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A brief History of Video Cards An Excellent roundup of video cards from the past 5 years: Hardware.info - A brief history of video cards - 64 Video cards tested They benchmarked 64 cards using current drivers and benchmarks. Granted, the benchmarks don't go into super high detail, in most instances they used one resolution/setting per bench, but it does give you a very good idea of where how your old 3870 stacks up against the newest 7970 GHZ edition. Interesting, but note where the GTX295 ends up...comparable to a 560Ti in most benches, and in the last bench, more powerful than a 680! (boy I sure wish there was a GTX295 for sale in the BST for a very good price) All joking (kinda) aside, it's still a great article. |
Great read. Thanks for the post |
Very interesting article. It's not easy making even a remotely accurate comparison across more than a couple generations of hardware. I'm surprised the 8400GS could even run BF3 at those settings reliably enough to benchmark. The hardest part about comparing cards 5 generations apart is that if you can find something slim enough for the old card to run, it often won't be taxing enough to give a good impression of what the new card can do. Good read, though. Reminds me how badly I need to go ahead and dump my old laptop with 9300m graphics in the recycle bin. Thanks for sharing. |
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I think they should have included Skyrim. Since that game is a DX9 game, it would have run (albeit as a slideshow on some cards) on every single card there. |
Now that I had some time to look through it better I really like it. Shows me where my gtx460 slots in nicely. |
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Thanks for this post. Finally puts the cards in perspective for me. Good to see that 7870 amd radeon beats a GTX 660 Ti |
Awesome post. Even if the methodology is not 100%, it still gives a very good ballpark of what sits where across generations. Even by todays standard, my overclocked 560ti448(+- a 570) is not "slow" but it's still in no benchmark anywhere, how am I supposed to know if a 660 would be a great improvement or not over it if it's not benchmarked anywhere. |
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