Upgrade from 550 TI 560 TI

[stink snake]

I purchased a EVGA 550 TI 2GB. I like the performance but I was wondering if 560 TI is going to be a better choice in the long run.

 

[mdd1963]

I'm not sure what the point is of the 2gb version of the 550Ti....; at resolutions where 2gb would matter (well above 1920x1200), the 550Ti is too slow to make use of it....

If you are gaming, the 560Ti is much faster.

 

[stink snake]

The last time I really was into PC gaming mice had balls...so the amount ram in a video card means little? I don't need resolutions over 1900 x 1080 now.

I've been a console gamer for so long I have lost complete touch with the PC gaming scene. I have spent hours scouring the pc scene but it has been so long I don't understand the chipsets by number and performance. It doesn't seem so long ago that I reluctantly trashed my voodo 2.

Where do I find the mark between over buying power and under buying. The 550 provides enough that I can see what I have been missing with console gaming over the last few years but I know it is not enough for what comes out now and going forward.

 

[mdd1963]

The amount of video RaM is important only in that you need 'enough' framebuffer size for the given resolution and textures/details to be processed/displayed and levels of AA/AF to be processed; having more Vram than needed does not make the card faster at a given resolution. The 550Ti has fewer CUDA cores and a crippled memory bus relative to even the older GTX460(768mb) cards.

(Generally speaking, 1 gb is 'enough' at 1080P, and 1.5 gb is usually enough for 2560x1600, with 2gb nice for 3 monitor gaming with effective 5700x1080 res)

The 560Ti and 6950 both offer very good performance for their $200/$220 pricepoints...