An ATI 2400, like all those other low range cards, also is a SM4 card but it's not highend and so there is no reasonable benchmark for comparing all DirectX10 technology, not even speaking of a comparison to DirectX9 cards. Will someone get more than 1fps with such a card?
I can only say that all the people i know are moving away from upgrading their gfx cards like they did before and either are looking for a reasonable power consuming/priced product in the mid range or heading for a console.
I really would be interested in how well high end cards are selling these days and getting better stats on how large their market share is. For my work i would say DirectX9 is fine but i also have to take care of the low range stuff.
As for buying several benches this is no real option as i expect a GPU benchmark to offer me a comparison like a CPU benchmark without beeing forced to buy a handful of benchmarks and not even getting a compareable result between the different versions. Of course you can't compare everything due to the limitations in each generation but it still would be possible integrating tests which do stuff on a common base and present these numbers too as a base for comparing different generations of gfx cards.
I can only say that all the people i know are moving away from upgrading their gfx cards like they did before and either are looking for a reasonable power consuming/priced product in the mid range or heading for a console.
I really would be interested in how well high end cards are selling these days and getting better stats on how large their market share is. For my work i would say DirectX9 is fine but i also have to take care of the low range stuff.
As for buying several benches this is no real option as i expect a GPU benchmark to offer me a comparison like a CPU benchmark without beeing forced to buy a handful of benchmarks and not even getting a compareable result between the different versions. Of course you can't compare everything due to the limitations in each generation but it still would be possible integrating tests which do stuff on a common base and present these numbers too as a base for comparing different generations of gfx cards.