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GRAPHICS CARDS

Finding the best graphics card for you depends on how you plan to use it. Chances are that since you’re reading this guide in PC Gamer, you’re in the market for the best graphics card for gaming, and these are hands down the best parts for our favourite hobby. The best gaming PCs will almost always prioritize the GPU over the best CPU for gaming because gaming workloads prioritize the kind of single threaded processing at which graphics cards excel, but if you run a lot of applications simultaneously or your workload (rendering, encoding, etc) leans on multithreaded processing, you may want to consider budgeting a little more for your CPU. Of course, you can automatically pad out your budget by getting your graphics card on sale, so keep your eyes on our Amazon Prime Day PC deals hub online for the best prices on GPUs and everything else under the PC gaming sun this month.

So with your workload in mind, which graphics card

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