Best High-End Graphic Cards 2012 – Benchmark Comparison

High-End Graphic Cards 2012 Review

Our technological world has got surrounded with graphical manifestation all around. Be it your gaming needs or your video playback, graphics card is needed by every person who works with graphic oriented applications. Graphic cards are the actual base behind the extraordinary graphics performance we are delivered with.

When it comes to buying a Graphics card or making selection on the GPU configurations, we undergo a state of confusion. In the world of Technology, where we tend to move faster and speedier day-by-day through different devices there it gets quite confusing for a user to select the best graphics cards which can deliver fastest and efficient graphics performance. Here is our guide to find the best graphics card for your machine amongst top Graphics card in the world:

• NVidia GeForce GTX 690 –NVidia brought their two best GPUs (Kepler GK104) placed on one card, crowned with excellent cooler in GeForce GTX 690, making it one of the fastest Single-board Graphics cards. The GPU runs 3072 Cores at 915MHz clocking speed which can be over clocked to 1,019MHz. It also includes 4GBmemory of 512 bit GDDR5 and the GPU boost technology which is the real power source behind its performance.

• AMD Radeon HD 6990 –AMD Radeon HD 6990 cards place two Cayman XT GPUs – R6970 on a single board. Featuring high speed GDDR5 memory of 4GB and up to 830MHz clocking speed, expect some high resolution gaming in faster speeds with Radeon HD 6990. Its PowerTune Technology ensures over clocking of speed and handles intelligent power management during its faster performance.

• NVidia GeForce GTX 590 – NVidia GeForce GTX 590 is the combined prototype of 1024 NVidia SUDAarchitecture, 6 Billion Transistors, GDDR5 memory of 3GB and over 2200 individual components, all incorporated in 11 inch dual card slot. Experience some high definition Gaming experience through its NVIDIA 3D Vision surround technology which allows intense and stereoscopic gaming which can be configured on four different displays using its four separate video outputs.

• AMD Radeon HD 7970–World’s first 28nm silicon GPU is the configuration of multi GPU in a revolutionary GCN architecture using Silicon Fabrication process. It holds the capacity to double the system interface bandwidth to32 GB/s and became the first card to come incompliant with Microsoft for shipping its major new version of Windows.

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX570 – Excellent performance and solid DirectX 11 capabilities with 480 CUDA Cores on an improved structure defines NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570. The core of this graphic card operates at the clocking speed of 732MHz and along with 1.2 GB of GGR5 Memory it speeds up to 950MHz against 1002MHz of GTX 580. 480 CUDA cores on NVidia Fermi architecture is what perfectly defines the structure of this Graphics card.

• AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 –HD6870 card combines two Barts processor on single board graphics card as crossfire configuration. The card can deliver 2560 x 1600 resolution performance and multiscreen setups with its PowerColorHD Feature. The card comes with 2GB GDDR5 memory which in combination with BartX processor can deliver the clocking speed up to 900MHz.

Benchmark

1. Metro 2033: The Last Refuge – DX11

2. Far Cry 2 – DX10

3. Colin McRae Dirt 2 – DX11

4. 3D Mark

	3D Mark P Score	3D Mark Vantage
Nvidia Geforce GTX 690	14002	45283
AMD Radeon HD 6990	9593	33848
Nvidia Geforce GTX 590	8749	33965
AMD Radeon HD 7970	8673	33311
Nvidia Geforce GTX 570	5306	21569
AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2	8075	27218

Temperature Chart

Noise Levels

Price List

Graphics Card	Price
Nvidia Geforce GTX 690	Rs. 53,800
AMD Radeon HD 6990	Rs. 36,000
Nvidia Geforce GTX 590	Rs. 39,000
AMD Radeon HD 7970	Rs. 33,490
Nvidia Geforce GTX 570	Rs. 20,300
AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2	Rs. 18,000

Comparison Chart

Manufacturer	Nvidia Geforce GTX 690	AMD Radeon HD 6990	Nvidia Geforce GTX 590
Fabrication node	28nm	40nm	40nm
Stream processors	3072	3072	1024
Memory Clock	1502 / 6008 MHz	1250 MHz	854 / 3414 MHz
Graphics memory	4096 MB	4096 MB	3072 MB
Memory interface	256-bit	256-bit x2	384-bit
Power consumption	300W	350W	365W

Manufacturer	AMD Radeon HD 7970	Nvidia Geforce GTX 570	AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2
Fabrication node	28nm	40nm	40nm
Stream processors	2048	480	1120
Memory Clock / Data rate MHz	1375 MHz	3800 MHz	4200 MHz
Graphics memory	3092 MB	1280 MB	2048 MB
Memory interface	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit
Power consumption	250W	219 W	280 watts

Conclusion

We come across various devices with different graphics card but as you have seen majorly NVidia and AMD Radeon are the two top notch companies which we associate with Graphics world. The above listing of few top companies is our take on graphics cards rating based on the criteria of performance. If you are not game freak, then the listed graphics cards are strictly not meant for you as they are quite expensive; which is the best graphics card according to the hardware support and suitable for your essential device is purely your decision.