Where do you get your benchmarks?

[nosirrah123]

I use anandtech's handy-dandy comparison tool ( http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU14/815 ), But I was wondering if there was a better place, because I find that while the Anandtech tool is easy to use, it's not all that informative.

[helping]

420googleit 

 

(gpunamhere) benchmarks

 

control+click everything for the next two pages. 

most of the worth reading pages will be in the first two pages of results, you should be able to get a relative performance gauge no matter what the comparison is. 

[WoodenMarker]

Look up several regarding what's actually relevant. 

Ex: Look for maya rendering tests if that's what the system is being used for.

[miyabwah]

I just use http://passmark.com

[That Norwegian Guy]

I just use http://passmark.com

 

Beware, Passmark may be great for comparing CPUs, but it's super-trash for comparing GPUs, as they haven't changed their benchmarking since DX9/ early DX10 era, so the results aren't relevant to DX11 performance AT ALL. And some cards are artificially over/ underperforming on their list because of it. Like the GTX580. Passmark's benchmark also hardly even loads anything into VRAM during testing, so any memory overclocking is irrelevant.

[RWT98]

newegg

[Me1z]

Beware, Passmark may be great for comparing CPUs, but it's super-trash for comparing GPUs, as they haven't changed their benchmarking since DX9/ early DX10 era, so the results aren't relevant to DX11 performance AT ALL. And some cards are artificially over/ underperforming on their list because of it. Like the GTX580. Passmark's benchmark also hardly even loads anything into VRAM during testing, so any memory overclocking is irrelevant.

 

Woah, hold on. Passmark is not as broken as you say. For GPU scoring there are multiple tests including 2D, direct compute, DX9, DX10 AND DX11 perfomance. Each test gets scored individually and you can see in what scenarios each GPU excels and is then added for OVERALL comparison for their list, because not every game/ application uses DX11.  Also, the GTX 580 is not over performing on their list at all. The GTX 580, which I currently use, is a little beast and EASILY performs on par with a GTX 760 in modern games and DESTROYS in all games made prior to 2009. Contrary to popular belief, Kepler is incredibly weak. It takes 3 Kepler cores to do the work of one Fermi core. A light overclock on a GTX 580 can beat a GTX 680 in everything except direct compute where it becomes a test of how many individual tasks you can perform at once and not how fast you can perform them. Get out of my face with your Fermi trash talking, the GTX 580 has rightfully earned its rank.

[LogicalDrm]

Passmark and several review sites. Problem with review sites is that they tend to use games that are irrelevant and/or not that demanding. Instead games are chosen by what is popular at the time.

[jezza39]

I like techpowerup, they neatly arrange all the recent GPUs in tables with Performance/$, Relative performance etc.