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December Video Card Price Guide - Page 7By SharkyExtreme.com Staff December 3, 2004
The following chart takes all of the tracked ATI and NVIDIA cards, and incorporates it into one monster chart, that is then sorted by retail price. It's a very extensive list, which gives you all the pertinent price data, and all in one place. This is also a great way to view the data, and determine exactly where the cards stack up to each other, along with rating your budget against the gamut of available options. Video card price sorting was done previously in the high-end/mainstream/entry-level price lists, but we couldn't resist posting the entire video card selection, from top to bottom. The overall price chart gives another view of the video card market, and while we don't see anything new in terms of pricing or value, it does make the individual "value points" much more obvious. The entry-level market is still being shared by the value-oriented, but still powerful Radeon 9600SE, while the GeForce FX 5700LE gives a lot of performance for a sub-$100 price. The entry level is not geared toward the PCI Express buyer, as the Radeon 9200-based X300 SE/LE and GeForce PCX 5300 simply cannot match up in terms of gaming power. The mainstream sector has it easier, and here NVIDIA offers the GeForce FX 5900XT for AGP buyers, while the GeForce 6600 line is a great reason to go PCI Express. Unfortunately, the newly-released GeForce 6800 GT AGP variants are priced quite a bit higher than the PCIe equivalent, and are still well above the $200 mark. The high-end is proving to be quite volatile, and we again show significant price shifts in some areas. For our money, the GeForce 6800GT 256MB offers the best overall value, with the Radeon X800 XT 256MB providing a similar price-performance level for the high-end ATI crowd.
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