Nvidia 560 or AMD 6850?

[BennettWHU]

I'm building my first system and I need a good GPU to play games like, Skyrim, The Old Republic, Total War, and Call of Duty on high settings. I've got around £150 to spend on a card. I'd be happy with any advice even if I'd be better off paying the extra for an even higher card. Thank you.

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

For £150, you could get something better that either card, I've seen a 6950 on here for £150 before, and you might be able to get a 7850 for that price soon. May want to think about waiting for the GTX 660 to be released (though it will likely cost around £200 at launch)

 

[tommybhoy]

Sometimes it's quicker to look through the first couple of pages for your answer.

To save me going through it again:

6870 -£120

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-205-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

Very good performance for the outlay, trades blows with stock 560ti's but won't overclock as well as the 560ti.


If overclocking's not your thing then the 6870 is better value unless PhysX(it's not used in any of your listed games) is of value to you.

560ti -£156

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-173-OK&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1810


Good clocking cards but they are sitting close to 7850 price territory and get blown away by the clocking ability of the 7850.

Nvidia 660 is inbound, depending on performance/price, it could force the 7850 down in price which could take it into your price zone, it's overbudget @£170'ish, but you get double the vram and a very overclockable gpu.