GTX 460 vs GTX 560 ti vs GTX 570

at stock the 480 is just slightly better than the 570, but at the resolution of 1280x720, all 3 cards should kill it.

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 480 should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall.

GeForce GTX 480 177408 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
Difference: 49152 (38%)
Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 25%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 480.

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480 42000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10608 (25%)
Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, and very much so.

GeForce GTX 480 33600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7296 (28%)

if you want the full details: http://www.hwcompare.com/8867/geforce-gtx-480-vs-geforc...

or

http://www.hwcompare.com/9000/geforce-gtx-480-vs-geforc...

The 480 is a better card but its a bit out dated. I just bought a gtx 560 ti yesterday and i'm slightly regretting it because the figures show the 480 as a superior card.

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 480 should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall.

GeForce GTX 480 177408 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
Difference: 49152 (38%)
Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 25%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 480.

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480 42000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10608 (25%)
Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, and very much so.

GeForce GTX 480 33600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7296 (28%)

if you want the full details: http://www.hwcompare.com/8867/geforce-gtx-480-vs-geforc...

or

http://www.hwcompare.com/9000/geforce-gtx-480-vs-geforc...

The 480 is a better card but its a bit out dated. I just bought a gtx 560 ti yesterday and i'm slightly regretting it because the figures show the 480 as a superior card.

Forgive the noobish question, but what's AA levels?

anti aliasing. what it is is when you are looking at an object at an angle(like a wall) what AA does is smooth out the image. heres an example in portal of the difference

So what d u think? the GTX 560ti is better than the 480?

The 480 takes alot of power and alot of cooling power. What power supply are you going to get?

And at a res of 1600x900, all of those cards are going to do well.

480 is around 25% slower at Anisotropic filtering, so a GTX 560 ti would have slightly clearer textures and blur objects further away to give the illusion of distance. But, this isn't as important as AA - AA is the most noticeable and jaggedy's just look unnatural. In terms of AA, the 480 is 28% better. It's really down to personal preference - whether you prefer AA or AF. Whichever you think improves the game quality the best is going to be the better card.

Of course these figures are just theoretical, but they are pretty accurate.
The gtx 560 ti and the Gtx 480 are around the same price, but I would say get a good cooler for the GTX 480 as they are noisy and hot - with a new cooler you will have the capacity to OC a little if you so desire.

With a good cooler, I don't see any reason against the 480 being able to compete or being slightly better than a 570. (AF is only 5% more on the 570 which is practically nothing unless you have a massive resolution monitor)

Conclusion: Get a gtx 480 with a good cooler and you will have a beast of a card.[/quotemsg


Thanks! The GTX 480 it is.  

That's the thing. Some are saying that the GTX 480 is the better one. lol

560 ti twin frozr is very good and a lot quieter than the 480. But keeping the stock fan on the 480 really limits it, so with a good cooler (arctic or spitfire) it will end up being very similar in performance to a 570. Overclock that, you would have the ability to with a good cooler, and you've really got something. Plus if your motherboard has a nividia chipset and can support SLI, you could add another one and run it in SLI when then price hits rock bottom. The result of two 480's in SLI would compete with a 680 (which is currently at the top of the gpu benchmarks).

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=703... -here is a comparison of the 480 in Sli with the gtx 680. 480 in sli is the obvious choice if you don't care about the power consumption.

here are the league tables for various graphics cards (480 is rank 9, 560 ti is rank 20) http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html