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Considering GPU upgrade to improve BF4 experience

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December 3, 2013 7:26:06 AM

Hi, I'm considering buying a second 580gtx for my system. They seem to be going cheaply second hand so I'm wondering how much of an improvement I will likely see. Does anyone have stats for this?

A lot of people seem to be saying SLI isn't the way to go for BF4. Would I be better to get a new GFX card or just put up with it until the next gen of GPU's is released? Based on benchmarks it looks like I need to spend £400 to get 30% more performance which doesn't look like good value to me. Thanks in advance.

Spec : 4770k, 8gig ram corsair dom, MSI G65 mobo, 580 gtx gpu etc

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December 3, 2013 7:39:33 AM

The GTX 580 is still a strong card. I personally shy away from dual-GPU, because you don't get double your money's worth. My advice? Run that GTX 580 for another year or two and save for future-gen tech. The available upgrades for us aren't attractive enough yet to warrant our money.
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December 3, 2013 7:41:30 AM

You can still get good money if you sell the 580, as they are fantastic for some cuda/compute functions (better than most of the kepler series).

I would try and sell it and get a 780 or 780Ti
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December 3, 2013 7:57:59 AM

I disagree here. As long as your PSU can handle it, a second 580 is the way to go.

Sli/xfire scaling has been phenomenal since the 400 series. You will see approx. a 90% increase in performance by adding a second 580. Pretty much any game that needs that much horsepower supports SLI/xfire.

On top of that, Nvidia's frame pacing drives are good enough that the frame latency for SLI is nearly indistinguishable from a single card.

for $125-150, you'd be getting performance are the level of a titan (right in between a 780 and 780Ti)

Here's a review comparing the titan to a 590. A pair of 580's will be slightly faster than a 590, exactly where the titan is.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_T...
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December 3, 2013 8:05:43 AM

quilciri said:
I disagree here. As long as your PSU can handle it, a second 580 is the way to go.

Sli/xfire scaling has been phenomenal since the 400 series. You will see approx. a 90% increase in performance by adding a second 580. Pretty much any game that needs that much horsepower supports SLI/xfire.

On top of that, Nvidia's frame pacing drives are good enough that the frame latency for SLI is nearly indistinguishable from a single card.

for $125-150, you'd be getting performance are the level of a titan (right in between a 780 and 780Ti)

Here's a review comparing the titan to a 590. A pair of 580's will be slightly faster than a 590, exactly where the titan is.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_T...


Do you have any evidence to support your claims of a 90% increase in performance? I was unaware that multi GPU scaling technologies had advanced so far in such a short time! If that level of performance is gained with only 10% waste I may have to revisit some upgrade options!
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December 3, 2013 1:36:15 PM

Guru3d review single 580 vs. SLI 580's. feel free to skip to the benchmarks :) 

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_580_sl...

Some of the older games (such as modern warfare 2) are CPU-bound, but at the point you're pushing 265 FPS, i don't think it matters :) 

The more graphically demanding games in the review, such as crysis and metro 2033 can make full use of the extra graphics horsepower.
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December 3, 2013 1:45:28 PM

The 590 is actually 2 580's on a single card, but each GPU core on the 590 has a lower clock than a single 580, which is why two seperate 580's are faster than a 590 (ditto for every other multi-GPU card - e.g. two HD 6970's are faster than a HD 6990)
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