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worth upgrading fom 480 gtx to 60gtx ?

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hi guys im currently thinking of changing my system to ivybridge cpu and a z77 motherboard and new ram etc (when they come out ) , ive currently got
2X480gtx in sli , do you reckon its worth upgrading to a single 680gtx ? i may add aother at a later date but am wondering if their would be any performance increase over my 2 x 480 gtxs ...thanks in advance
 
Hell yeah!

The card is faster than 480 SLI.
It will save u a packet on electricity.
Your ears will also thank you.
Your case temp will drop about 5c.

In my case 32 ( went from near on 100 to around 68load) ha! :D Get the 680, granted the prices are slightly high but if you can justify it then do it!
 
No. It isn't. At all. Not in any shape or form.

This is a roundabout method of measuring, so not necessarily accurate, but here goes:

GTX480=GTX570
GTX570 SLI = 7970 OC
GTX 480 SLI = 7970 OC
GTX 680 > 7970
GTX680 OC > GTX 480 SLI

If it's for 1080p, then the 680 will just be a sidestep, at higher res' the 680 may be more worth it
 
No, the card is not faster than 480gtx sli, see some benches here:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-680-sli-review/8

Depends what games you play and whether they have a decent sli profile.

If your not happy with your cards then upgrade if not keep them, simples, but you wont see much difference in performance. Nor will the difference in power consumption be noticeable on your power bill unless you run your cards on full whack 24/7.

You may not beleive it but I have gone from 480gtx sli to 1 7970 back to 480gtx sli, gtx sli 480 beats 1 7970 quite comfortably in most situations.

I thought about getting a 680, but then looked at the price plus a gpu block, which comes to about £500.00, I picked up another set of 480s for £270 with blocks, back plates and single slot bracket.

All in all I have lost about £100 quid between selling my old pair, buying then selling the 7970 and buying another set of 480s. Not a lot of money but the price I pay for being an impulsive idiot :P

I'm much happier, never been comfortable with an ATI since 9800pro and can't shake the feeling... (stupid 7970 impulse buy :) )

Try to resist the bug, 680's will be £200/£250.00 in August.
 
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Not faster but pretty close.
 
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The nvidia guy(i know lol) in one of the interview video's posted here said its close to 590 GTX performance? I asked if this is true or exaggerated in that thread and somebody answered that its a pretty accurate statement?

Confused now.:o

TBH the 590 and 6990 are faster overall than both the 7970 and 680.

Nvidia will tell you whatever they want you to hear when they are selling something.

The irony is that the only reason the 680 would ever beat the 590 in anything would be because of drivers or poor SLI implementation.

I own a 7970 and it is overclocked. My friend owns the same board, same cpu same ram and same SSD I do and his 480 SLI have beaten my card in absolutely everything we have compared them in. For example with my GPU overclocked to 1125mhz I score high 8000s in P score in 3dmark 11. He hasn't even overclocked his cards (he wouldn't know how) and he scores high 9000s.

I'm not saying I would have a SLI setup over a single card (and I wouldn't, I'm not a huge fan of dual GPUs) but the 680 is not faster than a 590 IMO, not by a long chalk.

It's cooler, quieter, doesn't make the national power grid whine and won't cook your insides, but it isn't faster.

For your reference a 590 is pretty much 570 SLI. A 480 is just ahead of a 570 by a small amount and they are also clocked higher than the cores of a 590.

So IMO SLI 480 are quicker than a 590 if anything.
 
In my eyes, its not worth it. You're system is fast and I doubt you'll see any performance gain if it's solely a gaming pc. Unless your rendering for example like Autodesk Maya or compressing everyday why bother with extra power you don't need?

If it runs fine, why change it?
 
bold statement to make!

Any chance of a source?

haha no, I wish.

Just a hunch from experience.

I'm basing my hunch on the usual tdp of nvidia top end end cards (about 250w). So if we expect the 780 (or whatever its called) to be 250w and it's based on the same basic architecture then we can assume that the 780 will be at least 30% greater performance than 680 (which is 195w). Add the fact that its supposed to be a 384bit bus and have more cores and rops lets add anther 30% on, so lets assume it's 60% faster than 680.

Most high end single card releases have been between £400 and £500.00. Assuming the new card launches in August and is somewhere in that performance range and price then price range would be between £240 and £300 on the 680 at that date, i.e. 60% less than the top end card.

I actually think it will be much faster though(x2), hence my downword estimation on the 680. If not it would be slower than the proposed 690 (680x2) by 40% and I cant see the 690 still being sold for £650.00 + in August.

All guess work so don't hold me too it:) One thing is for sure, we know Nvidia will change their strategy based on the competition. So if AMD can't come up with anything to compete with the proposed Nvidia SKU by August, anything could happen; which could mean overpriced and underperforming cards for the rest of 2012.

To be honest the upgrade cycle has been odd since the 580 launch, the 7970 and 680 launch has just compounded that. You could almost guarantee 80+% between new SKU's from both Red and Green, I haven't seen that happens since the 480, some 2 years ago.
 
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No, the card is not faster than 480gtx sli, see some benches here:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-680-sli-review/8

Depends what games you play and whether they have a decent sli profile.

If your not happy with your cards then upgrade if not keep them, simples, but you wont see much difference in performance. Nor will the difference in power consumption be noticeable on your power bill unless you run your cards on full whack 24/7.

You may not beleive it but I have gone from 480gtx sli to 1 7970 back to 480gtx sli, gtx sli 480 beats 1 7970 quite comfortably in most situations.

I thought about getting a 680, but then looked at the price plus a gpu block, which comes to about £500.00, I picked up another set of 480s for £270 with blocks, back plates and single slot bracket.

All in all I have lost about £100 quid between selling my old pair, buying then selling the 7970 and buying another set of 480s. Not a lot of money but the price I pay for being an impulsive idiot :P

I'm much happier, never been comfortable with an ATI since 9800pro and can't shake the feeling... (stupid 7970 impulse buy :) )

Try to resist the bug, 680's will be £200/£250.00 in August.

Oh I hope the tec can drop to prices the majority can afford. Ok then what I mean is a price I may be tempted by.
I only upgraded from a BFG8800GT 512 to a MSI GTX460 OC 1GB in November and already starting to get the upgrade bug again.
 
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