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GTX 580 or not?

Boycey0211

Boycey0211

Boycey0211

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I currently have a 480 SOC model and I cant decide whether to take the plunge and buy a GTX580 or not. Ive made my mind up that I wont be going down the sli route as I prefer spending a little more on only having the one card.

I decided to have a browse on OCuk earlier and now i'm just boggled by choice. Is there a clear winner out of all the 580's with a good mix of value and performance? I'll probably be looking at a 3gb version as I will be playing DCS-A10 and BF3 along with others

Using an i7 and 8gb of decent ram to compliment it, would love a little help in making my mind up!
 
About the most difference between a stock 480 compared to a stock 580 will give as little a return as around 15%, with less than 10% being the average. Like myself you have a SOC 480, and that is close to stock 580 performance anyway, thus the benefit will be even less. Unless you game at very high resolutions I wouldn't bother. However, if you can get a very good price for your 480, which could leave you with not too much to pay out for a new card then fair enough, though I still personally wouldn't even entertain it, but each to their own shade of onion.

Take a look at these, and bear in mind that both links show a stock 480 versus a 580, not a SOC model.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/309?vs=305

http://www.hwcompare.com/9269/geforce-gtx-480-vs-geforce-gtx-580-3gb/
 
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would I notice much difference by having the extra 1.5gb of vram over the 480 or not? I also game in 3d occasionally if that makes a difference
 
well tbh im not even sure if it is 1920x1080 that I use anymore, i've been away from my pc for 4.5 months until next week, just wondering if itll be worth my hard earned on an upgrade when I get back. I think thats 1920x1080 monitor native, I'm pretty sure I game higher
 
well thanks very much for your input everyone, reckon im going to stick with the 480 for a while longer. On another note, anyone got stable overclock freqs/volts that I could use as a guide to clock mine with?
 
I haven't tinkered with volts yet but at factory 'overclocked stock' I can get, game and benchmark dependent, somewhere between 865 - 900 on the core, and a little over 2000 on the memory. Mind you, that is the maximum and only applicable in a very few situations. I tried using the 'red' switch the other day for overclocking mode, it was the first time I'd used it, but all I got was an disconcerting response during the Lost Planet 2 benchmark so I reverted back to the 'blue' setting. The last thing I want to do is knacker it for a measly three fps. For general purposes, an overclock of 855 - 75 on the core seems stable for all games tested so far.
 
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DF1986 said:
Do it, get the 580, i got the 6970 and am now regretting it, junk card.
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He has a GTX 480 SOC and games on 1 screen at 1920 x 1080, there is no point for him to upgrade at the moment, wait for Kepler @ OP.


6970 junk ? :D I think you mean AMD drivers are junk ;), their graphics hardware is decent and just ashame they can't write drivers to make them work as designed recently. Sell it while you can and get a GTX 580 ;).
 
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