Unsure which graphics card to get

[Tybereus]

I might overclock further down the road, however initially I wasn't planing on doing any overclocking due to have very limited experience with it. Which is why I was drawn to the 670 as its pretty powerful out of the box and then you have the ability to overclock down the line.

Where as with the 7950 is looks like you pretty much need to overclock it from the box to get it near what the 670 does. I'm quite happy paying the bit extra for straight out of the box usability.

Also I'm assuming that if you need to overclock the 7950 to match it to the 670 and judging by the above list when/if I get around to overclocking the 670 I assume it will surpass the 7950.

 

[Rusty0611]

The OP says he has limited overclocking experience.

Rusty is saying it needs a massive OC with cooling to back it up for a 7950 to match a 670.

I'm saying a massive OC isn't needed - implying a small one would do and reference cooler is just fine in order to match or beat a stock 670.

If the OP knows he can save more money getting a 7950 and gain similar performance to a stock 670 (which he wasn't going to OC anyway) with relative ease, is it wrong to say so?

A reference 670 I agree. But the OP is looking at the Gigabyte WF.

So it will need a larger overclock to match like for like performance.

You might not get a decent overclock, it's luck based.

To match a 670 max overclock (overclocking is easy so why not?) the 7950 needs to reach a very high overclock.