

Before we get into the frame-rate charts, we'll take a brief look at how these two popular cards are different in terms of features and pricing. While 1080p performance will be the focus, we'll also look at how these cards can handle stretching to 1440p. These two mainstream GPUs are often close in terms of price, but which offers better performance? To find out, we'll show you how each of these cards perform in a selection of popular games, including Ghost Recon Wildlands, Rise of the Tomb Raider and The Witcher 3.

Two of the best graphics cards for 1080p gaming are the focus of our article today: the AMD Radeon RX 580 and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060. Here, you can spend just a few hundred bucks on a graphics card to get console-quality visuals at 60 frames per second, even in some of the most recent games. While high-end graphics cards like the AMD Radeon 7 and RTX 2080 Ti capture the lion's share of the headlines, most PC gaming is still done at good old-fashioned 1080p.
