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Graphics card buying guide

We’ll help you choose the right GPU to power your gaming PC.

David Milner
David Milner

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Quick facts about graphics cards

  • Of all the components inside a PC, upgrading the graphics card can often have the biggest impact on improving performance.
  • Your monitor size has a big impact on which graphics card you should buy. There's no point having all those extra pixels if your GPU isn't powerful enough to utilise them properly.
  • New graphics cards can cost between $200 and $2,500.

What's in this guide?

  1. Compare graphics cards
  2. What is a graphics card?
  3. AMD vs Nvidia?
  4. How to compare graphics cards
  5. Four things to consider

Compare graphics cards

Name Product Brand Model Name Memory More info
ASUS GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Dual OC 6GB
ASUS
GTX 1660 Ti
6GB
Buy at Newegg View details
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX VEGA 64 8GB
Sapphire
RX VEGA 64
8GB
Buy at Amazon View details
MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING Z 8GB
MSI
RTX 2070
8GB
Buy at Amazon View details
Gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 XTREME 8GB
Gigabyte
RTX 2080
8GB
Buy at Amazon View details
ASUS GeForce RTX 2080 Turbo 8GB
ASUS
RTX 2080
8GB
Buy at Amazon View details