The most widely used graphics card among PC gamers, according to Steam's monthly hardware and software survey, is the six-year-old NVIDIA GTX 1060. The mid-range champion was priced at $249 when it launched in July of 2016.

Such an old graphics card is at the top of the list not because owners didn't want to upgrade, but because they couldn't. Surging graphics card prices during the pandemic, fueled in part by the cryptocurrency bubble, erased any chance of finding a graphics card that provided a meaningful bump in performance without needing to pay through the nose.

Prices are finally coming down, and it's likely that a flood of PC gamers are now seriously considering replacing their aging mid-range graphics cards. For the first time in decades, gamers will have more than two options to choose from. In addition to NVIDIA and AMD, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is officially in the graphics card business with the impending launch of its Arc A770 graphics card.

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