One GTX 860 vs Two GTX 570s

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by jetjock, Nov 16, 2012.

  1. jetjock

    jetjock MDL Senior Member

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    Grandson has a machine with 2x SLI Dual (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1.2GB) graphics cards. He is asking me for a EVGA GeForce GTX 680 SC Signature2/Dual Fan/2048MB GDDR5 Dual Dual-Link DVI/mHDMI/DP/SLI Graphics Card (02G-P4-2687-KR) for Christmas. I think this is probably not a good idea. How about some opinions from some experts (or at least some who know more than I do!). Thanks

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  2. R29k

    R29k MDL GLaDOS

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    jetjock MDL Senior Member

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    jetjock MDL Senior Member

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    Ooopps! Should read GTX 680, not GTX 860!
     
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    acyuta MDL Expert

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    I was also wondering how could Nvidia jump from recently launched 6xx series to 8xx series in a space of a few months at most.
    Anyway, I thought 670 was somewhat better than 680 but perhaps that was not true. 690 is supposed to be at the top??
     
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    R29k MDL GLaDOS

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    The higher number is usually better unless you want to baffle the consumers.
    ATI 9800 vs ATI HD 7900 :D
     
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