April 10, 2006
Interactive VGA Charts
Care about 3D graphics performance? Check out our all-new Interactive VGA Charts 2006, now including benchmarks for dual graphics setups and multiple visual settings.
December 02, 2005
VGA Charts VIII: PCI Express Winter 2005
PCI Express has been around for more than six months now, while NVIDIA has also had time to perfect its SLI offerings. Our latest VGA charts show that not everything can be chalked up to PCI Express and SLI alone.
July 05, 2005
VGA Charts VII: AGP Update Summer 2005
The majority of PC owners still use a motherboard with an AGP slot, so in our newest edition of the VGA Charts, we show you how the older models perform in modern games compared to the current generation of AGP graphics cards. The benchmark suite consists of seven different applications, each run at three resolutions and with two different quality levels.
May 24, 2005
VGA Charts VI: PCI Express Update Summer 2005
Our latest VGA Chart compares 33 different graphics solutions, including Intel's integrated GMA900/i915G device and three SLI cards. Our test workup comprised no less than seven applications, three different resolutions and two different quality settings per game.
December 22, 2004
VGA Charts V: PCI Express Graphics Cards
In Part IV of the Tom's Hardware Guide VGA charts, we pitted the current AGP models against each other. In Part V, it's time to take a look at the new models utilizing the PCI Express bus, including NVIDIA's SLI cards.
October 04, 2004
VGA Charts IV: AGP Graphics Cards
This year's VGA charts feature performance tests for 10 games and benchmarks in three resolutions and quality settings, including an overview of 35 AGP graphics card classes from ATi, NVIDIA, S3 and XG.
December 29, 2003
VGA Charts III
This year's THG VGA charts feature performance tests from ten different games and benchmarks, including an overview of 46 different graphics cards from ATi, NVIDIA, Matrox, S3 and XGI. We also included tests gauging anisotropic filtering and FSAA and a ranking of the cards by a price/quality ratio. As always, some of the results should surprise.
December 20, 2002
VGA Charts II: High-End Systems
Tom's VGA Charts are back, and we've updated them with the very latest in graphics cards as well as new benchmarks. In Part I, we compare 29 high-end graphics cards in fast systems.
January 20, 2003
VGA Charts II: Mainstream Systems
In the second part of the big VGA Charts Update we take a look at 31 cards and how they perform on a slower system. Also, we check out how FSAA, anisotropic filtering, and a combination of both affect performance.
April 18, 2002
VGA Charts I
30 graphics cards from ATI, NVIDIA and PowerVR at one go - here, we offer you an overview of boards from the past couple of years. How fast are they in the latest games and benchmarks? How much of an advantage do you get when you switch graphics cards? These VGA charts give you the answers.
November 10, 2004
THG Graphics Card Buyers Guide
The THG Graphics Card Buyer's Guide has been written to be a guideline for the purchase of a new graphics card. It aids beginners in selecting the right model with the right feature set, and explains the newest technologies and features.
July 14, 2003
VGA Card Buyer's Guide 07/2003
Choosing a new graphics card is not an easy decision. We've put together the THG VGA Buyer's Guide to help you with that decision. Our guide gives you an overview of all the latest offerings on the graphics card market.
