The unspoken credo of the Gaming series: all the most important things are in the box, all the unnecessary things are in the landfill. Most of the cards, except for the most powerful models of the latest generation, are devoid of RGB illumination, a fashionable casing or additional functions like a BIOS mode switch. At the same time, they are made conscientiously, can boast of a good factory acceleration and often cost a little cheaper than competitors.


As the opinion polls of manufacturers and the roll call of gamers on Reddit show, most players are not eager to give hard-earned money for beautiful components with integrated illumination, preferring to spend them on an extra RAM bar or a more capacious SSD. It is for this reason that gamers choose Gigabyte Gaming series cards.

Thanks to this, the Gaming lineup has always been simple and prosaic: the core of the series consists of mid-level models of the GeForce GTX 1660 or RTX 2060 caliber. For all obvious reasons, these are mostly NVIDIA models, Radeon variants are much less common. In terms of pure performance, these are cards that are perfect for 99% of modern games at high graphics settings and Full HD resolution or medium-high graphics settings and 2K resolution.

However, with the release of NVIDIA Ampere family video cards and fifth-generation consoles, 4K resolution is coming on all fronts, so the Gigabyte Gaming lineup in 2021 was enriched by flagship Radeon 6900 XT, GeForce RTX 3080 and even RTX 3090 video cards, which NVIDIA calls a graphics card not so much for gamers as for content developers and graphics specialists. However, their essence does not change from this.