Hello all. Currently, I am running 2 Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB cards with 3 Dell U2412m 24" IPS monitors in Eyefinity at 3600x1920 (the rest of my config is accurate in my sig). In Planetside 2, I'm getting about 30fps on all low settings. I'm considering upgrading to 2 EVGA GeForce GTX 670 Cheesecake+ 4GB cards. Does anyone have experience running this in SLI with multi-monitors? How does it perform? I'm hoping to be able to run Planetside 2/BF3 on High at this resolution. Thanks guys.
The 670 SLI setup would smoke the 6950s and then some. I personally have no experience running multi monitors but the 670 is a vastly superior card to the 6950.
You called? As a 670 sli user I can recommend them. The only real issue is that nvidia surround is a lot hard to set up correctly and more temperamental than eyefinity. Have you considered something along the lines of a 7970?
I looked at the 7970, but it seems like the 670 is a better performer. Also, more and more games seems to be NVIDIA optimized lately.
7970 is a beast of a card and it runs very cool too It was my first amd gpu after years of nvidia but im so glad i went for it. It smashes everything at 1440p and the 3gb vram is a nice plus. I think it trades blows with the 670. Not much in it really.
Certainly nothing wrong with 7970 and I reckon the larger the resolution the better the 7970 well perform than the 670
I guess the issue comes down to VRAM. Since Crossfiring/SLI doesn't double the effective VRAM available (as each card uses it's own memory pool), the options would be: 3GB VRAM - 2 x SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB - $939.98 USD ($469.99 each) 4GB VRAM - 2 x EVGA 04G-P4-3673-KR GeForce GTX 670 Cheesecake+ 4GB - $899.99 USD ($449.99 each) Is 3GB VRAM enough to run 3600x1920 at 60-70 fps on high seetings?
The 7970 has a larger memory bandwidth than the 670's 264GB/s vs 192.2 so arguable it is able to better utilise the available memory
If I were you I would save the $40 and get the 670s. I'm pretty sure you would be ok at that resolution. Unless the driver issues are worth it for you.
Thanks for all the replies and feedback. I ended up buying 2 MSI GTX 680 Twin Frozr 4GB cards. They should be here tomorrow, so I'll let you know how they perform. I was strongly considering the 7970s, but after being with AMD for the last 2 years, I decided to try NVIDIA again.
Received the cards yesterday and installed them. Originally in PS2 with my Radeon HD 6950 2gb cards, I was getting 30fps on low settings. With the 2 MSI GTX 680 Twin Frozr 4gb cards, I am getting about 70-80 fps in battles on max settings What a huge difference! Thanks again everyone for the advice and suggestions!
Isn't Planetside Physx also... Nvidia makes sense if that's the case and would skew results wildly I'd imagine
In raw performance terms the 7970 beats both the 670 and 680, but the Nvidia cards have their own advantages. E.g. cooler, less power, arguably better drivers, PhysX, etc.