{"id":104735,"date":"2016-09-25T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=104735"},"modified":"2016-09-25T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T15:50:00","slug":"the-best-graphics-cards-you-can-buy-for-under-r2500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/104735-the-best-graphics-cards-you-can-buy-for-under-r2500","title":{"rendered":"The best graphics cards you can buy for under R2,500"},"content":{"rendered":"

With new graphics cards flooding into the market, many gamers will be upgrading their gaming rigs in order to accomadate newer GPU generations.<\/p>\n

However, for those who cannot afford a R10,000 graphics card or are just getting\u00a0into PC gaming, these entry-level GPUs may be just right for you:<\/p>\n

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Radeon RX 460 2GB – R1,999<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Radeon RX 460 is unquestionably the greatest budget graphics card on the market, at least until the release of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1050.<\/p>\n

The 2GB version offers console-level performance at a great price.<\/p>\n

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Radeon RX 460 4GB – R2,499<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The 4GB version of the Radeon RX 460 offers similar perforamance but removes any possible bottlenecks caused by the 2GB of VRAM.<\/p>\n

While it may not offer a general step up in performance, it could improve performance in certain texture-heavy titles.<\/p>\n

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GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB – R2,349<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The GeForce GTX 750 Ti remains Nvidia’s entry-level gaming GPU and still competes with Maxwell cards in terms of performance.<\/p>\n

Although it is not as power efficient or as future-proof as the latest generation of GPUs, the GTX 750 Ti is a powerful and reliable graphics processing workhorse.<\/p>\n

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Radeon R7 260X 2GB – R2,153<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Radeon R7 260X 2GB, like the GeForce GTX 750 TI, belongs to an older GPU generation and is subsequently quite reasonably priced.<\/p>\n

It offers decent budget performance at a good price and is a good choice for an entry-level GPU if you have adequate power and cooling.<\/p>\n

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Radeon R7 360 2GB – R2,165<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Radeon R7 360 is similar to the R7 260 in many ways and is based on the same architecture and manufacturing process.<\/p>\n

There really is no major difference between the cards, but it is worth comparing the two to decide which works best for your budget.<\/p>\n

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Looking for an affordable graphics card to complete your gaming build? We’ve got you covered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":98750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[22053,6292,1085,8679,2163,22051],"class_list":["post-104735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-hardware","tag-22053","tag-graphics-card","tag-hardware-2","tag-pricing","tag-south-africa","tag-under"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}