We aren’t graced with a cornucopia of tightly spaced game releases every fall. This one looks particularly bountiful, though. Rage is fresh out the door, and still to come are juggernauts like Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Batman: Arkham City, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. As the days get shorter and the weather colder, some of us are preparing to shutter ourselves in front of our PCs for a whole season of gaming.

Some of us are also going to want to grab new graphics cards in order to fully enjoy this latest round of releases. Therein lies a problem. As plentiful as these fresh titles will be, they’ll still be no match for the sheer quantity of graphics cards in the market. What to choose?

Avid TR readers will know to check our existing portfolio of GPU reviews for the goods on the current crop of chips from AMD and Nvidia. Silicon is only part of the story, though. Even when they’re based on the same GPU, graphics cards can come with different coolers, various combinations of higher-than-stock core and memory clock speeds, and other niceties like bonus display outputs and free bundled games. They’re all priced differently, too, sometimes quite far apart from each other. Choosing a given GPU might not be so tough, but selecting the right card based on that chip, as it turns out, is a whole other story.

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