Which video card is best?

[flowjo]

Haste262 said:

flowjo said:
i can get a 470 for around 450 bucks and i can get a hd5970 for roughly 615 bucks, yes they arent the same price but when you look at the performance gap the hd 5970 is clearly the one to buy for the 150-200 bucks more.

oh and some of you are saying the 5870 is faster than the 470 thats not true at all the 470 is the fastest single gpu card on the market but just marginally, barely unnoticeable.

2 sli 470's is probably the fastest thing you can get for just under $1000 bucks , but nobody needs that amount of power plus its the hottest running card as well , gonna need to have a very cool box to run them.

but if you want to spend over $1000 you can get crossfire hd5970's basically nothing can touch that, not even 2 480's or whatever nvidia decides to come out with in the next year or 2.

if you need one card buy a 5970 2gb.

Im pretty sure the 5870 does beat the gtx470, everywhere i look suggests so. Its the gtx480 that edges the 5870. The gtx480 is a single gpu card, so how can gtx470 possible be the fastest?

 

your right my bad the 480 is the fastest single gpu card, its a beast but for the price your better off getting a 5970 for 150 bucks more which is still leagues ahead