560 Ti vs 6950

Inf3rn0_44

June 8, 2011 8:18:15 PM

1gb 560 Ti - $230.00 (Able to found as low as 190)

Deals

- http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/ite...

vs

1gb 6950 - $230.00
or
2gb 6950 - $250.00

All cards new, prices from newegg.
I want to upgrade but I want to know what card is better. Please help me and others to find all positive and negative aspects about each.
My budget is at $270 I have no preference over AMD or Nvidia cards.

Is the 560 Ti just a hands down better deal? It seems cheaper and more powerful. Also shorter in the case, meaning less heat and power use?
I have a 4870 1gb right now with plenty of PSU watts available. I am also wondering if it will help to have 2 gb over 1 gb video memory?

My specs
| Intel™ Core™ i7-940 (8 Cores @ 3.20GHz HT) |
| GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R X58 Motherboard |
| G.SKILL 6 GB Tri-Channel DDR3 |
| ATI Radeon 4870 1GB |
| WD 1.5-TB HDD |
| Corsair HX850 Modular PSU |
| 22x DVD-ROM Drive |
| Samsung T240HD 24" LCD Monitor |
| ZALMAN CNPS9700 |
| 8 Fans Air Cooling |

More about : 560 6950

seanny

June 8, 2011 8:21:55 PM

Inf3rn0_44 said:

1gb 560 Ti - $230.00 (Able to found as low as 190)

Deals - http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/ite...
-
vs
1gb 6950 - $230.00
or
2gb 6950 - $250.00

All cards new, prices from newegg.
I want to upgrade but I want to know what card is better. Please help me and others to find all positive and negative aspects about each.
My budget is at $270 I have no preference over AMD or Nvidia cards.

Is the 560 Ti just a hands down better deal? It seems cheaper and more powerful. Also shorter in the case, meaning less heat and power use?
I have a 4870 1gb right now with plenty of PSU watts available. I am also wondering if it will help to have 2 gb over 1 gb video memory?

My specs
| Intel™ Core™ i7-940 (8 Cores @ 3.20GHz HT) |
| GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R X58 Motherboard |
| G.SKILL 6 GB Tri-Channel DDR3 |
| ATI Radeon 4870 1GB |
| WD 1.5-TB HDD |
| Corsair HX850 Modular PSU |
| 22x DVD-ROM Drive |
| Samsung T240HD 24" LCD Monitor |
| ZALMAN CNPS9700 |
| 8 Fans Air Cooling |

take a look at this..http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Inf3rn0_44

June 8, 2011 8:30:52 PM

Great post, I'll add it to the original post

MasterMace

June 8, 2011 8:38:43 PM

3 things to check out:

1. Best Graphics Cards for the Money: May 2011
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card-...

2. Tom's HW review on the 6950 1gb vs the GTX 560 ti.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/nvidia-geforce-gtx-560-ti...

3. XFX 6950 1gb on newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

** P.S. The card the other fellow linked to you is a GTX 560, NOT a GTX 560 ti. There is a difference between the 2, and the ti is better,

ko888

a c 547 U Graphics card

June 8, 2011 8:57:40 PM

seanny said:

take a look at this..http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

That's the non-Ti version which, on average, is 10% lower in performance than the Ti version.

It should be cheaper than the Ti version. See performance rank of GTX 560 non-Ti, GTX 560 Ti and HD 6950 :

Inf3rn0_44

June 8, 2011 11:42:47 PM

So go for the 2gb 6950

bystander

a c 217 U Graphics card

June 9, 2011 12:20:20 AM

ko888 said:

That's the non-Ti version which, on average, is 10% lower in performance than the Ti version.

It should be cheaper than the Ti version. See performance rank of GTX 560 non-Ti, GTX 560 Ti and HD 6950 :

http://tpucdn.com/reviews/Palit/GeForce_GTX_560_2_GB/images/perfrel.gif

Just to make sure you look at the chart right, you aren't comparing to the ones highlighted. The highlighted cards in the chart are the non ti cards.

Inf3rn0_44

June 9, 2011 1:09:26 AM

I have a 4870 and always have used ATI except for onboard Nvidia once before. I heard that ATI drivers are crap (in comparison) from friends, but have not given me much trouble. As for problems I do get occasional artifacts from ATI cards but I have seen some Nvidia cards do the same. I hear that ATI cards dont like to render shadows as smooth a Nvidia cards. I just want to know the facts. I might just get a 560 ti cause its cheaper and comes close and uses less power along with less space. In the future I would be able to SLI for a cheap price and get almost double the performance. I wonder will games start to use more than 1 gb vmem in the next 2 years? This is a concern because I play at 1920x1200

Inf3rn0_44

June 9, 2011 1:13:56 AM

Inf3rn0_44 said:

1gb 560 Ti - $230.00 (Able to found as low as 190)

Deals

- http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/ite...

vs

1gb 6950 - $230.00
or
2gb 6950 - $250.00

All cards new, prices from newegg.
I want to upgrade but I want to know what card is better. Please help me and others to find all positive and negative aspects about each.
My budget is at $270 I have no preference over AMD or Nvidia cards.

Is the 560 Ti just a hands down better deal? It seems cheaper and more powerful. Also shorter in the case, meaning less heat and power use?
I have a 4870 1gb right now with plenty of PSU watts available. I am also wondering if it will help to have 2 gb over 1 gb video memory?

My specs
| Intel™ Core™ i7-940 (8 Cores @ 3.20GHz HT) |
| GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R X58 Motherboard |
| G.SKILL 6 GB Tri-Channel DDR3 |
| ATI Radeon 4870 1GB |
| WD 1.5-TB HDD |
| Corsair HX850 Modular PSU |
| 22x DVD-ROM Drive |
| Samsung T240HD 24" LCD Monitor |
| ZALMAN CNPS9700 |
| 8 Fans Air Cooling |

kss207rc

June 9, 2011 2:33:54 AM

If dont care about the price difference and physx go for the 6950 2gb,but if get a non reference gtx-560ti like the msi twin frozr ii or hawk(the one i have) you are going to be faster than the 6950 in most cases.

cronos177

June 9, 2011 3:05:47 AM

+1 6950 all the way, with the possibility of a 6970. Thats just a bonus, 6950 better either way.