NVIDIA GTX 580 which company to buy? inno3d or evga

[aristocratic3d]

HI,

I have searched all over the Bangladesh. the GTX580 3GB is not available.

I found in one shop a GTX580 1.5GB. and one guy is telling that he can provide a GTX580 but it will be from Inno3D not Evga.

 

SO I have two question,

1. how much is the difference between a 3GB and 1.5GB GTX580?

2. will it be a minus for me if I buy GTX580 3GB from Inno3D instead of EVGA? as I have almost no choice left. if its a minus then I will suffer but wait for the time when a this card from EVGA is available.

 

Thanks in advance.

Abdullah

[AJLynn]

There's not much difference between brands. Get the one that provides the best support in your area. As to the amount of memory - this is only a big deal if it's for running CUDA renderers. More memory means you can load larger scenes.

[aristocratic3d]

I will work with loads of trees and forest in the scene. but not GPU engines. Actually what making me buy these card is I saw in a list that if I have a Quadro 4000 I can work with more than 890 million triangle count per sec.

 

But all of my friends in this forum suggested GTX580 3GB. so I am still getting that flexibility, handling and orbiting the scene more reliably. so does it make any difference that If I buy 3GB I can load two times heavy scene than what a 1.5GB card can do?

 

and thanks for the help mate. CGA helps me to have breath.

[AJLynn]

You're very welcome. I wouldn't worry about memory on the video card so much if not using a GPU renderer. The 3GB version is good for those, and good for people who play very graphics intensive games - which are heavy on textures. Textures take up much more video card memory than wireframes. And the GTX580 handles a lot more triangles per second than the Quadro 4000 - but those numbers aren't really that meaningful. The main advantage of the Quadro is that it lets you load the Quadro plugin (AKA Maxtreme) in Max, which is a performance enhancer, but I still don't think it's worth the cost unless you have very specialized needs.

[RealSpace3D]

EVGA's lifetime warranty is a huge plus, particularly if you are abusing the card by GPU rendering.