The guys at InsideHW set out to see which "budget-performance" card is king: ATi's offering from HiS, or nVidia's iteration from XFX.

"We all know that, after a certain amount of time since the best model is presented to the consumer market, a newer version arrives, more-or-less weaker, and takes up a spot in the slightly lower price range. A product such as this usually appears discretely, with no hype at all, and becomes generally accepted and praised for its price-performance ratio."