Graphic's cards for dummies please help

[Sidravan]

Okay so I look at all the stats on a graphics card and all I see is a wall of data that I have trouble understanding. I'd like to see this dumbed down a little bit for my less stat understanding self. So I thought I'd build an exel spreadsheet. I mean it can't be too hard, put the last three generations of graphic's cards across the board with the worst from each generation at the bottom and the best at the top with equivalent (Or nearly equivalent) cards directly across from each other. But when I try to look in on what basics I need for it I'm inundated with data I have no idea how to interoperate. I get that the 1060 is supposed to be marginally better than the 980 I have now. But I don't  need to look at margins or overclocking. I just need general run performance for each listed out in a logical fashion that is easy to trace. I should be able to look at a GTX 980ti and point at every Nvidia Graphic's card from newer generations that gets near equivalent performance and see the same with Ryzen but whenever I look at these lists of stats I don't see it in a way that fits together with my ground pounding skull. I mean sure when you look at benchmarks you can easily see that this one is almost the same as that one but "I" have no clue weather the card I'm looking at is this generation, last generation, or the one before that. I don't need to be at the bleeding edge of technology but I'd like to know when what I have has reached bargain basement levels.

Graphic's card charts.xlsx

[GoldenLag]

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1070-vs-Group-/3609vs10

 

its really simplified, but it paints a picture. 

 

 

also there are more GPUs than just from Nvidia. you also have cards from AMD. 

 

new GPUs worth looking at in rising order of cost and performance. 

 

 

rx 570<rx580<gtx 1660<gtx 1660ti<vega 56<rtx 2060<Vega 64<Radeon 7<RTX 2080

 

(radeon 7 and RTX 2080 are really similar)

 

you can also just look at the wikipages to see where we are at today. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units

[Quadriplegic]

RTX 2080 Ti
RTX 2080/ GTX 1080 Ti/ Radeon VII
RTX 2070/ Vega 64/ GTX 1080/ Vega 56 with PPT or 64 BIOS
RTX 2060/ GTX 1070 Ti/ Vega 56
GTX 1660 Ti/ GTX 1070
GTX 1660
RX 590
RX 580/ GTX 1060
RX 570/ GTX 1060 3GB

And then low-ish end stuff that doesn't matter much.

[Jurrunio]

reviewers like Gamers Nexus use big charts in their GPU reviews, should show at least how recent cards stack up to one another.

[Sidravan]

Thank you. This really helps.