GTX 480 vs HD 7850

spirit said:
The 570 has 1.25GB, and I believe most 480s have 1GB, unless you've found a 1.5GB card. Not sure if they made those or not.
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They were all 384 bit 1.5GB DDR3.

SmileMan said:
The gtx480 isn't great for overclocking, they run really hot (even with more advanced cooling) and you'll need to add more voltage for only small oc.
In opposite of that, the hd7850 is a GREAT overclocker.
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BS. with Reference cooling, gaming @ 50% fan (which BTW was quieter than 40% fan on a single HD 6970 reference) a GTX 480 ran at about 50*C, also cooler than the HD 6970 at the same clocks.

Voltage increase should not be necessary until you hit the 850MHz range, or at least it was not with mine. 1250 MHz RAM was easy enough too.

Though first thing I would do on any card is pull it apart, clean it out, and apply Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra Thermal paste, and replace the thermal tape covering VRMs and RAM. Helps temps a bunch, and only cost about $20.
 
SpringWater said:
How good would two gtx 460s be? Asking from pure curiosity...
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IIRC they perform about the same as a GTX 580 which is about 20% faster then the 480. There's a guy in my local classifieds who is selling 2 460's plus Corsair 850HX PSU for $160 CAD which is a good deal, I'm thinking about grabbing them. It seems the closer it gets to Christmas the more people are selling there stuff for cheap for quick cash :good:
 
Yeah, now that I think about it I might think about grabbing two gtx 460s or 470s, but on the other hand I think a single 480 will be a better choice for me cause single powerful is better than two less powerful, right?
 
SpringWater said:
Yeah, now that I think about it I might think about grabbing two gtx 460s or 470s, but on the other hand I think a single 480 will be a better choice for me cause single powerful is better than two less powerful, right?
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480 all the way. And Sorry, I was not looking while typing earlier.
 
SpringWater said:
Yeah, now that I think about it I might think about grabbing two gtx 460s or 470s, but on the other hand I think a single 480 will be a better choice for me cause single powerful is better than two less powerful, right?
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Definitely get one 480.
 
I think I changed my mind... my gts 250 handles all games & programs just fine (in dx 10 mode of course, actually I have win xp right now so it's dx 9 mode :D) and I won't buy a new video card 'till dx 12 comes out. I decided to do that cause dx11 has been around for quite a long time and I'm afraid that it won't last much longer...
 
Maybe it is newer and more efficient but it doesn't have the CUDA cores so in programs like blender and pretty much any 3D modelling software it will perform very poorly as compared to the gtx 480.
 
Blender uses DirectCompute, not CUDA. It runs just as good on my 6970(s) as it did on a 480. You would probably not notice any difference at all between a 480 and a 7850 in the program.
 
wolfeking said:
Blender uses DirectCompute, not CUDA. It runs just as good on my 6970(s) as it did on a 480. You would probably not notice any difference at all between a 480 and a 7850 in the program.
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Yep, in most programs they don't use that CUDA cores. And there the hd7850 will take the leading hand (not by much though)
 
I guess that one of the advantages of the gtx 480 over hd 7850 is that a used one costs $160 on e-bay and the cheapest used 2gb 7850 I have ever seen was $190...
 
Don't get me wrong, I love the 480. I wish I had it back (mainly because it is smoother in game than even a single 6970, and achieves about the same FPS.). But get the 7850. It is newer, less power hungry, and about the same performance.
 
Dude seriously, it comes down to this.

If you want high calibre grunt and you're a AK kinda guy, go for the 480

If you're rice-burner jap style flashy - go for the 7850. Probably the best choice.

But ill show my colours, the 480 is kinda a hotter and slower version of the 580. They still own.

It will certainly get hot.

Or go with the rice-burner.
 
Just get the 7850. Newer, cooler, less power-hungry, about the same sort of performance. For the money, the 7850 is one heck of a card.
 
I think I will still get the 480 because it's cheaper, way cheaper and I don't really care about the temps, power usage, etc...:D
Also in some games it outperforms the 7850 by up to 50 fps (games like metro 2033), I'm sure that in some games the 7850 outperforms the 480, but this just shows that they are very close in terms of performance.
 
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SpringWater said:
I think I will still get the 480 because it's cheaper, way cheaper and I don't really care about the temps, power usage, etc...:D
Also in some games it outperforms the 7850 by up to 50 fps (games like metro 2033), I'm sure that in some games the 7850 outperforms the 480, but this just shows that they are very close in terms of performance.
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The 50ps you see in Metro 2033 is because of physx. Only nvidia can do that and only since the 8000 series.

It would be important to make the comparison at 1080p with physx off.
 
Well yeah, I'm sure the 7850 would beat the 480 in Crysis 2 since it's an amd favoring game, but again the 480 is way cheaper.
 
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