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Massive Graphics Card roundup at Tomshardware

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 | News, Video Card Reviews

Tomshardware have produced a massive writeup on 20 graphics cards. Giving details on all of these cards gives a good idea of what to expect from the video card you want to buy.

Although there is often not much to the purchase of a video card, and usually it makes little difference if you just use the computer for standard tasks anyway, and don’t push it far, it’s different when you require high-level performance.

The test is extensive, covering most of the cards they have in their stores, looking at how each of them performs and comparing them. If you do need to get a card, make sure to check this list first.

Looking at the different chipsets that come with the different levels of cards there are some conclusions to be made.

GeForce 7600 GT based cards were found to be similar in performance to Radeon X1800 GTO cards. The GeForce was found to be better, because of cooler performance. With only 256MB of RAM it gets good performance.

Although 7800 GT and GTX cards have a hard time keeping up with the Radeon X1800 XT, they are being phased out the 7900 series cards, which perform better then their ATI counterparts.

Radeon X1900 XTX based cards perform a little faster than GeForce 7900 GTX cards. The Nvidia’s have better cooling, but this might not mean as much to those who are simply looking for the fastest card out there.

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