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Stuck between two cards

Smoogels

Smoogels

Smoogels

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Hey. Thanks once again for reading the thread^^

I am stuck between two cards. Both of which are just about the same price its just a case of AMD V NVIDIA.

The cards in question are the AMD Sapphire HD 7850 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 (or something round the same price as the 7850). Before I go on I should also note that I have absolutely no intrest in overclocking.

Both cards perform fairly close to each other which makes the choice hard.

The benchmark I looked at most is this one:http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/549?vs=518

As you can see they perform pretty equally however, the GTX 570 does have several games where its FPS is higher. This is all very well but if you look at the power consumption and the tempeture the GTX 570 can reach 87 under load, compared to the 65 on the 7850.

Is the 10 FPS increase or so worth the extra amount of heat piled on? Plus the extra power needed? I must also add that the Nvidia card would go very well with my system (green leds, black case) but thats just a very minor thing :)
 
7850 every time.

Ignore stock benchmarks for 7850's, they are meaningless. No one runs a 7850 at stock, they ALL do 1050 core on stock volts, takes all of 2 seconds to crank the slider up to max and hit apply and ta da instant 20% OC.

Then if you want you can take them even higher if you add a touch more volts. 33% OC is pretty much guaranteed. With up to 50% on the cards if you get a good clocker.
 
thats a lot of gpu for £167.99, to think what i paid for my 7970 on release i could have bought 7850 xfire and had change left over
 
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