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670 or 680

Snodge

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With that cooling solution I'd choose the 670.

Yes you could overclock the 680 increase performance of that but it's quite easy to get a 670 up to 680 speeds IMO.
 
I think the consenus is get the 670 and OC it.

You'll save money and get the same performance or pretty much not be able to see the difference.

I'd go 670 SLI if I had my time around, alas I have 2x 680. But they do look nice in there :-)
 
Yeah, given the option, I'd go for a 670 (even though i went for the 680... just couldnt wait any longer) then grab second some time down the line and run in sli.
 
Snodge said:
The difference in games like Crysis isn't massive gregster
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Lost me what you mean bud but regardless of what you get, your CPU will bottleneck the 670/680. I am not trying to put you off bud, merely trying to help you if you get either of them.
 
Any reason you're looking just at the 670/680? The 670 is a cracking card for the price but the 680 is too expensive for what you get, I'd instead decide whether to get a 670 or 7970:

Both cards are capable (670 overclocked will match 680 stock, 7970 overclocked will equal overclocked 680) and a fair bit cheaper (670 is £110 cheaper, 7970 £70 cheaper). Just depends on how much you want to spend.
 
Mojo said:
Any reason you're looking just at the 670/680? The 670 is a cracking card for the price but the 680 is too expensive for what you get, I'd instead decide whether to get a 670 or 7970:

Both cards are capable (670 overclocked will match 680 stock, 7970 overclocked will equal overclocked 680) and a fair bit cheaper (670 is £110 cheaper, 7970 £70 cheaper). Just depends on how much you want to spend.
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+1 , IMO its a tight decision between these two , and comes down to the daily deals between these cards on the day , or the weekly discounts .

If I were buying today ill get this
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-095-GI

If i had a bit extra to burn ild get this , which is what I did .
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-156-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2255
 
If you are lucky and get a 670 that overclocks reasonably well you will save a fair bit of money going down the 670 route.

My gigabyte windforce 670 overclocks to levels beyond reference and even OC versions of GTX680s (1360 max core 7200+ mem clock - see gtx670 OC thread). Yes you can also overclock 680s but I would severely doubt you will get much better performance. You are counting differences of <5fps in games I would imagine and you have to consider whether you are prepared to pay 150 quid extra (499 for the EVGA superclock 680) for no to minimal gains. I certainly would not.
 
Rusty0611 said:
Bearing in mind that's a 670 pretty much at max overclock vs a stock 680. My 680 is overclocked from a 1060 boost clock to 1270 boost clock which is a significant performance increase. Buy the best you can afford within reason is my advice :)
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In the link you specifically quoted (BF3), the comparison was between a KFA2 GTX670 at its "stock" clocks vs a stock GTX680. Hexus don't specifically mention what the KFA is boosting too out of the box, which is slightly annoying (although they do mention 1085Mhz on the first page).

It was then overclocked in the traditional sense (well as traditional as you can get on a kepler card) on a latter page - but only compared in Crysis 2 (boosting too 1242Mhz).

I am not disagreeing with the sentiment of your post though - The GTX680 clocked to the same speed as a GTX670 (assuming it can be clocked to the same level) will be that bit faster*.


*Providing that the game is predominantly shader bound.
 
670 OC<680 OC however you're cpu will bottleneck the preformance so i'd get the £70 cheaper version as the preformance increase will be very little & it'll be a non-reference card == quieter & cooler that alone is worth it.

Even without a bottleneck, still don't think £70 is worth the preformance increase.

Nvidia have crusified the 680 with their hunger to beat AMD.
 
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I'm not sure abotu bottlenecking but I am also looking at upgrading soon, and as I don't upgrade often I was looking at the 680, as the 670 has to be OC'd to get to the 680 standard and also if a few years down the line if you OC a 680 it will last you that little bit longer (as in upgrade not device life).
 
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