GTX 570 vs Radeon 6970

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I7wish

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Is there any reason to pay the extra 20 bucks for the 6970 over the 570 if I only plan to use a 1900x1080 resolution?
 
Yeah both seem to trade blows, with the 6970 ever so slightly ahead. I personally prefer AMD cards to nVidia, but bought a 570 before the 6970 came out. The biggest reason to get a 6970 is that you can get it for 300 dollars in the form of a 6950 and a BIOS unlock.
 
What platform is your system? Nvidia has disabled SLI on AMD chipsets, but newer Intel systems can do both SLI and Crossfire.

My suggestion is to look up the benchmarks for what you'll be using it for, and decide based on that.
 
Drenlin said:
What platform is your system? Nvidia has disabled SLI on AMD chipsets, but newer Intel systems can do both SLI and Crossfire.

My suggestion is to look up the benchmarks for what you'll be using it for, and decide based on that.
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This is for a new cyberpowerpc build. probably an intel i7 2600k setup.

I had my heart set on the 6970 but when i looked at the benchmarks it seemed that the 570 was equal if not better for the resolutions my monitor will allow.
 
Well, the 6970 does have some other things going for it, the coolest of which is the dual BIOS. It has two BIOS chips, one of which cannot be modified. You can change the other one to anything you want, play with the default overclocking/voltage settings, etc. If something goes wrong, it copies the other one back in, effectively resetting it to the factory BIOS. Pretty cool. It's also is capable of Eyefinity, where you can run three monitors off of one card.

That said, Nvidia has market dominance right now, which a fair few games are coded to work better with their hardware...those are the ones where it takes the lead in. It also has CUDA, which again, is coded for a lot more than ATI Stream due to Nvidia's market dominance. Not really relevant unless you're doing heavy media editing or something, though. Nvidia also seems to do a better job on their drivers.
 
Drenlin said:
Well, the 6970 does have some other things going for it, the coolest of which is the dual BIOS. It has two BIOS chips, one of which cannot be modified. You can change the other one to anything you want, play with the default overclocking/voltage settings, etc. If something goes wrong, it copies the other one back in, effectively resetting it to the factory BIOS. Pretty cool. It's also is capable of Eyefinity, where you can run three monitors off of one card.

That said, Nvidia has market dominance right now, which a fair few games are coded to work better with their hardware...those are the ones where it takes the lead in. It also has CUDA, which again, is coded for a lot more than ATI Stream due to Nvidia's market dominance. Not really relevant unless you're doing heavy media editing or something, though. Nvidia also seems to do a better job on their drivers.
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My video card consideration is strictly for gaming. Does that help?
 
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