Video Cards: Best Bang for Your Buck

[OnionKnight]

I just did a blog calculating the best performance per dollar video cards. I used the lowest price for each card from newegg.com (US) and took the benchmark scores from www.futuremark.com for each card.

 

The blog --->http://fearless-assa...nd-per-wattage/

 

In conclusion:

 

The HD 4870 ( $101 US ) will give you the best value when you calculate performance per dollar (103 marks/ $ spent). 2nd place was the HD 5770 (82.4 marks/$ spent). 3rd was the GTX 460 1 GB (72.88 marks/$ spent).

 

The high end cards did not give the best bang for your buck with the HD 5870 only giving 54.57 mark/ $ spent and GTX 480 only 55.22 mark/$ spent.

 

I also included the best performing card you can buy at these price ranges:

 

$100-$150: HD 4870

$150-200: GTX 460 768 MB

$200-250: HD 5850 1 GB

$250-300: GTX 470 1 GB

$300-400: HD 5870 1 GB

$400 + : HD 5970 2 GB

 

If you want to see the runner ups and the data and how I calculated these numbers please check out my blog linked above (its boring though)

[kdoto]

love my 5970

[Papito]

Why didn't you told me this before i pmed you. I gived you this idea.

[OnionKnight]

Why didn't you told me this before i pmed you. I gived you this idea.

 

All you said was "what is good looking, cheap and with 512 or 1gb no more than 90 bucks." and I already gave you my response. If you did not read my reply I will post it here for you to see.

 

Under $90:

HD 5670

9800 GT

GT 240

[NoGooD]

Onion...isn't the 240 just a rebadged 9800GT? I'm probably wrong but It thought the same GPU was used on both cards

[OnionKnight]

Onion...isn't the 240 just a rebadged 9800GT? I'm probably wrong but It thought the same GPU was used on both cards

 

It is but the GT 240 is the smaller and "energy efficient" version of the 9800 GT but with somewhat less performance. In the under $90 price range it is still near the top of the list though.

 

The 9800 GT has slightly higher clock speeds I believe and 256 bit memory bus (GT 240 has 128 bit). In futuremark benchmarks it makes up to almost an 1200 point difference between the two cards. Also the 9800 GT eats like 100 W more.

 

I feel like Nvidia was stupid for the last few years. 8800 GT = 9800 GT > GT 240. Somehow each time they revised the card and gave it a new name, the performance either didn't change or got worse lol

[Term!n@tor]

nice article onion. lots of time on ur hands?

3d mark vantage runs on dx10 and not dx11. you could try getting some data based on fps for dx9 dx10 and dx11 titles and then make a similar comparison. fps per dollar. some cards score more on vantage and have lesser performance when seen at fps lvl. look at the classic case of 5870 and 480. 5870 has higher vantage score but 480 is a better performer.

[C@n0S]

$100-$150: HD 4870

$150-200: GTX 460 768 MB

$200-250: HD 5850 1 GB

$250-300: GTX 470 1 GB

$300-400: HD 5870 1 GB

$400 + : HD 5970 2 GB

 

Arrgh, here all of thows costs 2x that much ... lucky u.

 

how about my XFX GF GTX 260 pwns

Edited September 24, 2010 by C@n0S

[tdkxeon]

best bang for a buck reminds me ----

 

i would bang someone else rather than a video card !

 

Arrgh, here all of thows costs 2x that much ... lucky u.

 

how about my XFX GF GTX 260 pwns

 

 

My X4500 Intel Media Accelerator pwns !