Will GTX 560 Help my OLD Dell XPS 720?

[335th_GRAthos]

Irrespective of the resolution, between a 1Gb and a 2Gb VRAM card, ALWAYS go for the 2Gb VRAM (especialy when we talk about CoD...)!

I presume there is no significant difference between the 1Gb and the 2Gb...


The min VRAM you should have for CoD should be 1,5Gb. Any less and you tend to see the limits (and start thinking of shortcuts).

~S~

PS. Sombody mentioned correctly, check the limits of your power supply! As you wrote, it is a proprietary PSU thus you may not be able to change it and you may be very quickly limited by the Wattage your PSU can deliver...

[SdS49r]

Thanks all for your input. The size and psu connections will work (the GTX 8800 is much larger than these new cards) I'm leaning towards the 2-gig card. The only difference I can see between them is the clock speed. How much difference does that make?

2 gig card
Core Clock: 850Mhz
Memory Clock: 4008MHz
Shader Clock: 1700MHz

1 gig card
Core Clock: 900Mhz
Memory Clock: 4212MHz
Shader Clock: 1800MHz

[335th_GRAthos]

I would dare to say: None!
(and surely be flammed for it )

Honestly none, compared to what will happen as soon as your 1Gb VRAM is full (happens almost immediately with CoD) and your system starts swapping objects in the memory

~S~

[Seanmick]

I wonder if it would be possible to get an update on the practical results of this proposed hardware upgrade.

To what extent is it worthwhile upgrading the GPU with the same CPU as described here?

Many thanks for any help.

Best regards,

Seanmick.

[BMCha]

In addition to the differing clock speeds, one of the cards you posted is the regular 560 and the other is the 560 Ti. The Ti has another SM enabled, bringing another 48 cores and the associated texture units and other hardware. It is going to be generally more powerful than the 560.

Just another thing to look into when comparing the two cards.



EDIT: Also, as far as I know upgrading your GPU would be worth it with that CPU. I was able to use much of the power of my previous PC's GTX 460, and that was with a Core 2 Duo.

[Seanmick]

Many thanks for the prompt and useful reply.

The GTX560 Ti card seems like it may be a viable upgrade path to extend the useful life of the system.

Best regards.

[Troll2k]

There is also a 560-448.It has more shaders than the TI.