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GTX 680 or 7970?

If you intend on doing some benching, go for a 7970 or 680 but if you will be using it for mainly gaming, save a few squid and go for a 7950 or 670. Performance of the 670/7950 is within 5% of the bigger brothers which only relates to 2-3fps in most scenarios and wouldn't be noticed in games.

The 7950 is the cheaper option and comes with a couple of great games :)

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I would go for either of those.
 
I agree with Gregster but can I also add that I think you'd be utterly mad to take the GTX670; is it just me or does it seem like an extra £100 for damn near identical performance out of the box?
 
7950 for band for buck, 7970 to show off, the nvidia cards are just way to expensive and the cheap ones are only reference. STAY AWAY FROM REFERENCE WWWWWWWUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (thats fan noise)
 
I love my 680, but if I was buying now it would be an AMD card. With Nvidia's over inflated pricing the AMD's are much better value for money, and often quicker. 7950 is probably the best bang-for-buck.
 
Tute said:
I agree with Gregster but can I also add that I think you'd be utterly mad to take the GTX670; is it just me or does it seem like an extra £100 for damn near identical performance out of the box?
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I went with a 670 over a 7950. I think it was the right choice for me. Went from a 6950.

I picked the 670 for a couple of reasons:
I've had bad experience with drivers on the 6950. Every driver from 11.12 to 13.2 had stuttering issues with WoW in Eyefinity. 13.3 finally fixed it though.
I wanted to run Eyefinity/Surround without using a DP adaptor and suffering screen tearing.
WoW runs better on nVidia.

Couldn't be happier and the extra money was worth it.
 
Rilot said:
I went with a 670 over a 7950. I think it was the right choice for me. Went from a 6950.

I picked the 670 for a couple of reasons:
I've had bad experience with drivers on the 6950. Every driver from 11.12 to 13.2 had stuttering issues with WoW in Eyefinity. 13.3 finally fixed it though.
I wanted to run Eyefinity/Surround without using a DP adaptor and suffering screen tearing.
WoW runs better on nVidia.

Couldn't be happier and the extra money was worth it.
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Good info and user feedback from using both AMD and Nvidia is priceless.
 
None of them, smart money is on the 7950/670.

The 680/7970 doesn't get you much more avg fps clock for clock, ranging from a paltry 2% to 10% extra performance game dependant but more often than not 5%.

tommybhoy said:
AMD-7950 ftw, cheaper 2 free AAA titles, slower out the box but slightly faster oc'ed than the 670 with an extra 1Gb of comfort knowing it's there.

Nvidia-670 ftw, faster out the box than a 7950 but more expensive, slightly slower oc'ed than the 7950 but you get PhysX and in game cash for mmo's.
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Gregster said:
Good info and user feedback from using both AMD and Nvidia is priceless.
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Always used Nvidia even when ATi were faster due to all the driver hype, all the way up to 9800GT.

Was given my first AMD-4870 through work, driver hype squashed, never looked back, now it's bbfb hands down every time.:)
 
Rilot said:
I went with a 670 over a 7950. I think it was the right choice for me. Went from a 6950.

I picked the 670 for a couple of reasons:
I've had bad experience with drivers on the 6950. Every driver from 11.12 to 13.2 had stuttering issues with WoW in Eyefinity. 13.3 finally fixed it though.
I wanted to run Eyefinity/Surround without using a DP adaptor and suffering screen tearing.
WoW runs better on nVidia.

Couldn't be happier and the extra money was worth it.
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Over the time I've owned computers I've had more trouble out of NVidia drivers. Admittedly over the past three years they have improved but one of the reasons I ditched my GTX680 was crashes and blackscreens in WoW that required a complete reboot.

Problems that went away when my HD7850 went in there.

Not that i'm calling you wrong - I appreciate that different people have differing problems, it's just that nobody can say how a certain card will work with a certain configuration.

I tend now to just buy on bang for buck (actually I buy first and foremost on card length but that's a whole other thread) as graphics cards certainly fall in the "YMMV" category. :)
 
i just cant see how nvidia justify that 670 prices havent come down, theyve even gone up since release, my 670 was £299,
for gaming under windows and with £100 between them its the 7950 for sure, no contest imo and thats from a WF670 owner.
 
melvis said:
i just cant see how nvidia justify that 670 prices havent come down, theyve even gone up since release, my 670 was £299,
for gaming under windows and with £100 between them its the 7950 for sure, no contest imo and thats from a WF670 owner.
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They don't need to justify them. They justify the price to themselves through if their sales targets are being met. If they're making a load of profit at the current price point, why drop prices?
 
Rusty0611 said:
They don't need to justify them. They justify the price to themselves through if their sales targets are being met. If they're making a load of profit at the current price point, why drop prices?
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I understand that, but what i mean is that large a price difference must hurt sales to some degree, it was about £25-30 more for nvidia when i got mine, not 100, and ati's driver updates have shrunk the performance gap slightly since then
 
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