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Recommendations built by the enGine, not by a copyWRiteR

Every page here is assembled from the same compatibility engine that prices your build: real parts, real totals, a real Build Score. A page only exists when there is enough data to say something true, so the list is short on purpose.

Game

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk is still the game that decides how much GPU you actually need. The measured numbers below are for the card alone; the builds under them are what the engine recommends around it.

3 build tiers · from $1,167.13

Use case

1080p gaming

The resolution where the processor matters most and the graphics card matters least — which is the opposite of how most 1080p builds get sold.

2 build tiers · from $1,167.13

Use case

video editing

Timeline scrubbing and export are two different problems, and only one of them is a GPU problem.

2 build tiers · from $1,167.13

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3D rendering

The workload that scales almost linearly with cores, which makes the buying decision unusually simple and unusually expensive.

2 build tiers · from $1,167.13

Use case

4K gaming

The only resolution where spending nearly everything on the graphics card is the correct answer.

3 build tiers · from $1,408.53

Use case

everyday use

The machine most people should actually buy, and the one the industry is least interested in selling.

2 build tiers · from $1,757.09

A page ships only when the engine can recommend at least two genuinely different machines, and never when its recommendation duplicates another page's. That is why there are six of these and not nine hundred.