ele2012 Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 looking to buy a new gaming PC and finished customising it at build your box apart from the graphics card. I want to play the latest games at high setting and i have a full HD monitor. I was looking at a gtx 560 ti or maybe a 6950 2gb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoofhearted4 Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 they are the same thing, from two different companies...i say go for the 6950 for the 2gb VRAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitualBlack Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 If I were to choose between the two cards I would go for the 6950 also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan3345 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Yep, definitely 6950 2gb. I have two MSI 6950's in crossfire and its amazing. But even when I just had one it was still very impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindekarr Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 (edited) looking to buy a new gaming PC and finished customising it at build your box apart from the graphics card. I want to play the latest games at high setting and i have a full HD monitor. I was looking at a gtx 560 ti or maybe a 6950 2gb? For the love of anything your religion, if you have one considers holy, don't get a radeon lol. GTX series cards are fundamentaly excellent, I have a GTX580 Black Ops, it's a self cooling black titan the size of an mk49 mag with enough power to run any modern game on high settings. It cools very effectively, packs collosal punch, and is nearly silent, far quieter than the more expensive Radeon it replaced. The other advantage you get is that a lot of games "support" Nvidia cards, meaning they run better on Nvidia graphics cards, giving better performance and efficiency-by comparison very few games support Radeon. Edited January 13, 2012 by Vindekarr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderCrazy Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 For the love of anything your religion, if you have one considers holy, don't get a radeon lol. GTX series cards are fundamentaly excellent, I have a GTX580 Black Ops, it's a self cooling black titan the size of an mk49 mag with enough power to run any modern game on high settings. It cools very effectively, packs collosal punch, and is nearly silent, far quieter than the more expensive Radeon it replaced. The other advantage you get is that a lot of games "support" Nvidia cards, meaning they run better on Nvidia graphics cards, giving better performance and efficiency-by comparison very few games support Radeon. Yeah the 580 is a stellar card. Ive got the Phantom 3GB and it takes a Radeon 7970 to match its performance (This is based off Sgt. Enigma's BF3 review of it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitualBlack Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 My laptops x2 2GB 6970m are supposed to be almost as good as a 7970 which makes me happy (solely based on metro 2033 ultra at 1920x1080 res benchmarking). Pretty beast for a laptop, but it may as well be a desktop :laugh: , its big enough. But, I needed a laptop for college and didn't want to do the standard 11' apple thing done by so many people these days. Can't play games on one of those :tongue:. Was going for a Clevo, but my laptop had its promotional the same week I was going to buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoofhearted4 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 did we really just say, dont get a 6950, my GTX 580 beats it? obviously if hes looking at these two cards, he isnt ready to spend $500+ for a GPU. and between the two he listed, the 6950 is better, more VRAM is always good. plus i think Radeon uses less power doesnt it? both cards are going to do what you need them to do and you wont see a difference between the two. ppl can show you benchmarks all day, but in the end, they are benchmarks. if you are looking for the best of the best, then those are good things to follow. if you are just looking to game with respectable settings, then benchmarks are diddly squat. as i said, both those cards are going to do the same thing, except the 6950 has that extra VRAM which is good for games like Bf3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitualBlack Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 There is always an improved model of card, but its important to respect ele2012's budget. You can get 590 over the 580, than you move up to Firepro/Quadro, and than you go up to the Tesla (though they are not really for playing games :laugh:) . hoofhearted4 has a very good point here. Not everyone wants to drop several thousand into a computer. The 6950 is a very good card and can easily be brought up to the performance of a 6970. Enjoy whatever you buy ele2012, don't let the amd vs nvidia wars bitter your computer experience, its been going on since biblical times :laugh: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindekarr Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Enjoy whatever you buy ele2012, don't let the amd vs nvidia wars bitter your computer experience, its been going on since biblical times :laugh: . Damn right it has, in 401 AD those EVIL ATI Radeon users invading Nvdialand and stole all our goats! so we went to Radeonland and stole their donkey! :biggrin: It continues to this day, infact I can just imagine a trench warfare style DMZ between the Nvidia and Radeon camps, with minefield and barbed wire, and somewhere in the middle of it, a group of Linux users having a teaparty and actualy enjoying life, damn them. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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