where to compare OLD graphics cards? i mean like 1998-2005 stuff, the AGP era

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so i appear to have rapidly built up a collection of old graphics cards, from old PCI through AGP and of course PCIe. mostly through used local sales where people are just getting rid of stuff for $10-a-box (or 3 boxes for free - that was a cool score)

anyways, obviously the HWCompare / videocardbenchmark.net sites won't have info on stuff that was made 15 years ago. but i'd like to know how my range of cards stack up and which is a stronger one compared to whichever other one i pull out of the box.

really, i have 4-5 PCI cards, 12+ AGP cards, and 12+ PCIe cards. clearly the PCIe are almost all going to trump the AGP, but i can't stuff a PCIe into an AGP slot on whichever old mobo has it.

so... database, anyone?
 

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actually that is a good one. i can do side-by-side and at least see the techie stuff like memory bandwidth and fillrate numbersto compare A against B, so i can likely build up my own database for the cards i do have. thanks!!
 


It's great they have a lot of cards listed there, i can now see how far i have come since having a nvidia riva 128! From 1.6gb/s to 264 gb/s! The problem i see with that is fillrate and memory bandwidth numbers etc dont completely dictate a cards performance. Unless the numbers show a significant difference, you could have a card wiht lower bandwidth and fillrate, yet it could still perform better in the real world than a card with higher fillrate and mem bandwidth.