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For graphics cards you simply have to search for benchmarks comparing them and how they perform in games. There is little point in comparing specs between two different cards unless they are from the same generation and same series, otherwise architectural differences make the comparison meaningless.
If you don't want to do that and want a quick and dirty way of doing it, look at the model names of the cards. There are 2 GPU manufacturers of note, AMD and Nvidia, they each have their own naming conventions. For AMD it's Radeon HD and 4 digits, the first digit indicates the generation, the current genration is 7, the second digit indicates the market segment, 9 for high end, 8 for mainstream, 7 for entry level, and 6 and lower for low end, and the third and fourth digit indicates if it is a full version of a GPU design, or a slightly cut down version that is discounted accordingly, 70 is the full version, 50 is the cut down version. For example, a Radeon HD 7970 is a seventh generation card, high end, and is the full version of that GPU, it is AMD's fastest current single GPU card.
Nvidia has a slightly different naming convention, their cards are called GeForce GTX and have three digits. First digit indicates generation number (they are also currently at 7) second digit indicates market segment, with 9 being reserved for dual GPU cards, 8 and 7 being high end, 6 being midrange, and 5 typically being entry level (though there have been some recent exceptions to that). The third digit is pretty much always a 0. eg. The GeForce GTX 780 is the fastest in the current series (technically second fastest, but let's not muddy things up by talking about the GeForce Titan).
Hope you're not too confused about all this, which is why I recommend looking at benchmarks if you want to compare graphics cards.
If you don't want to do that and want a quick and dirty way of doing it, look at the model names of the cards. There are 2 GPU manufacturers of note, AMD and Nvidia, they each have their own naming conventions. For AMD it's Radeon HD and 4 digits, the first digit indicates the generation, the current genration is 7, the second digit indicates the market segment, 9 for high end, 8 for mainstream, 7 for entry level, and 6 and lower for low end, and the third and fourth digit indicates if it is a full version of a GPU design, or a slightly cut down version that is discounted accordingly, 70 is the full version, 50 is the cut down version. For example, a Radeon HD 7970 is a seventh generation card, high end, and is the full version of that GPU, it is AMD's fastest current single GPU card.
Nvidia has a slightly different naming convention, their cards are called GeForce GTX and have three digits. First digit indicates generation number (they are also currently at 7) second digit indicates market segment, with 9 being reserved for dual GPU cards, 8 and 7 being high end, 6 being midrange, and 5 typically being entry level (though there have been some recent exceptions to that). The third digit is pretty much always a 0. eg. The GeForce GTX 780 is the fastest in the current series (technically second fastest, but let's not muddy things up by talking about the GeForce Titan).
Hope you're not too confused about all this, which is why I recommend looking at benchmarks if you want to compare graphics cards.
