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GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 7850

Barry1987 said:
Thanks for the tips!

Would this one be good?

PowerColor HD 7850

If not, I'll go with the TFIII as tobs recommended.
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There is nothing wrong with that card, but it is just the standard AMD cooler on it. They are still achieving some great overclocks but potentially going for the MSI one which has a customer cooler should mean generally higher OC's, cooler and quieter.

I've been waiting for them to come into stock for ages so depends how quickly you need your card!
 
Richeh said:
There is nothing wrong with that card, but it is just the standard AMD cooler on it. They are still achieving some great overclocks but potentially going for the MSI one which has a customer cooler should mean generally higher OC's, cooler and quieter.

I've been waiting for them to come into stock for ages so depends how quickly you need your card!
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Thanks.

They seem to be sold out on all the major computer building websites lol...
Hopefully they are in stock at the end of the month as I think I am going to go for one of them due to superior OCing and cooler temperatures.
 
If they don't come in stock I believe the Sapphire ones also have a custom cooler and possibly 1 or 2 others such as the Asus/HIS model's although it may be worth reading a couple of quick reviews on those just to make sure their custom coolers are an improvement over the standard one (Which i'm sure they are).
 
I have tried most of the high end cards and a bit underwhelmed by the latest cards, mainly becausce of price VS performance.

I picked up GTX 480 for around £100 and it is excellent, runs BF3 @ Ultra setting fine, so impressed I ordered another one for SLI lol, can't beat it for value at it's current price imho. Think the GTX 480 is a perfect card until the real deal next gen cards arrive GK110 and HD 8XXX etc..
 
Boomstick777 said:
I have tried most of the high end cards and a bit underwhelmed by the latest cards, mainly becausce of price VS performance.

I picked up GTX 480 for around £100 and it is excellent, runs BF3 @ Ultra setting fine, so impressed I ordered another one for SLI lol, can't beat it for value at it's current price imho. Think the GTX 480 is a perfect card until the real deal next gen cards arrive GK110 and HD 8XXX etc..
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Care to link me to the GTX 480 you bought? £100 seems a bit ridiculous considering it is in the top 6 of the benchmarks.
 
Check the forum sales boards mate. Also you can find some great cards on Ebay as long as you buy from a decent seller, check the feedback etc. I know my friend got a few month old 480 with original receipt, the 480 I got still had the original plastic protection cover on it, with receipt etc boxed like new. You just have to look for the bargains they won't come and find you :p.

The latest one ive ordered is coming next week, im hoping it will be just as good as my other card :).
 
MORE SPEED said:
There is a newer version of the MSI which has a higher stock clock and a newer design cooler: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-157-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411
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Any ETA on the release date?

Boomstick777 said:
Check the forum sales boards mate. Also you can find some great cards on Ebay as long as you buy from a decent seller, check the feedback etc. I know my friend got a few month old 480 with original receipt, the 480 I got still had the original plastic protection cover on it, with receipt etc boxed like new. You just have to look for the bargains they won't come and find you :p.

The latest one ive ordered is coming next week, im hoping it will be just as good as my other card :).
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Cheers mate. Where is sales forum? You got an incredible deal for £100 I must say. :)

Also... it seems the GTX 570 is a big rival to the HD 7850 despite the lower clocks and memory:

GTX 570 vs HD 7850

Gainward GTX 570

As long as I can SLI the GTX 570 in the future and run games from 2011 to present on max settings with a single card I'd happily buy this. Thoughts? The 570 looks ultra slim too. I have until the end of the month to decide. :D
 
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The GTX 570's are powerful but I think losing that extra bit of Vram and memory bandwidth does cut it a bit close. I had a Inno3D GTX 570 Overclocked and it didn't run BF3 as well as my 480, purely becausce of less vram I think. Atm 1.5GB is just about cutting it on BF3 I wouldn't suggest getting anything with less vram.

If you just want a cheap bargain GPU the GTX 480 can't be beat atm imho, but if your looking at spending £200+ on a new GPU the HD 7850's might be worth a look, also Nvidia are hopefully close to launching the GTX 660/70 cards. May be worth waiting to see how they compare.
 
Boomstick777 said:
The GTX 570's are powerful but I think losing that extra bit of Vram and memory bandwidth does cut it a bit close. I had a Inno3D GTX 570 Overclocked and it didn't run BF3 as well as my 480, purely becausce of less vram I think. Atm 1.5GB is just about cutting it on BF3 I wouldn't suggest getting anything with less vram.

If you just want a cheap bargain GPU the GTX 480 can't be beat atm imho, but if your looking at spending £200+ on a new GPU the HD 7850's might be worth a look, also Nvidia are hopefully close to launching the GTX 660/70 cards. May be worth waiting to see how they compare.
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Good to know. Seems the 7850 is winning the race in that respect then since it has 2GB vram.
 
I would suggest that as you have BF3 in your list of games that you don't consider any card with less than 1.5GB VRAM and preferably not any card with less than 2GB VRAM

I just played through a few mins of online gaming on Noshar Canals at 1920x1080 with my HD7850 at 1070MHz GPU 5800MHz VRAM and I saw VRAM usage in GPU-Z of over 1.5GB with all settings at their highest except MSAA which I had turned off.
Just for your info I also benchmarked with FRAPs in BF3 whilst playing on a 32 player map at that resolution and got the following results (I didn't die):

Min Max Avg
48 106 64.57
 
Have to agree with the recommendation on the 7850.

I have 2 6850's in crossfire, and despite the strong performance, I cannot run BF3 on Ultra due to VRAM requirements.

I am therefore in the process of selling both 6850's and will replace them with a single over clocked 7850, sure it won't have quite the same raw performance and possibly won't be able to run in Ultra because of this, but what it looses in outright pace, it will make up for with x2 the VRAM which will reduce VRAM stutter, and I can always add another 7850 down the line as well.
 
two00lbwaster said:
I would suggest that as you have BF3 in your list of games that you don't consider any card with less than 1.5GB VRAM and preferably not any card with less than 2GB VRAM

I just played through a few mins of online gaming on Noshar Canals at 1920x1080 with my HD7850 at 1070MHz GPU 5800MHz VRAM and I saw VRAM usage in GPU-Z of over 1.5GB with all settings at their highest except MSAA which I had turned off.
Just for your info I also benchmarked with FRAPs in BF3 whilst playing on a 32 player map at that resolution and got the following results (I didn't die):

Min Max Avg
48 106 64.57
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Wow. Is that just with one card? That's really impressive if so. I have been strongly thinking of CFing 2 7850s or just getting a single 7950 or GTX 680 but I haven't come to a decision yet. Do you notice much of a difference in graphical quality between MSAA being on and off?

Chrisoldinho said:
Have to agree with the recommendation on the 7850.

I have 2 6850's in crossfire, and despite the strong performance, I cannot run BF3 on Ultra due to VRAM requirements.

I am therefore in the process of selling both 6850's and will replace them with a single over clocked 7850, sure it won't have quite the same raw performance and possibly won't be able to run in Ultra because of this, but what it looses in outright pace, it will make up for with x2 the VRAM which will reduce VRAM stutter, and I can always add another 7850 down the line as well.
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I see! 2GB seems to be the way to go then. I think I will get 2x 7850s. two00lbwaster said he can run one card (I think) on ultra with very decent FPS but has MSAA turned off.
 
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