Best nvidia card for £200?

[Rusty0611]

I guess its true that AMD have now caught up and surpassed nvidia performance finally in bf3.

Wonder why it took so long? Was it a case of AMD were just slow or was it a case of nvidia working with the devs and making it a TWIMTBP game?

660 isn't like for like with the 7870 though. Price it is but hierarchically it isn't.

The 7870 is a better card and unsurprisingly it's faster (if you count 0.3 average FPS faster).

So to draw a conclusion that AMD have surpassed nVidia in BF3 is a little short sighted based on this evidence.

 

[LtMatt]

660 isn't like for like with the 7870 though. Price it is but hierarchically it isn't.

The 7870 is a better card and unsurprisingly it's faster (if you count 0.3 average FPS faster).

So to draw a conclusion that AMD have surpassed nVidia in BF3 is a little short sighted based on this evidence.

I thought the 660 and the 7870 were trading blows, my bad.

 

[Rusty0611]

I thought the 660 and the 7870 were trading blows, my bad.

660Ti and 7870 are like that with the 660Ti a teeny bit faster. 660 is the 7850 competitor allbeit a slightly pricier option (like most of nVidia's current range) and the 7850 has its well publicised massive OC headroom.

 

[lazypnk]

I got my hands on a EVGA 660 early this week to upgrade from my 5850 due to some problems with the new BF3 maps on Medium at 1080p, if i leave it on auto within the bf3 settings it looks like a whole new game an runs smooth as butter. I'll post some unigine results if you want but it stacks up very closely to a 660ti at stock which ain't bad for the price and the factory OC.



CPU is at 3.8ghz atm due some some wobbly stability the past few days and my HDD kicking the bucket lol. But the results are pretty good I'm sure the regulars will be the judge of that but for the price its a cracking card.