Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart

you placed 8600m gs 4 tiers higher than g210 on your graphics card hierarchy chart but actually 8600ms gs is not a lower clocked 8600m gt it is just a higher clocked 8400gt just like g210. So they should be placed together.

Bla, bla, bla, bla ...

Next month's "Best Graphics Cards for the Money" is what everyone anxiously awaits due to the upcoming releases from Nvidia! So right now, not much to see expect for unfortunate price increases...

do you honestly expect any change in performance for money ? nevidia might take the performance crown back, but the price will be not be reasonable. they would have to deliver a very very VERY good product for that ...

next month we are back to the same chart just with nvidia mentioned as the highest performing for a ridiculous amount of money ...

The 5850 is considered the same as the 4850X2? For some reason I thought it was slightly better at most benchmarks....

Also the GTX275 is supposed to be better at benches, temperatures, and clocks than the GTX280... is this just a model hierarchy chart or a chart based on preformance? Can you also tie these gpu for the money charts with their respective OVERALL preformance charts you used to post based on the average score of ALL your tests. Maybe an updated test with ONE system configuration with all these cards... or would that be asking too much? Maybe yearly?

The GPU charts are overall performance, not price/performance, and they're not perfectly accurate all the time. Even things in the same tier can have some significant performance differences (the HD 5850 is a bit faster than the HD 4850X2, however, they are on the same tier as they are still very close).

And I do believe the GTX 275 is only faster than the GTX 280 if the first is overclocked, so on a solely performance-based chart, it's equal/behind.

The arrival of Nvidia's Fermi cards has the potential to push ATI to lower the prices of its lineup. While this may not have been what barmaley intended to say, Nvidia's upcoming releases will definitely have an impact on next month's article. To me, this one looked a lot like the last one.

Just one Nvidia card made into that list, it must be a good time to working for ATI at the moment as you know your trashing your competition at all prices points and there's nothing they can do about it. Nvidia's design makes their products expensive to manufacture thus they can't afford to continually discount down to a competitive price point.

True, but I think many people who buy hardware don't read articles like this. I'm still meeting people who think 'pentium' and 'geforce' are the only products to consider, simply because these terms were once associated with top of the line performance.
So I'm sure there'll still be a lot of people buying nvidia g92 based boards simlpy because they don't know how much they could save if they'd pick an ati based product.

In India, still Nvidia is sought after most. 80% of people only know intel & Nvidia. Here there is no shortage or price increment of ATi products.
Since we don't have any AGP cards now in the list, you can just use "Best Card For" instead of "Best PCIe Card For" heading.

HD5770 at that price point impresses me...

But we really need some competition from nVidia otherwise prices will keep disappointing us

Don't you worry about that now. There are enough of us geeks to compensate. Hell if you see the stats in here and lets say anandtech or sth there must be quite A LOT of people 'knowing how much you can save with aMDti'.
I bet my money that nVidia will feel the rush pretty soon. 2010 is going to be interesting - 100+ Hz tvs, 3D Vision technologies at home, 3D movies, DX11 tailor made games... and all that on the mass scale.
If nVidia doesn't join the party the stand to lose more than they could have imagined. That's why I am guessing they are trying to deliver a chip they could redesign easily to meet all these specs, while still trying to make a stand at the mobile front.

Also by the end of the year I am assuming there will be a few more 'sacred' questions of the wise man asked here:
-"Will it play Crysis 2? With Tessellation? With 3D/yet another frame dies/? 1080p/33+fps min!!!"
...and my 5870 will be just short of that.... always the same story...

Lets hope nvidia does not take too much longer to deliver a good quality product for the money. So we can see some of this prices going down, because just now, i don't understand how they can be charging more for a 5770 than a 4870, when we all know it's a bit slower, yeye dx11 it's a blast wii huu... but just now there are only a few games with it, and by the end of the year there wont be many more, and a 5770 will be cheaper and still slower than the 4870 and people will be looking to change it by a year or so. It's like a waste of cash on something you wont even get the chance of using it. "dude check out my car! my new ride yo! although I can't drive till' next year! damn!"

ATI have it covered FTW !!! Come on Nvidia amaze us again

I'm considering switching back to Nvida with the GF100 release. =(
I traded a guy $50 and my 4870 for his fresh out of the box 5770. I then had to pay $145 for the DP to DVI adaptor, because Sapphire is the only vendor that sells them in Canada (at a ridiculous price), and using Eyefinity itself is a pain in the ass. How about simply letting me use dual 5770's for eyefinity? 2GB 5770's should have been released immediately with a 256bit memory bus (128bit memory bus is what I'm convinced is crippling the card, and running 6144x1152 with 8xAA/16xAF on 1GB is impossible in many modern games).
DX11 has been useless so far. The only DX11 game worth noticing is AvP, and it's so buggy we're forced to run it in DX9 mode.
AMD, step up your game, there's things that matter more than just a piece of silicon on a PCB.

Also, before AMD/Nvidia keep spouting their triple monitor crap, how about we get games with a proper FOV so the sides aren't warped? I've been playing L4D and I find the warping unbearable. There are too many games that are still Vert- instead of Hort+ (such as unreal engine games) which make triple monitor useless, making me wish I spent my money on a 30" 2560x1600 monitor instead.
Whatever ever happened to those bezeless monitors Samsung promised us? The only bezeless monitors that exist are out of reach for the common consumer who doesn't make a 7 digit salary...

While we may be getting better GPU's constantly, I'm starting to fail to see the reason why...
I should have bought a car instead and kept on using my Pentium D with 1GB and OEM Nvidia 256MB 7500LE on a 17". =(

I wish I could understand why the price to performance ratio has increased rather than decreased over time recently; it's also true of RAM prices. Is this a signal of the decline of western civilization?

This article would be much better if you rewrote it instead of just editing it each month.

Why is there an "under 90" category when you list an $80 card at the top of it? A 9800GT would be the best $89 card...

The entire low end section is weak.. you move in $30 increments when cards in this range increase exponentially in value for every $10 spent.

Cheers Don.

I picked up a 5750 HIS 1gb for $65.00 off craigslist. Sweet!

Let the Prie drops begin. Thsi month fermi is released, and most certainly at a High Budget. The HD5xxx series will have new prices and Ill just stay here at home drueling because I still wont be able to aford any.