Current crop of graphics cards compared, ranked by price

Engadget: “Although NVIDIA’s pledged to simplify its lineup
for consumers and ATI’s been getting better, the current state of the
graphics card market is still a pretty wild alphabet soup of model
numbers and specs lists, so the crew over at The Tech Report decided to
break things down using the only stat that matters: price. While the
results aren’t exactly shocking (surprise: more dollars equals more
FPS), what’s interesting is that multi-GPU rigs are really quite
cost-effective, delivering performance on par with higher-end cards at
significantly lower prices. For example, two Radeon HD 3850s run nearly
as fast as a single Radeon HD 3870 X2, even though they cost a fair bit
less, and two GeForce 9600 GTs can potentially outgun a GeForce 8800
Ultra. That’s always been the promise of SLI and CrossFire, and it
looks like it’s paying off — any system-builders out there care to
share their experiences?”