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AMD 7950 or Nvidea what??

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Just trying to work out a rough equivalent card in the Nvidia range compared to the AMD range. which one do youget the best bang for buck out of ?

Thanks
 
just looked on that Anandtech bench thing and it seems i would have to pay a lot more to get the same sort of spec as the 7950. Is there a reason for this? Are the Nvidea cards much better or something?
 
Seems to me that i would need a GTX 670 to get the similar spec as the 7950 and its starting at £299 as appossed to £225 for the AMD.
 
I'd say the 670 is a better card but not by much and as you have pointed out the nvidia card costs a fair bit more, so a no brainer really unless you prefer nvidia for whatever reason, i used too but prices are too high. I really only play bf3 and nvidia USED to rule at this game, not any more ;)
 
nick.lidgett said:
I got the MSI 7950 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-148-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1673 from OCUK to replace my 6870 CF setup and im very impressed. I have never had a Nvidia card so i cant comment on these but this MSI version clocks very well. Im running it at 1100/1500 @1.1v and i havent really tweaked with it, i just went straight in at these settings after reading what oter people gad achieved.

7950 all the way.
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If you were lucky in the silicon lottery (ASIC quality in the 80s+ for instance), it is quite possible that you may be able to run at 1100 at a lower voltage. Worth looking into. Lower voltage = less heat and power consumption.

Voltage and load power consumption numbers is not something I've seen any tech site cover but I was able to try this Asus 7950 (which ships with the core at 900Mhz) last week and at load in MSI Kompustor the default 1.07V used 20-30W more than when I undervolted it to 0.95V. Didn't get to the time to see if it fully stable at 0.95V, but even 20W is a fair bit since the whole system was 250W or so.
 
Feel like I'm repeating myself tonight, but yeah for price/performance 7950, when paired with voltage tweak they can be made to match an overclocked 670.
 
Rexton said:
Feel like I'm repeating myself tonight, but yeah for price/performance 7950, when paired with voltage tweak they can be made to match an overclocked 670.
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On some games. Overall around 5% slower.

I agree with the people above - the 7950 is far better value for money though.
 
Nvidia doesn't have a proper equivalent to the 7950. The 660 Ti is a similar price but less powerful, and the 670 is more powerful but £50 more expensive.
 
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