Nvidia
$450
AMD
$79
 $450 

Release date: Q4 2010.

 $79 

Release date: Q2 2017.

Real World Speed
Performance profile from 95,289 user samples
15,395 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 24% PNY(196E 086A) 1.5GB
Worst Bench: 22% EVGA(3842 1582) 1.5GB
Poor: 22% Great: 24%
SPEED RANK: 195th / 714
79,894 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 16% AMD(1002 0B04) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 12% AMD(1002 0B04) ≥ 4GB
Poor: 12% Great: 16%
SPEED RANK: 252nd / 714
Effective 3D Speed
Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed
22.8 % Much faster effective speed.
+61%
14.1 %
Lighting
Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
26.3 fps Much better lighting effects.
+70%
15.5 fps
Reflection
Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
47.5 fps Hugely better reflection handling.
+85%
25.7 fps
MRender
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)
42.8 fps Hugely faster multi rendering.
+84%
23.2 fps
Gravity
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)
22.4 fps Much faster NBody calculation.
+36%
16.5 fps
Lighting
Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
28.4 fps Much better peak lighting effects.
+60%
17.7 fps
Reflection
High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
53.1 fps Hugely better peak reflection handling.
+88%
28.2 fps
MRender
Render target array GShader (Sphere)
44.8 fps Much faster peak multi rendering.
+69%
26.5 fps
Gravity
NBody particle system (Galaxy)
23.9 fps Faster peak NBody calculation.
+27%
18.8 fps
CSGO
Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max
104 Fps 108 Fps +4%
Market Share
Based on 67,400,411 GPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.01 % 0.3 % Insanely higher market share.
+2,900%
Value
Value For Money
12 % 42.4 % Hugely better value.
+253%
User Rating
UBM User Rating
53 % 57 % Slightly more popular.
+8%
Price
Price (score)
$450 $79 Hugely cheaper.
+82%
Age
Newest
161 Months 83 Months Much more recent.
+48%
Parallax
Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
33.8 fps Much better peak texture detail.
+40%
24.2 fps
Splatting
Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
31.9 fps Faster peak complex splatting.
+24%
25.7 fps
Parallax
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
30 fps Much better texture detail.
+40%
21.4 fps
Splatting
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
29.4 fps Much faster complex splatting.
+32%
22.3 fps
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