Is it worth upgrading my 580GTX?

[cheesemp]

I'm currently using a hand me down 580GTX which is ok but i'm struggling to run some games at medium-high settings at 1080p.

Would a £100-150 GPU be an upgrade for this card or would I just see similar performance?

The benchmarks seem to imply it would only be a small jump if I can afford a 960 http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-...eForce-GTX-580

Or would SLI be worth considering? (Last time I tried SLI I barely sure any improvement as so few games supported it) A second hand 580 is about £70 on ebay.

Or should I just save up...

[scaryjim]

R9 380 is around £160 and is a little faster than the GTX 960 and a reasonable upgrade on a GTX 580.

2x GTX 580 will beat any £150 card handily in the titles where SLI works well. How long ago was it that you last tried SLI? Most games work pretty well with multi-GPU set-ups now, and if there are specific games you're particularly keen to get better framerates on you could always try to check the SLI scaling on those games before spending the money...?

[cheesemp]

R9 380 is around £160 and is a little faster than the GTX 960 and a reasonable upgrade on a GTX 580.

2x GTX 580 will beat any £150 card handily in the titles where SLI works well. How long ago was it that you last tried SLI? Most games work pretty well with multi-GPU set-ups now, and if there are specific games you're particularly keen to get better framerates on you could always try to check the SLI scaling on those games before spending the money...?

Cheers Scaryjim - Hadn't considered AMD (which is silly as I hate nvidias current strangle hold). My last experience of SLI was with two GeForce 7800 GT probably back in 2008/9 ish when I was in a similar quandary. I'm really looking for something for star citizen at this point which famously doesn't work well with SLI yet. They do develop on 380/390s so maybe the 380 is my best bet.

Edit: Its been a while since I bought a new card. Which manufacturer would you recommend? I've done well with gigabyte in the past...

[george1979]

From the reviews I've seen the 960 performs roughly on a par with a 760/670 in a lot of games so it'd give you a 20% or so uplift in performance.
For reference I ran Anandtech's GPU bench on that basis - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1350?vs=1038

If you can get £70 for your 580 then its an £80 upgrade and I'd say it'd be worth it. They'res a 4Gb gigabyte model I think was going for around £150-£160.
My own preference is for single cards - multi cards just seem like more hassle than they're worth

[cheesemp]

From the reviews I've seen the 960 performs roughly on a par with a 760/670 in a lot of games so it'd give you a 20% or so uplift in performance.
For reference I ran Anandtech's GPU bench on that basis - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1350?vs=1038

If you can get £70 for your 580 then its an £80 upgrade and I'd say it'd be worth it. They'res a 4Gb gigabyte model I think was going for around £150-£160.
My own preference is for single cards - multi cards just seem like more hassle than they're worth

Yes I can understand the argument for single cards. The more I think about my SLI experiment the more disappointed I remember I was. I bought it for Grid/Grid 2 I can't remember which and it did nothing. Selling the 580 would make sense...

[Dinklegeta]

I would say go for a 380 or 280x (if you can get one) you could also get something like a 780 which is under £180 right now.