ModCrash lists the best graphic cards for the money: January 2014 Edition
Budget Best Graphics Cards for the Money January 2014
For the budget cards we are going to be selecting GPUs that fall in the $0 to $120 range.
XFX Radeon HD 6670
With the XFX Radeon HD 6670 you get 1 GB of DDR3 ram, DVI input, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 support to get you started. Great for watching movies and videos and playing games on lower settings.
Specs:
- Shader Units : 480
- Texture Units : 24
- ROPs : 8
- Core Clock : 800 MHz
- Memory Clock : 1600 MHz DDR3
- Memory Bus : 128-bit
- Interface: PCI Express 2.1 x16
- Memory Capacity : 1 GB DDR3
- DirectX, Shader, OpenGL : 11/5.0/4.1
- Max. TDP : 44 W
- Aux. Power Connector(s) : None
- Min. Power Supply : 300 W
Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 GHz edition
The Radeon HD 7770 has about as much power as the Radeon HD 6850 but uses half the power.
- Shader Units : 640
- Texture Units : 40
- ROPs : 16
- Core Clock : 1000 MHz
- Memory Clock : 1125 MHz GDDR5
- Memory Bus : 128-bit
- Interface PCI express 3.0
- Memory Capacity : 1 GB DDR5
- DirectX, Shader, OpenGL : 11/5.0/4.2
- Max. TDP : 80 W
- Aux. Power Connector(s) : 1 x 6-pin PCIe
- Min. Power Supply Needed: 450 W
Honorable mention – ASUS Radeon HD 7750
Barely under the $100 wire and offers good performance. You can check out our review of the Sapphire Radeon HD 7750 Ultimate which should give similar performance.
Head over to the next page for our mid level best graphics cards for the money!