Quote Originally Posted by bhavv View Post
+1.

GTX 560 Ti sees absolutely no improvement from having 2 Gb Vram. In any situation where that much Vram would really be needed (nothing which yet exists at 1920x1200), the GPU on this card would be too slow for it and you would need at least a pair of 3 Gb GTX 580s anyway.

People always want things that they dont need, and in this case wont provide even the slightest benefit. I'm yet to be limited by my SLI GTX 560 Tis in any game at 1920x1200 resolution and 4x MSAA.

In every benchmark except for BF3 in that review, the 2 x GTX 560 Ti significantly beats a single GTX 580, even at 2560x1600 resolution. That is what makes this card such an attractive SLI option - same, or even less cost than a GTX 580, more performance.

As for the BF3 results, I really cant tell what went wrong in that review, but heres how they actually perform:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZoSU...layer_embedded

Other people with two of these cards have reported a solid 60-100 FPS with Ultra settings, 2x MSAA, and far more with FXAA in BF3 (its still playable at 4x MSAA, but most people want at least 60 in FPS games).

Civ V is another game which has always been incredibly demanding ever since it was launched. People keep on blaming the coding or lack of optimization on it, but I'm running it without any hiccups at a constant 60 FPS (Vsync enabled with SLI ofc) and absolutely no lag, FPS spikes or any other problem other than waiting time in between turns (not a graphics problem - oh, and all settings on max and 4x MSAA).

Everyone that has bought a 1 Gb GTX 560 ti SLI setup on my recommendation so far have been nothing but thoroughly impressed by how great they perform. No one using this setup that I have yet seen have ever complained about lag spikes or microstutter in any recent and old video game.



Yet again, you are wrong about everything regarding SLI as usual.
Have you read any reviews? For resolutions over 1920 x 1080 you can start to see the impact of Vram. Hardocp has showed this over the last year or so with all their triple monitor gaming reviews. Tomshardware did a review showing that Tri-CF/Tri-SLI was the best setup to avoid microstuttering. Have you read about the issues of BF3 and SLI/CF? Single GPU cards do not have the same issues. Granted, this should change with new driver updates, but a single GTX580 would be a abetter choice right now. And as far as price goes, you can get a GTX580 for around $400 almost weekly, so these are not in the same price point. As it was stated earlier, if this had come out 6 months ago it would have been a serious consideration, but being that the point of this is to allow triple monitor game play from a single Nvidia card like the GTX590, it's just not a contender.