580 GTXs and dual boxing.

[rune269]

Does anyone own a 580 gtx and if so , is there a noticeable difference when dual boxing vs a gtx 480?

[Sajuuk]

are you being limited by your 480?

No: Save your money
Yes: Do your own research. or get one.

[MiRai]

Does anyone own a 580 gtx and if so , is there a noticeable difference when dual boxing vs a gtx 480?

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 year
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.

[Kedash00]

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 year
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

[Ualaa]

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.

[Noids]

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.

[crowdx]

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.

[Umbaalo]

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.

[Kris1234]

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.

The review I read yesterday stated that the power consumption is more then the 480 even tho NVIDIA says its not. Read it here

But what is interesting is that power consumptions was actually higher than the GTX 480, not lower as NVIDIA claims. Yet we also really need to mention that the board used (engineering sample) had an older BIOS and that power consumption on this board might be a tad higher as a result of it.

[Zappy]

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.

You can find tons of current info on the 580s on evgas forums:
http://www.evga.com/forums/tt.aspx?forumid=67