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Benchmark project - PCI-E videocards since 2004

Such an awesome thread :D :D Thank you so much for posting :D :D
 
It hase been a while... but it is time to get to work again :-D

 
GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon HD 3850
 
GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon HD 5970
 
Sad day for the R600 GPU, even at 850 MHz and paired with 2GB of GDDR4... it can't really catch the good old GF 8800 GTX.
 
The V8650 is such an underappreciated treasure. Cheaper than a 2900 XT 1GB, double the VRAM, and no 2D clock shenanigans to deal with in the BIOS. I've already been through a couple back when they were only $65 on eBay. Very fun additions to the R600 family.
 
Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce GTX 260 192sp
 
This is awesome work and my funnest era of PC gaming and hardware. I currently own 11 graphics cards of this time period.
There were 4 other ATI cards of the early days that I used to own on your list. THANKS! :rockout::respect::)
 
The first duel of the latest methodology.
Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GTX 480
 
Radeon R9 270X vs GeForce GTX 760
 
Anyone up for reading a huge amount of charts? :P
Second part of my GPU benchmark is ready to go public. It took about year and half to measure everything. Partially because of too optimistic CPU OC - which was unstable as hell and cost me a ton of time. Also multiGPU was a huge pain sometimes - for instance I couldn't bench 3-way CF of Radeon HD 4870, it simply overheated too much to run reliably.

The methodology is similar to the first part of the test, but some new games and/or more demanding settings of course. In the end 51 GPUs made it to the article. Originnaly even more were planned, but they were eventually axed :D For instance all iGPUs. Unfortunately even the Xbox APU, which is interesting piece of HW, but drivers are too much pain as well as the Jaguar CPU part.

This time I decided to switch the interactive charts to show 1% low fps next to the avg. 1% is more or less the standard these days. Also originally I had different algorithm that showed something like 25% low. That didn't really work well for anything other than textbook example of microstuttering, so from now on 1% it is.

It took me almost a week of time to put the article together. Enjoy :)

The Ultimate GPU Benchmark (2006 - 2010) - Hardware Museum

Two years later, part 2 is ready. New games added and of course all important video cards of selected era. This time ending with Radeon 5000 series and GeForce 400 series.
hw-museum.cz hw-museum.cz
 
Amazing job! Thank you for putting it together and sharing the results of your hard work! :clap:
 
Please keep up the amazing work my good sir!! :D :D Outstanding efforts and videos!! Looking forward to the next one!! :cool:
 
 
Here we go - the end of the line :)

The Ultimate GPU Benchmark (2009 - 2013) - Hardware Museum

The third part is ready. With new test platform and many interesting games. The range of video cards is quite wide this time, starting with Radeon HD 5000 / Geforce GTX 400 series and up to Radeon R9 290X and GeForce GTX 780 Ti.
hw-museum.cz hw-museum.cz

The whole project is finished now. It wasn't 100% smooth sailing, but more or less everything went as planned. Maybe I will make some Duel video in the future, but no promises. Depends if I can find some unused source videos on my HDD.

In the upcoming weeks, I will take apart the test rig and move onto different project. Stay tuned :)
 
Maybe testing DX10/11 GPUs in WinXP ?
 
Actually, I will take a long break from testing GPUs. Instead, I'll return to testing processors :) Starting with Conroe and up to almost present time.
 
I still have some source materials for GPU duels, so here is one of them :)

GeForce GTX 580 OC vs Radeon HD 7950 Boost
 
Another one from the archive :)

Radeon R9 290X OC vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti OC
 
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