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

 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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::)
 
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The first duel of the latest methodology.
Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GTX 480
 
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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 :)
 
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Amazing job! Thank you for putting it together and sharing the results of your hard work! :clap:
 

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Please keep up the amazing work my good sir!! :D :D Outstanding efforts and videos!! Looking forward to the next one!! :cool:
 
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Here we go - the end of the line :)


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 :)
 
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Maybe testing DX10/11 GPUs in WinXP ?
 
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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.
 
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I still have some source materials for GPU duels, so here is one of them :)

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

Radeon R9 290X OC vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti OC
 
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