Gtx 560ti or 6850 or 6870?

[amuffin]

I currently have enough money to get any one of these cards. Which one would be the best? I generally like nvidia better, but the radeon series seems like a good bang for the buck.

 

[johnners2981]

Lol, that's a lot of tools. Funny thing is, the only thing I've used the Afterburner for so far was fan control... no need to OC - the 560 Ti can max out anything at 1080p, it's even sad... what's the point of higher cards?

Someone is very defensive of their 560ti. Regretting not buying the faster 6950 are we?

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

Someone is very defensive of their 560ti. Regretting not buying the faster 6950 are we?

Not at all... 6950 is 50% more expensive than a 560 Ti in my country

 

[johnners2981]

Not at all... 6950 is 50% more expensive than a 560 Ti in my country

Really? I see you had an easy decision to make then

 

[ncc74656]

i have many friends from gaming around the world and often run into people from Denmark or AU and looking at some of there prices. a comp i helped a friend with a few months ago had a 110.00 difference between a 2500 and a 2500K i5.

 

[amuffin]

Which one would be better for 3d? Such as 3ds max, maya, or cinema 4d?

 

[ncc74656]

if you want a dual purpos machine i would go nvidia however its worth noting that if your main purpose is such work then there are rendering cards you should use instead of any main stream gaming card. both ati and nvidia make such cards, i have found nvidia cards to be more compatible with more pieces of software however both are strong renderer's.

 

[starlabs]

@Starlabs--he's talking about a $200 card and you're talking about the GTX 580. Nobody but you has even mentioned the 5850. The point being, go ahead and make some suggestions, but slow down a bit and read what's ahead of you to make sure that you're helpful. For example, ICY BRIDGE does not exist and IVY BRIDGE is made by Intel, not NVidia or AMD so it probably won't directly affect graphics cards. Besides, Ivy Bridge won't be out until 2012 off of current time charts.

OP...amk-aka-phantom said it well. Either card will do well. The GTX 560Ti is probably more heavy OC capable, based off of what I've heard.

In my experience, Fermi OC's like a beast (25% core, 8% mem) on the GTX 460's and 470's I've tried. My friend's GTX 460 768MB beats a stock GTX 470 after 30 minutes of OC'ing w/ Afterburner (w/ Kombustor & Witcher 2 for stability testing).

I suggest that you wear your glasses first mr veteran and read repeatedly what im said and my point is before u post your negative comment ! , i mention gtx 580 earlier, is not that I recommend to buy the GTX 580, but just to suport my point that by spending about $280 he can have about same performance as gtx 580. compared with spending $210 for 560ti that can't be considered low price, just add $70 you can gain performance far above a 560ti even close to gtx 580 that far more expensive! understand my point now mr veteran?

 

[starlabs]

dalauder's "IVY BRIDGE is made by Intel, not NVidia or AMD so it probably won't directly affect graphics cards"

since when if the cpu does not affect the performance of vga? try use dual core vs quad core with the same vga setup if the result exactly like what you said i give you my ears! wuakakak thats very funny statement from someone who wrote and analyse like an expert.

 

[amuffin]

dalauder's "IVY BRIDGE is made by Intel, not NVidia or AMD so it probably won't directly affect graphics cards"

since when if the cpu does not affect the performance of vga? try use dual core vs quad core with the same vga setup if the result exactly like what you said i give you my ears! wuakakak thats very funny statement from someone who wrote and analyse like an expert.

The cpu does effect the performance of your gpu. Such as if you had a gtx 580 and a pentium 4, the 580 would be bottlenecked by the cpu.

 

[awesomedude911]

7850

 

[paddys09]

7850

Its easy to suggest better cards 1 year, 1week later...

Unfortunately the 7850 didn't exist back then