Budget Gaming Graphics Cards that Make Gaming Affordable

A graphics card, also known as a video card or graphics-accelerator card, is an expansion card which generates and outputs images to a display. Most of the graphics card offer additional functions like accelerated rendering of 3D scenes, TV tuner adapter, decoding of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, video capture, FireWire and light pen. Modern high performance cards are basically used for PC games which are far more graphically demanding activities. With increasing memory capacity and functionalities, the prices of these gaming graphics cards are also reaching sky high. But the leading brands also have a collection of budget gaming graphics cards to meet the requirements of all levels of customers.

One type of budget gaming graphics card is the Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 (21162-00-xxR) which is a single GPU graphics card. The memory capacity of the card is 1024 MB and the memory type is GDDR5. The CPU clock speed offered by the graphics card is 725 MHz and the memory clock speed is 4000 MHz. It comes with 1,440 stream processing units and 40nm production process. Another product in the range of budget gaming graphics cards is the Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 which also has GDDR5 memory type and 1024 memory capacity. It provides a slot for PCIe 2.0 and Direct X support for 11.0, 10.1 and 10.0. The card offers a CPU clock speed of 850 Mhz and a memory clock speed of 4800 Mhz. Some other options for budget gaming graphics card could be the Lenovo QuadroFX 580 512MB PCI-E 2.0 GDDR3 (45K1671) and the Asus ENGTS250/DI/1GD3 (GeForce GTS 250 1024MB).