Upgrade from 6990 to single card solution?

[CaptainRAVE]

Since owning a number of multicard solutions and constantly having to fiddle with them to get them to work effectively I have had enough.

So looking for a strong single card solution that will run Rome 2 well.

Not setting a budget, but also don't want to spend excessively for very little gain e.g. a small overclock.

Was thinking of a 7970. Thoughts?

 

[VincentHanna]

pre-overclocked 7950 is nearly as good and £70 cheaper.

If you can wait the new AMD GPU's are due to be revealed on September 25th.

Remember the 7000 series is 18 months old already.

 

[Suarez7]

Used 780

 

[Geekazoid]

if your sticking with the red team any upgrade will be a side grade wait until the next AMD cards are out

 

[Drangueos]

if your sticking with the red team any upgrade will be a side grade wait until the next AMD cards are out

this ^

 

[Suarez7]

Gibbo just stated in other thread prices are going to rocket because of the recent memory disaster.

 

[Drangueos]

Gibbo just stated in other thread prices are going to rocket because of the recent memory disaster.

The "disaster" is under control and they are going to resume the production soon.

 

[lerun]

With the 13.8 drivers the stutter was gone for me on the 6990. Though I got a good deal on the 7990 so I switched.

 

[mjones1]

The "disaster" is under control and they are going to resume the production soon.

It still will cause them a large amount of downtime and will cause further issues but companies will milk it.

 

[johny dolan]

Ive gone from 6990 + 6970 to a gtx 780 and couldn't be happier.

Performance is about the same but much less noise and nomore micro stutter.

The 6990 is faster than 7970 so you would need to xfire either 7970s or 7950s to better the 6990.

Id say wait until the new AMD cards are out and see how that compares but my guess is it will be 780 fast for much less money.

 

[MeMeMeMe]

The 6990 is faster than 7970 so you would need to xfire either 7970s or 7950s to better the 6990.

They are about the same - in practice you wouldn't notice a difference.
At higher resolutions the 7950/7970 will draw ahead (especially if overclocked). At 1080, the 6990 will be a bit ahead in older games but probably not in newer ones.

 

[tommybhoy]

Upgrade from 6990 to single card solution?

Today, it can only be a 780 or above, only you can decide if ~20% more oomph is justifiable to what an oc'ed 7950/670 can get you for less than £200 in comparison to 780's and above.

20 days isn't long to find out if you should just make do for now and hold off for AMD's answer...


if you can stomach the cost.

 

[Suarez7]

An overclocked 780 is more than 20% better than an overclocked 7950 or 670...

 

[tommybhoy]

^
Considering what the op contained?

Not setting a budget, but also don't want to spend excessively for very little gain e.g. a small overclock.

Was thinking of a 7970. Thoughts?

Whatever it may be, be it 20/25/30%=going from ~40 avg fps to 50 avg fps in R2.

To put it into perspective, stock/clocked v stock/clocked, cost over and above-we are talking ~65%(cheapest stock 780) extra outlay here on what the 7950/670's can achieve which is outrageous@£320 for 10 avg fps, surely no one can argue the fact on this one.

R2 is also needing patched up, that should be taken into account too by the op, it's a mess afaik, 20 days for an indication of what/when/cost from AMD may not be long to wait, it's his call.