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Quizzical pick me a video card.
These are the only choices a friend of mine has right now in their country. Out of these cards which would you recommend?
Video Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce Gtx 560 1gb Gddr5 Pci-E
Video Gigabyte Ati Radeon Hd 6870 1gb Gddr5 Pci-E 2.1
Video Nvidia Geforce Gtx 550 Ti 1gb Ddr5 Gv-N550
Video Gigabyte Ati Radeon Hd 6770 Pci-E Gddr5 1gb
Video Ati Radeon Hd 6670 1gb Pci-E Dvi Hdmi D-Sub
Thanks for any advice.
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What does this friend want to do?
If its play games then its the 6870, if its to watch videos etc and just be as a general machine then the cheapest.
Again this will depend on price - take the 560 if its cheaper.
Mainly MMOG playing.
Well as long as budget is not an issue then I would choose the 6870 as in this country it performs more or less the same as a 560 but is usually cheaper, and often slightly more energy effcient.
However if the 560 is cheaper than I would choose that.
The other cards wont be better for gaming so really its just between those 2.
No 7770 mate............
why include nvidia , quiz doesn't do nvidias...
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The 560 and the 6870 will be near equal depending on tweaks from whoever makes the card.
I have always liked this site for benchmarks as it's based on ones submitted from real users running their software.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
Aori read the opening post...................
Learn to read the first sentence. Those are the only options avialable to him at the moment. It's not his choice dude. It's considered intelligent to take someone at their word unless you know for sure otherwise. Your assumption is sheer arrogance at this point.
It depends on prices and budget. A Radeon HD 6870 will give you about the same performance as a GeForce GTX 560. In the US, I nearly always recommend the 6870 over the GTX 560 because it's nearly always cheaper, typically by about $20 or so. But in the US, if New Egg has 15 difference 6870s and 15 different GTX 560s in stock and one particular 6870 SKU is ridiculously overpriced that day, that doesn't prevent several others from being cheaper than any GTX 560 available. In a small country with only one SKU of each, if the 6870 is ridiculously overpriced, then the GTX 560 might well be cheaper. But presumably the friend can look at prices and see which one is cheaper in his own country.
The next tier down is that a Radeon HD 6770 will give you about the same performance as a GeForce GTX 550 Ti. They both give you about 60% of the performance of a 6870 or GTX 560. In the US, the GTX 550 Ti has pretty much never been a good value, because the 6770 has pretty much always been substantially cheaper. And now that the 6770 is disappearing, the 7750, which performs about the same, is still cheaper than a GTX 550 Ti. But again, that's just US prices, and with only one SKU of each available, prices could be different. So if the top tier doesn't fit the budget but this one does, you could pick whichever of the two cards is cheaper.
A Radeon HD 6670 is substantially slower than any of the other cards on the list. If it's a GDDR5 version of the card, it might get you 60% of the performance of a 6770 or GTX 550 Ti. If it's a DDR3 version of the card, more like 50% of the performance of the next tier up. A 6670 makes sense if it's a lot cheaper than the rest of the cards and the only one that fits your budget. A DDR3 version of a 6670 also makes sense if you're stuck with a cheap junk case with not much airflow, and want a low power card that won't fry anything. But otherwise, I'd advise getting a faster card instead.
Not really dude - if they are a country on the cusp of 1st world these things may be harder to get hold of etc. For example Brazil, i lived there for 4 years but they were appx 6-12months behind in tech or it would cost 4x more to purchase. So cheap things here are mega expensive there or they dont stock them.
The 560 or the 6870, whichever is cheaper where he lives. Not gonna be a huge difference in performance either way. At that point its basically what card is cheaper.
I personally like the 6870, put one in my brothers computer and it runs like champ.