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ATTENTION 7970 performance for £250!!!!

ThatAsianGuy

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I just read a few reviews/benchmarks and I WAS SO SHOCKED AND AMAZED AT A Specific card setup basically 2 saphire 7770 in crossfire comes around £250. although it dosent beat the 7970, its on par with the 7950 and beats it in certain situations. The price/performance if you sli these cards are amazing.

By If someone elese has found out this and posted and and everyone already knows then i apologize because i am normally the last person to find things out. PLease do some research and let me know !!

EDIT: theres a 200 quid price gap, between the a single 7970 and dual 7770 OC EDITIONS. Now the benchmarks crossfire the non OC editions so imagine the OC being better. It looks like AMD have raised the bar and im excited in what nvidia will release

by the way im just going by what reviews have been saying and Benchmarks. PLease do not flame me down if i am completly wrong, im just going by what people are saying about these cards. Let me know if im wrong lol
 
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Yea, dual card scaling (both in SLI and crossfire) has become very nice in recent years - however you need to take into account that with a dual-card arrangement (like 2 x HD 7770 in CF) you are dependent on games and applications supporting crossfire properly to see this kind of performance. Also, there are also often issues such as microstutter and lack of VRAM at higher resolutions.

For these reasons most people are recommended to opt for a single fast card (like a HD 6950 2GB) instead of going for two slower/cheaper cards in SLI/CF - as the performance is more reliable.
 
So its not "7970 performance for £250!!!!" like in the title... its just potential stock 7950 performance aslong as the drivers work and you have no CF issues in games,

Not ideal, only ideal for benchmarks, then you would just get as above 6850's or something lol.
 
I'd just buy the best single card I could get for my money rather than splitting it between two cards. That's why I chose a 6950 2Gb over an SLI setup.
 
ThatAsianGuy said:
I dont see why people are flaming these two cards, look for the money they are on a stock 7950 and not that far behind the 7970 which cost 200 quid more?
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Because the 7770's offer pathetic price/performance compared to the cheaper 6850 which is faster.
So even if you wanted to make the Crossfire/SLI better performance, you're doing it wrong.

180 quid, in none VRAM limited games, which decent Crossfire support gets you 7970 besting performance ; 6850 Crossfire.

But again, it's not perfect.
 
Martini1991 said:
Because the 7770's offer pathetic price/performance compared to the cheaper 6850 which is faster.
So even if you wanted to make the Crossfire/SLI better performance, you're doing it wrong.

180 quid, in none VRAM limited games, which decent Crossfire support gets you 7970 besting performance ; 6850 Crossfire.

But again, it's not perfect.
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And the odd game that don't play well with CF you get 7770 performance for your £220 :D
 
oh i see....... Well i learnt a lesson from this thread, not all multi GPU setups are good and you should go for the fasted single card you can afford, and once you feel the need for more power just get another card :D
 
ThatAsianGuy said:
I dont see why people are flaming these two cards, look for the money they are on a stock 7950 and not that far behind the 7970 which cost 200 quid more?
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people aren't flaming. they are just telling it like it is. you put one side of the story up and they are balancing it with everything you didn't mention. Yes if you have smaller resolution with no intention of going higher and don't mind the reduced vram, and you don't mind the probable increased problems with future games and some current ones, then yeah xfire 7770s aren't too bad. but for me sli/xfire is definitely something i won't be doing, the friends i have, that have it have all had problems here and there. don't get me wrong some of them like it, but one who has had sli/xfire for his last three builds is now moving to fastest single gpu as he has had enough of constant problems, fault finding and driver/game issues he only stuck with it so long as he likes his e-peen.
 
d_brennen said:
And the odd game that don't play well with CF you get 7770 performance for your £220 :D
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This ^^

7770's also aren't as good as the last gen alternatives (6850/6870) in performance or for the price, getting dual 7770's now would be beyond stupid, and I dont expect future driver support to be good for them either because of the fact they are low end cards not many people will have them in CF
 
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Whilst you have a point OP, sadly 'real world experience' is different. Game compatability and micro stutter are just 2 points let alone power usage and extra heat.

I would always opt for the single gpu soloution 1st.
 
I have crossfire and its terrible to be honest. AMD should be done for mis descriptions or something. I have about 1 game that takes advantage of it.
 
2x 5770 here and crossfire is fantastic. Doubling of framerates across the board.

I don't know what's up with yours Spit, maybe it's because I'm running 2 generations behind.....
 
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