radeon RX 570 stays at 38.52 FPS, not bad for there to be 3 years between both models.

Model	FPS	Price on eBay	FPS x Dollar invested	Ranking Position in Performance
GTX 970	33.81	$ 197	0.1716	42
RX 570 4GB	38.52	$ 225	0.1712	39
R9 Fury X	49.97	$ 306	0.1633	30
GTX 980	40.36	$ 257	0.157	38
GTX 1060 3GB	34.04	$ 224	0.152	41
GTX 980 Ti	50.28	$ 339	0.1483	28
R9 390	41.51	$ 319	0.1301	36
GTX 1080 FE	69.08	$ 533	0.1296	twenty-one
RX 560 4GB	19.14	$ 148	0.1294	Four. Five
GTX 1070 Ti FE	63.89	$ 494	0.1293	24
GTX 1070 FE	56.11	$ 437	0.1284	27
GTX 1050	18.63	$ 150	0.1242	46
GTX 1660 Ti	57.77	$ 479	0.1206	26
GTX 1080 Ti FE	88.2	$ 750	0.1176	13
GTX 1650 Super	43.47	$ 372	0.1168	3. 4
RTX 2080 Super FE	102.07	$ 878	0.1163	9
GTX 1060 6GB FE	40.41	$ 350	0.1155	37
RTX 2060 FE	68.55	$ 595	0.1152	22
GTX 1650 GDDR6	36.4	$ 317	0.1148	40
GTX 1050 Ti	24.51	$ 214	0.1145	44
RTX 2080 FE	95.49	$ 836	0.1142	10
RX 590	49.41	$ 435	0.1136	31
GTX 1660 Super	57.92	$ 516	0.1122	25
RX 5500 XT 4GB	43.32	$ 390	0.1111	35
RTX 2070 Super FE	91	$ 820	0.111	eleven
RTX 2070 FE	81.03	$ 740	0.1095	16
RX 5500 XT 8GB	48.6	$ 450	0.108	32
GTX 1660	50.12	$ 469	0.1069	29
RX Vega 64	73.98	$ 693	0.1068	19
RTX 2060 Super FE	77.22	$ 730	0.1058	18
RX 580	47.18	$ 450	0.1048	33
RX Vega 56	65.26	$ 639	0.1021	2. 3
RX 5600 XT	71.11	$ 697	0.102	twenty
GTX 1650	31.9	$ 317	0.1006	43
RTX 2080 Ti FE	118.16	$ 1177	0.1004	6
RX 6800	127.27	$ 1273	0.1	5
RX 6800 XT	142.31	$ 1461	0.0974	3
RTX 3070 FE	116.6	$ 1250	0.0933	7
RTX 3060	83.6	$ 904	0.0925	fifteen
RX 5700	78.43	$ 853	0.92	17
RX 5700 XT	86.53	$ 945	0.0916	14
RTX 3060 Ti FE	106.31	$ 1222	0.87	8
RX 6900 XT	146.86	$ 1759	0.0835	two
RTX 3080 FE	142.14	$ 2084	0.0682	4
RTX 3090 FE	152.72	$ 2932	0.0521	1
Radeon VII	89.91	$ 1850	0.0486	12