Asus EN9600 GT

Asus EN9600 GT

For the budget conscious, the Asus EN9600 GT would do well to get you through those demanding games. Being one of the faster performers in its price range, this card will get you the best performance to the dollar. So the bad? Well the HDMI audio still requires an audio pass-through cable, but that is hardly anything to complain about for a card in this price range.

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Core Clock Speed: 650 MHz
Video Memory: 512 MB
Memory: DDR3 SDRAM 256-bit
Memory Clock Speed: 1.8 GHz
Supported: DirectX 10
Interfaces: 2 x DVI-I, 1 x VGA (With adapter), 1 x S-video/composite output
Compatible Slots: 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16

Nvidia GeForce GTX 295

Nvidia GeForce GTX 295

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 cuts no corners. Coming out on top as one of the fastest single-card on the market the Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 is no joke. This card pushes out good relative power efficiency for its performance, and is priced aggressive to outdo its competition.

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
Core Clock Speed: 576
Video Memory: 1792 MB
Memory: GDDR3 SDRAM 896-bit
Memory Clock Speed: 1.998 GHz
Supported: DirectX 10
Interfaces: 2 x DVI-I, 1 x HDMI
Compatible Slots: 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16

XFX Radeon HD 4650 1 GB

Great work by XFX on the 4650 which proved to be a competitively mid range graphic card. Offering 1GB of memory for the card certainly help boost its specs. Although the 4650 XFX turned out to be a well performing card, the lack of HDMI or even a converter DVI to HDMI dongle is a pretty large turnoff. I guess they just don’t care that much in the end…

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Asus EAHD4870X2

Asus EAHD4870X2

Asus's EAHD4870X2 is no green device, but it does talk with its performance. The pitfall? Well at its price range, we can’t wonder why you wouldn’t fork out a few more bucks to get something better. The EAHD4870X2 is price competitively for its price range, but at well over $400 we don’t see anyone wanting to cut corners to save a few dollars.

Manufacturing process: 55nm
Core clock: 750MHz
Stream processors: 800
Memory: 2GB
Memory speed: 3.66GHz DDR 5

Sapphire 4650

Looks like another success story for Sapphire. With the Sapphire 4650 out performing Nvidia's 9500GT in all games except Crysis Warhead. But all is not without a cost as the card is shipped with an annoyingly loud fan. There is no question about the price and performance of the card, so if you don't mind a bit of fan noise, you might want to consider the Sapphire 4650.

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Radeon HD 4850 X2

Radeon HD 4850 X2

Being the best performing card in its price range has its’ drawbacks. The Radeon HD 4850 X2 has one of the worst power efficiency in comparison to other cards in its class. But, who really cares how much power your graphic cards consumes as long as it performance great, right? I’ll let you figure that one. But, the card does feature four DVI outputs so you don’t need a second card just to setup your 4 monitor display unit.

Graphics Processor: 2 GPUs - ATI Radeon HD 4850
Core Clock Speed: 625 MHz
Video Memory Installed: 2 GB
Memory: GDDR3 SDRAM 256-bit
Memory Clock Speed: 993 MHz
Support: DirectX 10.1
Interfaces: 4 x DVI-I, 1 x HDMI (With adapter), 1 x HDTV output
Compatible Slots: 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16