very honestly, which to choose?
GTX 560, trust me.
Don't get a plain 560, they're a crappy deal. Consider the 560ti.
A 6870 is really powerful for the price, you can get them for $150 on newegg right now.
The 560ti and 6950 are about the same price and performance.
The 6870 slightly outperforms a regular 560 and costs less.
560ti/6870/6950 are the cards to go for if you want the best bang for your buck.
I wish people would stop linking that website, it's so innacurate... I mean really, it lists the 470 ahead of the 590 lmfao...
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It is about 90% dependent on your chipset.
If you have intel go with Nvidia.
If you have AMD go with Radeon.
The reasoning is because when AMD and Intel bought their respective gpu makers they then proceeded to have their chipsets play nicer with their own cards.
If it's a GTX560 Ti variant, then you should check which games you play and choose if you play nVidia games (TWIMTBP programme) and select based on that, the 6870 vs. GTX560 Ti is a flip up really.
If it's a generic GTX560 then without question your choice should be a HD6870.
The link posted in the first replying poster is something you should ignore.
Because i would like to see the day that any single GPU GTX580 beats the GTX590/HD6990 in a game that supports Multi-GPU.
Yet it ranks above both... so leave that as is.
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Are you on Drugs? Because this is a pretty big hallucination.
In fact a while ago research was done that for some reason nVidia ran better on AMD CPUs then Intel and ATi better on Intel then AMD.
Research before you post.
It lists the Winfast 470 higher than it, the stock 470 is a bit lower than the 590. The Winfast is also a much beefier card than the stock one. You can't just look at the number of the card and say "hey this one beats that, therefore this site is completely wrong." Plus it only has one sample of that card, and many samples of others, which I would feel a bit better about than just that one.
For example, the Winfast version:
WinFast LeadTek GTX460 Specifications List
- GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
- Graphics Bus PCI Express 2.0
- Memory size 1024MB GDDR5
- GPU/Memory clock 800/2000MHz
- Memory data rate 4000MHz
- Output Dual-Link DVI x 2+Mini HDMI
- Memory Interface 256-bit
- Data bandwidth( GB/sec.) 115.2
- Fill Rate(billion texels/sec) 37.8
- Stream process 336
- RAMDACs (MHz) 400
- Full Microsoft® DirectX®11 Shader Model5.0 Support
- NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ Ready
- DirectCompute Support
- HDMI 1.3a Support
- Built for Microsoft® Windows Windows 7™ & Vista™
- OpenGL® 4.0 Optimizations and Support
Stock 460
GPU Frequency 675MHz
Stream Processors 336
Stream Processor Frequency 1,350MHz
Texture Units 56
ROPs 32
Memory 1GB GDDR5
Frequency 900MHz (3.6GHz effective)
Memory Interface 256-bit
Bandwidth 115GB/sec
470 overclocked or not should NOT even be close to bring the same juice as a 590. We're talking 32 shader clusters on the 590 (although it's 16+16 running SFR/AFR) vs 14 clusters on the 470. Now imagine the massive advantage in clock speed you'd need to do in order to compensate for that. Obviously the benchmark they're running on that site does not scale with multi GPU very well.
It's not a perfect chart.
Like many said, if you're getting the 560, get it with the Ti.
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Yeah, because AMD can so afford to have their GPUs underperform with Intel CPUs...
/facepalm
Seriously, the stuff people pull out of their arse at times is unbelievable.
As for the OPs question. For all intents an purposes, a Radeon HD 6870 vs. Geforce GTX 560 is a pretty even fight. Sure, one my pull ahead in a few benchmarks and fall behind in others, but these differences will be hard to measure, let alone see, in practice. Same applies for a Radeon HD 6950 vs. Geforce 560 Ti.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/330?vs=290
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This isn't the most insanely accurate breakdown of comparisons, but it's typically reliable from my experience.
So on average the GTX470 should be equal to the GTX590/HD6990?
The GTX580 kills every other card with ease?
Consumer driven crap is the proper description because if a GTX470 or 580 is THAT powerfull then there would be no need for a HD6990/GTX590, also their titles would be incorrect by the people who built them.
You have to ask yourself the following "Can i really trust a site that ranks the GTX580 so far above any of the king of the hill Dual-GPU that they shouldn't even exist, which also contradicts EVERY SINGLE HARDWARE REVIEW SITE IN THE WORLD?".
The answer is no, the rankings on that chart are incorrect, no matter how much you want it to be correct.
Ok pricks who doubt me. Why then when I got a 5860 when I built my current rig I got artifacting on two seperate Radeon 5860 with my intel chipset. Switched to my old nvidia 275 GTX and it works fine?
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