jmke

These benchmark results:
- Crysis Warhead (1920x1200, 4xAA, Max)
- Far Cry 2 (1920x1200, 4x AA, Max)
- Battleforge (1920x1200, AA, Max, Dx10)
- World of Warcraft (1920x1200, 8xAA, Max)
- HAWX (1920x1200, 4xAA, DX10, Max)
- Dawn of War 2 (1920x1200, AA, Max)
- Resident Evil 5 (1920x1200, 4xAA, Max)
- Batman Arkham Asylum (1920x1200, no AA, Max)
- Left 4 Dead (1920x1200, 4x AA, Max)

Were combined with the pricing at Newegg.com of these video cards:
- ATI 4850
- ATI 4870 (1GB)
- ATI 4890
- ATI 5870
- Nvidia GTS 250
- Nvidia GTX 260 (216)
- Nvidia GTX 275
- Nvidia GTX 285

Into this Dollars Per FPS chart:


Or the other way around, FPS per Dollar chart:


Last one, % chart of the one above:


In the last chart you can clearly see that the Radeon HD 5870 is not the best price/performance buy, there are much better alternatives at 1920x1200, you also can see that NVIDIA doesn't need to reduce pricing of GTX 285 by much to actually best the HD 5870, which only has a small ~6% lead.

src: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=355

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