GTX 570 vs GTX 560 Ti performance/price and investment

MrGreedy

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I am buying a new computer as a package. That makes me only able to choose between cards in the GTX 500-series or Radeon 6000-series.

GTX 560 Ti cost: $350.
GTX 570 cost: $480.

Questions:

1) Which of these two cards will provide most performance/buck?

2) Right now I probably wont need the extra performance from 570. But do you still think it's worth the extra $130 as an investment for the future? How much longer the 570 last me?
 

po1nted

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Honestly, go with what you can afford, but that seems like a lot since the retail difference in cost of thsoe two cards is about $50.00.

I would go with the 560ti, in your situation, as long as the games you are going to play will perform acceptably on them (check benchmarks on this site and others).
 

po1nted

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He is buying these as a bundle, so probably doesn't have an option to customize with specific brands/models.
 

MKBL

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Ask the builder if it is 560 Ti 448, or just regula 560 Ti. If it is 448, you have room to overclock. Especially if it is EVGA Classified or Classified Ultra, it can even beat 570. 560 Ti and 570 have different chips, but 560 Ti 448 and 570 share the same kind of GPU.
 

legendkiller

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Since you dont have PCIe 3.0, I recommend you buy GTx 580 because 7870 is a waste without the full potential and the GTx 580 is at a great price to buy... Note: PCIe 3.0 x8 = PCIe 2.0 x16
BTW, If you want, you can buy a Radeon 7950 3GB for $450 which is pretty good but it stand toe to toe with GTx 580...
 

pedalbike

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A 7870 won't even come close to filling pcie 2.0 so having 3.0 will do nothing.
 

MKBL

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All review sites report PCIe 3.0 has negligible or just nominal speed advantage over PCIe 2.0, so PCIe version shouldn't be a differentiation factor, unless you have multi-SLI/XFire planned in the future.

Setting aside price gap, it seems that the biggest difference between old generation (GTX5XX & HD 6XXX) and new generation (GTX 6XX & HD7XXX) is the performance/power ratio. New cards have much better efficiency on top of better performance.