Updated benchmarks of last 2-3 generation cards with new drivers?

[CakeMonster]

Are there any good benchmarks of the last 2-3 generations of cards with recent drivers?

I'm thinking of the AMD 5xxx to 7xxx series and the NV 4xx to 6xx series. I am in the process of upgrading an older pc and I have some cards laying around. I also need to advice a few friends on upgrading, and whether they can use any of my cards. But considering the massive performance improvements that new cards got this fall (both AMD and NV had great driver updates for their recent series) old benchmarks are not very useful.

Does anyone know of any relatively recent reviews/benchmarks that are using updated drivers and include the previous generations? Preferably with a "typical" selection of popular games from the last couple of years (not just brand new titles).


Oops, sorry, posted this in CPU category, would a mod mind moving the topic?

 

[fixbsod]

I would like more of this too. I am so sick of everytime a new gen of vid cards comes out that all the benchmarks are just across the current gen. Really?? Like are that many people still debating a 620 vs 660? or 660 vs 7950? I feel like benchmarks that only show current gen are the biggest waste of time ever because most people have prev gen cards / components and so it would be MUCH more useful to see just how much an upgrade can improve your results.

 

[BrightCandle]

The best way to do this is to use something like http://www.bench.anandtech.com/. This can give you access to a much wider list of GPUs than just the last generation and will give you an idea of how far you would go on new hardware.

The same can be said with CPUs where Anandtech go back to the Pentium 4 and athlon 2.

While retesting that all on the latest drivers might show some boost its unlikely to make a massive difference in all honesty, drives don't do magic, these days they mostly just fix performance problems rather than gives us genuine increases and certainly nothing like back in the Riva TNT days where performance doubled in one release.