Gpu 102

[Geoff]

i give up, this thread can now be closed

what i have learned today is:

Benchmarks are all and the only things to look at when trying to determine GPU performance

Exactly. You cant tell the performance of a card simply by looking at the pipelines and speeds. However you can tell roughly the performance by comparing shader ops, texture fill rate, and vertex ops. You can see them by going here: http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php and comparing cards.