What dejo said or just look at all the benchmarks.
Go onto the egg and look through the graphics card section. Just look at the model names (470, 480 for Nvidia or a 5850, 5870 and so on for ATI). Just go over to google and type <model name> benchmarks and see what kinda framerates it gets in different games.
That's probably the best way of learning what GPU is good.
You can obviously also compare it to the price you would have to pay so you understand price for performance.