PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best graphics card of 2025

Gear of the Year

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Check out more of the year's best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage.

I always love a new GPU year. When a whole new generation of graphics cards is going to drop, it energises the entire PC gaming hardware industry; people are going to upgrade, new laptops will arrive, and companies will refresh their entire PC lineups. It's big. Which is why it was a real shame that the launches of both AMD and Nvidia GPUs this year were such a nightmare.