Gaming Graphics Charts For 2009: Updated!

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[citation][nom]quantumrand[/nom]Why do you only have 8 plan ATI cards going up against 24 factory OC'd nVidia cards? You guys always seem to have a pretty clear bias with these chards...[/citation]

Lol, I do wish there were an edit feature...

Ahem, 8 PLAIN cards, and charts, not "chards."

I'm going to go hide in shame now.
 
[citation][nom]quantumrand[/nom]Lol, I do wish there were an edit feature...Ahem, 8 PLAIN cards, and charts, not "chards."I'm going to go hide in shame now.[/citation]

After mail in rebate..... Rebates are the pits.
 
Great Job! Whenever showing someone how well GPU's or CPU's perform I just show them charts on tomshardware. You included all the relevant graphics cards and the having the radeon 3800's from amd was a good choice.

With that said: Why no Crysis? It is still, after one and a half years, the most demanding game on the market. When buying a graphics card all someone really has to ask is: Will it max out Crysis? If it can then it can max out everything else including Stalker Clear Sky. Crossfire benchmarks would also be nice.
 
what is with this card?

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 $84.99

http://stores.tomshardware.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=60828918/mode=toms_charts/

it is listed as a x2 card for $85?? that is the price of the standard card. and you link to the standard card??? what is going on?
 
no stalker clear sky?!?!??!!? nooooo!!!!
i was really lookin forward to that update 🙁

but im glad to see that the charts are all updated at last... :)
 
[citation][nom]simplyderp[/nom]Why don't I see any 4870 1GB benchmarks?[/citation]

Because they have an obvious bias, probably due to some sort of financial "endorsement" from nVidia.
 
So, they´ve tested 100 games, and picked out the games that Geforce cards performed best on, prices are FUBAR as well and Yeah, why did they put OC´ed-Nivida vs original ATI-cards? t_T

BIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaSsssssssed as _always_, it's so sad. t_T
 
[citation][nom]rambo117[/nom]i agree with walp, this update kinda sucks... its so limited and especially biased.[/citation]

Dint forget they said they will be updating with new cards , these are just the cards they got for free. And they've been Biased on the other end as well.
 
Missing Info:

Ati 4890 CF & nVidia GtX 275 Sli :S

That is what i want to see tested in phenomb 955 black edition & i7 920 with 4-8gb memory ddr3
 
I got 2 GTX260 216 55 OC & they run very close to the GTX 295 which is essentially 2 260's on one card. Score a lil over 20K on 3DMark06
 
I have recenetly purchased at 4770 and it didn't perform as well as I hoped. It is still around 15% less performance than my current 8800GT. And since its impossible to get a second one right now, I may as well return it and buy something else with better out of the box performance.
 
The choice in games this time is POOR at best. I'm personally disappointed that there isn't a Call of Duty game included in there, but maybe that's just personal bias. But opting for Farcry 2 instead of Crysis seems a bit odd to me as Crysis still has to be the more demanding game. The majority of the games on this list I doubt are going to make the majority of people's top list anyway.

Alright, now for the CARD selection. I agree with taking the ATI 2xxx series and nVidia 7xxx series out but there are a LOT of ATI 3xxx and 4xxx and nVidia 8xxx cards MISSING from these new charts. Particularly the budget cards, and that's VERY disappointing from Tom's. I mean just look at the number of cards on this list compared to last year's! This is NOT the thoroughness that we have come to love from Tom's. This is lazy and it feels to me like there may be some pressure from some marketing departments for the Tom's reviewers to only put the latest/greatest products out there. And that's a road we DEFINITELY don't want Tom's to go down.

Now the charts themselves, personally, I want to know if it's ATI or nVidia FIRST, then know who the manufacture is SECOND. The green/red/blue color scheme isn't working for me. You can label with the brand name, but the colors should only differentiate between the chipsets, like it always has.

Overall I grade this year's graphics charts with an "I" for incomplete. Poor game choices, lacking variety of cards, and less user-friendly presentation... no, that's not the quality of work that Tom's has always worked so hard to produce.
 
[citation][nom]Gin Fushicho[/nom]Dint forget they said they will be updating with new cards , these are just the cards they got for free. And they've been Biased on the other end as well.[/citation]

i hope the next updates will include stalker clear sky and crysis warhead though...
 
Nice work Toms. My problem - no Crysis/Warhead? Punishingly beautiful games. Why bother with Left 4 Dead? You can play it on a laptop.
Again though - thanks and good work.
 
[citation][nom]TJ_the_first[/nom]Nice work Toms. My problem - no Crysis/Warhead? Punishingly beautiful games. Why bother with Left 4 Dead? You can play it on a laptop.Again though - thanks and good work.[/citation]
i dunno, left 4 dead is extremely easy to play(especially with crossfire hehe). but still a great game. what i want to know is why they benchmark with GTA, such horrible scaling and also being a console port blaugh.

 
please add the 4850x2 im impressed that this super monster truck of board doesnt show in charts(i own one already and im impressed it takes any game i put in the highest detail/AA posible in catalyst like nothing --- i dont know how you test cards but not even crysis warhead at 4x AA can kill this card + no sttutering or slow downs never so i think is powerful enough to take a place here -- my monitor rez 1920x1200)(is a bit loud yes but nothing intolerable just put fan in auto and your doneXD)
 
[citation][nom]rambo117[/nom]what i want to know is why they [should] benchmark with GTA, such horrible scaling and also being a console port blaugh.[/citation]
Because it's a game people actually want to play, so knowing how fast it runs is relevant?
 
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