What's next best thing to a 470 now?

Legend · 5 Nov 2011 at 18:29

I have a GTX 470, and am thinking of upgrading. If I was, what would be the equivalent, or something that bit better now?

Surveyor · 5 Nov 2011 at 18:39

The only single GPU card worth upgrading to now is probably a GTX 580.

I'd wait for the next gen.

TheRealDeal · 5 Nov 2011 at 18:52

If you have not already done it, overclock your gtx470 and you will be able to reach gtx480 speeds. As said above though next gen is your best bet.

Legend · 5 Nov 2011 at 20:05

Great, good to know. Thanks for the info.

rolypolyman · 5 Nov 2011 at 21:14

Yeh mate I'm sticking with my 470 until the next gen and I'm not even overclocking it. :eek:

kevbiss1 · 5 Nov 2011 at 21:32

still happy with my 470,o/c at 7.80ghz about a year and a half now,still plays all games virtually maxed out

dmxdex2020 · 5 Nov 2011 at 23:03

Ive added a second. waiting for it to arrive. 2 and a third should run anything with ease.

Cleeecooo · 5 Nov 2011 at 23:04

Surveyor said:
The only single GPU card worth upgrading to now is probably a GTX 580.

I'd wait for the next gen.

honestly, I don't think even a 580 would be a worthwhile upgrade

Maybe a 590

arc@css · 5 Nov 2011 at 23:17

Cleeecooo said:
honestly, I don't think even a 580 would be a worthwhile upgrade

Agreed.

Surveyor · 5 Nov 2011 at 23:39

Cleeecooo said:
honestly, I don't think even a 580 would be a worthwhile upgrade

Maybe a 590

arc@css said:
Agreed.

A GTX 580 offers around 50% higher frame rates than a GTX 470 so if there was a single GPU card worth upgrading to that would be it.

There are plenty of people who upgrade for less.

But as I said to the OP, wait for the next gen.

rolypolyman · 6 Nov 2011 at 10:52

Yeh, Anand, shows a healthy jump from 470 to 580 especially in Crysis and Metro, two games I play and respect as being hard on cards, quite surprised by that although I know the 470 oc's like a beast and can close that gap, pretty much, but then the 580 probably oc's as well. Its the price of the 580 in comparison thats the problem. Hopefully the next gen mid range will address that.

Rroff · 6 Nov 2011 at 12:50

Yeah 580 has good overclocking to. However my pair of 470s with a decent overclock were only around 19-20% slower than a good overclocked pair of 580s in many benchmarks (and the pair cost less than a single 580).

The 470 will in 90+% of cases clock to stock GTX480 speeds and beyond putting it fairly close to a stock 580 - with water cooling its fairly trivial to get many of them to 900MHz which puts you about GTX580 speeds but then you have to balance the cost of watercooling against putting the money towards a 580.

I have to admit theres only like 2 games where I even bother running SLI atm, a single GTX470 with a mild overclock puts up perfectly smooth framerates with max settings in most games out at upto 1920x res.

arc@css · 6 Nov 2011 at 13:17

Next gen > SLI

>> (580 @ 30% + gains).

Scon · 6 Nov 2011 at 13:18

kevbiss1 said:
still happy with my 470,o/c at 7.80ghz

That's a sweet overclock

Puppetmaster · 6 Nov 2011 at 17:02

burrell said:
That's a sweet overclock

Its probably heating the whole world too

bhavv · 6 Nov 2011 at 18:04

The next gen <$200 card is apparently better than a GTX 580.

ZeroUK · 6 Nov 2011 at 19:08

Spend £40 on a Zalman cooler and overclock it. I run mine at 820mhz core 24/7 and it doesn't break a sweat. Very worth it in my opinion.

rolypolyman · 6 Nov 2011 at 19:44

burrell said:
That's a sweet overclock

Yeh had a good ROFPML at that one.

Scon · 6 Nov 2011 at 21:42

bhavv said:
The next gen <$200 card is apparently better than a GTX 580.

pft, will believe that when i see it!

dmxdex2020 · 6 Nov 2011 at 22:22

ZeroUK said:
Spend £40 on a Zalman cooler and overclock it. I run mine at 820mhz core 24/7 and it doesn't break a sweat. Very worth it in my opinion.

How many slots is that?