Which would be the best out of these 3?

Savo. · 8 Apr 2011 at 19:18

I am putting in a new graphics card and like these three cards, but not sure which one to get. Which would be the best card out of these three?

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 480 SUPER OC 1536MB

EVGA GeForce GTX 570 1280MB

Gainward GeForce GTX 570 Phantom 1280MB

Marine-RX179 · 8 Apr 2011 at 19:25

Out of the box the GTX480 SOC would be fastest (even stock speed GTX480 is a bit faster than the GTX570 due to it's extra VRAM). But the GTX480 SOC would consume around 50~90W more than the GTX570 under load.

TerryH · 8 Apr 2011 at 19:33

EVGA GeForce GTX 570 1280MB. That was easy

opethdisciple · 8 Apr 2011 at 19:34

Marine-RX179 said:
Out of the box the GTX480 SOC would be fastest (even stock speed GTX480 is a bit faster than the GTX570 due to it's extra VRAM). But the GTX480 SOC would consume around 50~90W more than the GTX570 under load.

+1

arc@css · 8 Apr 2011 at 19:37

I hear the 480 is slightly the superior card, but whenever I read benchmarks the results look near enough the same, some even with the 570 fractionally ahead. Ok, I appreciate that the higher the res you go and with more AA applied the 480 pulls ahead somewhat, but since most play with around 1920x1200 (or lower), I don't understand why it still tends to be mentioned as the better card. Can anyone explain?

Price wise, yeah, the 480 is the most tempting, but I'm referring here to things aside from the special offer.

opethdisciple · 8 Apr 2011 at 19:40

arc@css said:
I hear the 480 is slightly the superior card, but whenever I read benchmarks the results look near enough the same, some even with the 570 fractionally ahead. Ok, I appreciate that the higher the res you go and with more AA applied the 480 pulls ahead somewhat, but since most play with around 1920x1200 (or lower), I don't understand why it still tends to be mentioned as the better card. Can anyone explain?

Price wise, yeah, the 480 is the most tempting, but I'm referring here to things aside from the special offer.

But its the special offer that makes it the more desirable card.

arc@css · 8 Apr 2011 at 19:48

opethdisciple said:
But its the special offer that makes it the more desirable card.

Read the last sentence.

Regardless of the special offer, when people compare the two cards under normal conditions, I still tend to read that the 480 is the better card. However, when looking at benchmarks I am still slightly puzzled as to why (not referring to very high res).

opethdisciple · 8 Apr 2011 at 19:50

More vram and cuda cores

arc@css · 8 Apr 2011 at 19:52

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/306?vs=309

Cleeecooo · 8 Apr 2011 at 19:55

Marine-RX179 said:
Out of the box the GTX480 SOC would be fastest (even stock speed GTX480 is a bit faster than the GTX570 due to it's extra VRAM). But the GTX480 SOC would consume around 50~90W more than the GTX570 under load.

This

drifting · 8 Apr 2011 at 19:59

Stay away from any cards with less than 1.5GB vram, to be more future proof.

Cleeecooo · 8 Apr 2011 at 20:00

drifting said:
Stay away from any cards with less than 1.5GB vram, to be more future proof.

most games don't even need 1gb.

Flashheart · 8 Apr 2011 at 20:02

480 Soc all the way, I have the regular Asus one and the only dissapointment is the cooler.
My 480 clocked is quicker than a friends Direct CU 570. And at £200 It's a steal. Save the money and get an ssd or something

[TW]Sponge · 8 Apr 2011 at 20:06

TerryH said:
EVGA GeForce GTX 570 1280MB. That was easy

This

opethdisciple · 8 Apr 2011 at 20:10

They are very similar performance cards the 480 vs the 570.

At current prices the value is in the 480.

Unless the op is not asking 'which is the better bang for buck' then the 480 at around £200 is a very god buy.

But then if you go down another notch, this is a good buy too!

It seems at the moment, there is a card at every single price segment!

Either OcUk have a lot of stock, or the credit crunch is biting?

drifting · 8 Apr 2011 at 20:12

Cleeecooo said:
most games don't even need 1gb.

Just updated my signature for people to disagree

1GB video memory was for ancient cards like 9800 GT released in 2008.

opethdisciple · 8 Apr 2011 at 20:18

opethdisciple said:
They are very similar performance cards the 480 vs the 570.

At current prices the value is in the 480.

Unless the op is not asking 'which is the better bang for buck' then the 480 at around £200 is a very god buy.

But then if you go down another notch, this is a good buy too!

It seems at the moment, there is a card at every single price segment!

Either OcUk have a lot of stock, or the credit crunch is biting?

This looks good!

Savo. · 8 Apr 2011 at 20:35

Thanks for the help,

I think I will go with the GTX 480 SOC then

Marine-RX179 · 8 Apr 2011 at 22:50

drifting said:
Just updated my signature for people to disagree

He is not wrong though. Most games (if counting every game ever released

) don't need more than 1GB of VRAM, whereas some games (the minority) uses more than 1GB of VRAM

And even for games that uses a bit over 1GB of VRAM at 1920 res, they usually only suffer minimal drop in frame rate like average 1-2fps...or 3-5fps in the more extreme example such as in Metro 2033. Seriously...I can never understand what's this panic with the "OMG games are using more VRAM than I got...I'm in so much trouble...I can't live with having 1-2fps less than the people that own the 2GB cards!"

I honestly don't think people need to worry about the 1GB card that much, until it has become common standard that most of the new games are using more than 1.3GB of VRAM.

drifting · 8 Apr 2011 at 22:58

Marine-RX179 said:
He is not wrong though. Most games (if counting every game ever released ) don't need more than 1GB of VRAM, whereas some games (the minority) uses more than 1GB of VRAM

And even for games that uses a bit over 1GB of VRAM at 1920 res, they usually only suffer minimal drop in frame rate like average 1-2fps...or 3-5fps in the more extreme example such as in Metro 2033. Seriously...I can never understand what's this panic with the "OMG games are using more VRAM than I got...I'm in so much trouble...I can't live with having 1-2fps less than the people that own the 2GB cards!"

If you mean average fps then yes, it could be only 1-2fps drop. But in multiplayer sessions a sudden lag (min fps < 30 in metric measures) would put you in disadvantage situation.