PC newbies should know these new rules about GPUs

If you're new to PCs or haven't been following the industry for the last few years, the GPU landscape of 2025 can be pretty confusing. $700 doesn't get you a high-end GPU anymore, native performance is somehow less important than upscaling and frame generation, and you can't find anything at the advertised price. Even the nomenclature you might be used to doesn't mean what you might think it should. Oh, and Intel and AMD are big players in the GPU wars now.