Buying a $400 graphics card is certainly not where the majority of people are when it comes to building their own systems. The fact is that the best selling video cards are still in that $100 and under price range. Today, we look at a card that falls into that category, the Gigabyte HD 5670. Read on to see how it compares to the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT, which was a very popular card a couple years back!

So, as you get ready to look at making your upgrade from the card that cost you $100 two years ago to a card that costs you $100 today, what kind of performance increase can we see? Actually, for the investment of $109.99 plus shipping, the Gigabyte Radeon HD 5670 is a pretty nice upgrade. It is certainly a faster card that allowed us to see some decent gains in frame rate, but it also was an upgrade that brought in some new features with being DX11 compatible. Other features like 1GB of GDDR5 memory, being able to run three panels, HDMI out and DirectCompute help make this a card that is just a step above many of the other offerings in this price range, and it certainly is a big upgrade from the previous generation $100 card that we tested against...