GTX 570 SLI compared to last years 5970. How much faster?

[SZLiao214]

How much can you sell your 5970 for?

Being this close to new cards i would just wait to do sli with next gen.

 

[Locut0s]

don't know if you were aware of this but there's a part of this site that happens to review computer hardware. crazy, i know. anyway, they actually tested this exact same situation.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/297?vs=307

Shit thanks. I forgot about GPU bench.

 

[happy medium]

I was wrong, about 50% faster sounds better, with much better minimums and less stutter and better driver support and sli profiles..
,
BBC2 waterfall bench is based on minimums, in Anandtech bench.

 

[Locut0s]

I was wrong, about 50% faster sounds better, with much better minimums and less stutter and better driver support and sli profiles..
,
BBC2 waterfall bench is based on minimums, in Anandtech bench.

Going to wait till GTX 600 series comes out. :awe:

 

[3DVagabond]

Going to wait till GTX 600 series comes out. :awe:

Hopefully you won't be waiting too long. There's not much talk/info/rumor about release time for nVidia's next gen. It might be many months?

 

[Via]

I've never understood buying a GPU based on random benchmarks.

I use my eyes to tell me whether I'm getting enough performance. When they say "enough, that's bad" I'll head on over to Newegg.

 

[3DVagabond]

I've never understood buying a GPU based on random benchmarks.

I use my eyes to tell me whether I'm getting enough performance. When they say "enough, that's bad" I'll head on over to Newegg.

When your eyes say, "enough, that's bad", then how do you choose if not by random benchmarks? There are other criteria as well, I understand, but benchmarks and reviews have their place in the decision.

 

[Via]

When your eyes say, "enough, that's bad", then how do you choose if not by random benchmarks? There are other criteria as well, I understand, but benchmarks and reviews have their place in the decision.

I wonder what % of PC gamers have overbought based on benchmarks. I bet it's pretty high.

But hey - it keeps the industry humming along.

 

[Arkadrel]

For any game, at 1920x resolution, would a 5970 really not be enough to give a solid performance?

I mean if you had 2x 5870's in CF.
Hell I have only one 5870 and dont really have any issues, playing modern games
(lower resolutions ect not always the highest possible settings but decently up there).

Im just assumeing alot of people are in the AMD 5870 or Nvidia 480 / Nv 570 ish range of performance, and probably play just fine. A 5970 is a good bit faster than any of that.

I guess this becomes a question of... do you game at 2560x resolutions? or use 3x monitors?
If no, why would you even need a 5970? much less more power that that?

 

[Locut0s]

I use a 30 LCD. So yeah 2560x1600

 

[blackened23]

When you add in microstutter , piss poor crossfire scaling, yea I'm close.

A single gtx580 = a 5970 in some of todays games.

OK mabe 73% faster.?

Please don't link some old benchmark from yesteryear.Thats not relevent today. Sli gtx570's have improved dramaticly since January 2011.

A gtx580 is very close to a 5970 today and a gtx570 is not that far behind a gtx580. Ask current 6970 owners. The 6970 is = to a gtx570 right?.

Whats hilarious is that crossfire scales better than SLI does, and micro stuttering happens with the fermi too.

Come on man you're better than this. Yes the 570 SLI is faster. Why even bother bringing up crossfire scaling because generally, crossfire (with the kayman) scales better than SLI and microstuttering happens on both.

 

[badb0y]

Whats hilarious is that crossfire scales better than SLI does, and micro stuttering happens with the fermi too.

Come on man you're better than this. Yes the 570 SLI is faster. Why even bother bringing up crossfire scaling because generally, crossfire (with the kayman) scales better than SLI and microstuttering happens on both.

That started with the HD 6xxx series, not sure what they did with the HD 5xxx series lol.

 

[Locut0s]

Whats hilarious is that crossfire scales better than SLI does, and micro stuttering happens with the fermi too.

Come on man you're better than this. Yes the 570 SLI is faster. Why even bother bringing up crossfire scaling because generally, crossfire (with the kayman) scales better than SLI and microstuttering happens on both.

My experience with AMD drivers has been less than stellar though. They seem, on average anyway, to be a lot more buggy than NVIDIA's.

 

[blackened23]

You know what I find? People that complain about drivers in general don't even own the product they're talking about. I have both ATI (6970's) and GTX 580's and have not had a single driver issue with either card, with the 6970s that I had since release in Dec 2010. Whats more, AMD is actually *more* timely in general with having updated dual/triple GPU profiles for their cards. I'm guessing you heard from a friend of a friend of a friend that posted about it on the internet? Rage fiasco? Whatever, bethesda releasing a game requiring a specific driver for a shit game, and not having the driver until the day before. What could go wrong? AMD drivers are fine. Nvidia loyalists would have you believe otherwise. Me? I'm pretty neutral, I think both have pluses and minuses. AMD has better options that work in CCC, and whatever options you choose for IQ work. AMD lets you do what you want to do IQ wise. If you want SSAA, you can have it. With nvidia CP, you don't get the option for SSAA (unless you use nvidia inspector) -- instead you only get SS transparency which isn't the same. Nvidia "override" option for image quality doesn't work for roughly 65% of games, nvidia freely admits this. You usually have to do some bullcrap in nvidia inspector to force it to work, and even then its not guaranteed - nvidia CP will not enable the override setting you want and won't let you know. Its pretty annoying that "override" doesn't work for many games, unless they're especially old. However, their game profiles applet is far superior to the one found in CCC. And force vsync always works in nvidia CP while it doesn't always for CCC.

Either way, no drivers issues here with either card, ever.