VGA Charts III

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Introducing - Fbucks! Continued

The resulting ranking in our Fbucks! tables is interesting indeed. We see that the Radeon 9600 Pro/XT and the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra based boards offer very good value for money. When image quality settings are raised, the Radeon 9600 XT is an easy recommendation. Not surprisingly, the enthusiast models don't cut such a good figure owing to their high price - at least in the standard tests. In the quality tests, on the other hand, the Radeon 9800 (non-Pro) looks very attractive indeed. NVIDIA's top models, meanwhile, have no such luck, due to their comparatively low scores. With the newly introduced GFX 5900 XT (alias SE), NVIDIA is picking up where it left off with the GF4 Ti 4200 - a lower-cost card with all the features enabled, but running at a lower clockspeed. Since it is only slightly less expensive than the "full" FX 5900 (non-Ultra), this card has a hard time grabbing a higher rank in the Fbucks! chart.

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Standard Image Quality - Prices from December 2003
Card	Summary	Price ($)*	Fbucks
GF FX 5950 U	959.7	409	2.35
GF FX 5900 U	944	345	2.74
GF FX 5900	891.4	235	3.79
GF FX 5900 XT	870.6	213	4.09
GF FX 5800 U	921.8	278	3.32
GF FX 5800	833.3	193	4.32
GF FX 5700 U	799.2	169	4.73
GF FX 5700	673.5	154	4.37
GF FX 5600 U (FC)	660.5	169	3.91
GF FX 5600 U	603.5	169	3.57
GF FX 5600	553.7	109	5.08
GF FX 5200 U	519.6	99	5.25
GF FX 5200	408.7	52	7.86
GF4 Ti 4600-8x	708.9	172	4.12
GF4 Ti 4600	706.9	140	5.05
GF4 Ti 4400	660.6	120	5.51
GF4 Ti 4200-8x	622.7	100	6.23
GF4 Ti 4200 128	589.6	100	5.9
GF4 Ti 4200 64	598.9	94	6.37
GF4 MX 460	399	75	5.32
GF4 MX 440-8x	389.6	43	9.06
GF4 MX 440	341.6	36	9.49
R 9800 XT	962.5	425	2.26
R 9800 Pro 256	936.1	366	2.56
R 9800 Pro	938	275	3.41
R 9800	885.6	225	3.94
R 9800 SE	703.9	171	4.12
R 9700 Pro	890.3	230	3.87
R 9700	821.4	193	4.26
R 9600 XT	722.9	157	4.6
R 9600 Pro	678.8	143	4.75
R 9600	499	109	4.58
R 9600 SE	332.4	89	3.74
R 9500 Pro	713.2	190	3.75
R 9500 128	563.1	149	3.78
R 9500 64	528.8	143	3.7
R 9200 128	397.3	56	7.09
R 9200 64	396.9	43	9.23
R 9000 Pro	451.9	55	8.22
R 8500 128	493.2	52	9.48
R 8500 64	506.2	81	6.25
XGI V8 Duo	516.3	na	Row 42 - Cell 3
XGI V5 Ultra	295.7	na	Row 43 - Cell 3
XGI V3	113.1	na	Row 44 - Cell 3
S3 S8 256	421.3	na	Row 45 - Cell 3
Parhelia 128	315.6	335	0.94
Enhanced Image Quality - Prices from December 2003
1024x768-32	Summary	Price ($)	Fbucks
GF FX 5950 U	144.5	409	0.35
GF FX 5900 U	138.8	345	0.4
GF FX 5900	123.3	235	0.52
GF FX 5900 XT	119.7	213	0.56
GF FX 5800 U	136.9	278	0.49
GF FX 5800	112.1	193	0.58
GF FX 5700 U	109.2	169	0.65
GF FX 5700	87.9	154	0.57
GF FX 5600 U (FC)	88	169	0.52
GF FX 5600 U	80.9	169	0.48
GF FX 5600	71.5	109	0.66
GF FX 5200 U	59.2	99	0.6
GF FX 5200	42.2	52	0.81
GF4 Ti 4600-8x	70.5	172	0.41
GF4 Ti 4600	70.5	140	0.5
GF4 Ti 4400	64	120	0.53
GF4 Ti 4200-8x	58.4	100	0.58
GF4 Ti 4200 128	54.8	100	0.55
GF4 Ti 4200 64	39.1	94	0.42
R 9800 XT	214.4	425	0.5
R 9800 Pro 256	200.9	366	0.55
R 9800 Pro	198.5	275	0.72
R 9800	175.4	225	0.78
R 9800 SE	110.1	171	0.64
R 9700 Pro	177.3	230	0.77
R 9700	158.8	193	0.82
R 9600 XT	121.3	157	0.77
R 9600 Pro	111.1	143	0.78
R 9600	75.8	109	0.7
R 9600 SE	48.3	89	0.54
R 9500 Pro	121.2	190	0.64
R 9500 128	83.3	149	0.56
R 9500 64	70.6	143	0.49