Best Mid Range Graphics Cards for Gaming

Earlier I have talked about some good low budget graphics cards and now in this post I will be mentioning some of the best mid range graphics card for pc gaming. Mid Range Graphics Cards offers a great mix of both price and performance. They are the preferred choice of most of the Gamers as they deliver great performance in games and are not too expensive either. If you are a serious gamer then you should go for mid-range graphics card otherwise you would not be able to enjoy playing latest games.

You can run the latest demanding games on mid-high settings on decent resolution with these graphics cards. Price of mid range graphics cards would be in the range of Rs. 7000 to 14000/- ($115 – $230). Below is the list of some good mid range graphics cards from both Nvidia and AMD/ATI.

Nvidia Graphics Cards

Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 1GB GDDR5 – An entry level mid-range graphics card with good specifications and offers decent performance. It can run the latest games on medium graphics settings at decent resolution.

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Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 1GB GDDR5

GPU Clock – 1071 MHz

CUDA Cores / Pixel Shaders – 384

Memory Clock – 5000 MHz

Memory Interface – 128-bit

Price – Rs. 7500/-

Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB GDDR5 – It is the upgrade version of the GTX650 card and offers considerably more performance that normal GTX650. GTX650 Ti has got double the number of CUDA Cores than the plain GTX650. The cuda cores or stream processors are the powerhouse of a graphics card. More the number of cores the better its performance will be. This graphics card can run the latest games on medium-high settings on decent resolution.

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Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB GDDR5

GPU Clock – 941 MHz

CUDA Cores – 768

Memory Clock – 5400 MHz

Memory Interface – 128-bit

Price – Rs. 9900/-

Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB GDDR5 – A very good and powerful mid range graphics card. It has got a whopping 980 MHz CUDA Cores and 192-bit memory interface that delivers amazing performance in games. It can run the latest games on high settings on good resolutions with anti-aliasing turned to low or off. This card has got dual fans for better cooling and is the most powerful of the entire mid-range nvidia graphics card mentioned here.

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Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB GDDR5

GPU Clock – 980 MHz

CUDA Cores – 960

Memory Clock – 6008 MHz

Memory Interface – 192-bit

Price – Rs. 13500/-

Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 1GB GDDR5 – This Card is better than GTX650 and the price difference is also minimal between the two. It can run latest games on medium-settings at decent resolution.

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Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 1GB GDDR5

GPU Clock – 1033 MHz

CUDA Cores – 512

Memory Clock – 5000 MHz

Memory Interface – 128-bit

Price – Rs. 9700/-

Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti 1GB GDDR5 – A very good mid-range card with decent specs but less powerful than GTX660. A well balanced graphics card having the right mix of price and performance. It can run the latest games on mid-high settings on good resolution.

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Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti 1GB GDDR5

GPU Clock – 1033 MHz

CUDA Cores – 640

Memory Clock – 5400 MHz

Memory Interface – 128-bit

Price – Rs. 11500/-

AMD /ATI Graphics Cards

Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon R7 250 2GB DDR3 with Boost – An entry level mid-range graphics card from AMD/ATI. It can run the latest games on low-medium settings on decent resolution.

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Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon R7 260X 2GB DDR5

GPU Clock – 1000 MHz

Stream Processors – 384

Memory Clock – 1800 MHz

Memory Interface – 128-bit

Price – Rs. 7500/-

Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon R7 260X 2GB DDR5 – A very good graphics card that offers great performance. The only thing bad about this card is that the memory interface is only 128-bit. It can run the latest games on medium-high settings on high resolution.

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Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon R7 260X 2GB DDR5

GPU Clock – 1150 MHz

Stream Processors – 896

Memory Clock – 6600 MHz

Memory Interface – 128-bit

Price – Rs. 10000/-

Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon R7 270X 2GB DDR5 with Boost OC – This is the most powerful of all the Nvidia and AMD/ATI mid range graphics cards mentioned here. This card has got dual cooling fans and it can run the latest games on high settings on high resolution.

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Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon R7 270X 2GB DDR5 with Boost OC

GPU Clock – 1020 MHz

Stream Processors – 1280

Memory Clock – 5600 MHz

Memory Interface – 256-bit

Price – Rs. 14000/-

Note: Cuda Cores for Nvidia and Stream Processors for AMD/ATI are different names for Pixel Shaders in the Graphics Cards.

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