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Bench Question: Longevity

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I see many benches for brand new products. As properly befits a web site dedicated to 'OC' the benches are very good at giving up numbers on how well product X is performing at launch. Once performance is determined then it is compared to price.

My question, does anyone know of a set of benches that show older products 8800 gtx, gtx 200's etc, (as well as ATI/AMD equivalents) as they go from release to present. We are all told that drivers are optimized over time, if so then we should see the products bench better and better.

Of course said benches should cover not just Direct X versions, Open GL would also need to be compared.

I am thinking of this because it seems to me that product longevity and useful lifespan should also also be a consideration when purchasing a bright shiny new vid card that I might need to sell an organ to afford.

I also wonder if graphics card company X does a better support role then company Y. I may well be willing to spend more for a (seemingly) slower product at launch if said company has a strong history of improving performance over time and keeping the merchandise they sell working effectively longer.

Anyhow, Anyone know of some benches along those lines? I'd say more driver effectiveness and innovation over time rather then pure computational power.
 
To find out how effective AMD and nVIDIA have been at gaining performance over time through drivers you can check the reviews that are published occasionally. TPU did one recently. [H] did one with ForceWare 257.

Price/performance, TPU also does that metric in all of its GPU reviews, but I wouldn't trust them. I don't know what values they use for price, and how relevant they are to current prices. You can always take the performance summary of a GPU your considering and dividing it by the price you would pay. That would give a pretty good indication.

The last paragraph I wrote has nothing to do with what you asked LOL.
 
I think tomshardware has a comparison page of different gpus, but I don't know if the benchmarks are updated with the latest drivers.

It was my understanding that a number of older cards do not have drivers optimized along with the newest cards. There seems to be an end point where each company finds that optimizing new drivers for older cards isn't worth the time spent on coding for old hardware.

Also, I doubt you're going to see a something like a GTX 570 become a 580 in terms of performance from drivers alone.
 
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