What graphics card should you buy? Our 15 best graphics cards in the world article is regularly updated.
The PC is lining up for a brilliant year. It's already been highlighted as the platform of choice for the likes of Bulletstorm, Crysis 2 and Dragon Age 2, to name but a few. And as the consoles stagnate due to their ageing technology, it's something that's only set to continue.
In order to experience such games at their best, though, you're going to need to ensure you have a machine that's up to the task. And by machine, we're primarily focusing on your graphics card.
So welcome to our best graphics card article – it's constantly updated with the very latest best graphics cards.
It's the graphics card that does the serious work when it comes to rendering your games, and the more effects and higher resolutions you throw at it, the more is asked of that graphics card.
It's important to pick your graphics card so that it works well with your display, or displays. There's no point, for instance, trying to power a 30-inch screen with the likes of a GeForce GTS 450. By the same notion, running a standard 20-inch screen with the likes of an AMD Radeon HD 6990 won't begin to tap into the card's power.
As a quick rule of thumb, whatever you spent on your screen, you're going to want to spend a similar amount to power it. Roughly.
The question is, which one of the many graphics cards out there should you actually spend your hard earned cash on? Here TechRadar highlights the top 15 cards worth considering. We cover the notable cards from the last generation, the best all-rounders for most PC gamers and the £550 monsters that can handle multi-screen outputs.
In this guide we'll let you know what's hot, what's cool and what are the fastest GPUs available right now and worthy of your time.
Best of all, because we're now enjoying the second generation of DirectX 11 hardware, every card we look at here is capable of rendering the latest, funkiest DirectX 11 games.
So how does your graphics card stand in our countdown, and is it time for an upgrade? Well, there's only one way to find out…
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nathanielb
June 8th 2011
3. I have always used nvidia as they have never let me down for my PC gaming, and Im a big PC gamer as I cant stand consoles!
I currently have the GTX 550 ti which I upgraded from the GTX 275 for DX11 and I can safely say that the change was great for online gaming as I now play games like Bad Company 2 on max with no problem, but I did build my own custom PC for online gaming so the high specs of that play a good part in the performance of my online gaming needs.
I also run some monitors from www.kme.co.uk on nvidia for work and they all perform at top level.
So IMHO nvidia are the top g-cards on the market still to this today :)
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cheysuli
April 8th 2011
2. "as the consoles stagnate" they take the gaming industry with them.
Very few PC-driven games, too many dumbed-down-for-console sequels, rushed to market.
I'm almost wishing for an XBOX 460 and PS4 so the games will get developed to do my two year old PC justice!
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roedygr
January 11th 2011
1. I don't play games with my computer. What I mean by "best Video card" is primarily the one with the fewest bugs in the video driver software.
Every card I have ever used has had buggy drivers. Doing it wrong faster is not what I want.
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