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GTX 580 or AMD 7950?

MrCool

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Time to upgrade my trusty old 8800 gtx, you served me well but now you're old and grey...

Havent got budget for new 680's etc.

Any thoughts? I play generally Battlefield 3, odd bit of skyrim etc. On a 27" dell monitor - 1920x1200 but the 2560 screens keep catching my eye so may upgrade that when I do a full pc rebuild hopefully in next 6 months..

I built a pc for a friend before ivybridge came along using a sandybridge overclocked, gtx 570 and 8gb ram and it handles battlefield fine @ 2560x1400 with everything on which surprised me a bit.. How much better is the 580 over the 570?

Cheers for any help.
 
7950 will be slightly faster and use quite a bit less power/heat. But since you play Battlefield 3 I think the GTX 580 will be the better card especially if you OC both cards I think the 580 will come out on top. I wouldn't spend £240 on one though I'd get one second hand for around £160-180.
 
Yeh, I've seen the 580's second hand going for 160-180. Hmmm
I suppose £300 would be my max budget if buying a new card.
Just been looking at the 670's for around £300.. Much better than a 580? I know it's lots better than the 570.

Damn, now I'm going to have to build a new pc lol. mm ivybridge, mm 32gb ram, mm 240gb SS drive, mm huge obsidian case...

Cheers for the help.
 
If you go £300ish, then WF 670 Or WF7970 if you can push that far.

Otherwise 670 quieter but not as fast as a louder reference overclcocked 7970@£300.

But as you like Nvidia, then with the 670 you get all the physX candy.
 
580 over a 7950? Don't think so. Get a 7950...just get one with a good cooler and you will be happy.
 
Wait...so at the moment what's our current PC specs? Cause if you got a slow CPU at the moment, it might be be worth just getting a 6850 at around £80 for now, and when in six months time you are due for the full system rebuild, you might be able to pick up a HD8000 series card, and sell your 6850 at only at loss of may be £20-£30...so you are essentially "renting" the 6850 for 6 months only at the cost of £20-£30.

You have to bare in mind that if your current CPU is slow, then at GTX580 or above would most likely be no better than the 6850 during the most intensive moments in games. Even the 6850 would be around 80-90% faster than your current 8800GTX.

As for upgrading to 2560 res monitor in the future...I would say a single GPU card at around GTX670 or 7970 level would still be pushing it a bit...the minimum you would need is either Crossfire/SLI of £200 price range card, or may be next gen £300 range card.
 
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Wait...so at the moment what's our current PC specs? Cause if you got a slow CPU at the moment, it might be be worth just getting a 6850 at around £80 for now, and when in six months time you are due for the full system rebuild, you might be able to pick up a HD8000 series card, and sell your 6850 at only at loss of may be £20-£30...so you are essentially "renting" the 6850 for 6 months only at the cost of £20-£30.

You have to bare in mind that if your current CPU is slow, then at GTX580 or above would most likely be no better than the 6850 during the most intensive moments in games. Even the 6850 would be around 80-90% faster than your current 8800GTX.

As for upgrading to 2560 res monitor in the future...I would say a single GPU card at around GTX670 or 7970 level would still be pushing it a bit...the minimum you would need is either Crossfire/SLI of £200 price range card, or may be next gen £300 range card.
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i've been thinking about that as well.I got new pc build 2 weeks ago.i5 3570k,asrock z77 ext4,8gig ram,dell u2412m.
shall i pick up hd 6850 for 80£,or maybye hd 6950 second hand,wait half year and later buy something from 8xxx series,i don't think amd will keep promise with 40% increase in performance,but if they do half of it.
not sure about power consumption and overall cost of running 6850or6950vs7850or 7870
 
...my Asrock Z77 and i5 3570k, 16Gb Samsung ram system is also looking for a new GPU to compliment a Dell Ultrasharp U2412M - I'm aiming at a good GPU for today, that I can double up in time... say a 7850 NOW with lower power than the 6*** range and add another in CF... I've never gained much from buying a card and selling it on to move up - that's what CF and SLI is for.
 
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...my Asrock Z77 and i5 3570k, 16Gb Samsung ram system is also looking for a new GPU to compliment a Dell Ultrasharp U2412M - I'm aiming at a good GPU for today, that I can double up in time... say a 7850 NOW with lower power than the 6*** range and add another in CF... I've never gained much from buying a card and selling it on to move up - that's what CF and SLI is for.
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i'll wait and see,my hd4000 is all right for now,max out in witcher,slow down ones,where i was fighting we evil dogs,now when summer is here haven't got time to spend so much time to play games.wait and see what gtx 660 brings to the table.My psu is OCZ OCZ600MXSP-UK / ModXStream Pro,is that enough to run 2 way sli/crossfire(hd7850) ?
 
Loving my Sapphire 7950 OC.. @ 1100/1500 stock volts & 2700k@ 4.5GHz = P33847 Vantage score.

http://3dmark.com/3dmv/4193819

BF3 Ultra & 4xMSAA Fraps benchmark on Going Hunting..

Min, 59
Max, 98
Avg, 76

BF3 multiplayer is almost the same with lowest fps of around 50 @ 1080p.
 
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