Hey guys I currently have a GTX 470 on my 2500k system running at 4.6. I use REX and mainly fly in ORBX land. I have my system set up as per Word Not Allowed's guide. I have been looking at upgrading to the GTX 670. Would this be a worthy upgrade? I use high levels of AA and in heavy clouds my system does seem to struggle a bit. Thanks

Yes, you will see a nice performance jump while in heavy clouds and high AA if you upgrade to the 670. I'd go for it if I were you.

If your system gives you the desired level of performance and image quality already, why upgrade?

If your system gives you the desired level of performance and image quality already, why upgrade?

I am pretty happy with my system performance. If I fly in any dense cloud coverage it starts to struggle. I use rex 1024 clouds.

Hmm, I see. A 670 would help, though it's a bit disappointing to see a 470 struggling already.

Hmm, I see. A 670 would help, though it's a bit disappointing to see a 470 struggling already.

 

A 470 is 2 gens old already. 470<560ti. 560ti is 30% slower in heavy clouds VS a 580.

 

So, his performance is normal considering his GPU is lacking when it comes to rendering heavy clouds.

4xx to 5xx was still Fermi, and therefore the same architectural generation, though products were named differently. A 560 ti should actually be slower than a 470 due to the lesser RAM, bandwidth, and shader count, though not by a large margin given its higher clock speeds. Also, GTX 680 is only about 30% faster than 580 on average, which itself is only perhaps 30% faster than 470, and none of this in FSX mind you.

 

If you ask me it's less than a full generation's difference in performance thanks to Nvidia's choices with product names. I owned a 470 for a short period of time before deciding to swap it out for a 570 due to greater overclocking potential and outside of benchmarks there was no discernible difference with both set to maximum overclocks.

I just swapped from a GTX480 to a GTX670 last night, wowsers :Kiss:

 

Very nice indeed, but what sparked my interest even more is being able to run 3 monitors off the GTX670 using the 'Surround' feature, rather than using a triplehead2go set up (I have not tested this yet as I only have a 22inch+17inch)

 

IMO, the GTX480 was amazing, hands down the best upgrade yet, however it ran very very hot, sitting around 98-110c under load, if fact the backplate got so hot it went blue... and the stickers peeled off the body, the GTX670 is hovering around 65c under load now

 

I bought the EVGA GTX670 SC 2GB version http://www.pccasegea...oducts_id=20210

 

It comes with a full sized HDMI cable output so I can plug it directly into the 1080P 42inch TV (but please dont tell my wife about my ... err.. plans)

Thanks for the good info guys. Still debating though

Congrats on the 670! Great card, can't wait to get full resolution surround mode working on my system with my 680 and 3 2560x1440 screens. A driver bug prevents me from running at full resolution, currently. None of the workarounds have worked for me either. Might just have to wait for a driver update.

Hi Matt,

 

I owned a 470 GTX that was traded for a 480 GTX that was traded for a 580 GTX. Each step brought a significant degree of performance enhancement. I assume a 680 GTX would be better yet. If you follow the link in my signature you can see the result of differences between the three (near the end of the findings).

 

My suggestion is that if you can afford the upgrade, then it will be worth doing.

 

Kind regards,