Hi, I'm just wondering if anybody has got one of these yet? I'm in the process of upgrading from a 5870 and after much deliberation have narrowed the choice down to MSI's 570 GTX (Twin Frozr III) or to spend a bit more and get the new 6870x2. My case is too small to comfortably crossfire cards, hence the single card solution. Anyway I was wondering what the fan noise and temps are like on the 6870x2, I've read all the reviews and its hard to get a clear picture how noisy it is.
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6870x2?
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If you have a 5870, i would suggest you wait for the nex gen of cards to come out before upgrading
It is not a good idea to crossfire 1GB cards. You get a huge boost of GPU power but you lack the vram to enable high AA under high resultion without lag spikes/stuttering.
Personally I would wait for the 28nm cards, for (40nm/28nm)^2=200% performance. Your 5870 is a decent card to keep.
If you must upgrade now then I'd say a single GTX570 is far better than 6870CF. Less noise, less driver problems (due to multi-GPU), more vram.
Personally I would wait for the 28nm cards, for (40nm/28nm)^2=200% performance. Your 5870 is a decent card to keep.
If you must upgrade now then I'd say a single GTX570 is far better than 6870CF. Less noise, less driver problems (due to multi-GPU), more vram.
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harmony, any info/links that you can give on the 200% performance boost? i'm sitting on a 6870 and looking to upgrade, however if there's going to be that big a jump i'm happy to wait..
If you believe that the next generation of graphics cards will have twice the performance of current cards I think you're kidding yourself.
Even if it was possible AMD and Nvidia would never release such cards as they need to hold something in the tank for the next refresh.
I'm guessing they'll keep the same performance, but do it more quietely, cooly and efficientely.
Obviously, they will be making some more powerful cards aswell
Unless ofcourse Nvidia release first and and can't match it so they go full on and do 100% increase
That would make your GTX 580 look a bit sick.
STFU you
I would get the two singles as there's better overclockig, easier RMAs, cheaper and also, 2 GPUs is pretty much the best you can have without drivers deteriorating.
STFU you
That really did make me LOL.
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I picked up 2 MSI 6870 Hawks earlier, can't wait to give em a whirl
It will smash a GTX580 with unprecedented performance.
Seriously, (40/28)^2=200% is just a rough estimate. There are also many other factors to consider, especially Amdahl's Law - increasing the shader count without significant improvement in the architecture doesn't necessarily bring much performance increase.
AMD is likely to continue on the sweet-spot strategy - maintain a great performance/watt ratio, then gain halo effect from dual-gpu on a single card.
nVidia is likely to fight for the king of single gpu and gain halo effect in such way.