Need help finding a video card? Chart to help.

[Vivi]

Here is a chart for you people trying to figure out what video card to buy.



I also recomend looking at GPU Review Card Comparison.
http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

Hopefully you guys find this as helpful as I do.

[polobunny]

This guy think he's badass and all, even if I gave him the site.
Ok I didn't make the site, but i'm still more badass then vivi no?

[Vivi]

This guy think he's badass and all, even if I gave him the site.
Ok I didn't make the site, but i'm still more badass then vivi no?

Psh I'm in your OC guild.

[Kazekage Gaara]

Oooo...Nice chart. Thanx

[Nagisa]

Um..what benchmarks are these decided upon? Because in pretty much everything the X1800XT trounces the 7800GTX. Only the 7800 Ultra 512MB is faster XD
And in what world is the 6800 Ultra faster than the X850XTPE?

[sniperrfl1011]

Um..what benchmarks are these decided upon? Because in pretty much everything the X1800XT trounces the 7800GTX. Only the 7800 Ultra 512MB is faster XD
And in what world is the 6800 Ultra faster than the X850XTPE?

Exactly!
And why is the x700pro considered slower than a 6600??!?!? the x700 PWNS the 6600, and almost matches the 6600gt

[Vivi]

Do you guys know how to read the chart? Also it's not going by FPS just by % Gained.

The X700 doesn't "Almost" Match the 6600GT you fool. It's 600 points less in 3dmark 05.

[Nagisa]

I know how to read the chart, please don't be condecending. But put simply, the chart is wrong. In no world is the 7800GTX faster than the X1800XT, which as your chart would imply has an 18% increase in performance. I'm sorry, but that's just wrong.
And if the results are based on 3DMark I'd take that with a pretty hefty grain of salt given it's a synthetic benchmark that nVidia optimize their drivers for so as they can cheat.

[polobunny]

...nVidia optimize their drivers for so as they can cheat.

Bahahahahahaha, another "I beleive that ATI doesn't cheat and has never cheated" person.

I beleive that this chart is not based on synthetic benchmark.
The 7800GTX gives a better overall result, thanks to the 24 VS 16 for X1800XT fragment pipelines and texture units.

Edit: Oh, and the immense anti-aliasing modes available compared to most ATI cards.

[Nagisa]

I never said that ATi have never cheated; you're putting words in my mouth :P
But in terms of current 3dMark, nVidia does optimize drivers and ATi doesn't. That's what I was getting at. You seem to think I've got some kind of fan bias; but I don't. It's just a simple fact that the X1800XT is faster across the board. The original drivers had flakey OpenGL (typical of ATi) but a week later they released a new revision that gave a 20%+ increase for OpenGL.
The pipeline increase proved to be less effective than just pure raw clockspeed.
Currently the only card faster than the X1800XT is the 7800 Ultra 512MB, which has the increased pipelines AND increased clockspeed.

[Skinner8]

I think you're kind of supposed to be wrong by default here, Nagisa.