Worth upgrading from a GTX 260 to a GTX 275?

[SickBeast]

No

 

[spinejam]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
No

I concur.

 

[bleucharm28]

I would hold off until GTX 300 comes out. in the mean time, go Sli if you can because GTX 260 is or will be really cheap.

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[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: Azn

Originally posted by: bryanW1995

Originally posted by: Azn
Probably another 10-15% increase. If that's worth $70 you should or not.

At those clocks you are already at stock GTX 275 GTX 280 performance levels.

what??? at those clocks and at that resolution he is MUCH better than even a gtx 285 performance right now. It would be a complete and utter waste of money for him to upgrade right now. the only way he would see ANY performance increase at all would be if he could OC the new card even higher, and even then it would most likely be a miniscule increase.

Um no. GTX 285 would still be faster. Have a look below. GTX 260 216 at those clocks doesn't win anything over GTX 285. It would be very close to stock GTX 280 level or GTX 275 performance however. It's entirely up to him to step up and there are people around here who pay thousands for 10% performance increase. He would get another 10-15% if he overclocked the GTX 275.

GTX285
Memory Bandwidth: 158.976 GB/sec
FLOPS: 1062.72 GFLOPS
Pixel Fill Rate: 20736 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 51840 MTexels/sec

GTX260 216 @ 716/1560/1235
Memory Bandwidth: 138.3 GB/sec
FLOPS: 1010.88 GFLOPS
Pixel Fill Rate: 20048 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 51552 MTexels/sec

ok, maybe it would only offer nearly identical performance, but honestly, does it matter? at his resolution and on the games that he plays, even BFG wouldn't be able to tell any difference between his card and a stock 285. his core is so much faster that in many cases he probably would get better performance, though at max res/AA on some games bandwidth/pixel/texture would certainly come into play. I've played the "upgrade your video card every six months" game long enough to know a good upgrade when I see it, and a 10-15% improvement on a perfect gaming experience is, um, not a wise investment.

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995

Originally posted by: Azn

Originally posted by: bryanW1995

Originally posted by: Azn
Probably another 10-15% increase. If that's worth $70 you should or not.

At those clocks you are already at stock GTX 275 GTX 280 performance levels.

what??? at those clocks and at that resolution he is MUCH better than even a gtx 285 performance right now. It would be a complete and utter waste of money for him to upgrade right now. the only way he would see ANY performance increase at all would be if he could OC the new card even higher, and even then it would most likely be a miniscule increase.

Um no. GTX 285 would still be faster. Have a look below. GTX 260 216 at those clocks doesn't win anything over GTX 285. It would be very close to stock GTX 280 level or GTX 275 performance however. It's entirely up to him to step up and there are people around here who pay thousands for 10% performance increase. He would get another 10-15% if he overclocked the GTX 275.

GTX285
Memory Bandwidth: 158.976 GB/sec
FLOPS: 1062.72 GFLOPS
Pixel Fill Rate: 20736 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 51840 MTexels/sec

GTX260 216 @ 716/1560/1235
Memory Bandwidth: 138.3 GB/sec
FLOPS: 1010.88 GFLOPS
Pixel Fill Rate: 20048 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 51552 MTexels/sec

ok, maybe it would only offer nearly identical performance, but honestly, does it matter? at his resolution and on the games that he plays, even BFG wouldn't be able to tell any difference between his card and a stock 285. his core is so much faster that in many cases he probably would get better performance, though at max res/AA on some games bandwidth/pixel/texture would certainly come into play. I've played the "upgrade your video card every six months" game long enough to know a good upgrade when I see it, and a 10-15% improvement on a perfect gaming experience is, um, not a wise investment.

You specifically said it's faster than GTX285 did you not? I'm just pointing out what you said with specs to show it's not faster and what I had said earlier still stand being fast as stock GTX280 or 275.

You upgraded from a 4850 to GTX 260 only to gain 20% better frame rates. That's not too far off from 260 to 275. Bigger frame buffer to your GTX260 sure but was that needed for 1680x1050 resolution which you use?

I never told the OP to upgrade. I said the choice is up to him to whether 10-15% better frame rates was worth $70 to him.

 

[smackababy]

To be honest, as much as I like my 275 there is no way it is worth the $70 step up from a 260. I did the step up, but I got mine for around $6 (just had to pay shipping). I play at 1920 x 1200, so I noticed a nice improvement, but nowhere near a $70 one. I would say just wait for the 300s to be released.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: Azn

Originally posted by: bryanW1995

Originally posted by: Azn

Originally posted by: bryanW1995

Originally posted by: Azn
Probably another 10-15% increase. If that's worth $70 you should or not.

At those clocks you are already at stock GTX 275 GTX 280 performance levels.

what??? at those clocks and at that resolution he is MUCH better than even a gtx 285 performance right now. It would be a complete and utter waste of money for him to upgrade right now. the only way he would see ANY performance increase at all would be if he could OC the new card even higher, and even then it would most likely be a miniscule increase.

Um no. GTX 285 would still be faster. Have a look below. GTX 260 216 at those clocks doesn't win anything over GTX 285. It would be very close to stock GTX 280 level or GTX 275 performance however. It's entirely up to him to step up and there are people around here who pay thousands for 10% performance increase. He would get another 10-15% if he overclocked the GTX 275.

GTX285
Memory Bandwidth: 158.976 GB/sec
FLOPS: 1062.72 GFLOPS
Pixel Fill Rate: 20736 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 51840 MTexels/sec

GTX260 216 @ 716/1560/1235
Memory Bandwidth: 138.3 GB/sec
FLOPS: 1010.88 GFLOPS
Pixel Fill Rate: 20048 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 51552 MTexels/sec

ok, maybe it would only offer nearly identical performance, but honestly, does it matter? at his resolution and on the games that he plays, even BFG wouldn't be able to tell any difference between his card and a stock 285. his core is so much faster that in many cases he probably would get better performance, though at max res/AA on some games bandwidth/pixel/texture would certainly come into play. I've played the "upgrade your video card every six months" game long enough to know a good upgrade when I see it, and a 10-15% improvement on a perfect gaming experience is, um, not a wise investment.

You specifically said it's faster than GTX285 did you not? I'm just pointing out what you said with specs to show it's not faster and what I had said earlier still stand being fast as stock GTX280 or 275.

You upgraded from a 4850 to GTX 260 only to gain 20% better frame rates. That's not too far off from 260 to 275. Bigger frame buffer to your GTX260 sure but was that needed for 1680x1050 resolution which you use?

I never told the OP to upgrade. I said the choice is up to him to whether 10-15% better frame rates was worth $70 to him.

Would you relax please? With those clock speed on his 260, anyone would be hard pressed to notice any difference between "it" and a 285 except in bandwidth limited situations. Both cards have plenty. :thumbsup:

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: Keysplayr

Would you relax please? With those clock speed on his 260, anyone would be hard pressed to notice any difference between "it" and a 285 except in bandwidth limited situations. Both cards have plenty. :thumbsup:

WTF? I am relaxed. You seem paranoid.

 

[smackababy]

This step up, for the $70, would be ~38% price increase over the card you purchased (assuming you paid an estimated $182 for your card: 250 - (70 - 8); 8 being the shipping) for a performance increase of around 10-15%. I would say not worth it at all. I purchased my 260 when the 55nm first were released so I paid the full $250 for it before rebate. My step up cost only shipping, and was worth it. This, on the other hand, is not (at least by my numbers) worth the upgrade.

 

[buddatech]

I agree with the majority here just wait for the 3xx series and by then the GTX 260 should be around $100 which would be a better investment, but then again at your res it still would not make a difference that is unless future games would be more demanding...

 

[MagickMan]

Thanks for the input everyone, I'm going to keep my 260 and wait for a next gen GPU. This has been a great card and it should serve well until then.