Thanks a lot, everyone!
I will check if I can afford 460/560/660/HD 6870, a lot of people have been recommending these.
Edit: 560 is too expensive, as as the 660.
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6870 is an excellent card for the price right now.
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What's the price for the HD 6870? I can't spend more than 120 euros.
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I'm in the UK so not knowing where to look I took a quick peek over at amazon.fr, where a 6870 can be picked up for 150 euros. I really would recommend holding out for a while and saving up the extra thirty euros as you'll be getting a lot more power for the money.
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I agree! been using 6870 on my rig since december 2010 until now!
pair it up with a good processor (I'm using i5 2500k @ 4.5Ghz air cooling) and it never let me down on games :)
gonna get GTX 690 as soon as I move out to japan this winter...
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yep i have an xfx 6870 black edition, love it. i probably wont upgrade it for another 2 years, but i might buy another and crossfire it soon... MAYBE
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Well, a 550 ti performs similarly to a 5770 which performed the same as the 4870 it replaced, so your 4890 is stronger :P, but lacks DX11.
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It's too expensive. That's why I want to buy the 550 (or 460).
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So, my bro has got the gtx 550 TI and he plays like all new games on completely high settings and everything^^
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exactly, I have an even lesser card, and I too play the lastest games with MAX GRAPHX!!!
Anyways, here's a nice benchmarking site: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
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sigh the second person to post this. This is NOT a good benchmarking site, this claims the 570 is better than a 690, when a 690 is nearly 3x as powerful. And there are many other cases like this. It's nowhere near accurate. You're going to make bad purchases if you use that site. This is much better.
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Just to let you know the 5770 is better than the 6670. The 7770 = 5670 = 4890. So you will hardly notice any gains in performance
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Not sure where you got those comparisons for those GPUs,, but a 5670 @ is quite weaker then a 7770&4890. A 7770 = HD 6850 = GTX 460. A 4890 is a bit stronger than a 5770/550 ti.
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wanna know whats good? THIS SHIT IS GOOD -> http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-690
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Want to know what's expensive? THIS SHIT IS EXPENSIVE.
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Yep, it is the newest. You also get Borderlands 2 if you buy that video card (I think).
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A bit odd you paired the 580 with the 6950 when the 560 ti and 6950 perform pretty much the same. My 670 oc'd to 680 speeds keeps my fps above 60, maxed at 1080p in bf3 99% of the time.
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I got a GTX 570 and BF 3 on maxed settings with a 120 hertz screen is woking fine.
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Lol I know :P. Well I was hoping you were joking haha.
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Definitely not high/ultra. Maybe at 640x480. But if he wants to keep above 30 fps on his 1080p monitor he'll be at low/medium'ish settings with no AA(for bf3)
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Ah I see. Ya the 550ti is pretty crippled compared to a 560ti. I had a 560 ti before my 680 and it played bf3 at all high, no AA and above 50 fps majority of the time. There's not too big of a visual difference between high and ultra in bf3 compared to the performance hit that you receive. But now with my new gpu I don't have to compromise anymore ;)
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GeForce GTX 550 Ti, is it good?
Edit: thanks for the suggestions.
Its only a med tier card. the first numer marks its generation and the last two are the important ones up to *50 is full budget cards!! 60-70 is above avg cards and 80-90 is top class cards..
IE. a 290 would be much better than the 550 ti even if its 3 generations back!
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It's not always that black and white necessarily. While a 295 is better than a 550 ti because it's a dual gpu card, it lose to a 580, and the 660ti and 670 beat out a 580. It really just helps to educate yourself on how the cards actually perform from benchmarks instead of relying on the name of it because ya never know with nvidia's naming scheme lol.
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It actually is pretty black and white "not total but pretty" ofc you have to take in the generation but not much..
IE.
If you can afford a 470 or a 550 or a 640 its pretty simply to understand that the 470 is the better choice, the generation marks shader upgrades etc and not much other. feel free to look it up yourself.
Benchmarks agree with my statement
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I'm not saying it's not ever the case, but it's definitely not always the case. Yes a 470 is stonger the other two you listed but as I listed , the 295 may be stronger then a 550 ti, but it is NOT stronger than a 580. So your claim that a higher middle number is generally indicative of superior performance falls flat there and could make someone make a bad purchase if they aren't educated on the actual performance of the gpu's in question. Another example, a 280 is weaker than a 470. Benchmarks agree with my statement as well. So again I say, it's not always black and white. But it is for the most part as you said, but there will always be times where someone could make a bad purchase based on the middle number rule. Again I say it's best to actual research the actual performance the card puts out to avoid bad purchases, but if they fail to educate themselves, that's all on them then.
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the 295 may be stronger then a 550 ti, but it is NOT stronger than a 580<-- your post
See thats where you fail to understand what I wrote..
I put them into tiers. any 70-95 no matter what generation is better than a 30-50 ! its that simply tbh.. sure inside the "tiers" sometimes the newest is better.. but read my post and understand the tier markings :)
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Well you didn't exactly specify those tiers till now. I was basing my post on the "290 will be better even if its 3 generations back" and well yes, it's that simple for you and me, but not to many many others, that's all I'm sayin'. Also just to be a dick, a 275 isn't better than a 550 ti :P. But really that's the single and only exception and not like it's relevant since 275s aren't being made anymore so no confusion could ensue from that lol. But thanks for the discussion, it curbed my boredom for a bit since I'm stuck at work haha.
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the 290 is better then any of the mid tiers :D that was my point ! since the OP wanted information about the 550ti you see a common mistake by buyers is that they think the first number means alot :D I've seen people sell their 280 to get a 450 :D haaha thats pretty stupid
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Ouch :/. Doesn't look like this confusing name trend will end though. Just like since AMDs newest GPUs are the 7000 series. I don't know about you, but if I was an uninformed consumer, the number 7000 looks much more appealing than the number 600 by nvidia. They're just trying to exploit the uninformed :(.
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GeForce GTX 550 Ti, is it good?
Edit: thanks for the suggestions.
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