Best value graphics cards you can buy in South Africa

[The Joker]

Urgh I'm in study mode, so writing and research and stuff like this seems to be bubbling out of me of late, lol.

But you make a fair point. The list does include cards that does seem rather old for the company it keeps, and the question about Rebel Tech is a perfectly valid one. I guess the incredible rate at which MyGaming has been pumping out articles as of late (which, but the way I am not complaining about, in fact I think it's fantastic), may have had an impact on some additional research time as to the different retailers. But again, I guess the main aim of the article was to use the Passmark ratings as reference, and get a single local price point as reference as well. Perhaps my Assimilation personality is over-analysis this way too much though, which is a distinct possibility.

May I ask what's wrong with Passmark? And in your reply, can you give us a guide as to which other way GPU's can be objectively compared performance wise. Perhaps we can do our own little Performance/Value calculations focusing more on Rand/Performance ratio's....

Passmark = Rubbish synthetic benchmark.
It means nothing in the real world. Which is where we are lol

If you're going to include a form of benchmark to show a gpu's performance then use a gaming benchmark. Yes this would take considerable research but it can be done.

a Good example of my issue with Passmark is the GTX970 vs R9 390.
They are both fantastic value for money cards. They are fairly equal when it comes to in game performance. Some times the GTX970 is a lot faster and visa versa. Yet in passmark the GTX970 is rated much much higher.

I can find other examples of this as well but I'm not going to bother lol I honestly can't stand synthetic benchmarks.

An article like this can be done extremely well and in depth but that's not what My Gaming is going for. They're punting out articles at an insane rate and with such a rate comes the whole quality vs quantity thing.