7970 or GTX 680

[BS Dave]

if you want to ride bareback on the hardware upgrade train of pain, or you just feel like a change of colour in your drivers, then do the opposite, just don't come crying in here if you have to reinstall your OS, just take it like a man and do it quietly in the background, and next time don't run driver cleaner

Too much crying and not enough manning up on this forum by half. Well said Biffa

 

[RavenXXX2]

ASUS GeForce GTX 680 2GB @ Stock and 1218 Boost/7096MHz

MSI R7970 Lightning 3GB @ 1265/1505MHz

Summary
The GTX 680 offers significant gaming and power enhancements over the last generation of NVIDIA cards and is priced very competitively against the 7970 which it regularly matches or exceeds in gaming. When we overclock both to their limit the GTX 680 provides the best framerates for 1920x1080 gamers, at 5760x1080 the comparison is much closer but no less impressive.

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...gtx-580-oc-performance-review-conclusion.html


IMO you can't go wrong with either card so don't believe the biased arguments for one or the other. I will say that for triple monitor gaming having 3GB Vram is preferable to 2GB, well it's what I would go for if that was my display setup.

 

[Stanners]

Techreport http://techreport.com/articles.x/22653

Tweaktown http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/462...iew/index.html

PCINLIFE http://pc.pcinlife.com/Graphics/2012...e-GTX-680.html

Guru3D http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-680-review/

Techpowerup http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...Force_GTX_680/

Hardware Canucks http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...gb-review.html

Anand http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/n...gtx-680-review

HardOCP http://hardocp.com/article/2012/03/2...eo_card_review

Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/k...pus/#continued

Overclock 3D http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/g...tx680_review/1

Tom's Hardware http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...mark,3161.html

PCPro http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/graph...eforce-gtx-680

Bit Tech http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/201...0-2gb-review/1

Hexus http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphi...graphics-card/

Lies I tell Ya!!

 

[dave_beast]

Techreport http://techreport.com/articles.x/22653

Tweaktown http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/462...iew/index.html

PCINLIFE http://pc.pcinlife.com/Graphics/2012...e-GTX-680.html

Guru3D http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-680-review/

Techpowerup http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...Force_GTX_680/

Hardware Canucks http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...gb-review.html

Anand http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/n...gtx-680-review

HardOCP http://hardocp.com/article/2012/03/2...eo_card_review

Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/k...pus/#continued

Overclock 3D http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/g...tx680_review/1

Tom's Hardware http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...mark,3161.html

PCPro http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/graph...eforce-gtx-680

Bit Tech http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/201...0-2gb-review/1

Hexus http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphi...graphics-card/

Yep and the majority used the worst driver 12.2, which nerfed the results in favour of Nvidia, keep recycling the old junk as it doesn't divert away from the fact that AMD sorted their driver issues and made the 7970 the better option for the OP.

The 680 is a great card considering it's origins, but it'll be limited at the resolution the OP wants to play on.

 

[arekgreenman888]

680 +1 is a better overall card.

 

[arc@css]

Lies I tell Ya!!

I was informed by a very reliable source.

 

[BobbyUK]

680 +1 is a better overall card.

+1

 

[BS Dave]

Dave is thew performance of the later drivers 7970 that much better than the 12.2s? Do you have any BMs?
(I'm currently running the 2nd to last newest)

 

[dave_beast]

Dave is thew performance of the later drivers 7970 that much better than the 12.2s? Do you have any BMs?
(I'm currently running the 2nd to last newest)

I tried the 12.2 drivers for 10 minutes, the 7970 would run better with Nvidia drivers than those lol.
The later drivers are a massive improvement.

12.4 http://developer.amd.com/Downloads/OpenCL1.2betadriversWindows.exe

 

[Rroff]

Yep and the majority used the worst driver 12.2, which nerfed the results in favour of Nvidia, keep recycling the old junk as it doesn't divert away from the fact that AMD sorted their driver issues and made the 7970 the better option for the OP.

The 680 is a great card considering it's origins, but it'll be limited at the resolution the OP wants to play on.

Likewise a lot of reviews used 300.99 nvidia drivers which aren't the best set.

 

[arc@css]

Likewise a lot of reviews used 300.99 nvidia drivers which aren't the best set.

Exactly.

 

[Redemption80]

So AMD cards are still getting performance losing drivers then, that alone is enough to put someone off

 

[mrbios]

So AMD cards are still getting performance losing drivers then, that alone is enough to put someone off

Haven't you kind of missed the point considering only two posts above you states an nvidia driver which doesn't perform as well as the latest......

Release drivers are always generally pretty crap by both companies, everyone knows that.

 

[BS Dave]

OFF TOPIC - SORRY

12.4 betas working nicely thanks, fps doesn't seem to have shot up, but they do seem smoother...maybe i'm getting less troughs (need to learn how to use Excel...) though my overclock is artifacting now so had to up the voltage a notch. Thanks Dave

Oh and i've had no problems with any driver on my 7970...(all this driver balls drives me up the wall)

 

[Redemption80]

Haven't you kind of missed the point considering only two posts above you states an nvidia driver which doesn't perform as well as the latest......

Release drivers are always generally pretty crap by both companies, everyone knows that.

I wasn't being serious, just making fun of those who make wild claims about drivers.

 

[mrbios]

I wasn't being serious, just making fun of those who make wild claims about drivers.

You require these: to portray an essence of sarcasm or a lack of seriousness on the interwebz you know! Plain text just won't cut it ......

 

[tommybhoy]

I shall leave this here for the op, both cards on stock clocks, so the AMD has more to go:

Maxed out, the 680 is struggling though:

http://hardocp.com/article/2012/03/28/nvidia_kepler_geforce_gtx_680_sli_video_card_review/5

 

[LambChop]

Mid range 680 is faster than high end 7970

Its a no brainer really, the 680 is the only way to go. You would have to be demented to buy a 7970.

 

[Biffa]

I shall leave this here for the op, both cards on stock clocks, so the AMD's have more to go:

Maxed out, the 680's are struggling though:

http://hardocp.com/article/2012/03/28/nvidia_kepler_geforce_gtx_680_sli_video_card_review/5

Edited for you, the way you say it sounds like you are talking about one card when that review is for Crossfire/SLI

 

[Biffa]

Mid range 680 is faster than high end 7970

Its a no brainer really, the 680 is the only way to go. You would have to be demented to buy a 7970.

Thats just silly flamebait.