Even industry insiders acknowledge that the recommended specs are pretty inaccurate, and with the vast differences in individual PC configurations its almost impossible to decide what a ‘minimum spec’ might be.
I won’t ruin the whole article, you can pick up the March 2008 issue in the shops, but there was a particular piece of the article I thought was very useful. What they’ve done is to compile a list of the ‘hottest hardware’ and try to define a pecking order for graphics cards and processors.
They acknowledge that in some cases its very difficult to say that card X is better than card Y, but they’ve ranked them on performance features and value for money. You might not agree with the standings, and I’m not going to criticise, but it does make a good list to see how your system compares with what’s available to buy right now.
I, for one, get a bit lost in the neverending releases of graphics cards and processors, all with model numbers that don’t necessarily mean an awful lot. Sometimes graphics cards with similar model numbers can be very different in terms of performance, and when you’re shelling out anything up to £400 you want to be sure you’re buying the right one. The same with processors, where two similarly named chips can have different architecture that makes one considerably slower than the other.
So, from best to last, in order, here are PC Gamer’s rankings for graphics cards.
Credit to this list goes to the February 2008 issue of PC Gamer. You can also check out their processor rankings.
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Where would the Radeon HD 4350 be?
I'm planning to release an updated list soon, so keep your eyes open.
What is this?Ge Force 8800?Ice age?
Cmon be serious we are in 2010!
Hi Alex, did you not check the date on this post? When it was written in February 2008 the GeForce 8800 was the dog's bo11ocks, but two years later and things have moved on. As I mentioned above, at some point I'll be releasing a more up-to-date list.
feb 2008....
hmm....
don't u think it's a long span to gather all the info within 2 yrs..
come on dude... it's been already 2 yrs now... and u r saying... up-to-date.....?
Yes, it is two years old, but did you not read the article? This list was taken from PC Gamer and sadly they've not repeated the exercise since 2008.
Want to try a more up to date list? Have a look at http://www.emsai.net/reviews/gpu/.
what about GeForce 555M ?????
Sadly this list is getting a bit out of date now. Wish I could get my hands on all of the latest graphics cards to run a more up-to-date test.
Me with geforce 6100 today: yes