• How do you know if a Graphic Card Is Better Than the other?
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Around the next few weeks I would be getting a new computer, and I wanted it to play battlefield 3.Since the Recommended graphic cards for Battlefield 3 are DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950.Then how do i know which computer that I am going to buy will run this game smoothly?
Benchmarks. Or ask us.
As in is there a way to see which graphic card is better than the other
[QUOTE=guned;36284019]As in is there a way to see which graphic card is better than the other[/QUOTE] Compare the framerate of the two chosen cards on benchmarks bud. And have a look at the CPU and compare it to the rig they use to benchmark it.
[url]www.videocardbenchmark.net/[/url]
[QUOTE=sp00ks;36284087][url]www.videocardbenchmark.net/[/url][/QUOTE] Note that the dual core GFX cards underperform in these charts because they are only tested single-core.
You could try searching inside those review sites like techpowerup, tomshardware, anandtech, etc..
[QUOTE=Drumdevil;36285096]Note that the dual GPU GFX cards underperform in these charts because they are only tested with one GPU.[/QUOTE] Just fixing that, GPUs have a LOT more than 2 cores.
I always look up the latest techpowerup GPU reviews ( [url]http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/[/url] ) and go to page 30ish for their performance summary, which is an average of a whole ton of games and benchmarks, and they also give price/performance and performance/watt.
Yeah, benchmarks, reviews, or feel free to ask. I use reviews for all my info
I personally use passmark and it can give you a pretty good idea. It's "crowdsourced" though, so that means your mileage may vary as people who have X card might test it with shit hardware creating a bottleneck or with a core i7 and making it perform at it's finest (which isn't what you might get) But yeah that's a decent way of telling if a card is better than other in a simple "is the score higher" format
Did alot of research on those 2 cards, and they are pretty much the same. I went with the 6950 because it was cheaper at the time.
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