Are you considering updating your video card???

[meatloaf747]

Here's a couple of links that you may find helpful that shows the latest BENCHMARKS for 100 video cards, (including the latest cards). Gaming Graphics Benchmark Charts Q3/2008... You can see how your current video card stacks up against the latest.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts...otals,795.html (Sum of FPS Benchmarks Totals).
(Now this lot of benchmarks truly compares overall performance/FPS of the cards across a number of games and gives the benchmark listings in order of "top to bottom performers" of 100 video cards)......

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts...hmarks,30.html
(Scroll down to; Sum of FPS Benchmarks ............)

Hope you find this helpful in choosing your next video card.
Cheers, Mac...

 

[BLueNeon]

No offence intended .... But those pages are less than useless as they are . Without the system specs -> CPU , Ram , Ram speed , Motherboard etc. etc. used to get those numbers , all I see two pages with NO meaning at all . Where are the system specs hidden , I failed to find anything to verify those results ???

 

[meatloaf747]

Gidday BlueNeon, No offence taken... These benchmarks are comparing video cards, apples for apples. The benchmarks have been taken with virtually the same/simular spec'ed PC's.
It's not trying to compare PC's. It's only trying to compare video cards benchmarks. (It's not how high or low the benchmark result numbers are, it's how one card benchmark results stacks up against another's... Forget the actual numbers, just compare one set of numbers against anothers and that will tell you which card has performed better (over these particular games that have been benchmarked).
Note; Some benchmarks have been taken on a Nvidia SLI enable M/B, other on a ATI Crossfire enabled M/B and the rest are on the virtually the same/simular spec'ed M/B's... (with the same CPU's, same amount of ram, etc, etc).
The benchmark testers aren't bias toward either Nvidia or ATI/AMD.
Put simply, the benchmarks are trying to give you a fair indication of how one video card stacks up against another across several games, using different screen resolutions, with and without AA...

Please, if you can direct me to up to date benchmark results that compares 100 VIDEO CARD's that are better than these, I would love to see them!!! (No offence intended).
The main reason I posted this post is to give some of the newbies/novice computer users some way of comparing how their present video cards stacks up against some of the newer cards/setup's (eg; SLI & Crossfire). With this, they can see which are the current TOP END CARDS, and card set-ups...
Cheers, Mac...

 

[BLueNeon]

The benchmarks have been taken with virtually the same/simular spec'ed PC's.

and then .....

Note; Some benchmarks have been taken on a Nvidia SLI enable M/B, other on a ATI Crossfire enabled M/B and the rest are on the virtually the same/simular spec'ed M/B's... (with the same CPU's, same amount of ram, etc, etc).

Cheers, Mac...

Sorry ... Too subjective for me , and I hope , for joe average , without the rest of the hardware listed all people see high numbers and low numbers .. even in comparison the " tests " ( and I use the word very loosely ) are almost meaningless , again .. just high and low numbers.

PCIe-1 cards listed against PCIe-2 cards ... even for Toms that's poor work.

These benchmarks are comparing video cards, apples for apples.

Unfortunately they fail to deliver .

I guess if people are too lazy or too stupid to use google to get some better data these pages are fine ( people deserve all they get :hehe: ) .

I'll leave it at that.

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[meatloaf747]

Sorry ... Too subjective for me , and I hope , for joe average , without the rest of the hardware listed all people see high numbers and low numbers .. even in comparison the " tests " ( and I use the word very loosely ) are almost meaningless , again .. just high and low numbers.


Gidday again BlueNeon; I've just spent about half an hour "Google seaching" for a better benchmark results of the latest 100 video cards/dual card setups. I wasn't able to find less subjective examples for you & the forum to peruse...

High & low numbers might be meaningless to you, but not to newbies & novices...
Newbie's & novices can understand the difference between one card having "high numbers" & another card having "low numbers" They can tell which of the cards generally speaking are the better cards/setups that will give them better frame rates, smoother graphic's, etc, etc.

Eg; Say you had 'card 51' on the list, (Nvidia Geforce 7950 GX2) and you wanted to upgrade. Your a computer novice and don't know very much about computer video cards/computers in general.
Now you look at these benchmark scores for each card/s and you know the higher the scores, the better the card or cards are.... (SLI or Crossfire)!!!!!!
Now, are you going to chose a card/s that has higher scores than your present card, or are you going to chose a card/s that scores below your present card... (it's a no brainer, isn't it?????)...

It's alright to say newbies & novices should be doing "Google searches" to find out which are the better cards, & which cards are showing better benchmarks results. The reality is most newbies/novices have never seen video cards benchmark results before, EVER...
I know, because I'm dealing with them, (newbies/novices) if not on a daily basis, certainly two or three times a week. Most rely on my advice for their upgrade path/new gaming PC spec's path...
(If you know of any better video card benchmark test results, benchmarking the latest 20 to 50 cards, please provide us with the link/s)...

On this one, it looks like we agree to disagree. (Have a good one).
Cheers, Mac...

PS; If anyone has found the benchmark results helpful, please let us know...

 

[john259]

Those results are useful, but even more useful IMHO is Tom's Hardware's list of video boards in descending order of computational power. With an ever-increasing range of largely meaningless model numbers and suffixes, that list is extremely valuable when comparing boards.

John

 

[meatloaf747]

Extemely helpful as well John259.
Cheers, Mac...

 

[backyard]

...not a technical bunch...

...everyone here is running Windows.

All you need to know is if your computer has a AGP or PCI or PCIe slot for a graphics card upgrade...

My choices were the GeForce 6600 AGP card for Mom's computer & GeForce 8800GT for my August 2007 HP 6112n PCIe desktop...

Great cards are availible for less than two-hundred dollars.