3x GTX 570 or 2x GTX 580?

[EliteRetard]

I havnt seen any triple SLI benchmarks...

 

[MentalIlness]

So what is your question ? If there is one.....Are you looking for benchmarks for that or deciding what to purchase ?

 

[OVerLoRDI]

The price comes out to a bit over a grand, with the dual 580s being cheaper by about ~80 or so dollars.

I would guess that the 3x 570s would be faster, but you tend to get diminishing returns with more cards. I would say get the dual 580s and you will be better off as far as scaling, heat, and drives go.

 

[tyl998]

Is your computer room THAT cold at night? 😀

 

[EliteRetard]

The cost for 3x GTX 570 is the same as 2x GTX 580. If I were looking to spend that kind of cash Id like to have that info. And just out of curiosity I do wonder how 3x GTX 580 would compare. It seems to me that you use less of each additional GPU, therefore the performance gap should close between these two cards in triple SLI...

I did just bump into a 10,000$ wad of cash, and I was kinda wondering what sort of craziness I could do with it. Ive never had the money to build a truly high end rig, havnt decided if I should waste all of it, some of it, or just a little bit on a computer. My current rig is slowly dieing. Was an origional E6600 2GB and 8800 GTS 640MB. MOBO shorted out and the RAM and GPU died. Upgraded to 4GB RAM and downgraded to a 320MB GPU. Still using the half shorted out MOBO.

Im going to wait for the new CPUs and GPUs here in a month or so, but Id still like to see some multi GPU benchmarks for the GTX 570/580. Wasnt sure if anyone had ran into any...google couldnt find any.

 

[toyota]

unless you are running a monitor larger than 1920x1080/1200 then neither 580 sli or 570 ri sli is really worth it unless money is of no concern. you held on to a fairly modest pc for a long time so that tells me that money may be an issue. just because you have $10,000 now does not mean you throw common sense out the window. unless you have no other bills or expenses then go with a more sensible setup. even a single gtx580 or gtx570 can tear through games at 1920.

 

[CosmicMight]

Like you, I have a 4 year old E6600 system and will be buying a new rig soon. Temps are rapidly rising on the cpu; I think the fan is unseated/not working but I don't care. My rig is going to be sans hd and vc then sitting on the curb in < 3 weeks. Anyway, like others have said, I don't understand why you'd want to waste the cash.

Unless it is an orgasmic life-changing better-than-sex experience for you to play Metro and Crysis at their highest possible settings, most games will be shredded with a 580 + 930-950/2500-2600 at 19x12. Even if you wanted to step up to 25x16, that list doesn't get much larger.

In fact, I'll probably be getting a 2500 and keeping my 285 until Kepler (granted all I play is poker, SC2, and BF). If you do decide to go 25x16, even dual 570's would be more power than you'll need for 99% of games. Then you have Kepler coming in 8-9 months...

Save your money.

 

[taltamir]

... if you have so much disposable income that you even consider it then you might as well get triple GTX580

I would get double GTX580 over the triple GTX570. scaling on two cards is better then on 3 last I checked.

 

[RaistlinZ]

I'd go for 3x570. That way, later on you could sell two of the 570's for 2x6990 QuadFire and use the remaining 570 for PhysX. 🙂

 

[taltamir]

I'd go for 3x570. That way, later on you could sell two of the 570's for 2x6990 QuadFire and use the remaining 570 for PhysX. 🙂

you need cracked nvidia drivers for that. the drivers check to see if there is an AMD card, and if there is refuse to run physX on GPU

 

[TheUnk]

With 2x580 you better be gaming with 3 monitors...

 

[taltamir]

I'd go for 3x570. That way, later on you could sell two of the 570's for 2x6990 QuadFire and use the remaining 570 for PhysX. 🙂

PS. I forgot to mention this... but he could just as easily sell 2 GTX580, 2 GTX570, or 3 GTX570... and if he is selling and buying something ultra high end as a replacement, he is better off selling everything and buying whatever is latest then mix and matching latest + older hardware.