One of the top features offered here at Tom's Hardware has historically been our Charts section, where we take the mass of hardware in our labs and benchmark it to help you evaluate the components for your next system.
In the past, we've updated the charts in big batches a few times a year. That's changing a bit now, though, as each month we'll make it a point to add the latest components to our CPU, graphics card, and storage charts. Every time those results go live, we'll post a notification so you can see if the card, chip, or drive you're interested in buying performs as well as you were expecting.
Today's update includes a number of new cards, and a handful of older technology as well, which should put the current graphics landscape into perspective for those who own older GPUs, but haven't had the chance to compare them to the latest technology.
Leading the charts this time around is HIS' Radeon HD 5970, which is able to outperform the heavily-overclocked GeForce GTX 295 from EVGA. It beats the reference GeForce GTX 295 by as much as 17 percent. We also have reference Radeon HD 5870 and 5850 boards, which can be compared to retail models from Sapphire.
This will probably be the last update we see to the current links of high-performance and mainstream cards, as we've been working on a new suite for 2010 with more popular games based on the feedback you've provided over the past year.
Astounding, how some of the old-generation NVidia cards are able to compete with the new-generation ATI cards.
Really looking forward to seeing Fermi in action.
geoganWhere are the 5870 SLI 3DMark scores? Did I miss them or were they left out to make the 5970 topdog?
are you being sarcastic? i can't tell... really i can't...
I've been missing your posts ever since the whole Mac Padd business, and hadn't seen another of your posts since. When did you get back? I assumed you took vacation or something...
