• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Which card!

nuzik

nuzik

nuzik

Associate
Joined
29 Jun 2012
Posts
964
Its a minefield they all look good but whats the best value for money!

Basically what 7970 or GTX 680
Links removed....
 
Last edited:
7950 seems to be best bang for buck if your happy to overclock

I went for a 670 as I've had driver issues with AMD in the past and vowed never to go team red again.
 
Last edited:
illuz said:
HD7950 or GTX670. 7970 + 680 = Waste of money.
Click to expand...

How can they be a waste of money? its like £60 difference from a 7950 to a 7970 an over clocked 7950 may be as good as a stock 7970 but surely an over clocked 7970 will be better still?
 
It would, but it won't be £60 better. Take away the frame rate counter, and you wouldn't know whether you were running a 7950 / 70 or 670 / 80.

What cpu do you have? Overclocked?
 
arc@css said:
It would, but it won't be £60 better. Take away the frame rate counter, and you wouldn't know whether you were running a 7950 / 70 or 670 / 80.

What cpu do you have? Overclocked?
Click to expand...

Precisely.

Spend that extra £60 and for the money you'll get... NO performance gains. Okay, so you have an extra 3 fps in BF3. AWESOME!

Save that £60 and stick it towards some fans/ssd/mouse/keyboard/sound card etc... Somewhere you will notice the money spent.
 
My 7950 while overclocked is only 8% slower than my super super "WTF" 680 which clocked extremely well. If you take a mid point you can surmise that an overclocked 7950 is only 5% slower than a 7970/680.

5% is not a lot of FPS.
 
nuzik said:
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/34761-amd-hd-7950-vs-hd-7970-clocks/?page=5
Click to expand...

Any review with a GTX 590 at the top of the graph running BF3 I would not take seriously.

I own a pair of 590s, their weakness is they only have 1.5gbs of vram per GPU. If the reviewer was to turn the settings up more @1600p the 590 would probably slow right down and the HD 7970 would pass it.

As Rusty said though there is not a lot of difference in performance between a HD 7950 and a HD 7970/GTX680.
 
Last edited:
nuzik said:
How can they be a waste of money? its like £60 difference from a 7950 to a 7970 an over clocked 7950 may be as good as a stock 7970 but surely an over clocked 7970 will be better still?
Click to expand...

A waste of money is a little strong but for the extra performance over a 7950/670, some people feel, doesn't warrant the extra spenditure. a 680 Vs a 670 would only be noticable with a fps counter running. You wouldn't notice without and the same for the 7970/7950.

If you want a 680 or 7970, go for it. The guys are giving their advice (of which is good advice) and showing how you could save a few pounds.

Knowing what I know now, I would still go for the MSI LTG 680's or the MSI Lightning 7970's but that would be me knowing I am spending far more than I need.
 
Knowing what I know now, I would still go for the MSI LTG 680's or the MSI Lightning 7970's but that would be me knowing I am spending far more than I need.
Click to expand...

Lets hope the MSI GTX 780 is as good as their 680 (I have noticed the new corsair 900D has room for 4 graphics cards and 2 1200w PSUs).:D:D:D
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom