GTX 560TI 448 cards

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are they good for £130 or would a 6850 card do a good job for mid range gaming?

after a card thats a good alrounder, my PS3 plays lot's of my games but like online with PC's. will not be playing BF3 online.

i understand 6850's can be had for new under £80 which would be my ideal price point, but could push to £130 for a new card if needed.

 

[james_2k]

looks reasonably faster than the 6850. check some reviews

560 ti card is a nice one.

 

[Rusty0611]

560Ti 448 is effectively a 570. Decent card for the price.

 

[Gregster]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/518?vs=539

That shows a 6850 against a 570 (56ti 448 effectively) and as you can see, it is far quicker on everything

 

[Rik1254]

560ti w448cores vs 6850

IMHO, xfire 6850 for £30 more

Or 7850 for ~£150

 

[james_2k]

crossfire not recommended. why bother at that price. also needing more psu grunt. electricity bills etc

 

[bhindi]

Yeah i have the zotac 560 448 core . I dont play BF3 ,but if your just gaming at 1080p its a nice card . The only games i play are BFBC2 max out , Diablo 3 max out , BL2 Max out no probs

 

[silent]

thanks All.

another q, would a GTX 470 be worse than a 6850 and 560TI card?

 

[Gregster]

yes

 

[no_1_dave]

thanks All.

another q, would a GTX 470 be worse than a 6850 and 560TI card?

A 470 is approx 10% slower then a 560TI 448
Better then a 6850

 

[Marine-RX179]

A 470 is approx 10% slower then a 560TI 448

But that's because the 560Ti 448 is clocked around 10% higher than the GTX470...clock for clock, there's not much difference between the two.

What was so great about GTX470 was that while it has a low clock on default, it has huge overclocking headroom (would probably around 30-50MHz lower than the GTX560Ti 448 on the max overclock due to the higher power consumption and heat).

 

[Boomstick777]

The 7850 2GB makes more sense at this price point, more ram, better performance when overclocked, runs cool / uses less power due to being based on 28nm..

The 560 is only a good option if your only going to consider Nvidia cards, even then under 2GB ram isn't a good idea anymore tbh.. If your impartial to brand 7850 is the way to go imho.

 

[Rusty0611]

The 7850 2GB makes more sense at this price point, more ram, better performance when overclocked, runs cool / uses less power due to being based on 28nm..

The 560 is only a good option if your only going to consider Nvidia cards, even then under 2GB ram isn't a good idea anymore tbh.. If your impartial to brand 7850 is the way to go imho.

Didn't know you could get 7850 2GB's for £130 .

 

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i always have been an AMD GPU fanboy, not because i hate Nvidia, far from the contary, but even my low cards like the 2 gig 6570 card ran all the games at medium.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Didn't know you could get 7850 2GB's for £130 .

£150 then sell the games?