Academy | PC Part Comparator

Capability vs Value

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Capability: what a product can do

A grade answers one question for one job: how well can this product do it? Graphics cards are graded separately for 1080p, 1440p and 4K gaming, for ray tracing at each resolution, for local AI and for 3D rendering. Processors are graded for gaming, productivity and performance per watt. Drives are graded as a system drive, for games and files, and for heavy creative work.

Grades run from S (excellent) to F. They come from fixed rules for each job, such as measured performance, memory, endurance and features. They never look at price. A product does not get a better grade because it got cheaper, and it keeps its grade when it goes out of stock.

If a grade rests on a figure we estimated instead of measured, the product is marked est.

Where to look: the Grade column. It does not change when you move a weight.

Value: how good the current price is for you

Value brings price back in. It weighs what a product delivers against what it costs, using your priorities: how much price matters, and how much performance, memory, efficiency, warranty or freshness matter. A preset such as 1440p Sweet Spot is a starting set of priorities. You can change any of them.

Value is a number from 0 to 100 within the view you are looking at. 100 is the top of the current scale. Several products can reach it. The same product can show a different Value on two pages that compare different products.

Where to look: Price and Value next to the grade. Move a weight in Customize and Value changes while the grade stays.

Why price changes Value but not the grade

If a card gets cheaper, it does exactly what it did yesterday, so its grade stays. It is a better deal now, so its Value goes up. If you raise the weight on price, cheaper products move up. The products did not change. Your priorities did.

Reading them together

You see	It means	What to do
High grade, low Value	Very capable, but expensive for what you asked	Look at a lower grade that still clears your job
Modest grade, high Value	A good deal, if that grade is enough	Check the grade against your job
High grade, high Value	Capable and well priced for your priorities	Compare it with the next one down
Low grade, low Value	Neither	Skip it

To find products that are good enough and good value, set a minimum grade for your job, then sort by Value.

Try it: change the price weight in the GPU market →

Custom priorities

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Presets

Each category has presets for common jobs: 1440p Sweet Spot, AI / LLM or Home Server for graphics cards, Gaming or System drive elsewhere. They are in the Value menu under Decision tools. A preset is a set of weights from 0 to 100. Its description says what it favours.

Where to look: Customize opens one slider per priority, each 0 to 100. The line below names the market, the price basis and the method.

Custom weights

A weight of 0 ignores a factor. 100 counts it fully. Weights work relative to each other: raise price and cheaper products move up. Raise performance and faster ones move up. Change one at a time so you can see which weight moved which product.

Tight budget: raise the price weight, and set a maximum price for money you cannot spend.
Keeping it for years: raise freshness and warranty.
Quiet or efficient: raise the power weight.

Total cost

Tick Include 3-year energy cost to add three years of electricity, at your rate, to the price side. It can change the order. It never changes a grade.

When the answer depends on you

If two products swap places when you change priorities a little, the choice is close and depends on what you value. Head-to-head pages call this priority sensitivity. If the order holds whatever you do, one product is simply the better deal for that job.

Your priorities carry over between the market, Compare and head-to-head pages, so you set them once.

Find hardware for a job

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A product is not good or bad in general. A card that is excellent at 1080p can be the wrong choice for 4K. So every product is graded for each job, and the grades ignore price.

Choose the job. In the Value menu under Decision tools, pick the job: 1440p Sweet Spot, AI / LLM, Home Server, Office / HTPC for graphics cards; Gaming or System drive in other categories. The Grade column shows the grade for that job. The grade depends only on the job, never on your priorities or the price.
Set a minimum. Choose Minimum capability → Set requirement, then a job and a grade. 1440p Sweet Spot, B+ means B or better.
Sort by Value. Everything left is good enough. Value now tells you which one is the better deal for your priorities.

Where to look: Minimum capability at the top right, and the chip 1440p Sweet Spot: B+ under the table title. The count shows how many products still qualify (46 of 68 here). Remove undoes it.

The jobs in each category

Graphics cards: gaming at 1080p, 1440p and 4K, ray tracing at each resolution, local AI, 3D rendering, light use.
Processors: gaming, productivity, performance per watt.
SSDs: system drive, games and files, heavy creative work.
Memory: gaming, productivity, 24/7 server.
Motherboards: gaming build, workstation, small case.

Each is explained in its category guide.

Find the most capable product, whatever it costs

Choose the job and set a high Minimum capability, such as S.
Change Sort to Grade (active scenario) or Gaming performance.
To see prices with no ranking at all, choose Price only in the Value menu.

For every product graded for every job at once, see the tier matrix.

Try it: processors graded A or better for gaming →

How to choose and compare graphics cards

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What jobs we grade

1080p Budget, 1440p Sweet Spot, 4K Ultra / VR. Gaming performance at each resolution. Higher resolutions also need more video memory.
Ray tracing at 1080p, 1440p and 4K. A card can be good at 1080p ray tracing and weak at 4K.
AI / LLM. Speed for local AI models, and enough video memory to hold them.
3D rendering and light use & efficiency. Creative work, and everyday use where power and noise matter more than frame rates.

The filters that matter

Video memory (VRAM). The usual limit at high resolutions and for AI.
Maximum price. See Shop within a budget.
Minimum capability for your resolution or job.
Card length and board power, if your case or power supply sets a limit.

Compatibility to check

Length against your case.
Board power against your power supply. The recommended PSU on the card is a sensible minimum.
PCIe slot. A card works in an older slot, at the slot’s speed.

What you will see in Explorer

One row per product. A model sold with different memory sizes is a separate product for each, because performance and grades differ. Each row shows price, the grade for your job, Value and key facts. Specs opens the full specifications. The offers button opens every offer.

Where to look: Specs shows video memory, board power, recommended PSU, card length and interface: the facts the filters work on.

Things to check outside The Comparator

Cooling noise and coil whine
The exact quality of a particular board
Performance in the specific games you play
Driver and software quirks

Support for DLSS, FSR and XeSS is mainly set by the GPU architecture rather than the board design, so cards based on the same GPU will normally show the same support. Whether one looks better to you is not measured here.

For deeper buying advice, see the Price2Click 1440p graphics card guide.

How to choose hardware with The Comparator

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The Comparator does not tell you what to buy. It shows what the market offers, and you decide which trade-offs suit you. The steps below use graphics cards; processors, SSDs, memory and motherboards work the same way.

1. Choose your market

A market is the retailer prices and offers we track for one country, shown in that market’s currency. Open the country and language menu in the header and pick your country. Language and market are separate choices.

Where to look: the country / region and language menu in the header. Prices on the page are in the currency of the country you chose.

Then open a category from the Markets menu: graphics cards, processors, SSDs, memory or motherboards.

2. Remove what cannot work for you

Set the limits that are fixed first: a maximum price, a socket, DDR4 or DDR5, a case that only takes short cards, the capacity you need. Filters remove products; they do not rank them.

Where to look: the filter rail on the left. The number beside each option is how many products would remain.

3. Choose what matters

Under Decision tools, the Value menu holds your priorities. Each entry is a preset: Balanced, 1440p Sweet Spot, Home Server and so on. A preset is a starting point. Customize lets you change any weight, and Price only hides Value and just compares prices.

Where to look: the Value menu (presets) and Customize, which opens one slider per priority. Total cost and Minimum capability sit to the right.

Changing your priorities changes the order of products. It never changes a product’s specifications or its grade.

4. Read capability

Capability is how well a product can do a job. The Grade column shows its S (excellent) to F grade for the capability scenario named above the table. Price and your Value priorities are not part of the grade.

Where to look: the Grade column. The line above the table says which job it grades: grades for 1440p Sweet Spot.

An A means the product handles this job well. It does not say the current price is good.

Use Minimum capability to keep only products that are good enough for your job.

5. Read Value

Value is how good a product’s current price is under your priorities, from 0 to 100 within the view you are looking at.

Where to look: the Price and Value columns next to the grade. A stronger product can have a lower Value if it costs much more.

Value changes when a price or your priorities change. Sort by Value to see which of the products that are good enough is the better deal for you. More in Capability vs Value.

6. Compare finalists

Tick the products you are torn between. A bar at the bottom shows Compare (3); open it. Keep Differences only ticked and the page shows only what is different.

Where to look: the toolbar (Value menu, Differences only) and, under each product, a short note on where it stands out.

For one close pair, a head-to-head page also shows the price at which the answer would flip. See Comparing products.

7. Check the offers

Open a row’s offers to see every store that sells it: the store, the price, the condition and when it was checked.

Where to look: each offer shows its store, price and checked time. BEST PRICE marks the cheapest. Check the condition (new, refurbished, used) before you click through.

Found it cheaper somewhere else? Use Try your price. See Check a price you found.

8. Choose

At this point you have a short list, the differences between the products, current prices and the trade-offs. The final choice is yours.

Where to go next

I have a fixed budget: Shop within a budget
I know what it is for: Find hardware for a job
I found a price elsewhere: Check a price you found
I already own a part: Plan an upgrade

Filter a market

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Choose the job in the Value menu under Decision tools.
Set a minimum grade with Minimum capability, for example 1440p Sweet Spot, B+.
Filter what is fixed: maximum price, socket or memory type, case size, capacity.
Sort by Value. If price matters more to you than the preset assumes, open Customize and raise the price weight.

Where to look: the number beside each option. A choice that would leave nothing is still listed, with a zero.

New, refurbished, used

The market shows new offers by default. Tick Refurbished or Used under Condition if you are open to them. They are scored in the same market, so you can see whether the saving is worth it.

The address of the page carries your filters and priorities. Share copies the link, and anyone who opens it sees the same view.

Grades and ranks

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Grades

A grade comes from a written rule for the job, applied to the product’s own facts. It is not graded on a curve against the rest of the market. If every product got faster, grades would not slide down. If the best product left the market, nobody would move up.

Because grades never see price, they survive a price drop, a sale and a stock-out.

Estimated grades

If a grade rests on a figure we estimated instead of measured, such as a benchmark carried over from a close sibling model, it is marked est. It is still the best answer we have. The marker lets you weigh it.

Ranks

A rank is a product’s place among the others for one job, by capability alone. You see it in the tier matrix: the overall rank among every graded product, and the place inside the group you filtered to, such as one chip maker or one socket.

What drives each grade

See the category guides: graphics cards, processors, SSDs, memory and motherboards. The methodology page lists the sources.

How to choose and compare processors

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What jobs we grade

Gaming. Game performance, where fast cores and large caches count more than many cores.
Productivity. Sustained multi-core work such as compiling, rendering and encoding.
Performance per watt. Work done for the power used, for quiet, cool or always-on systems.

TDP is the manufacturer’s rated power figure. Actual consumption varies by model and workload. Processors have their own performance measures, so a processor grade can never be compared with a graphics card grade.

The filters that matter

Socket. Which motherboards it fits (AM5, AM4, LGA 1851, LGA 1700…). Filter by it first if you keep your motherboard.
Memory type. DDR4 or DDR5, matching your motherboard.
Minimum capability for your job.
Integrated graphics, if you will run without a graphics card.
Cores and threads, and unlocked for overclocking boards.

Compatibility to check

The socket and memory type above. If you are upgrading, the upgrade planner says whether a faster processor drops in or needs a platform change. If you build new, compare the cost of processor, board and memory together.

What you will see in Explorer

One row per processor with its price, the grade for your job, Value, cores, socket and power. Open Specs for the rest.

Things to check outside The Comparator

Cooler and case clearance
Whether your board’s BIOS supports the chip
Overclocking results. Unlocked means it can be overclocked, not what you will get.
Heat and noise in your build

For the efficiency question in depth, see the Price2Click guide to energy-efficient CPUs.

Shop within a budget

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A price limit and a price weight are different things

A price limit removes every product above it. The price weight in your priorities only moves cheaper products up the list. It removes nothing. Use the limit for money you cannot spend, and the weight for “cheaper is better, all else equal”.

Set the maximum price in the filter rail. Prices are in the market’s currency.
Require the job. Choose the job in the Value menu and set a Minimum capability. See Find hardware for a job.
Sort by Value. Among products that are good enough and affordable, the better deals come first.
Look just above your limit. Raise the maximum by 10–15% and see what appears.

Count the rest of the cost

Shipping is included where a store charges for it. Tick Include 3-year energy cost to add three years of electricity at your rate. That can reverse the order of two cards with very different power draw. Used and refurbished offers are scored with their condition and warranty. Add those conditions in the filter rail if you are open to them.

Best views give you a ready shortlist for common tasks that you can then change.

Tier matrices and Best views

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The tier matrix

A tier page lists every product, graded for each job, with price left out. It includes products with a current offer and products without one, because capability does not depend on whether a store sells it today.

Where to look: one column per job, one row per product. The filters above the table narrow the rows. The number after each grade is the rank.

Find the column for the job you care about.
Narrow the rows with the filters: chip maker, generation, video memory, segment, or only models with current offers.
Read the grades down the column. The rank shows the order inside a grade.
Use the market columns on the right to see whether the product is on sale now and for how much.

Best views

A Best page is a ready-made view of the live market: a category, a job, a minimum grade, a set of priorities, and sometimes a price band or a platform. All of it is written on the page. It opens in the same Explorer as every other market, so you can change anything, including the priorities.

A Best view often offers several ways to look at the same shortlist: higher Value, highest capability, lowest price that reaches the grade, lower power where it is known.

Compare products

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Compare: a short list side by side

Tick the products you are torn between. A bar at the bottom shows Compare (3). You can also add products inside Compare.
Open Compare. Up to six products appear in columns, with the same priorities and the same current prices.
Keep Differences only ticked. Rows that are identical disappear.
Read the trade-off. What do you give up for what you gain? A higher grade for a higher price, or more memory for more power?

Where to look: the toolbar (Value menu, Customize, Differences only, Copy for AI) and, under each product, a short note such as Lower current price or Higher Value with these priorities.

Head-to-head: one pair in depth

A head-to-head page compares exactly two products and adds:

The price at which the answer changes. How cheap the other product would have to get for its Value to match.
Priority sensitivity. Whether a small change in your priorities would swap the order.
Market position. Where each product sits among everything in its market.

Take it with you

Copy the link to share the exact comparison, or use Copy for AI. If a ranking surprises you, read Why Value changes.

Copy for AI

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Where to find it

On Compare, on head-to-head pages, on product pages, and on Best and tier views.

What it copies

The market and currency, the date of the snapshot, your priorities, each product’s grades, its prices with store and check time, and its Value under your priorities. It is dated and names the market, so the assistant knows it is reading a snapshot.

Set up what you want an opinion on: the products, your priorities, your market.
Choose Copy for AI.
Paste it into your assistant with a concrete question, such as “Which of these suits a small 1440p build?” or “What would change if I cared more about power?”

How to choose and compare SSDs

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What jobs we grade

System drive. Everyday responsiveness: random and sequential read speed, and a DRAM cache or a good host-memory design.
Games and files. Useful capacity for the money. Speed matters less once it is fast enough.
Heavy creative work. Sustained writes and endurance (TBW) for video scratch disks and large exports.

The filters that matter

Capacity. Compare drives of the same size. Price per terabyte drops with size.
Interface. PCIe 5.0, 4.0 or 3.0 NVMe, or SATA. Your motherboard decides which you can use at full speed.
Form factor. M.2 2280 is the common size. 2230 and 2242 are for handhelds and small systems. 2.5" is for SATA bays.
Endurance (TBW) and warranty. How much writing the drive is rated for.
Heatsink. Useful in hot slots, a problem in tight ones.

For a system drive, a fast PCIe 4.0 drive is usually enough. PCIe 5.0 mostly pays off in heavy creative work.

Compatibility to check

The slot’s size and interface. A PCIe 5.0 drive in a PCIe 4.0 slot works at the slot’s speed, so you would pay for speed you do not get. A heatsink must clear whatever sits above the slot. See Check compatibility.

What you will see in Explorer

One row per drive with price, grade for the role you chose, Value, capacity, interface and endurance. Specs shows the rest.

Things to check outside The Comparator

Real-world speed in your own machine
Reliability beyond the published TBW and warranty
Whether your laptop or handheld takes the size you chose

For buying advice, see the Price2Click SSD guide.

Why Value changes

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Four reasons

Your priorities changed. A different preset or a moved weight reorders the same products. This is the most common reason.
A price changed. A store changed its offer, or a cheaper one appeared. The grade stays. Value moves.
The products on the page changed. Value is relative to the products in the view. A filter that removes the market’s best product changes the scale for the rest.
The product’s facts changed. A corrected specification, or an estimate replaced by a measurement.

Why does A rank above B?

Open both in Compare. Only the rows that differ remain.
For each difference, ask which way your weights lean. If price has a high weight and A is cheaper, A gains on that row. If performance has a high weight and B is faster, B gains.
For one pair, open the head-to-head page. Priority sensitivity shows whether a small change in your weights would swap them. The price at which the answer changes shows how far apart they are.

What never changes Value

A grade, and a store’s relationship with us. Retailers cannot pay for a higher Value.

Check a price you found

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Find the product in the market, or search it by name.
Open its Specs and choose Try your price. The same option is on every product page and in Compare.
Enter the price you were quoted. Add shipping, set the condition (new, refurbished, used) and the warranty in months.
Read the result. It says, for example, Market Value 80 → Your deal: Value 96: the Value the product has today, and the Value it would have at your price.
Keep it if you want. Save as my deal shows it as a MY DEAL row among the market’s products, in this browser only.

Where to look: the line Market Value → Your deal: Value. It updates as you type. Nothing is saved until you choose Save as my deal.

Your price never becomes a tracked offer and never changes another product’s Value. A deal better than the market’s best simply reads 100.

If the product has no current offer

Its facts and grades are still there to score your price against. See What “no current offer” means.

How to choose and compare RAM

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What jobs we grade

Gaming. Speed and low latency at a sensible capacity. 32 GB is the common target today.
Productivity. Capacity for heavier applications, with speed second.
24/7 server. Capacity and warranty for sustained use, and ECC where the platform supports it.

The filters that matter

DDR4 or DDR5. Your motherboard decides. Filter by it first.
Capacity and number of sticks. Two-stick kits are the usual choice.
Speed (MT/s) and CAS latency. Read them together. A faster kit with much higher latency may not be faster in practice.
ECC. Error correction, for workstations and servers that support it.

Compatibility to check

Motherboards list the memory type and the speeds they support. A kit faster than your platform runs is speed you pay for and do not get. See Check compatibility.

What you will see in Explorer

One row per kit with price, the grade for your job, Value, capacity, type, speed and latency.

Things to check outside The Comparator

Whether a kit reaches its rated speed on your platform. Profiles such as EXPO and XMP depend on your motherboard and BIOS.
Overclocking headroom

For the DDR4 versus DDR5 question, see the Price2Click guide.

Offers and freshness

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Market and snapshot

A market is the offers we track for one category in one country, in that country’s currency, from the stores we track there. We collect them into a snapshot: the products, their offers and the time each offer was checked. Every price you see is the price in that snapshot, with its store and check time.

A price from one market is never used in another. If a product has no Canadian offer, the Canadian market shows none.

Current offers

An offer is current when the store still listed it at our latest check. The market, Compare and Value use only current offers: new ones by default, and refurbished or used ones when you choose them. A product shows its lowest current price (from) and the offers behind it.

Where to look: each offer shows its store and when it was checked. The cheapest is marked BEST PRICE. Below, Currently unavailable · last seen keeps an offer that has left the store, in grey, with its date.

Last seen offers

When a product’s last offer disappears, its page stays. It shows the last offer we saw, with its date, marked as not current. It does not count toward Value, because a price from weeks ago would make a comparison look better than it is. More in What “no current offer” means.

Freshness

Stores are checked at different times. The market page shows the snapshot date and, under Sources refreshed, each store’s last check. Times are in your own time zone.

How to choose and compare motherboards

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What jobs we grade

Gaming build. The features a gaming system uses: fast storage slots, networking, and power delivery for the chips it supports.
Workstation. Connectivity, expansion and memory support.
Small case. A practical mix of features for compact systems.

The grade describes fit for a build, not how many connectors a board has. Ranks are within one platform, because a board for one socket cannot stand in for another.

The filters that matter

Socket and chipset. Which processors it takes and which features it enables.
Memory type and slots. DDR4 or DDR5, and how many sticks.
Form factor. ATX, Micro ATX or Mini-ITX. It must fit your case.
M.2 slots, Wi-Fi and Ethernet speed. The connections you need.

Pick the processor first, then filter boards by its socket and your memory type.

Compatibility to check

Socket, memory type and form factor above. See Check compatibility.

What you will see in Explorer

One row per board with price, the grade for your build, Value and key facts. Some facts are missing from some boards’ listings. They show as not tracked, which does not mean the board lacks them.

Things to check outside The Comparator

Which processors the board’s BIOS supports. Check the manufacturer’s support list.
Power delivery quality in practice
Case, cooler and expansion card clearance

Plan an upgrade

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Say what you own. Open the planner on the home page, or the Upgrade planner on your product’s page, and choose I already own this product. (I want this product does the reverse: it compares a candidate with what you have.)
Choose the job. The scenario at the top of the page, What are you planning to use it for?, sets which capability the planner measures.
Enter the numbers it asks for, including what your current part is worth. Upgrades are ranked by out-of-pocket cost: the new price minus what yours is worth.
Read the options. Each shows the capability gained, the cost and a fit label.

Where to look: the two tabs, and the line saying upgrades are ranked by out-of-pocket cost, not sticker price. Each option also states its fit. Read it before the price.

A small gain is not offered as an upgrade. The planner counts a step up only when you would notice it.

On the home page the quick planner shows three facts: the largest gain within your budget, the option with the highest Value, and the cheapest step up that clears the threshold.

What "no current offer" means

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What the page still shows

Specifications and grades. Grades never used price, so they do not change when offers vanish.
The last offer we saw, with its date, marked as not current.
The closest alternatives that are on sale now.

What it does not show

A current price. With no current offer there is nothing to compare, so the product has no Value in the market.
A claim that it is discontinued. We say a product is discontinued only when there is evidence. Offers running out is not evidence.

What you can do with it

Score a used listing. Facts and grades are there to score your price against. See Check a price you found.
Plan an upgrade from a product you own, even if stores no longer sell it. See Plan an upgrade.
Find a replacement in the closest alternatives on its page.

Check compatibility

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Processor and motherboard

The socket must match (AM5, AM4, LGA 1851, LGA 1700…). The chipset decides features such as overclocking and the number of fast storage slots.

Memory

The motherboard decides DDR4 or DDR5 and the number of slots. A processor supports a memory type too. On most current platforms the two must agree.

Storage

The form factor (M.2 2280, 2242, 2230, 2.5") must fit the slot or bay. The interface (PCIe 5.0, 4.0, 3.0 or SATA) decides the speed. A faster drive in a slower slot still works, at the slot’s speed.

Graphics card

The length must fit your case. The power supply must cover the card’s board power. The recommended PSU shown on the card is a sensible minimum.

In the tool

Start with the part you are keeping, and filter the new part’s market by its socket or memory type.
Add the physical limits: length, form factor.
Only then choose a job and sort by Value.

Academy | PC Part Comparator

Capability vs Value

Capability: what a product can do

Value: how good the current price is for you

Why price changes Value but not the grade

Reading them together

Custom priorities

Presets

Custom weights

Total cost

When the answer depends on you

Find hardware for a job

The jobs in each category

Find the most capable product, whatever it costs

How to choose and compare graphics cards

What jobs we grade

The filters that matter

Compatibility to check

What you will see in Explorer

Things to check outside The Comparator

How to choose hardware with The Comparator

1. Choose your market

2. Remove what cannot work for you

3. Choose what matters

4. Read capability

5. Read Value

6. Compare finalists

7. Check the offers

8. Choose

Where to go next

Filter a market

New, refurbished, used

Share the view

Grades and ranks

Grades

Estimated grades

Ranks

What drives each grade

How to choose and compare processors

What jobs we grade

The filters that matter

Compatibility to check

What you will see in Explorer

Things to check outside The Comparator

Shop within a budget

A price limit and a price weight are different things

Count the rest of the cost

Tier matrices and Best views

The tier matrix

Best views

Compare products

Compare: a short list side by side

Head-to-head: one pair in depth

Take it with you

Copy for AI

Where to find it

What it copies

How to choose and compare SSDs

What jobs we grade

The filters that matter

Compatibility to check

What you will see in Explorer

Things to check outside The Comparator

Why Value changes

Four reasons

Why does A rank above B?

What never changes Value

Check a price you found

If the product has no current offer

How to choose and compare RAM

What jobs we grade

The filters that matter

Compatibility to check

What you will see in Explorer

Things to check outside The Comparator

Offers and freshness

Market and snapshot

Current offers

Last seen offers

Freshness