Graphics Card Ranking List

[Admiral Piett]

Hey guys. I have this list going over at the Naked Fanatics forums that I somewhat regularly update. Its a list of almost all video cards ranked by performance with their typical price labelled as well. I hope this will help out some people looking to upgrade their system. This list was originally found at overclock.ent, however I have made a lot of edits over the course of a year. Some of the prices I added are quite outdated, especially on older cards. But recent ones are fairly up-to-date.

I personally have an MSI 8800GT 512MB. I run all TW games maxed out, except for Europa Barborum, which seems to have a lot of problems on a lot of people's systems.

[b]If you want reference for the performance of laptop/mobile graphics cards, check this site out here:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Gra ... 844.0.html



Red= ATI Radeon
Green= NVidia GeForce


HD 4870X2 2GB $475+
HD 4850X2 2GB $375+
GTX 280 1GB $410+
9800GX2 1GB $260+
GTX 260-216 $260+
HD 4870 1GB $250+
HD 4870 512MB $200+
GTX 260 1GB $200+
HD 4850 1GB $200+
HD3870X2 1GB $275+
HD 4850 512MB $160+
9800GTX+ $190+
8800Ultra $400+
9800GTX $150+
8800GTX $330+
8800GT/9800GT 1GB $155+
8800GTS 512MB (G92 Revision) $170+
8800GT/9800GT 512MB $115+
HD 4830 512MB $110+
HD 3870 512MB $100+
9600GSO 768MB $90+
9600GT 512MB $105+
HD 4670 512MB $75+
HD2900XT 1GB $520+
HD2900Pro 1GB
HD2900XT 512MB $400+
HD2900Pro 512MB
8800GTS 640MB $150+
HD 3850 512MB $90+
8800GT 256MB $130+
8800GTS 320MB $120+
7950GX2 $500
8800GS/9600GSO 384MB $90+
HD 3850 256MB $170+
X1950XTX $350+
X1900XTX $300+
X1950XT $180
X1900XT 512MB
7900GTX $400+
X1900XT 256MB $220+
7900GTO
7800GTX 512MB
7950GT 512MB $170+ (Highest end AGP)
X1950Pro 512MB $170+
X1950Pro 256MB $110+
7900GT 512MB
8600GTS $110+
9500GT $70+
X1800XT 512MB
7900GT 256MB $200+
X1800XT 256MB $135+
X1900GT $85+
X1950GT $115+
8600GT 512MB $89+
8600GT 256MB $78+
X1900GT Rev2
7800GTX 256MB $300+
7900GS $120+
7800GT
X1800XL
7800GS $170+
X1800GTO $200+
HD3670
HD2600XT $100+
X1650XT $70+
HD3650 $100
7600GT $80+
HD2600Pro $75+
X850XT/XTPE $187+
X800XT/XTPE $255+
6800Ultra/EE/XT $129+
6800GT
6800GS $80+
X800XL $220+
X850Pro
X800pro $95
X800GTO/GTO2
8500GT $75
HD3470
X1650Pro $59
X1600XT $60+
7600GS $75+
HD2400XT
X800
6800
X800GT
7300GT
X1300XT
X1600Pro
HD3450
8400GS
6800XE/LE
6600GT
HD2400Pro
X700Pro
9800XT
5950Ultra
9800Pro
5900Ultra
9700Pro
5800Ultra
9800
9800SE 256bit
S3 Chrome S27
X700
9700
5900
5800
X1300Pro
6600
5900XT
X600XT
TI4800
TI4600
9600XT
TI4800SE
X1550
X1300
5700Ultra
9500Pro
9800SE 128bit
X600
9600Pro
TI4400
9500
6600LE
X1300SE
5700
7300GS
9600
7100GS
6200
TI4200
X550
5600
5600XT
9550
9600SE
7300LE
5500
X1050
X300
7300SE
9550SE
9200Pro
9000Pro
Matrox Parhelia
8500Pro
GeForce3 TI500
8500
8500LE
5200Ultra
9200
9250
GeForce4 MX460
5200
9000
9200SE
GeForce3
GeForce3 TI200
GeForce4 MX 440
7500
GeForce2 Ultra
GeForce2 GTS
GeForce4 MX 420
Radeon (later renamed Radeon 7200)
GeForce 256 DDR
Voodoo5 5500
GeForce2 MX 400
GeForce 256
Savage 2000
GeForce2 MX
Radeon VE (later renamed Radeon 7000)
Voodoo4 4500
Matrox G400
TNT2
Rage128 Pro
Voodoo3
TNT
Rage128
Savage 4
Matrox G200
Riva128
Intel i740
Rage3D Pro
Voodoo Banshee
Voodoo2
Riva
Rage3D
VooDoo1

[Roman Clone]

Wow... I never knew the GeForce2 MX was that old... I was just using it earlier this year!

[Jopel]

ROFL

I used the X1900XTX until some months ago in one of my rigs lol

[dogukan]

radeon 9600 xt....I knew it was ancient. Heck it burned now I use radeon 9200se. Sucks to be me. I doN't buy a new one because next year I might be going abroad.

Awesome list btw

[DimondLight]

Heh, atm my computer has a 5600XT

[Jopel]

LOL

this rig has a HD 4870 1GB... is the best GPU I have right now and will be for atleast some months.

[iudas]

Earlier this year I had the Radeon x1600. Then the Geforce 8600. And now the 4870 512MB.

[Jopel]

LOL those are some changes my man!

[Freddie]

God bless the Voodoo 1 bringing up the rear! All those other cards owe a lot to 3DFX, may history never forget the name Voodoo 1.

I can’t describe how good the Voodoo 1 was when it first arrived I can’t think of any other hardware upgrade that made such a dramatic change to how my games looked and played.

[Odovacar]

Alas my HD3670 (newly bought) is not quite at the upper end of the list..however I like it and anyway I cant afford a better...

[Admiral Piett]

Indeed, Freddie. The first 3DFX was a big step in visual goodness. I was too young at the time to remember it. I probably came into the tech world around the time of the Geforce 5500 and the Radeon 9550. But I do remember games around the time of that first release.

Yeah, a 7950GX2 is so rare these days. That's why its so expensive. It's almost a collector's item as the first 1GB card.

Odovacar, prices on the video card market have dropped significantly over the course of a year. Even newer cards are selling for a lot less than older cards were when they were first released. An excellent bang for the buck is the HD4670 or the 9600GT. You can even find GDDR2, underclocked versions for around $75. A GDDR3 9600GT can run Crysis on Medium-High settings.

[Jopel]

Lol I also remembered having a 3dfx a very long time ago, can't remember which one though Would have liked it when I still got that one for good times sake haha

[Wheelchair]

9800GTX+ $190+
8800Ultra $400+
9800GTX $150+

Hmmm, Anyone see something wrong?

[ISDP]

I have to say the 8800 series from nvidia is a god send, and the prices on the units have dropped a good bit since the release of the 9000's and the 260 (which i think is retarded) and the 280. Although ATI have stepped up their game up lately, with their release of the 4000's. Combining a great price with a great card... I think nvidia may be in trouble.

[Strelok]

HD 4850 1GB $200+

HD 4850 512MB $160+

Unless your Monitor supports a resolution of at least 1920x1200 you will see a performance loss with the 1gb card, The card is simply memory bandwidth constrained at any resolution to take full advantage of 1gb of memory.

In a less demanding game like COD4 you will need to run 2560x1600 to see an improvement with the 1GB. In most cases a FPS *GAIN* will be seen at lower than 2560x1600 with the 512MB version.

http://en.expreview.com/2007/12/30/r...F%BC%9F.html/2

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...-hd-4850-1gb/1

http://8000.hillbillyhardware.com:80...hd48501gb.html

[Admiral Piett]

I think there are conflicting articles on it.

Here's one:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3415&p=10

[Edelward]

Some of the cards don't have display memory
they show .
They could get as much as they show
on mobo which support dual VGA like crossfire
but otherwise you got to half them to be correct
or notify.
I got
" Card name: ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x9513)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9513&SUBSYS_01F01043&REV_00
Display Memory: 1024.0 MB"
But eventual memory on ordinary,not xfire, mother board is
512 MB

[Admiral Piett]

Some of the cards don't have display memory
they show .
They could get as much as they show
on mobo which support dual VGA like crossfire
but otherwise you got to half them to be correct
or notify.

I'm sorry, but I could not understand your post.

If you are wondering why I didn't include memory on all the cards, its because I usually only do them on ones that have two different amounts of mem on the card. Others are copy and paste from overclock.net.

[HansDuet]

Voodoo <3

[Edelward]

I meant that some cards don't have memory as shown
for example 3850x2 has 1024 Mb,but only if install on crossfire
motherboard,otherwise it has 512 MB