Going from GTX 580 to GTX 660 Ti...?

proffet

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I almost had a notion to sell a GTX 580 and try out the GTX 660Ti but after scouring the internet looking for answers, I can't see it.
the GTX 670 I do not feel like paying for and if I stay at 1080p I might be able to get away with the 660Ti.
I'm not really a Kepler fan but not going HD Radeon, this unit is really only gaming and video, no computing where Kepler fails.

I have an offer for my GTX 580 of $260 and the GTX 660 Ti is $295-$310 on sale and depending which model.

so it's not a clear choice.
but I wanna make a slight change to my unit and compare.
I got a strange feeling that waiting for the GTX 7 series or whatever might be wise unless the GTX 670 hits a sale.

hmm.
please advise.

 
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You got great deals on both of those transactions. $700 for a 590 is highway robbery, pretty much full retail price, and the 680 for $450 is the lowest price I have seen so far.
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Overclocking hasn't been necessary for me yet on: Skyrim, COD: MW2, BFBC2, Fallout 3, and Rage. No issues running those games at full settings.

My strategy is to wait for the GK110 "Big Kepler" GTX 780 to be released early next year. I'm assuming they will refine the current Kepler cards and really come up with a nice product, similar to what they did with the GTX 480 to 580 leap. Until then, there's really no reason to upgrade to something that doesn't add anything in terms of gameplay image quality settings.
 

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Early next year? kepler? playoffs? AMD will probably hit next Jan/Feb. But unless Nvidia has been really hitting the midnight oil too change their releasing time frames. I wouldnt expect the 7xx series until summer at the earliest. Nvidia Cycles have been ~1.5 years. The 680 released in March, the 670 in May. I wouldn't hold my breath for Nvidia.

I also am trying to decide between a 660 ti and 670 atm. I will probably go 670. I am hoping that the 670 will have a better resale value come next year. So I can upgrade to the 770 for cheap. I do believe the next generation cards from AMD and Nvidia will offer huge performance boosts compared to what was gained from last gen. But they might also decide to crank up the prices too.
 

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I would wait for the 7XX chips... the 580 is still pretty beast and the new hardware is coming soon. I don't think you'll need to OC. I'd buy a 580 if I could afford it lol. Also, I'm sure the 7XX series will support new software and provide better graphics.
 

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That's very interesting! I guess I'll be fine with PCIe 2.0 for the year.

@Matto Looks pretty beast to me man! I want one now LOL!
 

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That link says the card will be based on GK114.Other news articles are also backing this and reports that if the red team doesn't throw some huge compute challenge then nvidia will carry on supplying a refurbished mid-range kepler chip namely GK114 not GK110.
Doesn't this mean we will be missing dp compute performance in this entire kepler iteration?
On the brighter side of things I expect significant bandwidth improvement from wider memory buses resulting in the cuda cores of 780 not being bottlenecked like those of the 680.
 

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not giving up my Lighting 580 but I also have a EVGA SC 580 @ 800MHz (not much clock to it)
and that's the one I'm thinking of trading out for.
but it looks like I'm gonna stay that route (EVGA SC 580).
 

SLI?

Oh wait, I see that you motherboard probably doesn't support SLI.