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7970 or GTX 680

andy85wsm said:
Ok so I read the first 2 pages and got bored of the bickering.

What pages are the decent reviews on with a lack of bickering? Really need to make my decision today!
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You really wouldn't be disappointed in either. I would say buy the 7970 if you want one right now. The only reason is, they are slightly cheaper and non reference cards are more available. Regardless of the green or red card being marginally better in this or that, they are both great cards and I can't be arsed arguing about it.

For the record, I read the first and last page only, as I knew it would be out of control.
 
dave_beast said:
7970 and 680 are effectively the same performance in games, with minor differences in synthetic benchmarks. With the 7970 being cheaper now, I would recommend that atm.

Also, don't discount the 7950+ some overclocking will match the 7970 and 680.
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I read a few pages and just saw countless posts by you saying that 7970 is better because of one bench ignoring 10+ benches which said 680 is better.

I have always had ATI but I am def going for 680 this time round, fact is they are better. Dont feel bad because you paid way over the odds for the 7970 before the 680 came out, its still a good card but its NOT as good as the 680...
 
If you are buying a top end gaming card to actually play games rather than sit and watch and read about synthetic tweaked benchmarks then both the 680 or 7970 will offer the performance to max any available game at most resolutions.

Both cards have both positives and negatives but this thread is about the vtx 7970 which at the time offered the best by far value for performance especially when used with the facebook code.

I have had both and playing games I cannot tell them apart the only minor difference was arkham city seems slightly smoother on a 680 other than that I cannot and could not tell them apart.....

The choice is yours....
 
TLDR

Either card is a good buy.

Nvidia has better drivers and is better in my opinion for gaming.

If you care more about benchmark scores then ATI would suit you better :)

Again both great cards
 
BodgeITandRun said:
I would get the sapphire 7970. It's non reference and £60 quid cheaper. Seems like an easy decision to me. The possible marginal performance difference isn't worth the extra money IMO.
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Why would you link the most expensive stock 680?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-006-KF
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-176-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2255
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-006-KF&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2255
 
 
But the point is the ones I linked at a lot better than 7970 at stock and and the one you linked will have very small OC capability....

And I think that the asus has the same cooler as the others (I think)
 
GTX 680 and leafblower in the same sentence = :D

Sure it uses an inefficient blower fan, but due to how cool and how litle power the chip consumes, even at 1300 Mhz, the cooler remains silent (proven by people on Xtreme systems pushing the card to its absolute limits).

The 7970 is a lot cheaper now though, and if you are looking for a high end card it is a very attractive buy. But dont forget that it lacks adaptive AA, 3D vision, Physx and driver level FXAA support if you want these things, and also if you ever plan on going with a multiple GPU setup in the future, enjoy your completely rubbish crossfire support for the latest newest games (source - Skyrim on release on any AMD crossfire setup).

Im not sold by FPS charts anymore. On the same level that a 7970 is almost as good as a GTX 680, the GTX 560 tis once overclocked were also almost as good as GTX 480s / 570s, yet no one ever argued that the GTX 570 / 480 werent noticeably faster.

Both cards are good, I've said this all along, but the insane numbers of AMD defence cards being thrown around this site is ridiculous, especially when the loudest poster defending the 7970s in this respect ended up throwing his out for a pair of GTX 480s :D

gregster said:
I could be here for hours quoting how he constantly belittles people. Anybody who disagrees with ALXAndy is wrong.
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Also dont forget that everysingle review is a lie unless it agrees with ALXAndy. Anandtech, Hexus, Hardware Canucks and 95-99% of every other hardware website are wrong because they disagree with ALXAndy. Then when theres 1 out of 100 review sites that agrees with ALXAndy, it must be the truth!
 
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james_ati said:
I read a few pages and just saw countless posts by you saying that 7970 is better because of one bench ignoring 10+ benches which said 680 is better.

I have always had ATI but I am def going for 680 this time round, fact is they are better. Dont feel bad because you paid way over the odds for the 7970 before the 680 came out, its still a good card but its NOT as good as the 680...
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Lol, show me 10 benches where the 680 is better?! I don't think you really know what you're talking about pal. You and the 680 are made for each other, Have fun with the red screen of death and adaptive vsync problems :p
 
dave_beast said:
Lol, show me 10 benches where the 680 is better?! I don't think you really know what you're talking about pal. You and the 680 are made for each other, Have fun with the red screen of death and adaptive vsync problems :p
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Now now children, can't you just be happy you both have decent cards?
 
lol, see the same arguments are around.

I agree with most in this though that unless you have a brand preference, then get the 7970 as it's cheaper, even though i personally would spend the extra money on the 680 as coming from a 570 i'm too used to certain gaming and HTPC features that i'm not willing to give up.
 
For those who don’t know, the GeForce GTX 670 card is based on salvaged Nvidia GX104 GPUs. These are GPU’s with malfunctioning units or chips that don’t clock up to Nvidia’s reference GTX 680 clocks.

Therefore, the non-working units are disabled and the working frequency is lowered. This way, the GPU gets sold at a lower price instead of being tossed in the trashbin.

this is classic :D:D:D, i cant wait to get my 7970, i wonder if you guys are quite so happy over the GTX 670

what about the GTX 680? too expensive and not enough of a power increase for that inflated price, plus i'll not notice it on 1080p, in fact i'm being a bit naughty, because i should get the 7950
 
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^^ Its always been like that every Nvidia generation.

Lower GPUs on the same architecture have always simply been crippled GPUs,
 
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