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Best Bench: 55% Gigabyte(1458 367A)
Worst Bench: 45% MSI(1462 3160)

Poor: 45% Great: 55%

SPEED RANK: 92^nd / 667

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Best Bench: 52% PowerColor(148C 2379)
Worst Bench: 39% XFX(1682 C570)

Poor: 39% Great: 52%

SPEED RANK: 98^th / 667


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		50.3 %	Slightly faster effective speed. +7%		46.8 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	61.4 fps	Slightly better lighting effects. +9%	56.5 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	71.6 fps	Better reflection handling. +20%	59.5 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	67.9 fps	Faster multi rendering. +14%	59.5 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	62.3 fps	+4%	59.7 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	69.2 fps	Slightly better peak lighting effects. +8%	64 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	82.5 fps	Better peak reflection handling. +30%	63.7 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	71.4 fps	Faster peak multi rendering. +14%	62.8 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	67.8 fps	+3%	65.7 fps


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	156 Fps	Better CSGO Fps. +25%	124 Fps
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	94 Fps	Better Fortnite Fps. +15%	81 Fps
PUBG Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	63 Fps	+1%	62 Fps
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	53 Fps		54 Fps	+2%
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	156 Fps	Better LoL Fps. +14%	137 Fps
Overwatch Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	97 Fps	Slightly Better Overwatch Fps. +8%	90 Fps
BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	62 Fps	Better BF1 Fps. +27%	49 Fps
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	48 Fps		48 Fps	+1%
Minecraft Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	189 Fps	Better Minecraft Fps. +23%	154 Fps
DOTA 2 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	121 Fps	Better DOTA 2 Fps. +11%	109 Fps
WoW Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	63 Fps		68 Fps	Slightly Better WoW Fps. +8%
WoT Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	97 Fps	Better WoT Fps. +15%	85 Fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	1.39 %	Higher market share. +21%	1.15 %
Value Value For Money	35 %		73.9 %	Hugely better value. +111%
User Rating UBM User Rating	70 %	+4%	67 %
Price Price (score)	$340		$150	Much cheaper. +56%


Age Newest	85 Months		54 Months	Much more recent. +36%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	69.9 fps		89.8 fps	Better peak texture detail. +28%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	59.6 fps	Faster peak complex splatting. +26%	47.2 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	62.2 fps		78.2 fps	Better texture detail. +26%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	54.6 fps	Faster complex splatting. +25%	43.8 fps

The Nvidia GTX 970 is a game changer in terms of performance per watt and value for money. The GTX 970 is based on Nvidia's ground-breaking Maxwell architecture which delivers considerable clock for clock performance gains over Kepler, its predecessor. Comparing the GTX 970 and 780 Ti shows that the two cards offer comparable performance yet the new GTX 970 costs nearly half as much! Unsurprisingly Nvidia are discontinuing the 780 Ti as it's now largely redundant. These price to performance gains typically occur once or twice a decade and although the new Maxwell architecture will improve down the line with the release of the Ti/Titan versions, at the moment the 970 offers the best value for money on the market by miles. Since this summary was originally written AMD have slashed prices and older Nvidia models (780/780 Ti/770) have also been hugely discounted. See the latest value for money rankings here. ^{[Jul '15 GPUPro]}

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The Radeon RX 570 is the second in the line-up of AMD’s 500 series of GPUs targeting the popular mid-range market. The 500 series is based on the second generation Polaris architecture and is a minor upgrade over the 400 series. The RX 570 is around 10% faster than its predecessor, the RX 470. With 2048 cores, it is a cut down version of the RX 580 which is $30 more expensive and around 20% faster. At $130, the RX 570 offers superb value to gamers on a very tight budget. By dropping detail levels slightly below maximum the RX 570 can deliver 60 EFps in most of today’s popular games. If at all possible, we would suggest spending around $50 more for the 30% faster 8GB RX 590 which can comfortably hold 60+ EFps at 1080p with maximum details. ^{[Nov '19 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-11600K $260	Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti $400	Crucial MX500 250GB $45
Intel Core i5-11400F $245	Nvidia RTX 3070 $500	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52
Intel Core i7-11700K $350	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $240	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $183

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $68	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $38	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $75	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $649	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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