Best Graphics Card for Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Starting off the list is a powerful GPU that has all the horsepower you need to game at the extreme level and it comes from EVGA who have established themselves strongly in the gaming scene by giving out durable and quality products to PC enthusiasts who like to tinker and experiment with their PCs.

Coming in with a huge 12 GB GDDR6X VRAM and a boost clock of 1800 MHz, the card is fully 4K capable of running modern games at the ultra-preset. The card comes with ray tracing capable hardware that takes your gaming experience to the next level of immersion, thus further blurring the lines between games and reality. 

EVGA has included a trio fan air-cooled design that has been optimized for maximum airflow and has reduced fan noise. Micro sensors and micro control processors are also included as part of the cooling solution of the card which makes it one of the best-performing aftermarket RTX 3080 on the market.

The card comes with a cooling design that is proprietary to EVGA and is known as the icx3 interactive cooling technology. It comes with airflow pockets so that air can move back and forth through the heatsink for faster heat dissipation. A larger copper base is present on the card that allows for more surface area coverage of the GPU and VRAM area.

The card comes with notable features such as second gen ray tracing cores, 3rd Gen tensor cores, DLSS, etc. It comes with an ARGB logo too and combined with the droplet look of the fans the GPU comes packed with features and performance that will let you take your gaming experience to the ultimate level. The size of this graphics card is slightly larger than the previous generation that’s why you need a large case for it.

It is a worthy contender for being included on the list as this card doesn’t only perform at the highest levels but looks good too. Surely, pairing it with a Ryzen 7 5800x3D will be a choice that you will be glad to make.

The Gaming X trio series has gained quite a lot of traction and a loyal fanbase over the years, people have come to expect a lot from MSI and they don’t disappoint their customers ever and always deliver on the standard that they have set for themselves.

The MSI RTX 3090 GAMING X TRIO is one of the fastest GPUs that are available in the consumer market right now. The Founder Edition RTX 3090 gets overshadowed in performance by other RTX 3090 graphics cards as it performs better and has better overclocking potential as well. MSI has made this possible by raising the power limit and the boost clocks so that the card can deliver the extra performance over the Founder’s edition.

Under the hood, the card comes with 10496 Cuda Cores, a 1785 MHz Boost clock, a humongous 24 GB GDDR6X VRAM, and a TDP of 370W, this GPU monstrosity comes is based on the Ampere architecture and comes with 2nd gen RT cores as well as 3rd Gen Tensor cores that translate to real-world performance which lets you run games at 8K 60 FPS even which is just bonkers if you ask me. It comes with 4 ports for display, 3x Display ports, and 1 HDMI 2.1 port which can power up a 4K 120 Hz display should you hook one with your setup.

While it gives you the ultimate performance that you can expect from the GPU, it needs to be kept cool to perform at the extreme level. MSI has included several thermal solutions to keep the card temps down while it’s dishing out those frames.  It comes with the trademark TORX Fan 4.0 tech, a Core pipe, and Fin + Flow control. Furthermore, the card also comes with a close-quarter built-in design, thermal padding, and Zero Frozr tech.

The MSI RTX 3090 GAMING X TRIO is a tri-fan card as made apparent by its name and MSU gives you complete control over the card fans and the RGB of the card so that while it performs it looks and matches with your PC’s color scheme as well. The card is a gaming monstrosity and rightly so, but the only downside is that it comes with an expensive price tag. Nonetheless, it will be a perfect fit for pairing it up with a Ryzen 7 5800X3D, and a high-end AM4 motherboard that extracts the maximum out of it.

While Nvidia has been running and dominating the market in the high-end Enthusiast market, AMD has been usually catering to the budget gamer and giving price-to-performance options to its consumers. This time, however, AMD took the fight to Nvidia’s turf and gave it tough competition with its 6000 series GPU.

Based on the RDNA 2 architecture Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800 XT is a solid 4K card that comes with a Boost clock of 2310 MHz, 4608 stream processors, and a massive 16 GB GDDR6 VRAM that translates to the real-world performance that rivals the top end cards by Nvidia such as the 3080. Moreover, it features 72 Ray accelerators which are AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s proprietary tech Ray tracing cores that the company introduced with the 20 series.

Since the card is from Sapphire, how could Sapphire not include the features that it’s famous for such as dual ball bearing fans, fuse protection, and dual BIOS ensure quality and reliability? In the thermal department, the card comes with the SAPPHIRE Tri-X Cooling Technology which works with two fans spinning in one direction and the middle one spinning in the other to create a reverse air current so that heat can be dissipated in a quick and timely manner. This results in less temperature as well as noise reduction.

The card comes in a grey color with black fans with the Pulse Logo on the back of the card and in the center of the cards as well. It comes with a Beefy heat sink as well and the size of the card is pretty big so make sure you choose a case that has ample space. Overall, it’s a worthy 4K card and when you pair it up with a 5000 series processor like the Ryzen 7 5800x3D you will be able to turn on a performance boost feature as well known as AMD Smart Access Memory (SAM) which gives you as much as 10% in titles like Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Forza Horizon 4, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, and many others.

To finish off the list let me include a card that was launched recently by Nvidia to fill up the gap between 3070 and 3080, the RTX 3070 Ti Trinity OC edition by Zotac. This is a pure price-to-performance card targeting the high mid-range PC builders who want to game at the 2K resolution at the Ultra preset.

Coming with a Boost clock of 1800 MHz, 8 GB GDDR6X and a TDP of 290W, the card has all the power it needs to let you run modern titles in 2K and older ones at 4K too while dominating the competition in the 1080p gaming arenas. Since the card belongs to the 30 series and is based on the Ampere Architecture, it contains all the hardware the 30 series has to offer, such as 2nd gen RT cores, and 3rd gen Tensor cores, which will give you a PC experience that you will enjoy.

Zotac has always been mindful of the thermal design of its cards and even though it’s the base variant of the product lineup, that doesn’t mean that its any less, it comes with a triple fan heatsink that is quite beefy to look at and to top things off the company has included the IceStorm 2.0 cooling solution which connects the heatsink with 5 heat pipes that work together with the three fans to dissipate heat at a faster rate than its predecessors, the 20 series. For durability, Zotac has added a metal black plate which increases the overall rigidity of the card and prevents any GPU sag scenarios.

In the aesthetics department, it comes with two illuminated backlights that have been placed on the backplate and one on the front, lighting up the Zotac logos. To give you control over the card, you can get the Firestorm utility and monitor the temps, fan speeds, core clock, and various other tweaking options. It’s a high-performing card with good thermals and functionality that will not bottleneck the Ryzen 7 5800x3D processor and give you a future-proof PC that you can enjoy for a while, without feeling the need to upgrade.