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Hi from Greece!
Nowadays GPU's have become much much easier to find and we gamers start to have the privillidge of choice. More or less well known brands offer their products at totally different prices. Question is, what is the hierarchy of GPU brands according to your opinion? If you ask me, its something like
ASUS>MSI>EVGA>GIGABYTE> INNO>COLORFULL>PALIT>GAINWARD> ZOTAC
But i could be wrong and i am very interested at your opinions!
 
MSI>ASUS>EVGA>PALIT>GIGABYTE> INNO>COLORFULL>ZOTAC>GAINWARD>

Probably a bit biased there as my two MSI cards are still working perfectly, whereas my Gainwards both had issues (one had a fan let go, the other the memory let go.)
I also had zero issues with a Palit, and it was cheap too (although the fans were a million miles away in quality from the fans on the MSI Twin Frozr's..)
 
There's a lot of variance between cards from the same brand. Powercolour fighter card is just about as basic as it could possibly be, but they also make red devil and liquid devil cards which are just about as high end as possible.
So really for me best way to rank them is things like customer support and warranty length.
 
I'd rank Asus EVGA and MSi on par in terms of "quality".

There's not much to seperate their high end cards. But brand recognition plays a massive part. Asus is arguably the biggest brand.

As someone else said other brands do make high end cards that are nearly as good.

I've had Palit and Zotac in the past (1080ti and 980ti respectively) and the cards were decent. The palit was a Super Jetstream and I found it quiet, decent build and minimal coil whine.
 
Ranked on what? If it is quality then like said above, it depends on the model. For example: MSI Gaming X are generally very good, but the cheaper ones, not so much.
 
Yes, i think it's fair to compare same tier models from each brand, say Gigabyte's Aorus vs MSI's Suprim vs ROG strix vs Zotac's AMP Holo Extreme etc. Or equivelant medium tier models, like TUF gaming vs Gaming X or Z [ never understood which is higher] vs Gigabyte's Gaming OC [if this is GB medium model] That seems fair to me...
 
EVGA>XFX>>Sapphire>>>Gainward>>>PNY>>Inno3D>POWERCOLOR>>Point of View>>MSI>>>>ASUS>>VisionTek>>>ZOTAC>>>>>>>Gigabyte

Never owned: ASrock. HIS. Diamond. Biostar. Palit. Galax. AFOX. Manli. KFA2

EVGA GeForce GTX 480 SSC. GeForce GTX 580 HC2. GeForce GTX 670 SC.
Point of View GeForce GTX 480.
Sapphire HD 5770. RX 480 / 570. Fury Nitro.
PNY 9800 GTX+.
Inno3D GeForce 9800 GT. GeForce GTX 260. GeForce RTX 3070 iChill X4.
ZOTAC GeFirce GTX 1080.
Powercolor HD 5850 PCS+.
MSI Ventus RTX 2060.
XFX HD 4770.
Gainward HD 4870 OC 512 Golden Sample.
Gigabyte Aorus RX 5700XT
ASUS DirectCU HD 6850
 
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Kaapstad said:
Not easy to rank AIB GPU brands as they nearly all make some very good and some very bad cards.
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This.

I had to RMA a Gigabyte motherboard last year and an Asus 6800XT just a couple weeks ago.

Both RMA experiences were "acceptable".
 
Warranty is key to me as prices are going exponential.

ZOTAC and EVGA are both 5 yrs. Something to consider when buying a GPU, banging down a small fortune in today's prices, skewed I think due to mining. Warranty for me, as prices are really for enthusiasts. Consoles are cheap in comparison. Good question with the current situation(s).
 
Kaapstad said:
Not easy to rank AIB GPU brands as they nearly all make some very good and some very bad cards.
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Exactly this, it depends sometimes they make a lemon even the top brands. Best really to wait for reviews and a tear down of the cards to see what components they use and the build quality.

I use to be big on ASUS and EVGA but had good and bad cards from even them and I will give you an example now the EVGA 3090 FTW3 is terrible build and the shoddy thermal putty all over the chokes and vrm is a disgrace, this was done because they didn't get the right dimensions on the cooler clearly and basically patched the issue with thermal putty instead of being able to get the right sized thermal pads, I will not go into the other issues with that card as it is well documented. They have fixed the thermal putty issues and build quality with the 3090ti FTW3 but the board is still using the min required vrms and chokes and 7 empty areas that could have been used for a so called high end version. Other companies used the full 28 vrms and chokes on their high end versions, but EVGA seems to stick to the minimum on their top cards... and then give you a leash to hang yourself with instead of a proper sag bracket or stand again cheaping out on their top cards.. :rolleyes: but their card is the most expensive so far with a official MSRP of $2200..




As you see the 3090ti ftw3 is much better than the 3090 ftw3 for build quality but populate the board fully like other companies have with 28 vrms.:rolleyes:
 
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It's a moveable feast. Depends on the generation and the model. Don't let them hide behind a brand. It's actually dependent on the people you don't see, if they change, or their business strategy changes, that brand may no longer be reliable. Don't fall for bait and switch ;)
 
AMD much easier to rank than NV I think.

Sapphire/Powercolour>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Everything else.

I tend to buy the top end of the range, like Nitro's and Red Devil's, not neccesarily the best VFM strictly speaking I guess, but the cards are always awesome so like most people I buy what I know is good.

The Sapphire Pulse's are always good too and a bit cheaper.
 
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ChocAndGray said:
But Asus and MSI make AMD cards too.

I've generally always been with Nvidia cards but is there a reason you've missed those two out? Do they not make decent AMD cards?
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Fair point come to think of it, deserve to be just a tad lower than S and P. I wouldn't buy ASUS anything on principle (ASUS tax) but they do make goods cards. MSI are generally good.
 
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