Earlier this week I carried out an OpenGL performance comparison of NVIDIA GPUs going back 10 years that included 27 different graphics cards from the GeForce 8 series through the latest-generation GeForce 900 Maxwell graphics cards. In this weekend article are some complementary tests from this comparison with the OpenGL benchmarks at 1920 x 1080.

The OpenGL benchmarks done earlier this week for the 27-way GeForce graphics card comparison were done at 2560 x 1600. That resolution was used since all of the cards going back to the GeForce 8 series could mode-set to that resolution with the Samsung SyncMaster 30 display as the highest supported by all of the graphics cards tested. I didn't use the more common 1920 x 1080 as that would leave many of the newer NVIDIA GPUs more CPU bound in not being able to fully stress the Kepler and Maxwell graphics cards that can now even handle 4K gaming in many instances with ease. However, with the 2560 x 1600 testing, it's rather stressful for the older NVIDIA GeForce 8/9 graphics cards where 256~512MB of video RAM was common. So in honoring the feedback of some that were curious about 1920 x 1080 so that the older GPUs could cope better, I ran some follow-up tests.