Six Generations of $200 Radeon GPUs Compared

[funkydmunky]

I'd never take a Radeon over an EVGA built card.
I absolutely love my Titan X 12GB and until Radeon builds a comparison product - better - I just can't consider them.

I think you are a little confused. EVGA is an AIB and AMD Radeon is a graphics card manufacturer, 2 different things. EVGA just sells Nvidia cards so that Titan X you have is just an Nvidia card that EVGA slapped their name unto.

Don't know where you got that information from, but you are completely wrong.

EVGA, MSI, Asus etc do lot more than just slapping there name on it, for starters the only bit that is Nvidia is the GPU Chip itself (hence completely different board designs)

As for the article, interesting to see the power usage has gone up so much, would love to see a Nvidia counterpart to this article.

Doesn't fix the OP total confusion regarding chip makers and partners.
But ya EVGA is the bestest of all the GPU makers. Screw the Radeons! LOL!

 

[ET3D]

Thanks for the article. I love this type of article.

The main problem with the RX 480 is that the $200 price is fiction. A few might have managed to grab it at that price, but most people can't. Not that much of a problem for this article, though, considering that it includes cards up to $250, and the RX 480 is (finally) available for less than that.

 

[money]

6 gens, I hoped to see my last Radeon 4870 that I had from 2009-2012. I guess you should make at least 10 generations of, shows how crazy gpu industry is

 

[Steve]

6 gens, I hoped to see my last Radeon 4870 that I had from 2009-2012. I guess you should make at least 10 generations of, shows how crazy gpu industry is

We would have but those GPUs can't run many of the games tested

 

[Rage3D]

It's a good thing my 2GB 7850 at 1100Mhz is the same as a 270X.

 

[EndlessWaves]

I don't think we will ever get back to that wattage level on gpu for the highend.

I don't know. With the general push towards smaller and thinner computers you'd think the gaming market will eventually get tired of gigantic boxes and start demanding that developers make games that run well on smaller hardware.

Given that the gaming market is a young demographic I'm surprised there's not more of a sense of environmental responsibility too. When our mobile games run on 4-5W then why do we accept that the gameplay enhancement of adding a mouse and keyboard has to push that up to 250W?

 

[Lionvibez]

I don't know. With the general push towards smaller and thinner computers you'd think the gaming market will eventually get tired of gigantic boxes and start demanding that developers make games that run well on smaller hardware.

Given that the gaming market is a young demographic I'm surprised there's not more of a sense of environmental responsibility too. When our mobile games run on 4-5W then why do we accept that the gameplay enhancement of adding a mouse and keyboard has to push that up to 250W?

Comparing mobile gaming to gaming on a full blown PC is apple vs oranges.

PC games have far more complexity and offer more than the mobile versions. And with ever increasing resolutions and more eye candy more horse power is required I don't see that getting less in the future.

 

[Athlonite]

6 gens, I hoped to see my last Radeon 4870 that I had from 2009-2012. I guess you should make at least 10 generations of, shows how crazy gpu industry is

It wouldn't have been supported by the driver as it's now classed as an obsolete model also the games used also require a certain version of driver in order to atleast perform as it should

 

[Jackatron]

Good article. I still have 2 7850s and they mostly still do the job at lower settings, but games without crossfire support are getting annoying so considering a 1060 or 480, not sure I want to spend as much as the 1070 since I'm sure I'll just be playing on a 1080p monitor.

OK I caved and got a 1060 8GB. Helps so much on games that don't support crossfire.

 

[Wendy Oltman]

If you did this chart with CPUs you'd see it level off rather than continue the doubling. It's why I got a 6700k with RAM that can be OC'd as well, but will not pay more than $200 for a GPU.