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New gfx... 7950 or 680??

Depends what resolution and games do you play.
1st - I wouldn't buy a 680, because the 770 is the same price and it is basically a 680 with higher clocks.
2nd - you should compare 7970 with 770 (680)
3rd - 7950 is the best cost/benefit card. (It is about 5% slower than the 7970/770, but it costs 30% less)
 
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7950 with 8 free games, overclock it, bbfb by a long shot, no brainer tbh.

Ian Evey said:
The 7950 is 5% slower than a 670, except in tombraider of course.
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If your talking about a hard to find stock non boost 7950@800MHz then furry muff, but, considering a 680 is about 5% slower than a 7970 GHz, and a clock for clock 50 is about 5%(mostly) slower than a 70....


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tommybhoy said:
7950 with 8 free games, overclock it, bbfb by a long shot, no brainer tbh.



If your talking about a hard to find stock non boost 7950@800MHz then furry muff, but, considering a 680 is about 5% slower than a 7970 GHz, and a clock for clock 50 is about 5%(mostly) slower than a 70....


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No in General the 670 is faster out of the box and overclocked. In general of course, im just stating what "most" review sites say, and even with that the 670 i have is poor at overclocking 1189mhz yet is still 5% faster on average with a similar clocked 7950 @ 1080 or 1920x1200 res.

Now i am not saying a 7950 with 8 games is not the best deal, but the way 7950's are always recommended as faster than a 670 when they are not is just misleading , As a few friends and colleagues of mine find out.
 
Well, the 7950 does also have 3gb vram in its favour, so for around £250 it is a very solid proposition. Also performance of the 7950 is much improved on current drivers compared to when it was released.

Otherwise I would go for a GTX 770 as they can be found for a little over £300. What is essentially an overclocked 680 will fly in most games, although it's a less future-proofed on the vram front.
 
Ian Evey said:
No in General the 670 is faster out of the box and overclocked. In general of course, im just stating what "most" review sites say, and even with that the 670 i have is poor at overclocking 1189mhz yet is still 5% faster on average with a similar clocked 7950 @ 1080 or 1920x1200 res.

Now i am not saying a 7950 with 8 games is not the best deal, but the way 7950's are always recommended as faster than a 670 when they are not is just misleading , As a few friends and colleagues of mine find out.
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You talk about misleading then post stuff that's misleading.

Hmmm, curious.
 
You cant use most reviews out there as both the Catalyst drivers and the forceware drivers have seen many updates since then. While i cant comment on the forceware performance increases(if there is any major to speak of), the catalyst drivers has been speeding ever since 12.11 beta making all the results previously recording inaccurate.
 
7950 in my opinion mate, also in the future you could possibly crossfire them if you really have too. But just the 7950 itself should be enough for games out there maxed (but probably not with anti-aliasing at max)
 
ussie said:
7950 in my opinion mate, also in the future you could possibly crossfire them if you really have too. But just the 7950 itself should be enough for games out there maxed (but probably not with anti-aliasing at max)
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The interesting thing is that a 7950 will cope with AA and high res better than a GTX680 as well, even more so against a GTX670.
 
Do you intend to overclock your new graphics card?

If you do then as said above the 7950 is probably the best card to go for, they generally clock like crazy and will pull ahead of a 760/670.

If not then the 760/7950 and the 670 are all very good which is faster can depend on which model and what its stock clocks are. At reference speeds the 760 is a tad faster the 7950 and the 670 slightly faster still, but reference clock models are normally the cheapest and even then sometimes not worth it when for literally a few pound more a much faster card can be had.

Going up a notch to the 7970/7970 GHz ed and the 770, the 770 is faster than the 7970 but it will split benchmarks with the 7970 GHz ed at stock clocks, after overclocking it will all depend on the silicon lottery to which ends up faster. But if you are going to overclock then the 7950 is probably the card to go for as it will be within a hairs breadth of the 7970 GHz ed/770 but for much cheaper once clocked.
 
spoffle said:
You talk about misleading then post stuff that's misleading.

Hmmm, curious.
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If you think my post is misleading prove how exactly ?

The 670 is faster than a 760, which in itself is a bit slower than a 7950 in all recent reviews I can link to them if you wish.

The fact still remains that a 670 is faster than a 7950 in most games @ 1080 and my res of 1920x1200.
 
Ian Evey said:
No in General the 670 is faster out of the box and overclocked. In general of course, im just stating what "most" review sites say, and even with that the 670 i have is poor at overclocking 1189mhz yet is still 5% faster on average with a similar clocked 7950 @ 1080 or 1920x1200 res.

Now i am not saying a 7950 with 8 games is not the best deal, but the way 7950's are always recommended as faster than a 670 when they are not is just misleading , As a few friends and colleagues of mine find out.
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I found that a GTX680 overclocked to 1230 core was trading blows with a GTX 7950 @ 1175 core. A GTX680 needs to be around 70 MHz faster clock or clock on the core to match a 7950. A GTX670 will need an even higher core clock to match a similar clocked 7950.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34697037&postcount=63
 
ICDP said:
I found that a GTX680 overclocked to 1230 core was trading blows with a GTX 7950 @ 1175 core. A GTX680 needs to be around 70 MHz faster clock or clock on the core to match a 7950. A GTX670 will need an even higher core clock to match a similar clocked 7950.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34697037&postcount=63
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Much higher res for farcry. I did say 1080 and 1200, and hitman absolution was a gaming evolved title. So apart from sleeping dogs, tombraider , hitman absolution a 670 is faster.
 
I'd probably go for a 7950, it's approximately the same speed as a 670 (faster when overclocked) on the latest drivers, plus all those games makes it a damn good deal. It's a bit less clear cut than it used to be (670s used to be a lot more than the 7950) but for an extra gig of RAM, more games, and same/faster when OC performance I'd get a 7950
 
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