Need help quickly - single solution gfx card

[enigma27]

Hi Guys.

I currently have a 570 SLI set-up and am about to dabble in the world of online streaming... I have decided to get a dedicated hardware video encoder ( Avermedia live gamer HD ) that uses a PCI Express slot. Now with my current set-up that will just not fit in my case as I also have a PCI Express sound card...

What would be the closet performance wise Nvidia graphics that i could substitute the two 570's for, I understand there may not be anything that gives as good performance as SLI but if its close then I will be happy.

 

[Orcvader]

If you're streaming PC gaming footage, you don't need any dedicated hardware.

XSplit is all you need: http://www.xsplit.com/index.php#registerBox

And it doesn't even affect performance that much, depending on your full system specs.

 

[enigma27]

If you're streaming PC gaming footage, you don't need any dedicated hardware.

XSplit is all you need: http://www.xsplit.com/index.php#registerBox

And it doesn't even affect performance that much, depending on your full system specs.

thanks for that.. but i have been using xplit since it first came out in Beta... it does effect performance ingame quite a lot as CPu has to encode both the hi res video and the game at the same time.

 

[andybird123]

a 670 fully overclocked will be a bit off 570SLI in raw GPU terms, but has the advantage that with 2GB of VRAM it will actually run some games at settings that the 570's just couldn't

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/598?vs=584
this is 580's vs a single stock 670 and even then you can see in some titles they draw near

a fully overclocked 680 will be a little faster than a 670 but not £100 faster (e.g. if it's playable on a 680 it will also still be playable on a 670)

 

[enigma27]

a 670 fully overclocked will be a bit off 570SLI in raw GPU terms, but has the advantage that with 2GB of VRAM it will actually run some games at settings that the 570's just couldn't

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/598?vs=584
this is 580's vs a single stock 670 and even then you can see in some titles they draw near

a fully overclocked 680 will be a little faster than a 670 but not £100 faster (e.g. if it's playable on a 680 it will also still be playable on a 670)

Thanks.. what about 2gb vs 4gb on the basis i run mutiple 1080p monitors?

 

[andybird123]

only if you were going to be running multiple cards too - a 670 doesn't have the grunt to run more than 2GB of VRAM - even at 2 card SLI the benefit would be negligible, really you'd need to be thinking of Tri-SLI to really see the benefit of 4GB on these cards