Now that a wide variety of next-generation multi-function video cards are on the market, we thought it was time to round up the best ones and do an in-depth comparison between them. We looked at performance mainly, but we also evaluated the different bundles, drivers, and the degree of each card's "intangibles" to find which card would most please the highly critical buying audience. Entries included cards based on the Voodoo2, Banshee, TNT, G200, and Savage3D chipsets.

The emphasis for the rankings were based from the gamer's perspective, as the majority of SharkyExtreme readers are dying to know which card will allow them to best experience the joy of upcoming games like Half-Life, SiN, Heavy Gear 2, and Tomb Raider 3.

If you need more detail on each of the cards and what they offer, please feel free to read the previous reviews SharkyExtreme has performed on them in our Hardware Center.

Also, we re-ran our full benchmark suite on each of the cards for this comparison, and the results are in graph form at the end of the article.

On to the awards ceremony.......