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GPU Price-Performance Comparison

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I've been creating spreadsheets like this for a while now, mostly sharing it with friends for buying advice. Figured I would post it here for you folks too in case someone finds it useful as a rough guide on a tight budget.

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Interesting, but might I suggest you start averaging results from multiple sites? Getting all your data from Anandtech is rather limited.
 
You might want to add in a modifier for prices after a FPS threshold. There should be a diminishing returning with each frame as you get higher and higher FPS. For example, the frame after 90fps is worth signifcantly less than the frame after 39fps.
 
I'm a BCB/forum price/MIR kinda guy but if youre just going retail pricing...actually your numbers are on the money value wise. I would tell someone to buy stock in BP before I'd tell them to buy a 5750 personally. Btw I believe under 30FPS is unplayable per [H].

Also I'm little confused on the numbers, does a 5870 kick a GTX480's ass? I mean thats what the graph shows.
 
inglewood78 said:
You might want to add in a modifier for prices after a FPS threshold. There should be a diminishing returning with each frame as you get higher and higher FPS. For example, the frame after 90fps is worth signifcantly less than the frame after 39fps.
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This is the best suggestion. Each frame between 20-40 should be worth WAYYYY more than each frame 100+. right now your system punishes higher priced cards severely because the frames they can gain in tough games are worth the same as meaningless frames in non-demanding games.

This is the same reasoning behind the [H] way of reviewing video cards I think. It can't be all about raw horsepower, at some point a card can either provide an experience or not provide an experience.
 
piscian18 said:
I'm a BCB/forum price/MIR kinda guy but if youre just going retail pricing...actually your numbers are on the money value wise. I would tell someone to buy stock in BP before I'd tell them to buy a 5750 personally. Btw I believe under 30FPS is unplayable per [H].

Also I'm little confused on the numbers, does a 5870 kick a GTX480's ass? I mean thats what the graph shows.
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FPS per $$ wise, it seems it does. But so does just about every card below it in price. It is an interesting metric for comparing what you get for the dollar, but it is not an indicator of any other performance metric.
 
thehybridfrog said:
This is the best suggestion. Each frame between 20-40 should be worth WAYYYY more than each frame 100+. right now your system punishes higher priced cards severely because the frames they can gain in tough games are worth the same as meaningless frames in non-demanding games.

This is the same reasoning behind the [H] way of reviewing video cards I think. It can't be all about raw horsepower, at some point a card can either provide an experience or not provide an experience.
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I can see and feel the difference between 40FPS and 60FPS. For me, the preferred range is 40-60. Though really I don't want a card if it can't run everything at 60FPS, period.

Holding out a little longer while I still enjoy COD4 and racing games on my 8800.
 
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