When it comes to PC gaming, the Nvidia RTX graphics card offers a range of impressive technology, which is explained in the meaning behind the name.

These days, video cards are virtually supercomputers. When they aren’t driving your screen, they are decoding video, crunching physics models, or processing large-language model algorithms.

We compare four generations of $300 GeForce and Radeon GPUs to see how budget gaming has evolved, from crypto-fueled chaos to ...