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GTX 560Ti Vs GTX 570 - Price Justification

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Currently looking at the two cards below:

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 OC WINDFORCE 3X 1280MB - £280

- Core Clock: 780MHz
- Memory: 1280MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 3800MHz (Effective)
- Memory Interface: 320-Bit
- Processing Cores: 480
- Shader Clock: 1690MHz

Asus GeForce GTX 560Ti DirectCU II TOP 1024MB - £200

- Core Clock: 900MHz
- Memory: 1024MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 4200MHz (Effective)
- Memory Interface: 256-Bit
- Processing Cores: 384
- Shader Clock: 1800MHz

Is the extra £80 really justifiable in terms of performance gains and would there be a noticeable difference in FPS in GPU intensive games at 1080p?

The fact that free games come with the 560Ti is not a factor in this.

Been out of the loop on GPUs recently and would like to hear some advice.
 
I wouldn't have thought a 570 with 1280mb of vram would handle that res (2560) adequately with regard to quite a few games. For 1080p though I'd probably just overclock the 560ti, £80 is a quite a jump.
 
Quick point.

It depends on if you talking 1080 @ 60 or 120Hz.

If you have a normal 60Hz screen anything over 60FPS is pointless. In that case a 560 / 570 is fine.

If you use a 120Hz screen and want to feel the benefit in BF3 you NEED a top line GPU. My overclocked 480 is not upto the job of consistent 120FPS in BF3 at high settings!:(

I have to use Medium settings as i like to keep average frame rate at all times over 120FPS. Still looks EPIC tbh and is SUPER SMOOTH. :cool:
 
Your missing out on the eye candy, a game doesn't need to run anywhere near over 120fps to be smooth imo.

BF3 everything on ultra @ 1080p with ~60fps minimums is super smooth using 6950>70 Crossfire.

Your overclocked 480 is more or less performing as a 580, which is a top line gpu.

If you turn the settings up and live with less fps as it won't make any difference to playability, it will look even more epic.
 
I installed the asus GTX560ti yesturday.

@ 1920x1080 very impressed with its performance so far , funds allowing a second one soon. Not played with clockspeed yet but its running very cool so defiently some headroom.
 
A pair of GTX 560 tis can run 99.999% of video games completely maxed out at 1200p with around 60 FPS and costs the same / even less than a single GTX 580.

A single GTX 560 ti costs significantly less than a 570, and performs almost the same when overclocked.

High end cards have been useless for a very very long time, unless you play at 2560x1600 or eyefinity you dont need graphics cards, nor CPUs that cost more than £200.
 
Your missing out on the eye candy, a game doesn't need to run anywhere near over 120fps to be smooth imo.

BF3 everything on ultra @ 1080p with ~60fps minimums is super smooth using 6950>70 Crossfire.

Your overclocked 480 is more or less performing as a 580, which is a top line gpu.

If you turn the settings up and live with less fps as it won't make any difference to playability, it will look even more epic.

Fair points tbh. It all comes down to personal preferance.

IMO competitive MP is better for me at medium settings (with some AA & AF) at over 120FPS. I hate ANY drop of frame rate which is obviously always just at the wrong moment when your knee deep in some hectic action. :rolleyes:

If i was happy with 60Hz i'd have saved an awful lot of cash on a different screen!;)

Single player and showing your mates is high / Ultra settings. :D
 
Definately not worth £80 difference, but I would have chosen a stock/reference GTX570 for £230-£240 and overclocked it past 800MHz. Both cards are great.
 
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