When buying a gaming computer, the most important part is undoubtedly the graphics card (GPU). Although it is possible to obtain acceptable performance using an older processor and only 8 GB of RAM, it’s impossible to perform well in recent games with an outdated graphics card. Therefore, investing in an updated graphics card is essential to ensure a quality gaming experience.
During the pandemic and the cryptocurrency boom, the price of GPUs reached absurd levels – when models appeared in stocks, they were bought by miner bots. Nowadays, the reflection of prices continues to disturb, and there is no forecast of improvement. High prices lead many gamers to buy graphics cards directly from Aliexpress.
Is it worth buying video card from Aliexpress?
A good graphics card is a new graphics card: even if the promotions on Aliexpress are tempting, the GPUs sold there are used (despite the advertisement saying “new”) and have spent a good part of their lives at 100% usage, mining cryptocurrencies in a hot and unhealthy shed. The Chinese even make up the boards, painting components to look new, transferring chips from one board to another, among other tricks to deceive the consumer. Even though they are aware of this, Brazilians buy it, as the discounts are much greater than in Brazilian stores.
We cannot deny that the price of these cards is attractive, but at the moment, we are experiencing a situation of uncertainty with imports at customs, in particular, video cards and motherboards. While this situation is resolved, go “safe”, don’t waste your time and check below the best video cards to buy here in Brazil.
Best video cards to buy in Brazil
Despite the scarce hardware, mainly motherboards, fonts and video cards – we still have some GPU promotions that will leave your PC Gamer flying, check it out:
PNY NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3060, 12 GB
The RTX 3060 is currently the graphics card most used by Steam users. It offers great performance for gamers who want to play with medium/high graphics, 1080p resolution and a high framerate. If you want to get an idea of its gaming performance, watch our review of the Avell A70 HYB notebook, a high-performance gaming notebook that features an RTX 3060 Mobile.
- Generation: GeForce 30
- Colors / Cuda: 3584
- Architecture: Ampere
- Manufacturing process: 8 nm
- Clock Base: 1320
- Clock Boost: 1777 MHz
- Memory: 12GB GDDR6
- Effective Memory Clock: 1875 MHz
- TDP (Watts): 170W
- Connectors: 3x DisplayPort 1.4a e 1x HDMI 2.1
- Suggested Source: 450 W
- In production: Sim
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 – See the full technical sheet here
AsRock AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT Challenger
With superior performance than the RTX 3060, we have the RX 6650 XT. This construction from AsRock is extremely simple, and this is reflected in the low price. In performance, it loses nothing to models from other brands. This is a card for playing new titles at 1080p with everything on medium/high. It’s ideal for anyone who enjoys playing Counter Strike with FPS at the highest levels, but also wants to enjoy a Red Dead Redemption with everything maxed out. We didn’t get to test the RX 6650 XT, but we did test the RX 6600 XT, which is pretty much the same card, check out the full review here.
To play at resolutions above 1080p, see the next cards on the list.
- Generation: Ship II
- Colors / Cuda: 2048
- Architecture: RDNA 2.0
- Manufacturing process: 7 nm
- Clock Base: 2055 MHz
- Clock Boost: 2635 MHz
- Memory: 8GB GDDR6
- Effective Memory Clock: 2190 MHz 17.5 Gbps effective
- TDP (Watts): 176 W
- Connectors: 1x HDMI 2.1 e 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
- Suggested Source: 450 W
- In production: Sim
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT – See the full technical sheet here
AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT Mech 2X MSI
This is one of the best video cards to buy today. If your goal is to play at 1080p with everything on Ultra and over 60 FPS, then no model is as good value for money as the RX 6750 XT.
Launched in March 2022, this card is about 5-10% superior in performance to the RX 6700 XT and RTX 3060 Ti, so compare the prices of these three models and decide which one is best for you.
This card can also deliver a very acceptable performance in QUAD HD and 4K, but we will have to change some graphics settings to reach higher frame rates.
- Generation: Ship II
- Colors / Cuda: 2560
- Architecture: RDNA 2.0
- Manufacturing process: 7 nm
- Clock Base: 2150 MHz
- Clock Boost: 2600 MHz
- Memory: 12GB GDDR6
- Effective Memory Clock: 2250 MHz 18 Gbps effective
- TDP (Watts): 250 W
- Connectors: 1x HDMI 2.1 e 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
- Suggested Source: 600 W
- In production: Sim
AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT – See the full technical sheet here
PNY NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3070Ti, 8GB
Another model from the manufacturer PNY, this time an RTX 3070 Ti. Don’t be fooled by the “8 GB” of video memory, this card is extremely powerful and will serve your needs playing at all resolutions. It’s a card very similar in performance to AMD’s RX 6750 XT, but it costs a lot more (just because it’s from Nvidia and has better performance with Ray Tracing turned on). Between the two, I recommend buying the RX 6750 XT, since at the level of the RTX 3070 Ti you can’t take advantage of Ray Tracing in 4K, so it’s better to play in Quad HD resolution with everything on Ultra, something that the RX 6750 XT does it better. Obviously, this is a matter of personal preference – both cards work very well. Check out a comparison of the two below.
Remembering that these are just a few options, it all depends on the price! Cards like the GTX 1660 Ti and RTX 2060 are still great for gaming, but the prices for these models are way too high at the time I write this article.
