Anything worth upgrading to from GTX 570

[bolitebriga]

Damn...I'm cancelling my upgrades. The offical 7990 changes everything now..and AMD confirmed that HD8000 desktop versions are coming out Q4 2013.

I think I'm going to grab a 7990 if the price is 700$, and if it's not then wait for 8970!

 

[ICDP]

Lots of 7970s reach 1300+ which is unheard of with a 7950

http://www.overclock.net/t/1196856/official-amd-radeon-hd-7950-7970-7990-owners-thread

Unheard off? Read how many 7950s reached 1300+ core clock. some even did it on air.

From testing both cards the avarage overclock is around 1170. Either card gets a 1200+ core clock and it is the exception and not the rule.

 

[tarmc]

It depends what you consider a worthy upgrade. For me it's as close as possible to double-up on performance. I went from a HD5850 to a GTX670 and it was a great upgrade for me.

If I were to use the same criteria coming from a GTX570, I'd need a Titan. So no, nothing worthy out there. Sit tight and wait for next gen

went from 6870 cf to gtx 670 and was a hell of a nice improvement



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[blastingcap]

Damn...I'm cancelling my upgrades. The offical 7990 changes everything now..and AMD confirmed that HD8000 desktop versions are coming out Q4 2013.

I think I'm going to grab a 7990 if the price is 700$, and if it's not then wait for 8970!

You might want to read how bad Crossfire is here: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphi...ils-Capture-based-Graphics-Performance-Tes-12

"I cannot overstate that point more precisely: our results showed that in Battlefield 3, Crysis 3 and Sleeping Dogs, adding in another $400+ Radeon HD 7970 did nothing to improve your gaming experience, and in some cases made it worse by introducing frame time variances that lead to stutter."

7990 = internal crossfire. So why not just get a single 7970 or, as you said, wait for the 8970?

 

[Qbah]

went from 6870 cf to gtx 670 and was a hell of a nice improvement



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A HD6870 is just slightly faster than a HD5850, so yea

EDIT: Ohh, CF. Well, Termie posted his numbers and impressions going from a HD5850 CF and it wasn't really an upgrade. Other factors were likely at play in your situation, not performance.

 

[pauldun170]

I see the heat has slowly been killing your card. I've got Evga classfied overclocked 448 (steam punked version)(intel cpu fan on one of the spots)lol . The gf110's are really power/heat monsters. If you are thinking of upgrading: Getting a gtx 670 or 680 will see very nice bump in perfomance. Two gigs of ram, etc. I would suggest a twin fan setup to get the most from the turbo boost and heat. I'm not totally happy with blower style fans anymore. I've managed my 680's heat, But rather have something in twin frozr type style like the gtx 660 I also have. (1150 boost all day long) A gtx 660 is about same performance as my 448 gf110.(psst..660 is faster). Latency is much less also(win,win) 1080p won't know what hit em'. Good luck on what ever camp you choose.

I've run an evga GTX570 for years now and I have never had a problem with heat or noise.

 

[vshin]

I'm in the same boat, using a factory OC GTX 570 for 1920x1200 gaming. There's no game that I can't run 45 fps avg, even with 4xMSAA. I suppose we could upgrade to a GTX 660ti for around 45% improvement with less power consumption but not sure if that's worth $300.

I'd wait until games for the PS4 start coming out. Only then will developers have the incentive to push PC graphics to the limit.

 

[FalseChristian]

A HD 7950 or a GTX 670 are you're only options but you do not want pay for it. Why did you create this thread?

 

[Wall Street]

I too am in the same situation. I have a GTX 570 with an Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo heatsink. There are faster cards, but to do noticeably better than a 570 you need to spend at least $300 and I don't see the $300 of benefit since most games can be played on high w/ 4x MSAA on the 570 (although HBAO and shadows sometimes hurt frame rates). I think that my path will likely be to wait for Haswell w/fixed USB 3.0, the fall GPU refreshes and the first PS4 games to see what the best investment is at that time.

 

[Jacky60]

Stick with the 570, you're pretty much future proof for the next couple of years if you're just playing last gen console ports at low res with medium settings and happy with that.

 

[vshin]

Last-gen ports at HD res on high settings will still net 45+ fps on the 570, give or take occlusion effects and shadows. There's simply no console port that pushes cards hard enough, or offers an order-of-magnitude improvement in graphics to justify a major upgrade.

 

[zaydq]

Most 7950s can't be oced high enuf to beat a 7970ghz. At most you can equal it. A 7970ghz can be oced further as well.

1. 7970s mem oc higher both at stock and oc.

2. 7950 mem 1250. 7970ghz mem 1500. All other things constant that is about 10% performance diff or at least 6-8%.

3. 7970ghz is 5-10% faster clock for clock so needs 75mhz less. So a 7950 at 1125 wil just meet the 1050 of the 7970ghz. Still 7970 will be up to 10% faster because of the faster VRAM.

4. No matter what you do, oc vs oc a 15-25% difference will remain, always.

5. Assuming you get a 50th percentile chip with reasonable volts and life
7950 core 1100-1150
7970ghz core 1150-1250
7950 mem 1300-1500
7970ghz mem 1600-1750

6. Assuming you get a top shot chip
7950 core 1150-1250
7970ghz 1250-1350

So 7970s not only oc higher on core but also on the mem and also are faster clock for clock amongst other things.

Posts like this are why so many people are misinformed on these boards.