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.