GTS 250 to gtx560 ti

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I currently have an i7-920 with 12gb of ram running win7 64bit,with 3 7200 rpm drives and 1 raid0.My current gpu is an GTS250.Would I notice a difference upgrading my gpu to a GTX470 or a GTX560ti.My thinking is the 250 only uses ddr3 and the 470 and 560ti offers ddr5.
I edit hd hdv 1080p video with premiere pro cs5.5
 
You most definitely would. A 560Ti is an excellent card IMO. Low power usage, pretty powerful, and compact in size.
However, there are two versions of the 560Ti. There's 348 and 448 CUDA core versions. If I'm not mistaken, you could actually use that in premiere pro. (Not positive on that).

At any rate, you have to figure that a 560Ti will be somewhere in the neighborhood of almost 4x as powerful.
 
The 250 is made for DX 9/10. Doesn't do DX 11 at all.

The 470/560 is made for DX 11 and does it well, but does DX 10 and 9 also.

The 560 and 470 have alot more stream processors 384 on a 560ti to the 128 of the 250gts, so technically 3x more processing power in that department. Which is most likely where you get more performance, but certainly the added bandwidth that DDR5 adds is welcome. Instead of a 512MB memory limit you would have 1GB or 1280 I think the 470 has. You can also find 2GB 560ti cards for 20-40 dollars more than standard/reference 560ti's.

yeah around 3x more performance with the 560ti, and the 470 does around the same in benchs I have seen on techsites. Hope that helps.
 
I think he should splurge and get the 448 core 560Ti. Not only does it have more cores, it also has more memory 1.25GB. This Evga 560Ti FTW edition is a good choice. Not to mention Evga has great customer service and their RMA turn around time is very fast.
 
I went from a 470 to a 560 Ti (now have 570, but that's beside the point). The 470 and 560 Ti will have similar benches/performance with the edge going to the 506. The reason I switched to begin with was lower power consumption and less heat.

See link if you want more details: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/311?vs=330
 
I currently have an i7 920 and a gts 250. my 560 ti twin frozr II will be here in a few days :)
 
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