Msi Gtx460 HAWK Sli Vs Gtx 580

[PRINCE SALMAN]

Msi Gtx460 HAWK Sli Vs Gtx 580 I Want To Know What Level Of Performance I Will Get If Get Msi Gtx460 HAWK Will It Compete Gtx 580 And How Much Power It Requires

 

[SickBeast]

In games where SLI scales well, the 460s will beat out the 580 by 15% or so. Most of the time, however, the performance varies widely depending on the game and the settings used.

So long as the 460s are not memory limited, you will be fine. That said, SLI is not ideal, and the 580 would be the better solution all things considered.

 

[Kristijonas]

I'd just take GTX 570 for a single display.

 

[BD231]

SLI 460 can match and or rape a 580, but in situations where more than 1gb of frame buffer is used a 580 is better equiped with 1.5gb's vs the 1gb on the 460's. 2 460's are half the price so its a no brainer as long as you have a dual PCI-E motherboard and 750watt or better psu.

360 load watts on a non overclocked 580, and about 430watts with two 460's. A mere 70 watts more.

 

[PRINCE SALMAN]

I Have MSI Z68A-GD65 Mobo With PSU Corsair Tx850 Watts

 

[SickBeast]

Does your GTX 460 have 768mb or 1gb of vram?

I found with mine I was memory limited way more than I thought I would be, and in some cases it was difficult if not impossible to get around it by tweaking the settings. My cards have 768mb.

I just didn't find the setup ideal. It's great in certain games, but in others I would have done pretty much just as well with a single card.

The cost of entry is low enough that it doesn't really hurt to try it out and see how you like it. I'm telling you right now, though, that Crysis 2 won't run on Ultra, and I have a feeling Battlefield 3 won't either. The newer games need more than 1gb of vram if you want to run them in all their glory at 1920x1200 or higher. Having more GPU power won't matter because you will be bottlenecked by your lack of vram.

 

[bryanW1995]

SLI 460 can match and or rape a 580, but in situations where more than 1gb of frame buffer is used a 580 is better equiped with 1.5gb's vs the 1gb on the 460's. 2 460's are half the price so its a no brainer as long as you have a dual PCI-E motherboard and 750watt or better psu.

360 load watts on a non overclocked 580, and about 430watts with two 460's. A mere 70 watts more.

Why would you need a 750w psu to run sli gtx 460??? I'm using an hx 620 with my 4 ghz i7 and gtx 480 that runs DC 24/7, and my spare computer upstairs had an hx 520 with a gtx 260 and 9600gso + x3350 @ 3.4 for 2 years. And if we want to use real numbers instead of my anecdotal information, how much power does a gtx 460 draw, 150w? Even a VERY highly overclocked quad doesn't get much over 200w, and figure 30-40w for anciallaries, so all you need is 540w, so, say, about 45w at peak load with both gpu's pegged 100% (likely a VERY rare scenario, probably 1-3 hrs per day). Even DC apps don't run the gpus @ 100%, so you'd likely be ok with a 500w very high quality psu or 600w "good" one like corsair even with a huge cpu overclock. If you don't run your cpu quite so high then you could get away with even less.

 

[happy medium]

gtx460's use 160 watts not 215 watts. A gtx570 uses 215 watts.
320 watts for 2 gtx460's and 260 watts for a gtx580 but the 460's will be faster unless your running at 2500x1600 res. .