Does anyone own a 580 gtx and if so , is there a noticeable difference when dual boxing vs a gtx 480?
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Does anyone own a 580 gtx and if so , is there a noticeable difference when dual boxing vs a gtx 480?
are you being limited by your 480?
No: Save your money
Yes: Do your own research. or get one.
The card came out a few days ago, I doubt anyone raced to the store to replace their 480 GTX they paid $500 less than a yearQuote:
Originally Posted by rune269
ago, to drop another $500 for the 580 GTX just so they can multibox with a few more frames per second. Give it a few weeks
or months when people start upgrading their computers around or after Christmas time. Even then I doubt someone with a
480 would move to a 580, but who knows, some people have exuberant amounts of cash to throw around.
If anyone has any of this so called "exuberant cash" flloating around send some my way :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenril
I'd guess, there will be some who upgrade from a card older then a 480, and pick the 580.
Don't see too many people moving from 480 to 580.
There will likely be reviews, comparing the new card to existing cards, in a variety of situations.
That's your best bet.
Not sure about boxing comparisons, but tomshardware has a fairly extensive comparison. Looks like a fairly decent jump in performance as well as reduction in noise over the 480. What this will translate to in terms of WoW performance is anyones guess.
Just my 2 cents. I just upgraded from a 9800GTX which was about 3 generations behind the 480 and now have an ATI 6870. The jump in performance between the two cards is significant when single boxing but I have to say even being 3 generations apart the jump in fps is not that huge in "most" places. What it did enable me to do was pump up the quality settings a bit more BUT again this is really only noticable when I single box.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4008/n...eforce-gtx-580
There is all the reading on specs and comparisons between the GTX 580 and other current GPUs on the market. From what I can tell, if you already have the GTX 480, just save your cash. Not worth the money for a 8-12% performance gain. I was going to buy a 480, but am now holding out and saving up for the 580 mostly for the lower power consumption, heat produced, and noise.
From a 480GTX, i doubt you'll see much of a difference
I ordered 2 580s and the 1st one arrived yesterday, but I didn't get a chance to play with it last night. I'm upgrading from a trisli 280gtx to two 580s, and will probably get a third around the start of the year.
Currently, I have most of the graphics settings maxed, but with only 4xAA and low shadow settings and can usually see a solid 60FPS just about everywhere (on a 30" monitor), but it does have a few stutters here and there. My plan is to crank up the settings on max, and possibly set the background frames @ 60 if it'll handle it.
Why run sli you ask - wow isn't the only game I play - and yes, disabling SLI for wow definitely increases performance. Running one instance in windowed mode with SLI enabled, and I'll see a max of around 35-45FPS. The beauty of the upgrades is that my wife and daughter both have some decent gaming machines as well, so the old 280s will be put to good use.
I don't know what I'm more excited about right now though - the 580s or the 160Gb SSD that should arrive today. :D
You can find tons of current info on the 580s on evgas forums:
http://www.evga.com/forums/tt.aspx?forumid=67
Just to clarify Zappy, do you mean that you would get better performance on your single 30" monitor using a single 580GTX for WoW than using 2 in SLI.
I have 2 x 295GTXs in quad for my 30" and the lack of graphics quality really annoys me sometimes. Just wondering if it is worth changing to a maxed single card setup...