Posted on Tuesday, June 01 2010 @ 6:30 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
When the current state of the graphics card market is compared to the
situation of four or five years ago, one might think that it’s much
simpler to buy a graphics card nowadays. Indeed, the numerous LE and SE
models are long gone and there is no covert memory bus halving, when
users ended up with performance far inferior to those in reviews. You
may stumble upon a few models containing DDR2 memory, instead of the
referent models’ GDDR3, but these are usually end-of-life products at
the rock bottom of the current product gamma, so buyers actually do end
up with the performance they paid for these days.
Still, the unequal
speed of new chip development in the two competitor companies, followed
by strong economic impacts last year and a no-holds-barred battle for
market dominance, caused the existence of a higher-than-needed number of
similarly priced models present on the market at the moment, so
customers may be in doubt as to which card will give them the best
performance in a given price range. That’s why we decided to make a test
of all models from the current generation available at the market. Read more
at InsideHW.
