GTX 590 with Water Block vs. GTX 680 4gb

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Shane1027

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Well guys, my deal offering $200 for a 770 fell through, I knew it was too good to be true :(

So I'm buying a gpu and these are about the same price. I plan on playing heavily modded skyrim, bf4, so the ample vram is nice. Mostly I will play single monitor, 1080p, crysis 3, dayz, skyrim, bf4, gta v when it hits, ghosts, emulators, etc. And I like to Record my gameplay for youtube.

I have a custom loop, and a capable psu, so that's no difference here

So my question is, should I get the 590 with a waterblock and add it to my custom loop, (I hear it doesn't overclock well though), or should I grab the 680 with reference cooler that has the ability to do ShadowPlay, great for my purposes, and get a block at a later date? I see the 590 beats out the 680 in most benchmarks, but the 680 seems to be more overclockable..... hmmm....


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The 590 should beat the 680 is most games, BUT the 590 technically counts as 2 cards, and will have some of the problems that are common with sli such as a slight amount of stutter in some cases. Also the 590 will not be able use both gpu's in all games (some just arent optimized for it).

Basically the 770 IS a 680, and the 4gb variant is only good if you want to sli, as you will run out of gpu power before you pass the 2gb mark. If you can find a 780 for the same price as your 590, go with that instead
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The 590 should beat the 680 is most games, BUT the 590 technically counts as 2 cards, and will have some of the problems that are common with sli such as a slight amount of stutter in some cases. Also the 590 will not be able use both gpu's in all games (some just arent optimized for it).

Basically the 770 IS a 680, and the 4gb variant is only good if you want to sli, as you will run out of gpu power before you pass the 2gb mark. If you can find a 780 for the same price as your 590, go with that instead
 
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590 is more comparable to a 780 if anything, its around that sort of speed. But the fact that it is SLI and only has 1.5GB of VRAM is a bit of a catch. I'd go with the 680, wouldn't bother with the 4GB version at 1080p and considering you aren't SLIing it (games running at settings high enough to use more than 2GB would produce an unplayable framerate on a single 680).

Whats your budget? There are better cards than the 680.
 
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Shane1027

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well the offer for the 590 on water is $260, and the 680 is $250. I thought the 590 had 3gb of usable vram though? I have passed 3gb in skyrim before, and I plan on upgrading in the future to additional monitors.

Budget is about $250-$275, I've seen deals for new 770's for like $260, 2gb variants, should I just get one of those? Please recommend what better cards there are! I'm coming off of a sapphire 7950 sold during the mining boom.
 
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Brantyn Gerik

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You'd have to screenshot passing 3gb in skyrim, as even my fully modded, enb, textures n the works modded skyrim does not use over 2.5 gb on max settings across 3 1080 screens. It sounds like you either have way too many mods, or you some really unoptimized ones.
 
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Shane1027

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well maybe it was just allocated then idk! No screenshots possible, whole reason I'm asking this question is to pick out a gpu for my new rig, hence it isnt built yet :)
 
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The 680 has built in H264 encoder hardware for streaming video - 700 series removed this feature - my understanding. So if streaming is important 680 may be better for you. There was a thread a few days ago where the poster was having cpu maxing out while streaming - he had a GTX 780.
-Bruce
 
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As I understand it anything 600 series and on (that isn't a crappy low end rebadged Fermi) has a H264 encoder, which is why the 600 and 700 series cards can do Shadowplay and the 500 series cannot. I think the guy streaming must have not been using the Nvidia software or something.
 
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