I have a GTX 260 216 Core and I can pick another one up off Ebay for round £70/£80 or should I get a 460 GTX. What would you guys do? If I got another GTX 260 216 Core, how much of a performance bump would I be looking at? I'm sure theres a lot of GTX 260 owners right now thinking what to do as the performance increase from this to an GTX 460 is round 20% for a lot of money and going SLI would be the cheaper options you think for value/performance.
The first thing you have to ask yourself its how much do you game, i mean, are you planning to keep gaming in the future with new releases The GTX 460 its actually a great card, plus you get DX11 support. So i think you will eventually have to upgrade, so why not to do it now.
Personally, I'd probably go for another 260, it'll give you around 85% increase in performance (provided the rest of your system is up to spec). Then you have some money saved to got towards a GTX 5xx or Radeon 6xxx!
Well two 260's aren't as fast as a gtx 480, but two 460's will be and a little faster, if you want to look at it that way. So I guess it boils down to, do you need the speed of a gtx 480 and above. And do you want DX11 right now. I'd say that there aren't enough games to warrant DX11 at the moment tho. Myself....I'd buy a 460 right now and then once I had some spare cash, I'd get a second for SLI. Also you don't mention what resolutions you play at which might help people, help you with your choice. I also forgot to mention that the 460's are great overclockers, if you like to overclock.
I did the same as what the OP is considering - I had a 260 GTX and had recently bought a new monitor so I needed moar power. Its cheaper to add a second card than buy a whole new one considering the boost in power you get. Although it was easy for me as I have a SLI motherboard and a PSU with enough juice.
I'd go for the 460 then upgrade to SLi with it when prices drop. My 470's have dropped around £30+ since June. Future-proof with DX11
I game a lot and its BC2 thats really wanting me to upgrade for better performance inn FPS but you don't see much DX11 goodness around much or tell any difference between DX10/DX11 other then tessellation and even then its used very little in the game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_11_support Would love to see some benchmarks showing off the 260 SLI against a 480. Then use that as a reference so I can then compare them to the 460's in SLI and see the difference. I play at 1080P native resolution of my 46" HDTV, so I can some times get away with low AA as I sit 5/6 feet away.
I'd agree with Phaze, if you calculate the costs of the different options: SLI GTX 260's - only £80 for him. GTX 460 1GB - £175 SLI GTX 460's - £350 The SLI gtx 260's will beat the single 460 for less than half the cost. The SLI GTX 460's will beat the 260's but for nearly 5 times the cost. IMO, the performance increase it not worth it for the much much higher cost.
No i agree with you both.. Just if he has the cash & wants dx11, 460's are the way to go.. i ran Sli 260's and was very happy with them. Had a bit of cash and wanted a change to dx11.
