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Why would anyone buy an nVidia 560...

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...when the 480GTX can be had for cheaper (with a better cooler) and outperforms the 560 in every benchmark I've seen?

Some people just pander to nVidias and ATis marketing ploys of bigger numbers mean better cards. It sickens me to see the industry go this way. Was there even an nVidia 3xx range? I don't remember seeing one. What gets me most annoyed is that some **** in a purple shirt is actually going to convince some poor sap that a 560 is a much better "next gen" card and is worth paying more for than that old 480 tech!

Sorry to rant, just making sure people here don't fall into the same trap. :o
 
I would rather spend that bit extra for a GTX 570 mainly because its quieter and cooler and is slightly better overall in benchmarks but more or less the same. However I wouldn't touch the 480's they were selling here due to most of them being faulty and they were leftovers from gigabyte as well which would mainly be the reason why.
 
I bought a 560 and don't regret it at all. It's cool very quiet a great overclocker and being an msi it looks pretty good too. I personally didn't want to spend more then £200
 
for a single card then sure the 480 is the way to go but many people would go with 560's for sli (including myself) as it's unlikely to need a psu upgrade and uses like 200w less power at overclocked load
 
Since I would prefer my next card to have less power draw than the 4870X2 (and a 480 isn't much lower), if I were buying today, I would consider the MSI 570gtx or a Gigabyte SOC 560gtx.
 
I thought an overclocked Volt tweaked 570 uses almost as much as a 480 anyway ?

very close anyway ?

I'd go for the 480 anyday - more memory bandwidth, more cuda cores, and more memory :)
 
Okay so I guess it depends on whether you prefer cooler running with less power drain over more raw performance, I can understand that. It just bugs me when people insist the 560 is faster because it's the latest gen :)
 
Cant fault the 480 it is a brilliant card, but people may buy the 560 because it is quiet, also has a HDMI port where as the 480 only as a mini HDMI (even though it comes with an adapter)

Open Gl 4.0 support ( i dont know what the hell that is!)

Plus its smaller :) there the reasons i can think of xD

Oh and less power draw
 
480 is the worst card ever made, that's why it almost didn't sell. 480 draws twice as much power as 6950 2GB in load and 3 times as much power in Idle.
 
sand_dune said:
480 is the worst card ever made, that's why it almost didn't sell. 480 draws twice as much power as 6950 2GB in load and 3 times as much power in Idle.
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I disagree, it is infact a very good card with a flawed cooling system. If they had implemented the cooling system of the 580 onto the 480 it would've been a winner at the time. I have 2 and they can handle anything I throw at them.

Temps are fairly high but this is with two of them, as long as you set a custom fan profile and are prepared for them to be a bit noisy thats fine they're hardly unbearable
 
ishoeyi said:
i didn't buy any of them but

480 put me off with card length and also heard about its heat and power draw.
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Mine fits in a Antec 300 no problems heat really is not a issue certainly not in my case but i guess if you have poor airflow maybe, mine is running on a 550w psu with no problems how ever i am going to upgrade my psu to play safe, but bang for buck....
 
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