Graphics Upgrade!

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Hey all,

OK looking at finally replacing the 5870 with something a bit beefier, hopefully will be buying towards the end of this year (or earlier perhaps).

I've set myself a budget of around £200 and for that money I've decided that the GTX 760 would be good. I'd really like NVIDIA for the CUDA cores.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/.../nvidiagtx760keplerseries/02g-p4-2762-kr.html

What do we think, people? Reckon it's a solid upgrade from a 5870?

I know the 670 has more CUDA cores and is only about £30-40 or so more than the 760 but I think by the time I'm buying 670s won't be selling new.

The 770 is a bit out of my price range.
 
i think for that money the 760 is oke, its a new card, and verry soon the 670 will be end of life.
maybey if the 760 ti comes out.
 
Not too fussed about gaming performance, more worried about CUDA. How much of a difference does CUDA make when rendering videos and photos?

I reckon a 760 Ti would be too expensive for me. :(
 
Yeah, I would try for a 760 Ti for not much more. And turbobooster, GPUs don't really have much of a end of life. They still get updates and stuff. And a 760 Ti will probably be around 50 pounds more or less, maybe 40 pounds.
 
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Yeah it'd probably be £250 - I can probably stretch to that.

I'm not looking to buy immediately, just trying to mainly find out if it's worth spending £200+ on an NVIDIA card for my photo and video editing. From what I've seen CUDA can make quite a big difference.

Better gaming performance would also be nice too but the games I play (mostly from around 2010/11) play nicely with the 5870 already. ;)
 
I can save money with Novatech (business account). Don't usually end up paying the full retail price.

Also get free next delivery. Whenever I ordered from Dabs I found them to be slow, sorry.
 
PCunicorn said:
Yeah, I would try for a 760 Ti for not much more. And turbobooster, GPUs don't really have much of a end of life. They still get updates and stuff. And a 760 Ti will probably be around 50 pounds more or less, maybe 40 pounds.
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of course graphic cards go end of life, there comes a time that you cant buy them any more in a shop, so the go end of life in that way, same as the i5 2500k and 2600k will be soon.
nvidia is not going to update a 670 any more.
 
I'd like to buy into the latest generation. The past few graphics cards I've owned I've purchased second hand and have been from older generations. Whilst that's fine, this time round I'd like to buy brand new or second hand but from the latest generation.
 
So does anybody know how much of a difference CUDA makes when rendering photos and video?

Using Premiere Pro and Photoshop Lightroom a lot by the way.
 
What programs are you using to render with CUDA? I was looking over some Photoshop benchmarks and it looked to me that there was not a huge difference between a GT240 and a GTX 680. The biggest difference was whether or not you had CUDA.

I was only looking at after effects for photos in CS6. No videos. I would bet that is where the difference is.

I would just get the best card that you can for the budget. If videos will take more advantage of more GPU power, then the best card with CUDA support will be the best choice. Unless you want to go professional. :P
 
Too poor for Quadro. :( ;)

So I'm editing videos in Premiere Pro CS5.5 and photos in Photoshop CS5.1 Extended as well as Photoshop Lightroom 5.

Hopefully in September 2014 I will be going to college and doing A level photography and film production, so it'd be good to get ready for that.

What I've got now isn't slow, I just want to see if the CUDA technology on the 760 will help me out at all with processing photos and video. If it's not going to help a lot, I'll probably just stick with what I've got.
 
If you are happy with your gaming performance and you can't find any amazing performance increases for video editing (I didn't search that) stick with what you have and wait for something better to upgrade to.

EDIT: ever thought about a scratch disk? I don't know how much performance it would add. Never looked too much into it.
 
I'm going to have a look and see what difference CUDA makes. If the difference isn't worth £200 I'll just stick to the 5870 probably.

Not sure what a Scratch Disk is.
 
Yeah probably.

Well I'll find out how much CUDA is going to do for me. If it's not a lot, then I probably won't upgrade. I don't do a lot of gaming really and the 5870 is plenty powerful enough for the time being.

Just thought the 760 might give me some nice performance increase for rendering without the hassle of upgrading my CPU.
 
How much of a performance increase are you expecting from replacing a 2500k @ 4.3GHz? :P

Isn't IB like a 10% increase, and Haswell another 10% over IB?

Unless you go i7 Haswell maybe and OC the nuts off the thing :D
 
WeatherMan said:
How much of a performance increase are you expecting from replacing a 2500k @ 4.3GHz? :P

Isn't IB like a 10% increase, and Haswell another 10% over IB?

Unless you go i7 Haswell maybe and OC the nuts off the thing :D
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Uhm... He's talking about graphics cards, not CPUs.
 
WeatherMan said:
How much of a performance increase are you expecting from replacing a 2500k @ 4.3GHz? :P

Isn't IB like a 10% increase, and Haswell another 10% over IB?

Unless you go i7 Haswell maybe and OC the nuts off the thing :D
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If I was going to replace my CPU I'd get a 2600K or a 3770K. Not really interested in spending a lot of money replacing my board too in order to get a 4770K.
 
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