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xsistor said:
There are no 7970s for that low from legitimate retailers. Sure, there are some shady sites that seem to be selling.. Try buying form them and I bet they'll take 3 months and then tell you they went under or something after stealing your money.
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Yes there are mate, have been for over a month
 
Oh dear, my investment in a 7970 looks to have been slightly premature.

Oh well, I'm willing to take the hit by selling it on and getting a 680. I'm not concerned about going from 3GB to 2GB of VRAM, since I only game on one monitor at 1440p. 2GB will still be plenty.

I can't come to terms with the lack of CUDA with an AMD card anyway. I did use CUDA quite a lot before changing to AMD, but I thought the sheer power of the card would make up for losing it, it doesn't - not for me anyway.

So it's 680 time!
 
reddev85 said:
Oh dear, my investment in a 7970 looks to have been slightly premature.

Oh well, I'm willing to take the hit by selling it on and getting a 680. I'm not concerned about going from 3GB to 2GB of VRAM, since I only game on one monitor at 1440p. 2GB will still be plenty.

I can't come to terms with the lack of CUDA with an AMD card anyway. I did use CUDA quite a lot before changing to AMD, but I thought the sheer power of the card would make up for losing it, it doesn't - not for me anyway.

So it's 680 time!
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You do realise that the GTX680 might be weaker than a GTX580 in GPGPU??

Look at the Toms Hardware charts,where the GTX580 seems to be faster in all but one compute based benchmark.
 
reddev85 said:
Oh dear, my investment in a 7970 looks to have been slightly premature.

Oh well, I'm willing to take the hit by selling it on and getting a 680. I'm not concerned about going from 3GB to 2GB of VRAM, since I only game on one monitor at 1440p. 2GB will still be plenty.

I can't come to terms with the lack of CUDA with an AMD card anyway. I did use CUDA quite a lot before changing to AMD, but I thought the sheer power of the card would make up for losing it, it doesn't - not for me anyway.

So it's 680 time!
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You might get cuda back with the gtx680 but its not really a compute card. In the compute tests the 7970 is way faster in some of the tests. Also from the benchmarks as the resolution goes up the 7970 claws back some ground. If i were you i would wait for reviews to come out from sites that are not in nvidias back pocket. These 6 games are most likely hand picked by nvidia.
 
reddev85 said:
Oh dear, my investment in a 7970 looks to have been slightly premature.

Oh well, I'm willing to take the hit by selling it on and getting a 680. I'm not concerned about going from 3GB to 2GB of VRAM, since I only game on one monitor at 1440p. 2GB will still be plenty.

I can't come to terms with the lack of CUDA with an AMD card anyway. I did use CUDA quite a lot before changing to AMD, but I thought the sheer power of the card would make up for losing it, it doesn't - not for me anyway.

So it's 680 time!
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There's nothing wrong in the 7970, you'd have to be mad to swap it for a 680
 
RavenXXX2 said:
They benched some of the most popular and recent titles, hardly hand picked.
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What i meant was none of those games were known to perform better on amd hardware over nvidia. Lets be honest hawx2 is a joke of a game to benchmark. Wheres shogun 2 or nvidias old favourite civ5 which is known for compute power. I also noticed this card seems to take a bigger hit with msaa in those games over the 7970. I wonder if this affects it in skyrim as the benchmarks only used fxaa instead of msaa. I think theres still questions to be answered about this card before i make up my mind.
 
reddev85 said:
Oh dear, my investment in a 7970 looks to have been slightly premature.

Oh well, I'm willing to take the hit by selling it on and getting a 680. I'm not concerned about going from 3GB to 2GB of VRAM, since I only game on one monitor at 1440p. 2GB will still be plenty.

I can't come to terms with the lack of CUDA with an AMD card anyway. I did use CUDA quite a lot before changing to AMD, but I thought the sheer power of the card would make up for losing it, it doesn't - not for me anyway.

So it's 680 time!
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
You do realise that the GTX680 might be weaker than a GTX580 in GPGPU??

Look at the Toms Hardware charts,where the GTX580 seems to be faster in all but one compute based benchmark.
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straxusii said:
Who cares? Is it faster in games
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Why don't you ENGAGE your FLIPPING BRAIN first.

I kept that Kepler thread updated nearly every day for ages,so take your attitude and shove it.
 
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