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1326965 2013-02-07 20:00:00 Normally I link to www.tomshardware.com and the best graphics cards for the money latest article in the graphics section. I can't do that right now though because it's refusing to load for me so if you're interested you'll have to go find it yourself.On the last page it has a table you can refer to which gives an approximate comparison of performance of almost every current card. If you read through you'll see they only test with a small selection of games they consider a good cross section so it's not definitive for any particular game.

My usual advice is go as high up the table as you can afford and chose the newest models as well. The table includes a lot of out of date cards and while they may show as having the same performance as newer cards they won't support current versions of directX etc and are only really equivalent in older titles.
dugimodo (138)
1326966 2013-02-07 20:05:00 www.tomshardware.com

Hierarchy

See? Often the last years models have better performance than some this years.
pctek (84)
1326967 2013-02-07 20:15:00 Thank you all very much fore your help, i feel like i may end up spending more than $200 but oh well. :D mcclma (17006)
1326968 2013-02-07 21:57:00 To do what?
For gaming it's the most important component. Going with low end cards is pointless.
You'd be better off getting second hand - last years high end or the year befores high end.

This.
DeSade (984)
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