It’s fast, but not quite fast enough for the huge price.

A step behind ATI’s HD 4870 on price and performance.

A minor performance boost isn’t enough to fend off its rivals.

Decent power, but bigger, dearer and noisier than the HD 4850.

Still holding its own at this price, but note the HD 4830.

A capable card – decent performance without a high price.

A cheap card, with the bonus of reasonable gaming ability.

Not the perfect value card it once was, but still worth a look.

Impressive Blu-ray performance from the cheapest card on test.

Graphics card manufacturers’ obsession with multi-GPU boards continues this month. The Asus HD 3850 X2 brings to market the novel formula of two ATi Radeon 3850 GPUs on one card.

It’s incredibly powerful, but recent releases offer similar performance for significantly less money.

A popular and fast top-end option, but it’s losing its grip to new competition from both sides.

Great performance at an appealing price, although the 9600 GT encroaches on its turf

Impressive performance for an affordable card, but the 9600 GT treads on its toes.

Affordable and fast, the 8800 GS was our top budget choice until the 9600 GT arrived to spoil the party.

It had little competition at this price, and it knocks Nvidia 8600 cards out of the race, but Nvidia’s 9600 GT trumps it.

A great media-centre card with some nice features – and at an affordable price

A competent card with older games, but it can’t handle the new generation of games.

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

Nvidia's first HDMI graphics card, complete with HDCP compatibility and decent performance.