Performance per Dollar

If you are searching for the best bang per buck, you will love this page. We looked up each card's current USD price on Newegg and used that and the relative performance numbers to calculate a performance-per-dollar index. For products no longer available, the last available reasonable price point was considered. For recent releases that are completely out of stock, we looked up a realistic price on eBay (brand-new, buy now, USA). If the tested card is at risk of being sold out and resold at higher prices, we estimate a price based on current market conditions and use it. In this case, the vendor MSRP is also indicated as an additional chart bar.

Cost per Frame

In this chart we are calculating how much you're expected to pay for each frame that's rendered (only taking into account graphics hardware cost, not power cost). The FPS numbers are based on our "Average FPS" results, which aggregates the performance results of all our game tests.

Performance per MSRP

Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price, or "MSRP" is what the GPU vendor says their product should cost. Since street prices are different, especially for older cards, we've been using actual-market-pricing in our reviews. Comparing MSRPs across generations could still result in interesting insights, especially for historic considerations, which is why we're including these charts. Please note that comparison cards are listed with the MSRP price points that they originally launched at. For your purchase decisions you should always consider current market pricing, like we do throughout this review.