Let’s be completely trustworthy: 2021 was a nightmarish yr for graphics playing cards. If the surge in demand wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, the worldwide semiconductor scarcity made issues an entire lot worse. Mixed with elevated cryptocurrency mining demand and ludicrous costs able to sending any bot into overdrive, we have ended up with one thing of a dreadful drought in 2021.
Although these are the PC Gamer {Hardware} Awards and which means we nonetheless need to crown one in all this yr’s few graphics card releases as the perfect of the yr. That entails rooting via AMD and Nvidia’s newest releases for our 2021 nominees, which unsurprisingly would not go away us with all too many to select from.
As you will see, we’re focusing solely on gaming graphics cards for these awards, and that is largely as a result of that is PC Gamer we’re speaking about, but in addition as a result of irrespective of how a lot I’d like to put AMD’s intriguing MI200 accelerator within the combine for the award, it has essential analysis to be getting on with and numbers to crunch, somewhat than serving to me hit a excessive body charge in Forza Horizon 5.
Finest graphics card 2021: the nominees
The winner of the Finest Graphics Card 2021 PC Gamer {Hardware} Award shall be introduced on New Yr’s Eve, so verify again then to see which one in all these GPUs is topped the perfect (of a nasty yr).
