Battlefield 3 - 570 , 6970 or 6870?? BEST RELATION PRICE/PERFORMANCE?

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i want to get a new graphic card, all i want to do is play BF3, ofc ill play more games but most powerfull game atm is BF3, i got an i5 760 4gb ram 1600 and 700W PSU

please i've read so many threads @ many websites ( like 10+ threads about nearly same questions here @ TM... i want the final solution!!

tell me WHICH is FASTER, and BETTER for the € it costs, i have 300€ to spend, thank you very much for your sooner replies :D
 
Guru3D uses the following games in their test suite, COD-MW, Bad Company 2, Dirt 2, Far Cry 2, Metro 2033, Dawn of Discovery, Crysis Warhead. Total fps (summing fps in each game @ 1920 x 1200) for the various options in parenthesis (single card / SL or CF) are tabulated below along with their cost in dollars per frame single card - CF or SLI:

$ 170.00 6870 (434/701) $ 0.39 - $ 0.49
$ 240.00 6950 Frozr OC (484/759) $ 0.50 - $ 0.63
$ 320.00 6970 (526/825) $ 0.61 - $ 0.78
$ 215.00 560 Ti - 900 Mhz (495/862) $ 0.43 - $ 0.50
$ 340.00 570 (524/873) $ 0.65 - $ 0.78
$ 500.00 580 (616/953) $ 0.81 - $ 1.05

Well 300 euro is about $385 US .... if you were here, you could get two 900 Mhz 560 Ti's which would cost ya $430 .... about 11% over budget. Next step down would be two 6870's but ya lose 161 fps or 19% performance (862 fps down to 701)


 

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woww, thats so much useful data.... anyways my 300 euro will never be 385 usd, because here in europe they say...50$US?? = 50 euro!!, thats the ratio we have to suffer.... ok and about all your info, you believe that 2 560 ti will run BF3 @ ultra at like 60 fps? i forgot to say my mobo is an asus p7p55d and my monitor display is 1920 x 1080, so your info was pretty good , what would you if it were you who will be buying the graphic card?? maybe my motherboard doesnt support sli... it does crossfire for sure, i checked it before.

i need you guys to tell me which card to buy!!!
 

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checking that table and AMD website, it seems that best thing i can do ( not thinking about future, because of xfire) is buying a pair of HD 6870's.... or maybe a single 560 ti / 570( i think 570 will be a little bit more than 300 euro) and wait for like 6 months/1 year and complete the sli if i chose to buy the 560 ti / 570 ?
 

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just found this about my motherboard........ please read and confirm me that i cant crossfire.....

http://www.hardware-revolution.com/p55-motherboards-crossfire-sli-performance-problem/
 

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thanks xxsjxx1, as i see i cant crossfire due to my motherboard ( if i crossfire i will lose alot of performance ) ill try to compare these 3 @ BF3 and finally get the best performance/price:

EVGA Classified 560 TI 44
HD 6970
GTX 570, ill be back when i find out which performs better!
 



there's no way that a 560ti 448 will perform 'exactly' same as a gtx 570.simply because gtx 570 has 480 cores(if i am not wrong) and gtx 560ti has 448.
 

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thank you, finally decided to buy the MSI twinfrozer III, thanks MJ and amuffin, my mainboard just supports crossfire so even in case i could sli 560/570 i would only have x16 x4 performance, how to close this!?? =)!!!!
 

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yeah incase of sli i would need to replace my mobo :(, anyways ill go with just 1

MSI GeForce GTX 570 Twin Frozr III PE/OC 1280MB GDDR5 , ty.
 

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BF3 at 1080P can be played at 55-60fps on a 6970 if you turn MSAA off. This is based on my personal experience. I have a i5 2500K clocked to 4.5ghz....and the 6970 at stock with 8gb of DDR 3 1600mhz memory.

The GTX 570 is good but it runs into vram issues because bf3 consumes more than 1300mb at 1080P with everything maxed out. However its within 5 FPS of 6970 if I am not mistaken. If you turn MSAA off I think it can easily beat the 6970. It definitely overclocks a lot better so you might be able to hit 60fps. Keep in mind MSAA does almost nothing in bf3. HARDOCP.com did analysis on bf3 AA modes in great detail.

Now price to performance is always with dual cards like 6870 x 2 but some rigs suffer from microstutter..and the fps aren't as stable as a single card. They fluctuate a lot more in 6870 CFX.

So basically 6970 or GTX 570. My thinking was the 1280mb on 570 is too low for future high end games...for eg Crysis 2 right now consumes close to 1800mb of vram at 1080P if you crank up everything. So 6970 is more future proof relative to the 570.

Oh..and you better be willing to overclock that CPU of yours or you won't hit 50+fps with anything below GTX 580.
 

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well my personal experience with gtx 570 is unbelievable this card eats anythin and everythin plus it nvidia has physx dont forget that games make special effecets for that. battlefield with single gtx 570 is like 75 - 55 fps and so smooth i was surprised how smooth it was and ultra high settings thats why im going to sli it now cuz its worth it i also used hd 5770 right before the card and it was a super nice card for its price but then it wasnt even good enough to play cod black ops smoothly and i was disappointed u know so i would pick nvidia over amd anyday but imnot sayin amd is bad dont get that expression
 

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i know right i was thinkin about 580 but that doesnt worth another 120 or 150 dollars for extra 15 fps or not even sometimes i can jus oc my 570 and get the results done :)