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  • The Digital Foundry 2015 graphics card upgrade guide

    The PC graphics space is one of the most exciting areas of gaming technology right now. The battle between Nvidia and AMD remains as intense as ever, with each manufacturer doing their best to push the envelope with tangible year-on-year improvements in features and performance. Of all the components inside your PC, it's the GPU that is upgraded most often - reflecting the impressive boost in processing power we see from one generation to the next, meaning that it's really important to keep our graphics card upgrade guide regularly updated as each new product arrives and as volatile market conditions shift.
    We first published this guide at the beginning of February this year. Since then we've seen the arrival of a new breed of graphics hardware, spearheaded by Nvidia's Titan X and GTX 980 Ti. We've also carried on benchmarking behind the scenes, testing out multi-GPU set-ups, and applying our range of CPUs and graphics cards to the latest games, offering quality setting recommendations to get the best gameplay experience. Much of that testing has been rolled back into this guide.
    However, it's safe to say that while this guide gets increasingly larger and more dense, there's just as strong an argument for distilling our thoughts down into a simple series of recommendations - the best card for any particular budget - and you'll find that data below. We also intend to update these simple recommendations more frequently as prices shift. For example, at the time of writing, there's a clear move by specialist PC component sellers to shift stock of the Radeon R9 290. It may have been eclipsed by the GTX 970 somewhat, but at the £180-£200 price-points we've seen recently, it actually occupies its own price tier with no competition, offering remarkable performance for the money.
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