AMD's RX 6700 XT is the best mainstream GPU for the money and right now it's just $310

Radeon RX 6700 XT | 12GB GDDR6 | 2,560 shaders | 2,581 MHz boost | <a href=«https://shop-links.co/link?skuId=6513905&publisher_slug=future&exclusive=1&u1=hawk-custom-tracking&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fxfx-speedster-swft309-amd-radeon-rx-6700xt-12gb-gddr6-pci-express-4-0-gaming-graphics-card-black%2F6513905.p%3FskuId%3D6513905&article_name=hawk-article-name&article_url=hawk-article-url» data-link-merchant=«bestbuy.com»" target="_blank">$409.99$309.99 at Best Buy (save $100)
It's not the lowest price we've seen for an RX 6700 XT but it's pretty close, and the graphics card itself is probably AMD's best mid-range model. This or an RTX 4060? For outright gaming speed, the RX 6700 XT is definitely better.

If you're in the market for a new graphics card but your budget is less than $330, you might be tempted to get an Radeon RX 7600 XT or a GeForce RTX 4060. They're both of the latest generation of GPUs from either vendor, but they're not the fastest graphics cards you can get from that kind of money, and I'm not talking about second hand GPUs.

AMD's last-gen models are by far the best value GPUs you can get right now, and the Radeon RX 6700 XT is the best bang-for-buck graphics card, despite being three years old.

With 2,560 shaders that can run at up to 2,581 MHz, it's got more than enough poke for all the latest games at 1080p and in plenty of cases, 1440p too. Unlike the RTX 4060, you're getting a sensible amount of VRAM—12GB of GDDR6, running at 16 Gbps, for an aggregated memory bandwidth of 384 GB/s.

That might not sound very much, but the RDNA 2 GPU inside the card sports an enormous 96MB of L3 cache, which takes a lot of strain off the memory bus. The downside to all that tech is that is uses a fair bit of power, hitting 230 W with ease. And it's also AMD's first consumer GPU to have ray tracing support, so it's pretty weak with this enabled in games, especially compared to Nvidia's latest graphics processors.

Another advantage that the RTX 4060