GTX560ti 2GB vx GTX560 2GB vs 69502GB

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swoz

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I'm looking to upgrade my aging ASUS Radeon HD 4850 in my recently-upgraded system.

I'm running:
Intel i5-2500 (stock)
Kingston 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 (KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX) <running at 1333MHz because BIOS won't run 1600>
GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 Mobo
500W Thermaltake PSU
500GB 7200RPM HDD
ASUS Radeon HD 4850
NZXT Vulcan case

I want to run my games at 1920x1080 with 'good' if not 'great' graphics quality (FSAA is likely the least of my priorities)
I would like to run these well: Witcher 2, Crysis 2, Skyrim, DX:HE, TF2, and upcoming games.

I can't find any good reports on the 2GB versions of the 560 and 560ti, so I can't compare them to the 6950 2GB - all three are similarly priced, though.

Also, looking at the card companies - which are good? XFX, EVGA, HIS, MSI, Sapphire

I would prefer a quiet card.

Any thoughts?
 
The 2gb of vram on the cards is generaly for high resolutions (2540x1600) and multiple monitors. Since the AMD cards support Eyefinity and multiple monitors you will see more of thier cards with 2 or 3 gb of v-ram. Nvidia does support multiple monitors but not like AMD. So if you are considering a 560Ti or 560 then you could focus on the 1gb version. I would go with the 560Ti since it is the better card and wil give you better performance.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

This chart gives you an idea where cards fall in order of best to worst and at what level each is at when comparing Nvidia to AMD.
 

andrewcarr

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Of those brands I would consider XFX, Sapphire then MSI (but would also consider Galaxy, ASUS and Gigabyte). I would just get the 560Ti non 2GB version, in most cases the 560Ti outperforms the 6950 (although this card has a chance of unlocking to 6970). If you don't want to overclock the cards would get the one of these two.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162088
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127578
If you don't mind overclocking the card consider on of these.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127594
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127565
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127608
 
As far as card companies go Evga and MSI are good with Evga being just a little bit better because they give a limited lifetime warrety on thier AR cards. It is lifetime as I have found out with my own cards and having to do an RMA after a year of use.
 

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It looks like there is only a $5 difference for the MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II and the MSI N560GTX-Ti Hawk, both are OCed 560 Tis but the Frozr II has 1GB more VRAM. Any reason why I shouldn't go with the extra GB? If I enable FSAA and other post-processing, the extra gig would be nothing but helpful, or am I wrong?

From what I've seen over the years, larger VRAM seems to extend the lifetime of a card's viability in new games. I'm trying to future-proof my system while not buying flagship GPUs...

Does 320 bit 1GB GDDR5 have that much of an advantage over 2GB 264-bit GDDR5? I can see how 320-bit gives more bandwidth, but I don't know whether it's ever that saturated...
 
Yuo can get what ever card that you want to and nobody is going to try and talk you out of it. It's your computer and you should put in it what you want and to be honest you won't be able to tell the difference from one to the other because they are close in performance. The extra gb of vram comes into play when you have a screen resolution of 2540x1600 and or a 30" monitor. But if getting 2gb of vram makes you feel better then get the card with 2gb , then you have it if you ever need it.
 


With those cards something to consider is, do you like to have a little play ? or to put it in English would you look to over clock the card at all ?
The Hawk cards are basically designed with over clocking in mind and are built with over specked components and voltage regulation circuits. So you should all things being equal, which is never guaranteed. Then the Hawk should give you better results.

If you just want a card that you know will run well and last you a decent amount of time then the extra Vram wouldn't hurt to that end. There are games now that would benefit from the extra memory so you wouldn't be doing wrong.

But in the end as has been said its a decision you have to make, just trying to give you the info to best make that decision.

Mactronix :)
 
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