Graphics card upgrade? (I currently have an nvidia geforce gtx 570)

[luxlunae]

It's that christmas list time of the year again. Does anyone have a recommendation for a graphics card which would significantly beat my current card for somewhere in the $250-$400 range?

[MiRai]

If you can afford $30 for a price that's slightly over your budge, shipping, and possibly tax, then the EVGA GTX 770 4GB should hold you over for quite some time. Possibly better prices from EVGA directly.

[Ualaa]

I'm quite happy with the EVGA 670 GTX 4GB.
I'd imagine the 770 would be a sweet card.

There's not a lot of difference between the x70 and the x80 cards.
And the x70s are generally MUCH lower priced.

[MiRai]

Here's a review that shows the GTX 570 and GTX 770 (among other GPUs) in a number of different benchmarks:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...Force_GTX_770/

World of Warcraft specifically:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...TX_770/24.html

The review covers the 2GB version, but the 4GB version is no different (except that it has more memory and costs a bit more because of that). It looks like you can expect a solid 30-40% of an increase in performance depending on what's going on in the scene (and how many clients you're running).

EDIT: I just guessed you were playing WoW, but I think you could be playing RIFT as well, which may not yield as much of a boost because that game is kind of a resource hog -- It's an upgrade none-the-less.

[remanz]

770 GTX is the way to go for that price range for sure. If you play wow, don't forgot to use directx 11 mode. I was a fool to keep using directx 9 mode thinking 9 means less feature = more performance. Totally wrong. Innerspace + Isboxer runs much faster in directx 11 mode with current gen cards. It is about 15-20 FPS boost.

[luxlunae]

Rift I was actually getting CPU capped not GPU, but swapping cpus is something I'm a lot less excited about doing.

My current gpu is mostly ok for wow but certain things like Elegon really make the graphics card freak out. I'd rather have a smooth performance for four boxes rather than turning 3 of them down and up depending on master/slave.

I actually had to stop using dx9 at patch 5.4, dx9 had a number of brutal graphical glitches at launch that were fixed by a switch to dx11.

Thanks for the input guys, it looks like the 770 is just what I need.

[Damons]

For some reason after reading this thread, I wanted to check my video card stats in gpu-z, and saw that I only had 1gb vram! Always thought I had a 2gb 6970. Eww. Guess I should go get a 770 4gb too!

[Ualaa]

If you want to upgrade, its likely your best bang for the buck.

But if it's not your bottleneck, than an upgrade won't really help your performance a lot.
Although it might be your second limiting factor, which means its already done should you upgrade whatever limits you the most.

I believe CPU-Z gets you most of the benchmarks.
And GPU-Z gets you video specific stuff.
Performance Monitor can show you which resources your system is using; anything that approaches 100% is a bottleneck, and upgrading that component will improve performance for whatever you're doing.

One of the larger improvements on more Video-Ram is generally letting you run more clients.
Although higher settings do use additional v-ram too.

[Damons]

I'm hoping a 770 4gb goes on sale for $300 soon.

[pinotnoir]

From all the reviews I checked out the AMD R9 290 for $399 is the card to get. The stock cooler sucks though but you can buy an aftermarket one and squeeze more power out of the card.