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Fastest graphics card?

bagaante

bagaante

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Can anyone tell me what the fastest pre-Overclocked graphics card is?
I'd probably prefer a 680 or 670 so if you can tell me which ones of those are fastest out of the box I'd be grateful, I may overclock one day, but at the beginning I'd probably keep it as is , which is why I'd like a pre Overclocked one
I'm not against amd btw , I just assumed with it being newer nvidia would be faster? I was drawn towards the windforce 670 but I figured if something was only a little bit more expensive and a lot faster I'd go for that seen as I've been waiting so long for a new system
And it will be the last one I make for a long time so will have to last a long time (future proof as best as possible)

Thanks in advance
 
The single fastest gaming graphics card according to Anand is still the GTX 680. But AMD have a new card coming out: HD7970 Ghz Edition which is overall even with a GTX 680.

The 680 is really easy and safe to overclock though as voltage is locked so you have no worries about damaging the card and in truth no reason not to. And the increase in performance in noticeable.
 
Not sure. Go down the product list and see which one has the highest core/memory clock speed.

I think there's a KFA one which comes out the box above 1200.
 
Rusty0611 said:
Wrong. Check out the Anandtech review.
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Wrong, where Nvidia card looks better means Nvidia favoured titles included. Usually they are old, and show hundred+ fps on any card. Newer heavy games don't favour Nvidia. Just look at techpowerup game by game. Nvidia loses 20-30% in every game there.

Also nvidia cards perform well in low resolutions. Because they have weak technology, they run out of steam a lot faster in higher resolutions with Ghz edition often leading 30-40% in multimonitor.
 
Considering your post on another thread I think we can safely ignore anything you've got to say.

sand_dune said:
I feel pity with people who went buying 680, because Nvidia fooled them with "fastest video card claim" after being factory overclocked. It was never faster than 7970 in 2560p and it sucks in calculations and has 2 gig memory LOL 2 gig memory!

Now it's even not a fastest card any more by any means.
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As it now stands, neither are faster out the box with the new Ghz edition.

It's neck and neck in the real world for the real folks@1080p.

Deal clincher for me now would be PhysX or when you go above 1080p when memory starts to become an issue when you add in maximum IQ via respected control panels.


Current 7970's are all going to do what a Ghz version can with a simple push of the sliders in CCC or Afterburner for probably considerably less cash though.

Unless you can get one considerably cheaper than the other pick what one you like.
 
Basically yes, but your throwing away money going for the fastest imho.

The 670 is the best bet namely this one:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-018-KF

@£330 it performs very closely to a stock 680, sometimes faster due to the factory overclock.

But, there is an ongoing 'stutter' problem that hasn't so far been fixed by Nvidia.

It only happens in some configurations(the minority afaik) by no means are all setups affected by it.
 
One can only assume this thread is going to go down hill...

My opinion, the cards are so close now in terms of performance there is little between them and that at this point, especially with the 1Ghz cards from AMD. You should really be looking at the USP of each side.

AMD apparently better a high resolution, voltage unlocked etc
nVidia Cuda enabled, PhysX and a built in "boost clock".

Both have their down sides but performance wise they are at the point there is little to notice between the two of them unless you were only benchmarking and not gaming.

Price as well... cheapest 7970 on OCUK is 379 where as the Cheapest 680 is around 439.
 
Thanks Tommy, like I said i was considering windforce 670, but I'll have a look at that one Also , just wanted more information to future proof myself a bit
 
7970 or 680, just get the cheapest and overclock it slightly, they'll both run the latest games at the highest settings for a while, however.....

If you're going larger than 1080p I would suggest the 7970 as it stretches it's legs above that resolution.

Decent upgrade in performance on a stock 7970 on 12.7 beta driver

No hotlinking!
 
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Nah I'll be doing it on one monitor (my new Dell 24inch) at that resolution
So I'm going to look for the fastest 670 out of the box with a little bit of headroom for overclocking if i get braver
 
Fastest graphics card is GTX690. It does have 2 GPUs but is the fastest card.

Other than that it is really a toss up between GTX680 and AMD HD7970 with the GTX680 coming out on top most of the time. The GHz 7970 will change this.

The GTX670 is a good card, but really not the fastest.
 
I think you best choose the card based on what games you gonna be playing most like one of the reviewer suggest. 7970 is faster in some game (mostly older ones like Crysis and Metro2033 or AMD optimised game like Shogun2), but the GTX680 is faster in BF3 (not sure if that's your main game or not) and large number of games reviewed.
 
tommybhoy said:
Basically yes, but your throwing away money going for the fastest imho.

The 670 is the best bet namely this one:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-018-KF

@£330 it performs very closely to a stock 680, sometimes faster due to the factory overclock.

But, there is an ongoing 'stutter' problem that hasn't so far been fixed by Nvidia.

It only happens in some configurations(the minority afaik) by no means are all setups affected by it.
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+1 to this
 
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