Every NVIDIA GPU Ranked From Worst to Best

Every NVIDIA GPU ranked from worst to best: every GeForce card from the GT and GTX 700 series to the RTX 5090, placed in an S to D tier list by one question: if this card is in your PC today, what can it still do?

Four things decide the tier: whether NVIDIA still sends it Game Ready drivers, whether it can open games that require ray tracing, whether it has the memory those games ask for, and which AI features like DLSS it gets.

In this video:
- Why the GTX 970 and the other cards NVIDIA has stopped supporting land in D tier
- The one GTX 10 card that climbs out of D tier
- Why the GTX 16 series still gets drivers but stays locked out of new games
- The 6 GB RTX 2060 and RTX 3050 naming trap
- Are 8 GB cards still enough?
- Older cards with more memory than newer ones
- The 12 GB and 16 GB cards, and where the RTX 4090 lands
- What DLSS 5 did to the RTX 5090 at launch

00:00 Every NVIDIA GPU Ranked
00:12 GT, GTX 700 & GTX 900
01:41 GTX 10
03:59 GTX 16
05:13 RTX 2060 6 GB & RTX 3050 6 GB
06:49 8 GB Cards
08:05 More Memory Than the Next Gen
09:45 RTX 4070, 5070 & 3080 12 GB
10:56 RTX 4080 & RTX 5070 Ti
12:05 RTX 5080, 4090 & 5090
14:24 For Video Editors & Streamers
14:47 Which Tier Is Yours?

The tiers are this channel's opinion, based on the four criteria above, as of October 2026.

Image credits (cropped, background removed or color-adjusted):
- GTX 970: yoppy, CC BY 2.0 (flickr.com/photos/44124362019@N01/29224766146)
- GTX 1060: "ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Single Fan" by Shinji, CC BY 2.0
- GTX 1660 Ti: "Gigabyte GTX 1660 Ti graphics card" by Chi Ho Chan, CC BY 2.0
- RTX 2060: "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060" by Mr ATM, CC BY 2.0
- RTX 3070: "MSI GeForce RTX 3070 VENTUS 3X OC" by TheStriker, CC BY 4.0
- RTX 4070, RTX 4090, RTX 5080 (video frames): 极客湾Geekerwan, CC BY 3.0
- RTX 5060: "PNY RTX 5060 at Computex 2025" by 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0
- RTX 5090: "Palit GeForce RTX 5090 Gamerock 20250530 HOF3913" by PantheraLeo1359531, CC BY 4.0
Licenses: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 · /by/3.0 · /by/4.0
Video clip: "NBA 2K27 DLSS 5 ON vs OFF - Knicks vs Bulls Realism Test", youtube.com/watch?v=aF0gEwPvlrA (CC BY)
Ray tracing comparison image: NVIDIA, via Tom's Hardware · Error message screenshot: Appuals

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Дата на публикация: 29 октомври, 2026
Категория: Наука и технология
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