PCI Express Interface: $150 To $300
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: best, graphics, card
PCI Express Interface: $150 To $300
BEST PCI-E CARD FOR $150
| GeForce 8800 GT 512MB | |
|---|---|
| Codename: | G92 |
| Process: | 65nm |
| Universal Shaders: | 112 |
| Texture Units: | 56 |
| ROPs: | 16 |
| Memory Bus: | 256-bit |
| Core Speed MHz: | 600 |
| Memory Speed MHz: | 900 (1800 effective) |
| DirectX / Shader Model | DX 10 / SM 4.0 |
The 8800 GT offers incredible GeForce 8800 GTX class performance at almost half the price. It beats both the Radeon 3870 and GeForce 9600 GT by a notable margin, and only costs a few dollars more. As far as raw performance goes, if you have $150 to spend on a graphics card, you couldn’t do better than a nice 8800 GT.
BEST PCI-E CARD FOR $175:
| Radeon 4850 | |
|---|---|
| Codename: | RV770 |
| Process: | 55nm |
| Universal Shaders: | 800 |
| Texture Units: | 40 |
| ROPs: | 16 |
| Memory Bus: | 256-bit |
| Core Speed MHz: | 625 |
| Memory Speed MHz: | 993 (1986 effective) |
| DirectX / Shader Model | DX 10.1 / SM 4.0 |
The Radeon 4850 is the new people’s champion, instantly bringing yesterday’s $300 performance level down to the mainstream $175 price point. The Radeon 4850 will best the GeForce 9800 GTX, stand toe-to-toe with the newer GeForce 9800 GTX+, and do it all for less money. This card has a lot of potential when used on its own, and becomes a devastating force when paired with a second 4850 in a Crossfire configuration.
Best PCI-E Card For $280:
| Radeon 4870 | |
|---|---|
| Codename: | RV770 |
| Process: | 55nm |
| Universal Shaders: | 800 |
| Texture Units: | 40 |
| ROPs: | 16 |
| Memory Bus: | 256-bit |
| Core Speed MHz: | 750 |
| Memory Speed MHz: | 900 (3600 effective) |
| DirectX / Shader Model | DX 10.1 / SM 4.0 |
The Radeon 4870 offers the same architecture of the 4850 series paired with its secret weapon: brand new GDDR5 memory. Because GDDR5 provides about twice as much throughput as GDDR3, its 900 MHz clock speed is comparable to a 3600 MHz effective memory speed! This edge allows the 4870 to up the ante and offer very compelling performance for the price, competing with the more expensive GeForce GTX 260 and sometimes even the GTX 280!
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is there anyway of fixing the chart at the end?
any way of fixing the chart at the end?
yay, more graphics card info!
btw, the posted info for the 2x9800GTX SLI "honourable mention" is the same as for the 2x4850..
slipped past quality control, that one!
Argh! Go back to the ATi, NVidia column structure, the list is completely impossible to decipher.
They did this with the last monthly cards round up also, the comparison list was badly formatted, but they fixed it sooner, to make a readable table, just highlight the table, copy into word and use replace all in word, "| |" with "| ^p |" (without quotes)
On second thoughts, just go to last months review table: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gami [...] 055-6.html
its the exact same as this one i think.
they really should re-read their reviews and get rid of contradiction, eg
The 8800 GT offers incredible GeForce 8800 GTX class performance, so why is it a lower class down than the 8800GTX in the table/list, and the 8800GTS 512 is quite a bit faster than the 8800GT so how comes this is ranked lower than the 8800GTX and ultras.
I used to believe TH to be a good source of info but recently Ive seen a drop in quality, please fix it guys.
I've registered just to say that (again!) an article purely about money is posted on the uk version of Tom's, priced in $$$$$'s!
If you can't be bothered to do the conversion work, why bother to have a UK domain site???
Just gone back and quickly checked - Tom's UK site apparently stopped caring sometime between March and June 08 - the March article is in £'s, the June and all since are in $'s.
I have a feeling that soon we will no longer be seeing the "Best video cards of.." as I had quite a difficult time finding this article. Doesn't seem to be a priority any more.
Another favorite from the "old" tom's site that is fading away..
>sob<