noob question,
im currently using 2pcs of the 9800GT 1GB SLI for my vcard. im thinking of getting the GTX 580. is it a good upgrade?
noob question,
im currently using 2pcs of the 9800GT 1GB SLI for my vcard. im thinking of getting the GTX 580. is it a good upgrade?
Definitely.
It's good. It's overkill, but it's good.
Definately gtx580 lol
1 GTX 580 is like.. woooha compared to 2x of 9800gt since theyre outdated 9800gtx+ x2 is still good!
i really cant tell how much better the gtx 580 is from the 2 x 9800gt. can any of you pls estimate like how many times is it better? thanks!
Noob answer : Wait for nvida 6xx or amd 7xxx series.
580gtx is better around 10 times.
This isn't really a situation where you can put 'times better' on it.
The GTX580 is a different architechture and meant for a completely different generation of games.
In some older games you will notice no difference at all whereas in the latest title the difference is so huge it's like night and day.
Question is, what games are you playing? As then people can decipher if the GTX580 is a worthy upgrade or if a different card might be a better option.
It's an enormous upgrade over the 9800s.
HOWEVER
The 580 has been out for a good 6 months now and the 6xx series is due "this quarter / very early 2012"
The 680 has been rumoured to be roughly twice the power of the 580 since it's a new architecture not a revision card like the 5 series so if you can hang in there just that little bit longer you'll either get much mroe for your money, or a very nice price drop.
Or get 2x MSI N560GTX-Ti Hawk for the same price.
GTX580 is tiny bit more powerful than a SLI pair of GTX460 1GB's -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/305?vs=314
1GB GTX460 is about 2-4x more powerful than 8800GT depending on game -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/180?vs=178
9800GT is renamed 8800GT with slighly lower power drain and noise.
Therefore, Single GTX580 does 2-5 times higher framerate than SLI of 9800GT's depending on game.
Never going to log into this garbage forum again as long as calling obvious troll obvious troll is the easiest way to get banned.
Trolling should be.
http://www.nvidia.com/content/HelpMe...asp?lang=en-us put the 9800 and the 580 in the compare field and there ya go, a 580 is nearly 4 times as good as one 9800, so even if you get a true x2 performance boost from having two (which usually isn't the case) one 580 is still nearly double the power.