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any toughts on this card

Personally if going dual card you would be better served by a 6950cf or even save some money and get 6870cf as if you look at the rest of that review 6950cf seems to win in every other game and 6870cf matches and sometimes beats 560 ti. As a single card the 560 ti looks decent but sli scaling still seems to be behind cfx going on that review.
 
TheRealDeal said:
Personally if going dual card you would be better served by a 6950cf or even save some money and get 6870cf as if you look at the rest of that review 6950cf seems to win in every other game and 6870cf matches and sometimes beats 560 ti. As a single card the 560 ti looks decent but sli scaling still seems to be behind cfx going on that review.
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Maybe because its at stock clocks?

Graphics Cards

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti (x2) @ 822 MHz core / 4000 MHz gDDR5
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They easily bump up to 950 / 4400.
 
6950 as far as i know overclocks pretty well also and may also unlock to a 6970 which should be a good deal faster again. I just think in dual card situations amd seem to have a slight upper hand atm. You can see this with the 6870 cf matching the sli 560ti in games where the ti is faster as a single card.
 
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Theres a lot more to GPU scaling than just average performance numbers which unfortunatly tell us very little in terms of what is actually better.
 
Some more interesting results. I am interested to know if these results could be down to ati still having better memory compression. For people thinking about using these cards in 3 display mode this may put you off a little. It has to be either the memory or lack of grunt at high resolution as the 6870 crossfire is much faster.

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...iew-and-sli-performance-f1-2010-surround.html

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...d-sli-performance-bad-company-2-surround.html

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...-sli-performance-crysis-warhead-surround.html
 
TheRealDeal said:
Some more interesting results. I am interested to know if these results could be down to ati still having better memory compression. For people thinking about using these cards in 3 display mode this may put you off a little. It has to be either the memory or lack of grunt at high resolution as the 6870 crossfire is much faster.

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...iew-and-sli-performance-f1-2010-surround.html

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...d-sli-performance-bad-company-2-surround.html

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...-sli-performance-crysis-warhead-surround.html
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The HD6870 Crossfire is doing quite well in most of those tests even though the HD6870 is a slower card than the GTX560TI.

It seems the HD6870 has dropped in price to around £175 ATM on OcUK:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-188-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The HD6870 Crossfire is doing quite well in most of those tests even though the HD6870 is a slower card than the GTX560TI.
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Interesting. ^^ Now that is suprising. Both the HD6870 and GTX560 are around the same price £15-25 approx difference so i wouldnt have though of this. Cheers for posting ^^ So yeah. Get Crossfire 6870s, or GTX560 Ti's :D!
 
What resolution do you game at? What PSU have you got?

Personally I'd go for a GTX 570, overclock it and you should get at least GTX 580 performance. Put the money saved into a nice SSD, assuming your getting it for the PC in you sig.

Also why on overclock your i7 920 D0?

Finally, you sig is too big.
 
rampin said:
EVGA GeForce GTX 580 "Black OPS" 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

link : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-141-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1812

hi guys really want this card does anyone know if its a really good card to buy upgrading from a ati 4870

thanks in advance.
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My thoughts would be there is very little value in top cards like that and the value is in the mid range products in Crossfire/SLI arrangements. For example that GTX580 "BlackOps" costs well over 400 notes so why not get a 2x HD 6850's and put them in crossfire - see for yourself how well a GTX580 & HD 6850's match up. The value here is two 6850's will set you back less then 300 notes which quite frankly that's a steal for the performance they deliver.

If you really want to £400 on your graphics card the 560 TI in SLI will come in at £400 and the HD 6870 at about £350 (OCUK XFX model is now £175) but personally though I would be looking at the 6850's in Crossfire (because I'm a cheapskate).
 
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