Caporegime
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THere are far too many things to consider.
Firstly cost, do you WANT to spend £280, or can you but you'd prefer to save money. The 560ti and 6950/6870 are all pretty awesome cards that offer significantly more for your money. At £100 less than the 570gtx, the 560gtx isn't 40% slower than the 570gtx, so its better value.
The 6970/570gtx are similar price but I'd give performance, memory, longevity to the 6970. The 6950/560ti offer noticeably better value for money, and still very good performance for almost any game around now and for the next while.
Question really is, what are you upgrading from and how much do you REALLY want to spend rather than how much you can afford at a stretch.
With new cards not that far away(Nvidia miles away, so if you need Cuda thats less of an issue buying now, AMD are fairly close), its probably better to wait a month or two if you can.
If you've currently got a 5850 or something, then anything less than a 6970 you won't even notice the increase in performance, even then, its not worth it, if you have a 285gtx or something, a 560 might not be a huge performance increase while the 570gtx would be very noticeable, if you have something like a 8800/3870, then even a 560ti/6870 will be a HUGE upgrade, good value and they won't get that much cheaper when new cards come out anyway.
Ultimately, for any cost, and performance, the basic idea of 2gb mem on a weaker card is useless, cheapest 570gtx rather than an expensive 2gb 560ti without question. Which you'd actually buy boils down to cost, if value or absolute performance is the most important thing, and how important it is to upgrade in the first place.
Firstly cost, do you WANT to spend £280, or can you but you'd prefer to save money. The 560ti and 6950/6870 are all pretty awesome cards that offer significantly more for your money. At £100 less than the 570gtx, the 560gtx isn't 40% slower than the 570gtx, so its better value.
The 6970/570gtx are similar price but I'd give performance, memory, longevity to the 6970. The 6950/560ti offer noticeably better value for money, and still very good performance for almost any game around now and for the next while.
Question really is, what are you upgrading from and how much do you REALLY want to spend rather than how much you can afford at a stretch.
With new cards not that far away(Nvidia miles away, so if you need Cuda thats less of an issue buying now, AMD are fairly close), its probably better to wait a month or two if you can.
If you've currently got a 5850 or something, then anything less than a 6970 you won't even notice the increase in performance, even then, its not worth it, if you have a 285gtx or something, a 560 might not be a huge performance increase while the 570gtx would be very noticeable, if you have something like a 8800/3870, then even a 560ti/6870 will be a HUGE upgrade, good value and they won't get that much cheaper when new cards come out anyway.
Ultimately, for any cost, and performance, the basic idea of 2gb mem on a weaker card is useless, cheapest 570gtx rather than an expensive 2gb 560ti without question. Which you'd actually buy boils down to cost, if value or absolute performance is the most important thing, and how important it is to upgrade in the first place.
