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Upgrade EVGA 470FTW Sli to Gainward 650Ti Sli (2mb)?

Not really. It would be like side-stepping considering the 650Ti is only around the speed of a 5870. Also, for the sake of more vram, you are trading 384-bit memory bus for 192-bit memory bus...
 
Please stop that thought process right now.

If you're looking to upgrade I'd recommend getting what you can for your 470s, and buying the best single GPU you can afford with at least 3GB of VRAM (future proof yourself).
 
Darujhistan said:
Please stop that thought process right now.

If you're looking to upgrade I'd recommend getting what you can for your 470s, and buying the best single GPU you can afford with at least 3GB of VRAM (future proof yourself).
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There are far more variables than just VRAM being the "must have" for future proofing. I ran 2x2GB 680's with a resolution of 5760x1080 and VRAM was never the issue (It could be if I wanted to game at <15fps though).

I now have 6GB VRAM but does that mean I am secure for the future?

@ OP,

Not a good upgrade choice Maybe look at a 660 (or 2), as this would be a fairly decent upgrade or wait it out for the 7 series launch and see what happens to the pricing of the current cards.
 
Don't be fooled by the VRAM scare mongering. No good having a shed load of VRAM on a card which doesn't have the muscle to push the settings which use large amounts of VRAM.

At present, other than Skyrim, games suffer from low FPS due to hitting the bottleneck from other areas rather than having high FPS and then hitting the VRAM limit. Not to say it won't change in the future with super high res textures which don't take much "GPU power" to run but load up the VRAM... but not seeing any movement towards this at present.
 
I made the switch from gtx 470's in sli to a single gtx 670 wf. Was a slight increase, particularly as the 670 clocks pretty well, (470's were oc'd to 750mhz core). The main difference was a massive drop in power consumption, and much less noise and heat. With the 470's, i did get close to the vram limit in bf3 if any level of msaa was used on the ultra preset, but i was happy enough to lower a few other settings. With the 670 i can run it maxed at 1920x1200 with 4x msaa, but as said, the card is running a pretty high oc.
 
470 sli to 650ti sli wouldn't really be worth the money as the performance would be very similar. 650ti boost's in SLI might just about be better overall but thats £240 for not a great deal of improvement.

Just my 2p worth.
 
Gregster said:
There are far more variables than just VRAM being the "must have" for future proofing. I ran 2x2GB 680's with a resolution of 5760x1080 and VRAM was never the issue (It could be if I wanted to game at <15fps though).

I now have 6GB VRAM but does that mean I am secure for the future?

@ OP,

Not a good upgrade choice Maybe look at a 660 (or 2), as this would be a fairly decent upgrade or wait it out for the 7 series launch and see what happens to the pricing of the current cards.
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I'd rather have 3GB VRAM than 2GB VRAM wouldn't you?

Who plays game at 15FPS?

Yes 6GB does make you future proof, you've just been claiming that 2 GB is fine, now you're arguing 6GB might not be enough? contradict yourself much?

I thought you knew a lot about GPU's?

@OP or you could take a look at AMD's range of much cheaper cards which perform equally if not better than NV's. Gregster must just have forgotten to tell you about that, there's a brand new AMD range out in October too, not just re-badged price gougers either.
 
Darujhistan said:
I'd rather have 3GB VRAM than 2GB VRAM wouldn't you?

Who plays game at 15FPS?

Yes 6GB does make you future proof, you've just been claiming that 2 GB is fine, now you're arguing 6GB might not be enough? contradict yourself much?

I thought you knew a lot about GPU's?

@OP or you could take a look at AMD's range of much cheaper cards which perform equally if not better than NV's. Gregster must just have forgotten to tell you about that, there's a brand new AMD range out in October too, not just re-badged price gougers either.
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I see you are failing to comprehend anything about VRAM. Would I rather have 3GB or 2GB is just wrong. That is like saying would you rather 4GB or 3GB and that is just as wrong.

It is how the GPU performs alongside/with the amount of VRAM. For instance. the Titan has 6GB of VRAM and can output to 4 monitors. If I was to try Crysis 3 with full details and triple monitors, I would be looking at ~15fps at a guess. Plenty of VRAM for sure but what is the point of that at ~15fps?

I tried 5760x1080 with 2 Titans and was using 3.8GB of VRAM, so not a very good point at all.

You could stick 24GB of VRAM on your 7850 and it isn't going to play Crysis 3 at max details now is it?

As for the specs of Nvidia and AMD's next GPU's, I would like to see where you get your evidence to back that rebadged claim up, as I have not noticed anything being released from Nvidia or AMD as yet?

You seem to have a habit of whining at people who have bought a Titan recently? Did you want one and couldn't get one?
 
I would be looking at a single GTX 670 if you are in the £250 to £300 territory. (Assuming you meant 650 SLI and not a single 650).

Although... I would imagine you will be getting similar performance going to a 670 (Although it would be smoother [more consistent frame rate] and have less issues).
 
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Gregster said:
I see you are failing to comprehend anything about VRAM. Would I rather have 3GB or 2GB is just wrong. That is like saying would you rather 4GB or 3GB and that is just as wrong.

It is how the GPU performs alongside/with the amount of VRAM. For instance. the Titan has 6GB of VRAM and can output to 4 monitors. If I was to try Crysis 3 with full details and triple monitors, I would be looking at ~15fps at a guess. Plenty of VRAM for sure but what is the point of that at ~15fps?

I tried 5760x1080 with 2 Titans and was using 3.8GB of VRAM, so not a very good point at all.

You could stick 24GB of VRAM on your 7850 and it isn't going to play Crysis 3 at max details now is it?

As for the specs of Nvidia and AMD's next GPU's, I would like to see where you get your evidence to back that rebadged claim up, as I have not noticed anything being released from Nvidia or AMD as yet?

You seem to have a habit of whining at people who have bought a Titan recently? Did you want one and couldn't get one?
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That's very true.

it would be interesting to see how it affect similar cards such as the 670 and 7970..

2Gb of VRAM is more than enough for 1080p/1200p gaming (single monitor). :)
 
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