Just about every gamer aims to own a high-end graphics card, but unfortunately very few can afford to. However, those that can are still faced with a few difficult decisions and at the moment many are wondering if they should bother with the cheaper Radeon HD 2900XT. If you are happy to spend GTX money, should you? Or is it best to save the $100+ by settling for the Radeon HD 2900XT? We endeavour to try and find out...

Performance wise the Radeon HD 2900XT is fairly competitive with the GeForce 8800 GTX, particularly when pricing is taken into account. The most expensive Radeon HD 2900XT is over 20% cheaper than the cheapest GeForce 8800 GTX at the moment. This is impressive considering most games only saw the Radeon HD 2900XT loose by a small margin. Games such as Lost Planet, S.T.A.L.K.E.R and Far Cry all saw the Radeon HD 2900XT perform within a 10% margin of the GeForce 8800 GTX.



Link: Legion Hardware