The first ray-tracing-capable graphics cards arrived in 2018, with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 20 series. AMD joined in on the fun with its Radeon RX 6000 series in 2020, with Intel following with its ...
The best $350 to $500 graphics card is the RX 7800 XT and in the $250 to $350 range, the RTX 4060 is where it's at now that older AMD 6000-series GPUs are hard to come by.
When it comes to GPUs, Nvidia's still at the top, and the RTX 50 series is the new hotness. Here are the best ways to score the 5080 and 5090 graphics cards.