GTX 660 vs a GTX 580 Lightning Extreme edition (downgrade or upgrade?)

Sugar Kaine Mostly · Mar 4, 2016

My mobo is a Gigabyte GA-X58A-OC with 24gb memory and intel i7-990x, and so it doesn't have a PCIe 3.0 x 16.

I figured 384-bit at 3gb is better than the 192-bit at 2gb.

I mainly do editing using Premiere CS6. Nothing more.

mcnumpty23 · Mar 4, 2016

for Premiere CS6 they will be pretty much neck and neck i would think

lack of a pci-e 3.0 isnt that relevant

Davinlevey · Mar 4, 2016

Agreed, splitting hairs. The 660 would draw less power, but it wouldn't be an upgrade otherwise.

Eximo · Mar 4, 2016

GTX580 is a much better CUDA compute card then a GTX660 at least.

Sugar Kaine Mostly · Mar 4, 2016

Is the 3Gb extreme edition 580 the best of all 580 cards?

Eximo · Mar 4, 2016

Well, maybe, depends on what you are after. 3GB was an extra feature, most were 1.5GB. The lightning cooler is rather large, not sure if it was the best available. Has a mild overclock out of the box, but nothing crazy.

I had ASUS DCUII and those were triple slot cards. I never went crazy with them, but did push them to 900Mhz and they didn't seem to care that I had done it.

More about what you would be spending on them. I think I have seen 3GB cards hit about $100 on ebay. The 1.5GB rarely break past $75 or so.

I recently sold mine for about $60 a piece.

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