GTX 570 to 970?

[daphatgrant]

Currently I have a GTX 570 and am considering upgrading if I see a good black friday deal. My current system specs are below. I'm just curious if I'm going to see substantial differences in gameplay/performance. I play most games at 1920x1200.

i7 2600K
16GB PC3 12800
Corsair 750PSU
GTX 570

 

[chenw]

You will. I went with an almost identical setup and the difference is quite large.

 

[Highwind]

It should be somewhere between large and massive difference, depending on the game. Cutting edge games should especially benefit from having ~3x as much VRAM.

 

[daphatgrant]

Well damn, lol. I was hoping that you guys would say that it's better but not worlds better. I'm considering the EVGA 970 SC ACX 2.0 for 290.

 

[KazeoHin]

A 970 is about as fast as a vanilla 780, a bit faster.

The 780 is ~%30 faster than a 680

the 680 was about ~%35 faster than a 580

The 580 was about %10 faster than a 570.

So yeah, all said and done, a 970 is realistically ~2X as fast as a 570. Thats a pretty big step up.

 

[evilsofa]

It will be worlds better. Especially if you have any overclock at all on that 2600K, which you should.

 

[Furious_Styles]

Yes as others have said it will be a very noticeable fps boost.

 

[Insomniator]

At least twice as fast.

 

[Darksword]

Do it, you'll love it.