Video card quality and performance ranking resources

[VoxMoose]

What is the standard resource (web site, Steam link, etc.) Steam partons use to gauge the relative quality and performance rankings/characteristics of video cards? For example, a game might indicate that an AMD ABC card is the minimum and I have AMD card XYZ. The XYZ and ABC names frequently don't tell the whole story if XYZ is going to meet those requriements. Cold online searches are often unclear because different cards are better at some things than others and the relative ranking (in meeting minimum game requirements) is ambiguous. I've downloaded games that seem like they would work with my card based on my own online assessments, but then don't. Yes, I do need an upgrade, but I'm not interested in being reminded of that right now. That said, while I do have an older Mac, the hardware isn't trajectly outdated.
Any insight is appreciated.


iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011), OSX 10.12.5
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB

[Omega]

Simply Google YOUR_GPU and the name of the game or if the minimum system requirements say for example AMD r9 380 you simply Google AMD r9 380 VS YOUR_GPU. But still no GPU preforms the same in a game so there is no way to tell if a GPU is able to play a game or not. If you just get a new budget game PC (Not a MAC) you do not have to worry about that anymore.

[tacoshy]

uhm AMD Radeon HD 6970M? isnt that a laptop gpu?

[Omega]

Автор сообщения: tacoshy

uhm AMD Radeon HD 6970M? isnt that a laptop gpu?

OP has a MAC.

[Hatman]

If you just want a rough comparison you can use THG's hierarchy table: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

[Glerk]

Автор сообщения: Omega

Автор сообщения: tacoshy

uhm AMD Radeon HD 6970M? isnt that a laptop gpu?

OP has a MAC.

!show him the builds

Oh right, this isn't reddit.

[upcoast]

Автор сообщения: IndianScammer

Автор сообщения: Omega

OP has a MAC.

!show him the builds

Oh right, this isn't reddit.

It's still a mobile that's what the "m" stands for.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4340/27inch-apple-imac-review-2011/4

It's poo by todays standards and even in the past an HD6850 low level card was and is better.

Ps, if the res is the same as in the article 1440p nothing much lately will play at that res the HD6970m is just too weak. To give you perspective the regular HD6970 2GB is very close to the GTX750ti but you've got the 6970m for mobile so you're basically SOL.

[Venlord]

Автор сообщения: tacoshy

uhm AMD Radeon HD 6970M? isnt that a laptop gpu?

You'll often find desktop CPU's but mobile GPU's in iMacs depending on the model. I believe the latest iMacs however come with RX 5XX PRO GPUs, I have no idea what the PRO means, or if those are even mobile.

https://www.apple.com/imac/specs/

Hopefully this somewhat helps

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6970M.43077.0.html

Peformance could be between HD 5750 and 5770, which would be around the peformance of a GTS 450.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Автор сообщения: tacoshy

uhm AMD Radeon HD 6970M? isnt that a laptop gpu?

iMac = All in One Desktop; so yea it basically uses custom laptop parts.