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Performance chart for gamers looking to buy used Nvidia GPUs
What do you use to benchmark used GPU?
I see a lot of people benchmarking their GPUs. Is there a particular program that's considered the best and are any of them free?
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Just out of curiousity and boredom, I created a performance chart, based on aggregated benchmark results, to be able to better compare the gaming performance of the various Nvidia GPUs.
There are a variety of similar lists and performance benchmark charts online, but a lot of them (Like Tom’s Hardware) lack a unified chart that includes all RTX generations, and some of them (like bestvaluegpu) only base their performance ratings on one single benchmark.
The chart that I have made, then, has a Raw Performance rating based on six weighted benchmark results from 3DMark (Speed Way, Steel Nomad DX12, Steel Nomad Light DX12, Time Spy, Time Spy Extreme and Port Royal) as well as the Passmark DX12 Video Card Benchmark. This gives us (I hope) a broad, overall performance rating for a relatively wide range of gaming use cases, from lighter/older games to new, raytracing-heavy AAA titles.
I thought that even though this chart is far from any rigorous, scientific undertaking, it might still be useful for others, particularly for people looking to buy a used GPU and would like to get a good way to gauge the relative value of various different models.
I can get back more to the methodology in the comments, but an important thing to say right away is that apart from the Raw Performance column, there is also a Weighted Performance one (which the 1-60 hierarchy is based upon), where the raw performance for each card is adjusted for VRAM (punishing cards with less than 16 GB) and – very slightly – for model generation (GTX cards lacking DLSS upscaling, 20-series cards having lacking HDMI 2.1x support, 30-series for not enabling frame generation, et cetera).
Sorta, kinda, with lots of caveats (and actually quite unintended), the Weighted Performance rating aligns reasonably well with what I would consider to be a fair price in USD for a used GPU (in good condition) of that particular model (at least on the Swedish/EU used market), from a strictly game performance-oriented perspective (which, for example, puts the 3090 at a lower price point than you would be likely to find on eBay, simply because its 24 GB of VRAM is overkill for the vast majority of games).
Hope at least someone here finds it useful!
What do you use to benchmark used GPU?
What tests do you use to determine whether an old GPU is still good? Most results I've found are pretty old:
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FurMark for stress test
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3dMark for rendering
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GPU-Z to see if it's legit
Is this correct? Are they still valid?