Best Graphics Cards For The Money: January 2012 (Archive)

[Guest]

The new year promises availability of AMD's new Radeon HD 7970 3 GB. Also, we see a spate of surprise price shifts that change some of our most consistent recommendations. We're also getting more information about what will happen in the coming months.

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[cangelini]

Archived comments are found here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/3107-56-best-graphics-cards-money-january-2012

 

[lunyone]

Nice to see the comments finally down to a newer date Thanks for clearing it up. I know a lot of people will be glad that this has been archived (me included). Hopefully we will get the comments archived each quarter that we get the latest Best Graphics Cards for the Money.

 

[Durandul]

The new comment thing is a welcome addition. That being said, AMD has brought back the board I see
Always been an NVIDIA guy myself, but that R9 290 is awfully tempting for the price.

 

[filippi]

¨¨The GeForce GTX 770 delivers such compelling frame rates that we find it hard to recommend multi-card configurations¨... you dont recommend gtx 770 anymore 😉

[edit by Don:] Thanks fillipi, fixed! [/edit]

 

[de5_Roy]

new comments thread. nice.
amd makes a near-clean sweep. nice.
gfx card competition is heating up with price drops and game bundles. very nice.

 

[Darkerson]

While a Titan, 780, or 780 Ti would have been nice, Im pretty happy with my GTX 770 I picked up a couple months ago for less than $300. It is a pretty decent upgrade over my old 560 Ti 448.

 

[Nuckles_56]

Tom's really need to lift their game on the intel side of things

 

[chimera201]

Finally all those old comment crap gone.

Did tomsHardware benchmark Titan-Z?
On what basis did they list it in the Hierarchy chart?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Guesstimation.

Same as the mobile GPUs; with knowledge of which architecture, what clocks/cores/memory, you can make a pretty good guess as to how it will perform.

 

[fudoka711]

RIP nVidia recommendations.

But seriously, AMD's being so aggressive with their price/performance. Good for them.

 

[aquaticcolor]

AMD completely dominates the list.....Darn.

 

[vertexx]

It's a great time to be in the market for a GPU. I find it amazing that two high end cards, the R9 280x and R9 290, have the best price/performance. I have to wonder if AMD is making money on these cards or is NVidia really trying to gouge the market. AMD may have an oversupply from trying to react to the mining craze, now that those cards are no longer viable for mining.

 

[tomfreak]

Fermi, the last priced competitive Nvidia card. -.- Seriously Kepler has never been good in price/performance overall. Pretty much a lot of them get beaten by Radeon on price/performance.

I like the old comment wipe, please make this a regular wipe everytime the article update.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

The 770 was awesome when it was released, and the 760 was pretty great. 670 was good for a while, too.

 

[bemused_fred]

Fermi, the last priced competitive Nvidia card. -.- Seriously Kepler has never been good in price/performance overall. Pretty much a lot of them get beaten by Radeon on price/performance.

They had their moments. At launch, the GTX 680 beat the HD 7970 in price/performance, and the GTX 670 held the £300/$400 dollar segment supreme for quite a while as well.

 

[filippi]

This alternation of "technological parties" in power is healthy.

 

[obababoy]

I have been with NVIDIA since I upgraded from my Sapphire 3870 crossfire setup back in 2007, but that XFX r9 290X DD for $4** on Tiger Direct is VERY temping. I was waiting for a GTX 8** or price drop on 780ti because I do have the ASUS 3d monitor, but that is dying anyways.
The 780ti has been appealing to me because of thermals and noise(I am running a SFF pc now) but the XFX has been pretty solid. decisions decisions.

 

[Onus]

I'm glad that the GTX750Ti received the honorable mention for its low power use. Just as the HD7750 deserved recognition, nVidia's most powerful card that doesn't need a PCIe power cable does too, so here's something for those eager to howl about bias to put in their pipes and smoke it. I don't [yet] have one, but as far as parts I'd buy just to experiment, it is near the top of my list.

 

[de5_Roy]

may i suggest a name change for this comment thread? it still shows up on my notification window as "Best Graphics Cards For The Money: January 2012".
how about changing the last bit to "June 2014"?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

I'd probably just make it "Best Graphics Cards For The Money".

That said, I don't know if editing it would break the linkage to the article, so I'm not going to change it...

 

[thesuperguy]

AMD has managed to conquer every recommended spot (not including honorable mentions) on this list.

 

[h2323]

Nice AMD showing...wow Tom's....wow!

 

[cleeve]

Nice AMD showing...wow Toms's....wow!

Youre welcome, h2323.

But don't thank me, I just report the best deals on the market. Thank AMD's pricing strategy.

 

[Onus]

As a legendary Senior Hardware Editor once observed, "there are no longer any bad video cards, just bad prices."