shopping for a PC graphics card you will be bombarded with misinformation mostly
people aren't intentionally misleading you mostly usually they just don't
understand what they're selling but you're the one who ends up getting burned the biggest misconception is this
no you cannot compare performance by looking at specifications take these
cards in completely different price brackets for example this 4 gig graphics
card is only about $100 but no it is not
an amazing deal compared to this this 4 gig one for $11,000 sure they're both
GeForce they both have direct X11 their clock speeds are similar and the RAM
amount is the same but the $1,000 card
is easily more than an order of magnitude faster than the $100 one
because these cards use different design architectures here's an analogy a modern
loaded semi can travel around 1,400 M on a single tank of fuel in 2009 Ford's
Fusion Hybrid traveled around 1,400 M on a single tank of fuel these are similar
specs and they're both interesting facts but they have nothing to do with each
other a semi has a 200g fuel tank runs
on diesel and Carries an enormous load while that hybrid has a 175 gallon fuel
tank runs on gas and electricity and carries around one dude another flawed
method of comparing specifications is to compare across different graphics
processor manufacturers this chart is interesting sure but I also have another
big word for it that starts with i because it cannot conclusively tell us
which of these is better than the other it just doesn't work that way and that's
not to say that looking at specs is always a total waste of time when
comparing products based on the same design architecture and with similar
specifications to each other relative performance can sometimes be inferred
but even this should be done with great caution so at this point you're probably
getting frustrated how do we actually compare performance real games you want
to know how they actually run on the card that you're looking at this
information is definitely out there we do graphics card reviews on the Linus
Tech tips YouTube channel but it's important to find a review that covers
the games that you want to play with gear that's realistic for you for
example if you have a 1080p monitor don't buy based on a review where the
cards were tested at 4K resolution but there's great news aside from my other
channel there are literally hundreds of sites that review graphics cards a few
of my favorites in no particular order also linked in the video description are
hardware con.com and on.com and PC p.com
okay so now you're sitting there saying fine lonus but what about all the stuff
besides performance stability heat output power consumption and other
software features these are all important to me too well there's a ton
of information out there about that stuff too but it's a little outside the
scope of this video and I know it can be overwhelming but the odds are excellent
that if you CH go charging into a typical PC Hardware Community asking
questions like who do you think has the best drivers AMD or NVIDIA you're going
to start an argument so at least let me point you in the right direction Direction in my mind at the time of
filming this AMD's key advantages are true audio project mantle and great
multim monitor support with their ifinity technology NVIDIA's key
advantages are game stream GeForce experience with Shadow play and g-sync
which makes undesirable effects like leg due to vsync and tearing due to high
frame rates disappear and I guess if you want to game in Stereo 3D then 3D Vision
would also be an advantage for NVIDIA now I'm going to try to update this
video with annotated links to my own explanations of these Technologies but
it might take me a while so in the meantime you can head over to linch
tips.com our community forum is I believe friendlier than most so you can
seek additional clarity about these features speaking of features our
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