Tech Savy said:
hye guys.
I want to guy a GPU for my friend. What he wants is :
1. Gaming @ Full HD i.e 19*10
2. All settings high
Now we have two choices due to budget constraints gtx 560 ti 1 GB OR 6950 1GB :huh:. Honestly we cant understand much the reviews/Benches/etc etc on various review sites.
:hap5:
You plz tell us which card is best for the money to play DX11 games @ Full HD with less power consuption or noise levels. And we are not into OC stuff. coz they are costly than stock.
^^ Okay now you'll need to prioritize what do you need, the AMD HD 6950 1GB and nVidia GTX 560 Ti are both competent performers ~ 14000/- mark, the AMD variant is a bit more expensive but, on the whole it plays almost all games as well as the GTX 560 Ti.
With the nVidia card you get good frame-rates + propieratery advantages like
nVidia PHYSX, nVidia 3D Vision and
CUDA CUDA, the
AMD card on the other hand comes with EyeFinity What is Eyefinity and a leaner and more power efficient core, I'll give you a very simple benchmark used by Anandtech to get my point across --
AnandTech - Bench - GPU11.
In short if performance above and beyond 1920 x 1080 resolution is called for AMD reigns supreme, while @HD resolution + eye-candy nVidia dominates as well its CUDA cores are getting more and more applications to take advantage.
I vouch personally for the AMD HD 6950 1GB card over the nVidia GTX 560 Ti, which will really shine if you use productivity application in addition to gaming such as the CAD, CUDA-optimized applications, Adobe Photoshop and Autodesk MAYA. In the end it is your choice.
As well what is the rest of your PC's configuration?
Aman27deep said:
nVidia have a better driver support.
Friend the AMD Catalyst drivers have also greatly improved, you can't say nVidia has superior driver support always, in fact v. 11.6 Catalyst has greatly improved my HD 5770's performance.
Zloyd said:
Both at 1 gb 560 no brainer.
The GTX 560 Ti consumes more power and is a bit sluggish at games. Check the Anandtech benches that I've provided.