580 or the 680?

[sumanchakri]

Hi,

I was plannig to buy this.

EVGA GeForce GTX 580 CLASSIFIED ULTRA, 3072MB GDDR5, 4-Way SLI ready, Dual-DualLink DVI, PCI-E 2.0 SLI Graphics Card
http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-CLASSIFIED-Dual-DualLink-Graphics-03G-P3-1595-AR/dp/B006MBP6FK

would it be better to go for the GTX680. and if so why and which one.


APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: ASAP

USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: lots of Media Editing and the occasional games.

CURRENT GPU AND POWER SUPPLY: Corsair Professional Series Gold 850-Watt 80 Plus Gold Certified High-Performance Power Supply - CMPSU-850AX is the power supply am planning to go for.

OTHER RELEVANT SYSTEM SPECS:

Intel Core i7-3930K 3.2 1 LGA 2011 Processor with heat sink
ASUS SABERTOOTH X79 - LGA2011 - X79 - 8x DIMM - PCIe 3.0 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance 1600 FSB -4 GB * 4
Corsair Hydro Series H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Corsair Professional Series Gold 850-Watt 80 Plus Gold Certified High-Performance Power Supply
180GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Seagate - Barracuda 1 TB 3.5" Internal HD Sata III
Dell UltraSharpTM U2711 27” Monitor with PremierColor

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OVERCLOCKING: Maybe. Never done it.

Thanks.

 

[MMO Fan]

No point in buying an ultra high end Gaming GPU when gaming is an afterthought mate.

 

[sumanchakri]

well i do agree but that might change from being an afterthought once I have the comp. cause this would be my first PC which would support high end gaming. The last time I played was when games like Halflife were there

on the other hand . would the graphic cards be different for media editing and gaming. If so what would u suggest for some extreme video editing. .

and also between these 2 cards would there be any major difference?

 

[MMO Fan]

well i do agree but that might change from being an afterthought once I have the comp. cause this would be my first PC which would support high end gaming. The last time I played was when games like Halflife were there

on the other hand . would the graphic cards be different for media editing and gaming. If so what would u suggest for some extreme video editing. .

and also between these 2 cards would there be any major difference?

Professional class solutions for "editing" and 3D cad work etc are Nvidia Quadro or Radeon Firepro and these GPU solutions are very expensive and I think the GTX 580 is better for non gaming uses but I could be wrong but at any rate I would go GTX 580 because they are cheaper and still have very good performance.

 

[Arlen10]

Get the GTX 680. No questions asked.

 

[MMO Fan]

Get the GTX 680. No questions asked.

But 680 has less Compute performance OP needs a card for doing work with as well not just playing games and GTX 680 fails at compute performance.

 

[jasont78]

But 680 has less Compute performance OP needs a card for doing work with as well not just playing games and GTX 680 fails at compute performance.

+1 the 580 is better for compute than the 680 and im pretty sure though 7970 beats the 580 in compute and it is faster in games although it depends on what your software is compatible whether it is strictly cuda only or supports open standards to which u will be better off with the amd card

 

[MMO Fan]

+1 the 580 is better for compute than the 680 and im pretty sure though 7970 beats the 580 in compute and it is faster in games although it depends on what your software is compatible whether it is strictly cuda only or supports open standards to which u will be better off with the amd card

Agreed +1 ^

 

[sumanchakri]

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