AMD has launched its own online GPU Comparison Tool. This is a web page with drop down menus and a dynamic chart, which is touted as a tool to "enable consumers to choose the best GPU for their individual needs." It features nearly all the latest graphics cards from team red, and team green, as well as 11 popular PC games, the three most popular screen resolutions, and a handful of graphics quality and API toggles. There's also a bit of mysterious legalese to read through.
The best part of this tool is the extensive selection of AMD Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs, as well as all of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards. However, we note after prodding the menus and options, that AMD has decided to avoid any performance comparison charts featuring its Radeon RX 6500 XT or RX 6400 – even in eSports-style titles at 1080p. Whether AMD has any intentions to add them remains to be seen. Nvidia GPUs shown run the full gamut of the RTX 30 series from the RTX 3090 Ti at the top down the the RTX 3050.
With regard to these graphics cards and gaming comparisons, the tool is a little selective; if you opt for 1080p gaming in one of the titles you will see lower end GPUs compared, if you are pondering over 1440p or 4K gaming performance you will likely be presented with charts of mid-to-high end cards only.
AMD's games selection definitely raises some eyebrows. With 11 titles in the tool at the time of writing, it seems like a good number of them are very well optimized for Radeon performance. Straight off the bat; Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Deathloop and Resident Evil Village are promoted by AMD, while Tiny Tina's Wonderland and Fotza Horizon 5 are known to offer better performance on the platform. This raises questions of fairness. Some of the choices are kind of old and less popular, but there are some that actually show the GeForce cards rising to the top.
Another strong feeling we get from the new GPU Comparison Tool from AMD is that it is very much a work in progress. It isn't only the case that there aren't a great deal of games here, and the RDNA2 weaklings are missing, most of the time there aren't more than a single setting to choose from the quality menu or API menu.
There is some notable legalese in a small font below the tool, claiming that it is for "informational purposes only" and that "it may contain technical inaccuracies, omissions and typographical errors, and AMD is under no obligation to update or otherwise correct this information." So take that for what it's worth.
Will Nvidia and Intel feel like they have to make rival tools? That remains to be seen. However, we are still proud of what many PC techies think is the definitive GPU comparison chart – our frequently updated GPU Benchmarks and Hierarchy 2022: Graphics Cards Ranked page. As well as being stuffed with our own independent data, there is an overview chart where you can quickly see where your card, or intended card, sits in the performance stakes. Moreover, we have many detailed multi-page GPU reviews, and independent reviews are always the best way to go.
