Top 10 Video Card Manufacturers

PowerColor is a licensed manufacturer of video cards based on AMD chips, the brand does not cooperate with NVidia. The key advantage of PowerColor is the cooperation with the FoxConn factory, which guarantees high quality products. As independent tests confirm, video cards of this brand are really quite reliable in operation, they do not make much noise and already from the factory they receive overclocking of the chip, under which the cooling system adapts, eliminating the risk of overheating. In Russia, the available model range is not as extensive as in Asia, and is mainly represented by mid-budget options, among which we note the PowerColor AMD Radeon RX 550 Red Dragon, which is available in several versions.

A Chinese manufacturer actively expanding its presence in the Russian market. The model range is not yet as extensive as that of competitors, but it already has a lot of interesting offers, especially in the budget price segment.This vendor cooperates only with NVidia, launched its own line of professional-level gaming video cards a couple of years ago, significantly improved the reliability of products and mastered advanced technologies in the field of cooling systems, reducing the noise of their models to an acceptable level. As for popular offers, at the moment in Russia they most often take the “home-office” Zotac GeForce GT 710 card, which costs an average of 3,700 rubles, offering a sufficient level of performance for everyday work or remote study.

Not as well-known for the Russian layman brand as others, but worthy of being included in the ranking of the best. This is an American company that cooperates with NVidia and mainly produces specialized professional-level video cards, although there are consumer models in the range for quite reasonable prices. However, only designers and video editors should pay attention to PNY products, for which there are excellent options with the best performance on the market.For example, the PNY Quadro RTX 6000 model will cost a lot of money, but will offer as much as 24 GB of video memory, support for NVLink and Shader 5.1, 8K resolution on four monitors, and an additional USB Type-C connector.

KFA2 is a trade brand of Galaxy Microsystems based in Hong Kong. In Russia, this manufacturer has been represented only since 2018, but has already managed to firmly establish itself among the leaders in the video card market, offering a small but popular range of models based on NVidia chips in the budget and mid-budget segments. The products of this Chinese company are quite reliable, relatively fresh in technical terms, but come with a factory warranty limited to two years. The KFA2 GeForce GTX 1050 Ti model gained particular fame in our country, having received more than 450 reviews on specialized sites, becoming one of the most discussed video cards on the Runet. This card is priced around 20,000 rubles in stores, has 4 GB of memory, is quite compact in size, can work with three monitors and does not require additional power.

The Chinese company Sapphire was founded relatively recently and positions itself as a manufacturer of video cards based only on AMD graphics chips. It should be noted that today this brand has become the world leader in terms of production of cards with AMD technologies and offers the highest quality. But, unfortunately, it cannot please with the breadth of the model range. One of the advantages of "sapphire cards" is the reliable operation of the cooling system, i.e. they allow high-quality overclocking of AMD chips, squeezing all the juice out of them without the risk of overheating. In Russia, the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 video card, which received 8 GB of GDDR5 video memory, a large selection of monitor connection interfaces, support for SLI / CrossFire and the ability to work with a resolution of 5K on five monitors at the same time, is in great demand.

A rather young brand from China, but already with a well-established reputation as a completely reliable manufacturer of graphic solutions. This vendor pays great attention to budget offers, including models with passive cooling, suitable only for office PCs. There are also productive gaming solutions with a modern design, high-quality components and a powerful cooling system. At the same time, Inno3D video cards often turn out to be bulky and take up to three slots, which creates some problems when assembling a computer, requiring massive cases and corresponding motherboards. Highlighting the company's best offerings, let's highlight the INNO3D GeForce GTX 1660 Ti TWIN X2 card, which offers excellent performance, but is much cheaper than its counterparts from the Big Four.

A fairly well-known manufacturer from Taiwan, which for a long time lagged behind the leaders in the race for success in the video card market, but over the past decade has significantly increased the manufacturability and reliability of its products. Palit cards use NVidia chips and have great overclocking potential from the factory, for which they are appreciated by fans of squeezing the maximum out of their PC hardware.At the same time, you need to be careful, because freedom in terms of overclocking often leads to overheating of chips and failure of video cards. Among the most popular offers of this manufacturer today, we will highlight the Palit GeForce GTX 1050 Ti StormX 4GB model, which is considered a worthy alternative to more expensive, but similar in terms of parameters, MSI cards, not inferior to them in performance.

A reliable manufacturer of gaming graphics cards with an excellent price / quality ratio, stylish design and excellent cooling. This brand has practically no problematic models, and unsuccessful options are quickly discontinued so as not to spoil the company's reputation. Separately, it is worth mentioning the Gaming X line, most of whose offerings are focused on professional gaming and offer a high level of performance, squeezing the most out of the latest NVidia and AMD graphics chips.This vendor is deservedly among the market leaders, and we separately note the MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio video card, which many experts consider to be almost the standard of a gaming model for very quiet operation, efficient cooling and competent selection of the element base, revealing the full potential of modern graphics technologies.

A time-tested manufacturer, trying to satisfy the needs and needs of all categories of customers. Thanks to this, the Gigabyte brand offers the widest possible range of video cards, divided into several lines: from modest "office cards" with passive cooling to a special gaming series Aorus, flaunting first-class design and impressive RGB lighting. In addition, many successful card models from this vendor are cheaper than similar offerings from competitors, but are not inferior to them in terms of reliability. One of the leaders in sales in the domestic market was the video card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1650 Low Profile OC, a feature of which was a low profile, oriented to thin desktop PC cases. The card is quiet, does not heat up and pulls any modern games.

The Asus brand is arguably the most successful vendor, actively using graphics chips from both NVidia and AMD. At the same time, the maximum success of the company falls on the mid-price segment, where most Asus video cards are represented. The products of this manufacturer are distinguished by high operational reliability, prompt implementation of technological innovations and high-quality elaboration of cooling systems, especially in gaming models, among which the RoG Strix series stands apart. If we single out models popular on the Russian market, then the ASUS GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Phoenix video card with semi-passive cooling, Samsung memory chips, good overclocking potential and no need to connect additional power is in great demand.