When we think of SiS graphics, we usually think of low cost, low-end cards or integrated offerings for the entry-level 2D market, with the possibility of some rudimentary 3D capabilities thrown in.

There is only one card in this picture. No, really. Okay, let’s discuss this.

An exciting glimpse at future performance, but by the time games appear to make them worth buying, the price will have plummeted.

Potentially Much faster than a X1900 XTX in games with large textures yet it costs the same. At over $100 less than Nvidia’s 7950 GX2, it’s a fine card.

Performance, software and value that almost snatches away the A-List crown.

Tesla GPUs aimed at geoscience, molecular biology and medical diagnostics.

'Fundamental new architecture' promises major speed boost.

Breathe some life into your old PC in time for a Vista upgrade with these budget AGP video cards.

An interesting concept But performance is determined by drivers and ultimately it smacks of gimmick.

2D graphics speed has been a non-issue for some years, and the demand for analog image quality is also waning in the move to digital TFTs, all of which means that Matrox's reputation for analog engineering is now a moot point for most users.

A useful card for more relaxed gaming, and a quiet cooler to boot.

Possibly the last great AGP graphics card, and it's quite the powerhouse.

In the workstation graphics market, the name 3Dlabs carries considerable weight, and its Wildcat III series of OpenGL cards continues to be dominating in the high-end workspace. However, in the mid-range sector, NVIDIAs Quadro2 and Quadro4, and ATIs FireGL 8800 have made serious inroads. The new Wildcat VP870 looks set to redress the balance, thanks to a brand-new GPU that takes programmability to a new level.

Not bad value for an older card, but it’s too noisy.

Yet another older GPU that’s eclipsed by the 7600 GT.

A real bargain. If you don’t need to capture video, its gaming performance makes it a great choice.

A well featured card, but it can’t match the 7600 GS for value.

The Quadro FX3000 is based on the same NV35 core that powers the latest GeForce FX 5900 cards, but with a few new additions to cater to the professional market. Compared to the older Quadro FX2000, which was based on the NV30, or GeForce FX5800, the FX3000 has double the memory, at 256MB, as well as a 256-bit memory interface, giving double the theoretical graphics bandwidth, hitting just over 27GB/s. It also supports other features from the NV35, including a 128-bit floating-point precision graphics pipeline, 128-bit colour, 12-bit sub-pixel accuracy, 16x full-scene anti-aliasing, 3D volumetric textures, and of course support for all the latest OpenGL, DirectX and NVIDIA’s own Cg graphics language versions.

TI's current workstation-class 3D graphics accelerators - dubbed X1 - are the company's latest effort to keep a hand in the high-end 3D graphics market. Consumer-level 3D hardware is now massively powerful, of course, but for all-out 3D performance and rock-solid driver integration you need a card dedicated to the purpose, and ATI claims the X1-128 is it.

The RX 9800 PRO is another card based on the RADEON 9800 PRO GPU that returned reasonable default resolution results, but slipped under in higher resolution synthetic benchmarking.