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6950 is the only real choice. The GTX570 is way above the price range the OP quoted. You will have a hard time finding a GTX570 on sale for $250 unless you buy used. And if you are buying used you can find a just as good a deal on a 6970 which is faster in most games than the 570. The direct competition to the 6950 is the GTX560ti in the same price range and the 560 needs to be overclocked to barely beat a 6950 at stock.It's either 6950 or a GTX 570,if you can find one on sale.It's depends on your personal preference, and resolution you play.
6950 for sure.
Benchmarks: GTX 570 vs. HD 6950
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/293?vs=306
Why compare a $320 card vs a $250 dollar card?
gtx 570
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134125
$274.99 after mail-in rebate
at least that gets them abit closer in price, not that I'd be dropping that amount of cash on an ECS card, just saying, deals are out there
According to the Anandtech benchmark the 570 competes with the 6970 and performs better on most games. Not sure what to make of it. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/292?vs=306
If you can find a 570 for the same price as a 6950, I'd say the 570's clearly the better buy. Doesn't even seem very close, assuming the anandtech benchmarks are accurate.
The GTX 570 is a better card for running benchmarks. It gives you a higher score in those canned benchmarks. If you buy your videocard to run benchmarks all day long and want the highest score possible the GTX 570 is for you. However, if you buy your card to actually play games and want the best fps between the 2 cards the GTX 570 is inferior to a 6970 and gives you slower frame rates in actual games, most of the time.
Depends on what you buy a videocard for. This is all the anandtech articles are good at showing you since all they run are canned benchmarks.
Also the higher the resolution the better the 6970 fares against the 580 and pulls further beyond a GTX 570 level of performance.
No one who has actually used a GTX570 and 6950 is going to say that. The GTX570 is an all around better card. It performs a little more reliably in a wider variety of games. You can cherry pick games all that you want across the board a GTX570 is a better card than a 6970.
Now if you double the cards up that changes everything. 6950 crossfire will blow the GTX570 sli solution out of the water based on what I've seen.
But I do agree about Anandtech. I hate their use of canned benchmarks. It really skews the results. Their cpu benchmarks are just useless because of that. [H] reviews are nice but they don't use a wide enough variety of games to really base an opinion off of.
The 6970 is faster than a GTX 570 most of the time and anyone who uses the cards will agree unless you only play a few nvidia bias games like bfbc2 which performs much better on nvidia, etc.. Show me a review without cherry picked games that shows a GTX 570 beating a 6970 in real world performance (non canned) benchmarks using a stock vs stock clock comparison or a oc vs oc comparison and recent drivers as of at least 3-4 months ago or so.
Dude, I'm not making assumptions. I'm speaking from first hand experience. I actually have used both cards, recently. In a wider array of games than just the handful of DX11 games used for testing these days. None of the open GL source ports that I tried like eDuke32 or Darkplaces ran half as well on the unlocked 6950 crossfire setup as it did on a single GTX570. Crysis ran better than a single unlocked 6950, I saw better minimum framerates with a single GTX570 than I did on a 6950 unlocked crossfire system in Serious Sam HD, Borderlands ran better on the GTX 570 than on a single card, GTA4 ran better than the crossfire setup, the list goes on. When the 6970 does outperfrom a GTX570 the difference tends to not be as large.
Like I said before when you're talking sli vs crossfire that changes everything. I wasn't impressed with GTX570 sli.
The fact of the matter is that the OP couldn't go wrong with either a GTX560ti or a 6950. I would lean towards the 6950 personally but either is a very good card.
So it's faster cause you say so? All the reviews I've read say otherwise unless;
Canned benchmark (useless review)
Games are heavily nvidia favored
GTX 570 overclocked vs stock 6970 etc..
This is why I ask you to link some reviews. I don't accept "it's faster cause I say so"
I can link you to some benchmarks that I've done and posted here but you will just find some flaw, or claim some Nvidia bias bs like you will do with any link that I post. Posters like you are why I stay out of the video card section. No matter what anyone says or what benchmarks get posted your mind is already made up and isn't going to change. I'm not going to argue with you but you can think what you will.
I don't care about a 5% performance difference. What I will say is the the GTX570 tends to perform a bit more reliably than 6970 across the board. I'm not even sure why that matters in this thread since both cards are out of the OPs price range anyways.
Okay your going by your own thread with your own experience...I go by the countless non bias reviews posted around the web.
Why don't you post some of these non-bias reviews? Both of you guys are talking about reviews/benchmarks but neither of you are posting any links. Surely there are many 'non bias' reviews/benchmarks out there that have compared these 2 cards.
Find the best deal. I would vote for a 6950 if you can unlock it to a 6970 at retail pricing
I got my 6950 for $220AR, but I would have a 570 or 560Ti instead depending on price. For equal money, I'd lean towards a 570 but I haven't seen any for $220.
Why don't you post some of these non-bias reviews? Both of you guys are talking about reviews/benchmarks but neither of you are posting any links. Surely there are many 'non bias' reviews/benchmarks out there that have compared these 2 cards.
Benchmarks: GTX 570 vs. HD 6950
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/293?vs=306
The GTX 570 is a better card for running benchmarks. It gives you a higher score in those canned benchmarks. If you buy your videocard to run benchmarks all day long and want the highest score possible the GTX 570 is for you. However, if you buy your card to actually play games and want the best fps between the 2 cards the GTX 570 is inferior to a 6970 and gives you slower frame rates in actual games, most of the time.
Depends on what you buy a videocard for. This is all the anandtech articles are good at showing you since all they run are canned benchmarks.
Also the higher the resolution the better the 6970 fares against the 580 and pulls further beyond a GTX 570 level of performance.
Ridiculous. lol, I mean, c'mon kid, really? What are you smoking?