A graphics card is one of the most expensive parts of building any gaming PC, but it doesn't mean you can't still have a good experience without spending a fortune. Each of these graphics cards costs less than $200 and will deliver a great 1080p PC gaming experience.
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It's not necessary to spend an absolute fortune to build yourself a decent gaming PC (though some of the very best graphics card options sure are pricey), and part of that is down to the improvement in recent years from both AMD and NVIDIA on their respective GPU technologies.
If we had to pick a sub-$200 GPU right now it would either be a GTX 1050 Ti or an AMD RX 580 8GB, depending on which company you'd prefer to use and what type of PC you're going for. The RX 580 8GB will deliver much better overall gaming performance for a similar price, with better textures and higher frame rates possible at 1080p.
But, NVIDIA has recently done some serious work on its NVENC encoding engine for video, which is important for videographers and streamers in particular.
