Optimal CPU and Graphics Card

If you intend to buy new video adapter or CPU, then the correspondence table of processors and graphics cards will make your choice a little ease. You can use it to determine which graphics card is best suited as a companion to your processor. On the other hand, you also can use it to determine which CPU you best buy when upgrading a system with an installed video card and whether or need to change anything at all.

AMD A4-A6 (A6-6400K, A6-7400K)	AMD Radeon R7 240 / R7 250
	NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 / GT 740
Intel Celeron G18x0, G3xx0 (G1840, G1850)	AMD Radeon R7 250X / R7 360
	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 / GTX 750
Intel Pentium G3xx0, G4xx0 (G3250, G3258, G3260)	AMD Radeon R7 250X / R7 360
	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 / GTX 750 Ti
AMD Athlon X4, A8-A10 (Athlon X4 860K)	AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270 / R9 270X
	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti / GTX 950
AMD FX-43x0, FX-63x0 (FX-4300, FX-6300)	AMD Radeon R9 270 / R9 270X / R9 380
	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 / GTX 960
Intel Core i3-4xx0, i3-6xx0 (i3-4160, i3-4170)	AMD Radeon R9 270 / R9 270X / R9 380
	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 / GTX 960 / GTX 970
AMD FX-83x0, FX-9xx0 (FX-8300, FX-8320)	AMD Radeon R9 270X / R9 380 / R9 390 / R9 390X
	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 / GTX 960 / GTX 970
Intel Core i5-4xx0, i5-6xx0 (i5-4460, i5-6500)	AMD Radeon R9 380 / R9 390 / R9 390X / R9 Nano / R9 Fury
	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / GTX 970 / GTX 980
Intel Core i5-4690K, i5-5675C, i5-6600K	AMD Radeon R9 390 / R9 390X / R9 Nano / R9 Fury / R9 Fury X
	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / GTX 980 / GTX 980 Ti
Intel Core i7-4790K, i7-5775C, i7-6700K, i7-5xx0K	AMD Radeon R9 390 / R9 390X / R9 Nano / R9 Fury / R9 Fury X
	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / GTX 980 / GTX 980 Ti

Thus, budgetary CPUs AMD A4-A6 are too weak for modern games. Although paired with discrete adapters cost up to $100, they will be able to demonstrate the comfort FPS in many modern games. But Intel Celeron (G18x0, G1840, G3xx0) and Pentium (G3240, G3250, G3258 and G4xx0) are more powerful, so they can advise and most productive 128-bit solutions with 1 and 2 GB of memory.

The most accessible 4-threads processors are AMD Athlon II X4 860K and A8-A10. We encourage to buy this models for online games, which are usually more demanding of the CPU. Top 128-bit solutions, as well as 256-bit video cards worth up to $250 will be the best for them. But for the more powerful AMD FX-4300, FX-6300 and Intel Core i3 (i3-4160,  i3-4170, i3-43x0, i3-6xx0), we have suggested to opt exclusively 256-bit solutions.

Processors AMD FX-8300 (FX-8320, FX-8350, FX-8370) and Intel Core i5 (i5-4440, i5-4460, i5-6xx0) are optimally suited to work in tandem with graphic cards from $250 to $450. And just to high-end Intel Core i5-4690K / i5-5675C /i5-6600K and Core i7-4790K / i7-5775C / i7-6700K / i7-5xx0K we would advise to buy graphics cards GeForce GTX 980 Ti / Radeon R9 Fury X (about $ 650).