Price to performance

[el_vandragon]

Hi so I've been watching scrapyard wars and Linus talks about having a formula to calculate Price to Performance which seems like a super helpful thing to know. I was wondering how I could calculate this? I know it would be a ratio but what is he basing his performance numbers off of? I am trying to upgrade my build and I want to know if it would be worth it to do it now or upgrade later. Thanks!

[ThatOneRussian]

Frames per second per dollar

[DarkBlade2117]

Simple-

Best Price to performance now is between $900-$1100 depending on sales, Ect.

[el_vandragon]

Do you know where he's getting FPS numbers from because that seems difficult to calculate with all the different variables in a build

[LeapFrogMasterRace]

Make a excel formula 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Do you know where he's getting FPS numbers from because that seems difficult to calculate with all the different variables in a build

 

That's where Linus messed up!

[el_vandragon]

That's where Linus messed up!

So how would I be able to get an accurate list for me to be able to do this myself?

[WoodenMarker]

Base the performance off of what you'll actually be using the system for. 

The best option for the money is usually to get a bit more than what you need and save any extra money for more frequent future upgrades.

[Killervolt]

I read somewhere but I don't quite remember . . . I think it was fps divided by cost, using a range of cards, obviously.

[erwinracer]

If you dont have a bottleneck, you only have to take the fps count of the graphics card.

 

Here is an example:

I look here for benchmarks: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU15/1370

For the prices i looked on amazon.

Lets take the 390X, it is $423.37 : 56.8 = 7.45.

Then lets take a 980, $538.74 : 63.4 = 8.49.

So the 390X has much better price to performance.

[Prolly_dyin]

To find the fps per dollar of a card, (given you have no other bottlenecks) you would take the price of the card and divide it by the average fps the card can run a game at. 

Typically your best fps per dollar cards are in the $200-$250 usd price range for new cards.

 

What Linus was trying to do is calculate fps per price of the entire build.

[Swordtiny]

On 09/11/2015 at 2:46 PM, ThatOneRussian said:

Frames per second per dollar

so you mean we calculate the average FPS on the game (lets say just cause 3) and you divide that FPS with the price of the card itself?