Vista - Graphics Card Performance and Classification

Probably less, but that's not the point, the point was to fix the list.

I don't understand why TM didn't show GX2 in SLI? In SLI, those cards will smoke 85% of the competitors on high resolutions.
You people must be on crack. It doesn't matter what the setting of the GPU, memory & shader clock is but the architecture/engineering itself is more relevant. From what I've observed the bus width function in a graphic card plays an vital role to the performance. Second would have to be the nano-metric architecture of the processor and memory module.

Yes, the chipset engineering is important and the GX2 (9800GX2?) uses two G92 chips. The bus width is also important, and again the 9800GX2 only has a 256 bit bus width.

I think it was in SLI. You don't by a GX2 just to run it in single GPU mode.

In my opinion, the amount of shaders/pipelines alongside the bus interface are the most important things, but the downside to what Nvidia do is they put the bus width too small for some cards i.e. a 256bit interface can only really make the best use out of 512mb, like what's been said by Skunk (I think) somewhere around here, so piling 1GB up on a card isn't going to make much of a difference, whereas a card like the 8800 GTX/Ultra and the GTX200 cards have a larger interface to accommodate the large amount of memory on it.

The GTS250 should be quite a performer even it it is still using a G92 chip, it's been rebuilt to be more efficient and to run much cooler, which is why I think I overestimated what it's capable of against a high end G80 card.

And Gnys, where did any of us state that the GPU/memory/shader speed is defines how good a graphic card is?

Everlong is correct.......


ok guys, i know the list needs updating feel free to point out what you believe needs changing...


im just waiting for some more benches on the GTS250 before its placed in line...

& it looks like i forgot the 4850x2 all together...


another thing ppl need to bear in mind is, some of the cards on the list are a pretty close call so the list format can appear deceiving considering many cards would be on par with each other & not above or below....


its not gospel, different rigs will produce different results.... its just a general ''who's who'' for GFX cards.




SK

I remember browsing varies competitor gpu battles & they always outlined the GX2 (single) or GX2 SLI mode/s. Differential medium between the single & dual gpu was around 30% so those charts are improper.
Everyone's interpretation is different, Frank.

Found some benchmarks of the GTS 250 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 Mainstream GPU - HotHardware

www.scan.co.uk have some in for £150, so around same price as 9800GTX+ as well, and them benchmarks have it bench pretty much identical to a 9800 as well.

cheers Everlong.......

i willl update the list after work......






SK

OK..... the list has been updated.


let me know if were all in agreement with the HD4850X2 & the GTS250's positions..??






SK

Looks good to me