Enthusiast Graphics Card Comparison - NVIDIA and AMD head-to-head

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After publishing our look at the new GeForce GTX 460 we had several requests

for an article that quickly compared the relevant NVIDIA and AMD options

from top to bottom for the enthusiast PC gamer. I threw together some

graphs comparing the $200 cards, $300 cards and $400+ cards from both

vendors and added some of our own analysis to help gauge the market as we

see it today.

 

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=955

 

Quote: "While the GeForce GTX 460 showed power consumption close to that of

the Radeon HD 5830 while offering better performance, the GeForce GTX 470

and 480 use a dramatic amount of additional power to get the performance

results we showed you above. While the HD 5850 is slower in our testing

than the GTX 470, it does use 33% less power than the NVIDIA option and the

HD 5870 uses 44% less power than the GTX 480. These are not small gaps by

any stretch and the fact that the HD 5870 uses 25% less power than the GTX

470 mainstream option indicates that point further."

 

Thanks for a post!

 

Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective

rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com