Here are our nominees for the best graphics card of 2022 - what's your pick?
Graphics cards are back. That's a phrase to spark joy in all but the most hard-hearted of PC gamer. Or the poorest. Yes, GPUs once more became available in 2022, and the price did indeed drop from the infuriating highs of the supply and GPU mining crises, but the new graphics cards to drop this year have still been frustratingly expensive.
If you wanted to buy a new graphics card, last year sucked a big fat pixel pipeline. But the thing we've all been waiting for happened this year, the cryptocurrency market completely collapsed, taking with it GPU mining. It wasn't just the volatility of bitcoin that took it down, but the shift from proof of work to proof of stake for ethereum.
If those are meaningless words to you, all you need to know is there is no longer profit to be made from thrashing graphics cards to within an inch of their functional lives down a crypto mine. And that means supply is up and it's actually possible to go buy a new GPUWe've even had whole new architectures, with Nvidia releasing its Ada design, offering much higher clock speeds and beefier pools of cache memory, and way faster gaming performance.
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