Which is better?

[gxavier38]

Which is better? 560Ti or 570? What does the Ti mean anyway? I'm thinking of adding another for SLI in the near future too. I want to run BF3 with high graphics, ultra with slighly lower settings. Advice?

 

[jeffredo]

The GTX 570. "Ti" is the elemental symbol for Titanium and is a homage to Nvidia's cards with that moniker from a decade ago.

 

[smeg4brainsuk]

Quite simply the 570 is more powerful

The 560Ti is a great card and the Ti is an old branding Nvidia used in the Geforce 3 series (Titanium). Ti cards are better than the stock cards so think of it as a GTX 565

The GTX570 is brilliant (get the EVGA, ASUS Direct CU II, MSI II or GIGABYTE) but the 560Ti is good and overclocks like a demon.

 

[gxavier38]

I'm thinking of the ASUS DirectCU II. Also, just thought of it, would a 7xxx series by AMD be better than these? Which ones?

 

[genetic98]

depends on wat psu do u use?

 

[gxavier38]

I have more than enough budget for a new PSU. That isn't a big deal.

 

[genetic98]

then go for a HD6970 or a hd7970

 

[gxavier38]

6970 or 6990 or 580 or 590 or 7970 or wait for the 7990 and the 6xx Nvidia cards?

 

[smeg4brainsuk]

Waiting for the next gen cards is always better, but it depends how long you want to wait for

And the 590 is a beast, best card on the market atm its closet equal is the HD 6990, make sure your system can handle it

 

[gxavier38]

It can. I have a beast here. How about the 590 vs 7970?

 

[smeg4brainsuk]

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gaming-graphics-card-review,review-32374-7.html

590>7970

The 590 and 6990 are in a different league atm as they run on dual cores

The only next gen cards that will beat them are the 7990 and 690 and even then the difference will be marginal unless the 6xx series somehow blows everything away.

Rather than wait i suggest getting a GTX 590 if its raw power you want, not much will beat it for years to come

 

[gxavier38]

So the 590 is better than 7970, which is the best AMD you can buy right now?

 

[smeg4brainsuk]

Yes the GTX 590 is better than the HD 7970. Best AMD is the Radeon HD 6990

Again, i refer you to this chart for a complete run down of every GPU and their order

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gaming-graphics-card-review,review-32374-7.html

Just make sure you have a great case, plenty of power and fantastic cooling. Not to mention a monitor setup and CPU that can actually take advantage of these cards

 

[gxavier38]

Wait, so 580 vs 6990?

 

[smeg4brainsuk]

Are you actually paying attention? if you click the links i provided then you will know which card is better than which, but its all fairly moot unless you have triple 1080p monitor setups as you wont need to go far beyond a GTX 570 or HD 6970 for single/dual monitor ultra gaming

The 590 and 6990 are unique cards as they are the only ones out there that have dual chip sets meaning they are practically a dual card setup with better engineering and no micro stutter issues.

What is it you are wanting to set up/buy? its a massive jump from the beginning of the thread where you were asking about two cards that cost a few hundred to two cards that cost a little less than a thousand...

and to finish yes a 6990 is more powerful than a 580....

 

[gxavier38]

Yes I'm paying attention. I was just looking for advice. Lol I didn't even realize the topic change...

 

[smeg4brainsuk]

my apologies, for a few posts you were just throwing numbers and vs and my mind blew XD

As for micro stuttering the updated drivers for both cards pretty much eradicated it (unless they are used for old games, in which case wth are you using them for lol) so as long as Nvidia and AMD keep on top of it it will never be an issue as far as i am aware

As for 590 vs 7970 in a big game benchmark

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-7970-crossfire-review/19

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7XsKEg3SZ2w#!

 

[smeg4brainsuk]

The 590 has 3gb frame buffer

 

[gxavier38]

Sorry guys, what is micro stuttering? Like, the screen "moving" and lines appearing?

 

[gxavier38]

Nah, don't worry. I googled it.

 

[smeg4brainsuk]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gainward-3414MHz-607MHz-Shader-1215MHz/dp/B004TMHWFQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330609826&sr=8-1

it is indeed a 3gb Buffer, 1.5gb per GPU core each with 384-bit interface

http://uk.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-590/specifications

 

[gxavier38]

The 7970 in sli uses all though

 

[gxavier38]

As I've heard?

 

[gxavier38]

What Ive heard is that it uses them all, 6gb... I will check again.

 

[srafig4]

buy GTX 560 Ti 448 also good~and have 3 fans on gigabyte card.