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Is it better?

BennettWHU

BennettWHU

BennettWHU

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Someone I work with is offering to sell me an Nvidia GTX 580 and I wanted to know if it was better than my current GPU, an AMD R7 260X. He's actually got two and is willing to sell me both, but my current board doesn't support SLI and I'm not sure there is an mATX AMD FM2+ motherboard out there that does.
 
As a finger in the air kind of guess, I would approximate it at about the Geforce 670/760 performance, which I guess is about the same as radeon 7870/ 280 kind of level.

Unless somebody wants to correct me it's probably a reasonable upgrade, I would be concerned about it having just 1.5GB of VRAM, unless they are the 3GB versions.

Also more noise / power consumption.
 
As I understand the GTX 580 will be better about 30-50% (and notably more power hungry)

From memory, AMD's 7850 was about the same performance ballpark on release as the GTX580; the R7 270 is basically 7870 performance; the R7 260X is a drop down from all of these.

Depends on the cost and if your PSU is up to it really!
 
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The Nvidia support website states the GTX 580 will support DX12 eventually. Question now is; do I need to upgrade my PSU? I'm running a 650w Cooler Master PSU.
 
THey look power hungry m8, 500 watt at stock speed for both of them. You would need a new power supply to run SLI yeah. Theyre so old, unless hes virtually giving them away i wouldnt bother.
 
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