These are the best top 5 graphics cards under a $300 budget. Most people with a tight budget usually will want to stay below the $300 price point for there GPU selection. There are good GPU’s that can be had in this price range that are able to do 1080p resolutions at medium to high settings.

With the mining craze still going on and the inflated cost of the AMD RX 570 and RX 580. If you are wanting to game and do some mining then you might want to grab one of those 2 AMD graphics cards. I will not be including these in the list. Hopefully these cards will come back down in price soon now that there seems to be a regular stock at most online retailers now. When they do they would be between the 1060 and the 1050ti.

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Sapphire Radeon PULSE RX 560 2GB comes in last on our list. It is closely matched performance wise with the Nvidia GTX 1050 and has a similar price at $109.99. If you are an AMD fan don’t sweat choosing this one over the 1050. This card is capable of playing games at 1080p but don’t except to play them at Ultra or High settings

• Stream Processors: 1024
• Video Memory: 2GB GDDR5
• Memory Bus: 128-bit
• Engine Clock: Base: 1300 MHz
• Memory Clock: 7 GHz

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The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 2GB is great budget card at $119.99 but I would recommend spending the extra $35 to get the 1050 TI which is next on the list.

• Cuda Cores: 640
• Video Memory: 2GB GDDR5
• Memory Bus: 128-bit
• Engine Clock: Base: 1354 MHz / Boost:1455 MHz
• Memory Clock: 7 GHz

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I would say the EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SSC GAMING ACX 3.0 4GB GDDR5 is the best value for your dollar graphics card on this list. Priced at $154.99 makes it a great GPU for a budget gaming build.

• • Cuda Cores: 768
  • Video Memory: 4GB GDDR5
  • Memory Bus: 128-bit
  • Engine Clock: Base: 1366 MHz / Boost:1480 MHz
  • Memory Clock: 7 GHz

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The PNY GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is a solid performing GPU costing $229.99. It does fall behind in performance compared to the GTX 1060 6GB with less video memory, fewer Cuda cores and lower clock speeds.

• Cuda Cores: 1152
• Video Memory: 3GB GDDR5
• Memory Bus: 192-bit
• Engine Clock: Base: 1506 MHz / Boost:1708 MHz
• Memory Clock: 8 GHz

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The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition 6GB is the best card on the list. It will out perform all others on the list but also has the highest cost at $269.99. If you can afford this one for your computer get it. It will easily beat everything on this list with higher frame rates at higher resolutions and quality setting. You will be able to max out most game quilty settings at 1080p with this GTX 1060 6 GB.

• Cuda Cores: 1280
• Video Memory: 4GB GDDR5
• Memory Bus: 128-bit
• Engine Clock: Base: 1556 MHz / Boost:1771 MHz
• Memory Clock: 8 GHz

Conclusion

These were our picks for the best top 5 graphics cards under a $300 budget. Over all most any of these GPUs will get you gaming for less than $300. Let me know what you think of our choices and ranking of these GPU’s in the comments selection below.