Exchange GTX 560TI for 480 - good trade?

[PSS-PT]

Hello!

I bought last week a GTX 560 TI 1GB, but today I have the offer to exchange for a GTX 480.

For work with Octane Render is a good trade?

[radiance]

looks like a good deal, the extra 512MB will definately make a difference.
It should be faster too. Just try to test 2nd hand cards propperly.

Radiance

[PSS-PT]

It´s true! Worth every penny.
I made the exchange..



Just compare:

[tehfailsafe]

Curious since I was thinking of upgrading to the 560ti, is it really that much slower than the 480?

Why do the two benchmark screens look different? The 560 one looks like the colors are a bit off, almost like pathtracing but I don't think it is...


Edit:
Actually, my one of my non oc'd 470s gets higher than your shot of the 560ti... Can that be right?
9.6 Ms/sec - 18.32 FPS

[dave62]

i think the 470 is more powerfull than the 560ti. 470 got more cores and better memomy bandwith, so its a lil faster..

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-ge ... ti-us.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_ge ... 70_us.html

[Timmaigh]

460 and 560 or both slower for Octane than 470/480 as they both have less CUDA cores 336/378 to 448/480 albeit on higher frequency. Then there is a superscalar nature of 460/560, whic makesd the card run once at full power (336/378), other times at 2/3 of power (224/256 cores), depending on the level of parallelism of the code. More parallel the code is, more cores the card uses. With Octane unfortunately the card does not run at full, at least it looks that way comparing performance of Octane versions 3.0 and 3.2 and your results (diffrence between 470 and 560) only prove it further.
I would really appreciate, if the devs made a statement about this, cause sofar its just an assumption based on the real-world performance, but maybe were just doing it wrong