Josh Norem John Burek The Best Graphics Cards for 1080p Gaming in 2018 Don't buy more (or less) pixel power than you need. Here's how to shop for a graphics card for 1080p gameplay, along with the top-rated cards in our testing.

Choosing a Gaming Card for 1,920 by 1,080 If you frequent gaming and hardware sites, you'll see lots of buzz around '4K gaming' on new high-end monitors, as well as the rise of more-affordable 1440p (2,560-by-1,440-pixel) displays. Spend long enough in those parts, and you might assume that high-res gaming and expensive, monster video cards rule the PC-gaming world. Yes, they are important, and yes, they are the eventual future—when they get cheaper, much cheaper. For the near future, though, playing at 1,920 by 1,080 (a.k.a. 1080p, or 'full HD') will remain the sweet spot for PC gamers.

Whether for gaming, cryptocurrency mining, or video editing, a graphics processing unit (GPU) is an excellent investment. However, prices are currently absurd for most midrange and high-end cards.

Today, 1080p monitors are affordable—you can find plenty of 'em down around $100—and even a midrange video card can run the latest games on one of these displays with a silky-smooth frame rate. In fact, according to the latest results, 1080p remains the most common native display resolution for PC gamers on the service, outranking all other resolutions combined. The truth is, though most gamers would love to play at the highest resolution possible, buying both a high-res 4K (3,840-by-2,160-pixel) or 1440p display and a video card that can ace gaming at that higher resolution will cost you plenty. (One depends on the other.) Most of us just want our games to look good and run smoothly, and that's easy to achieve at the mainstream resolution of 1,920 by 1,080. 1080p play supreme, and VR too: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition This resolution has been the de facto standard for gaming for some time now, and it will stay that way until cheap 1440p monitors become much more common, or 4K-capable graphics cards become reasonably affordable. (At this writing, gaming at 4K resolution with leading PC titles was impossible to achieve with a card costing much less than $500, unless you were willing to dial back on the detail settings.) That's at least a couple of years away, and given how video-card prices have skyrocketed over the past year or so, even that may be optimistic. So purchasing a video card that can run games at a smooth clip at 1080p is a solid investment, one that should keep you happy for a few years, if not longer.

Just one problem: Since 1080p is such a popular resolution, a boatload of video cards are competing for the top spot in the category. But that's where we come in. We'll walk you through the features you need to pay attention to when shopping for a 1080p-ideal video card, and outline the best cards we've tested for gaming at this resolution, given your budget. The good news? Nvidia's introduction of its 2016 'Pascal'-generation video cards, alongside AMD's 'Polaris' line of cards, has meant better 1080p power than ever for under $250. Even with the extreme spike we've seen in video-card prices from 2017 to present, due to demand from cryptocurrency miners, you can achieve solid 1080p game play without overspending. (The top end of ideal 1080p-capable cards is right at the border where video-card prices have gone bonkers.) Buying Basics: What to Look for in a 1080p Card Most cards that are 'good enough' for 1080p gaming ring up at between $150 and $300 at this writing.

Pricier cards will certainly do the job, too. But the further you get above $300, the more into overkill territory you've gone for most games.

Here are the key factors in play. Memory Amount.

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The amount of graphics memory (or video RAM) that your video card has onboard directly affects the resolution at which you can game smoothly, as well as the detail settings that are possible. The overall power of the graphics processing unit (commonly called the 'GPU') on the card dictates how well you can run a specific game at certain settings, too. But think of the video memory as a freeway that opens up lanes for the GPU to work its magic without getting congested. Without enough video memory, the GPU will be constrained, unable to perform at its maximum potential. The reason: The video card actually crunches all the pixels that go onto the screen while they are in memory. So, the more data that's needed, either for a certain resolution or to display more detail in a game, the more memory is required to handle it efficaciously. That's why high-end video cards tend to have more on-card memory; more of it is needed to manage all the pixels that render games at higher resolutions and at higher detail settings.