7970 vs 770

[Dsgreek]

Title explain it all . Just wondering. I know I'm gonna cop a lot of the wait for 9xxx series and I will ! Just wondering

[M-ursu]

7970, but wait for R9 series.

[MrSuperb]

Depends on where you live. If the 7970 isn't significantly cheaper I would go with a 770.

[nokturrduk84]

770

[Razarza]

7970, but wait for R9 series.

This is off topic, but I just noticed that your profile picture is a gif.

[M-ursu]

This is off topic, but I just noticed that your profile picture is a gif.

Bravo

[Jupakazoid]

See how the new AMD cards perform before you make a decision. The 770 is a monster card, and check the new ~400$ AMD card when it releases and see which performs better. Strictly answering your question, I'd go with the 770 over the 7970 if you have the budget, but you can get 7970's for much cheaper than 770s.

 

If money isn't a factor, 770. If it is, 7970. You can't go wrong either way.

[maxtuckerpc]

both f these cards are on par with each other but the 7970 is much cheaper.

[TechFan@ic]

Both cards perform the same when overclocked, the 7970 has more memory, comes with 3 free games & is $100 cheaper.

http://youtu.be/CQAbBU43mpo?t=2s
http://youtu.be/7Z6e0UtPZY0?t=2s

[Analog]

Both cards perform the same when overclocked, the 7970 has more memory, comes with 3 free games & is $100 cheaper.

 

May be so in the US, but in Europe the HD7970 is actually priced a bit higher than the GTX 770. In regard to overclocking, you cant say that they perform on par when overclocked, because it depends pretty much on the card which you buy, the cooling, etc. For example my GTX 770 Lightning smokes the HD7970s and is on par with the GTX 780 in terms of performance. 

 

ON topic: if the HD 7970 is significantly cheaper and you like the 3 free games which are bundled with it, than go for it. If the prices of the HD7970 and GTX 770 are identical, go for the GTX 770, because of the more overclocking headroom, faster GDDR5 RAM and sometimes the new Splinter Cell is bundled with it.

[nokturrduk84]

May be so in the US, but in Europe the HD7970 is actually priced a bit higher than the GTX 770. In regard to overclocking, you cant say that they perform on par when overclocked, because it depends pretty much on the card which you buy, the cooling, etc. For example my GTX 770 Lightning smokes the HD7970s and is on par with the GTX 780 in terms of performance. 

 

ON topic: if the HD 7970 is significantly cheaper and you like the 3 free games which are bundled with it, than go for it. If the prices of the HD7970 and GTX 770 are identical, go for the GTX 770, because of the more overclocking headroom, faster GDDR5 RAM and sometimes the new Splinter Cell is bundled with it.

+ PhysX

[Analog]

+ PhysX

 

Oh, yeah I forgot about that

+PhysX on the GTX 770

[TechFan@ic]

May be so in the US, but in Europe the HD7970 is actually priced a bit higher than the GTX 770. In regard to overclocking, you cant say that they perform on par when overclocked, because it depends pretty much on the card which you buy, the cooling, etc. For example my GTX 770 Lightning smokes the HD7970s and is on par with the GTX 780 in terms of performance. 

 

ON topic: if the HD 7970 is significantly cheaper and you like the 3 free games which are bundled with it, than go for it. If the prices of the HD7970 and GTX 770 are identical, go for the GTX 770, because of the more overclocking headroom, faster GDDR5 RAM and sometimes the new Splinter Cell is bundled with it.

Overclocking has to be taken into consideration, since cards like the 7950 & 7970s are phenomenal overclockers.

7970s are significantly cheaper than 770s everywhere.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/DirectCU-Graphics-Express-Technology-CrossFireX/dp/B0071UY3FK/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1379942495&sr=8-10&keywords=7970

http://www.amazon.co.uk/GeForce-DirectCU-Graphics-Express-Display/dp/B00CY5GP08/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379942506&sr=8-1&keywords=770

http://www.computeruniverse.net/products/90452061/gigabyte-radeon-gv-r797oc-3gd.asp

http://www.computeruniverse.net/products/90512089/gigabyte-geforce-gtx770.asp

Overclocked 7970s also perform on par with the 780.

 

[MetroP]

+ PhysX

 

Oh, yeah I forgot about that

+PhysX on the GTX 770

Physx works just fine on the CPU

http://www.techspot.com/review/577-borderlands-2-performance/page5.html

[CarlosRex]

You will want a 7970, it's faster than the 770 in 2560x1440, just as fast in 1920x1080, it comes with more VRAM, free games, overclocks like a beast, is 100$ cheaper, you get the console optimizations, you get HDAO, orders of magnitude faster OpenCL performance for editing in the Adobe Suite & you get unlocked voltage, so when you water-cool the cards you can actually get significantly more performance out of them.

[Analog]

Physx works just fine on the CPU

http://www.techspot.com/review/577-borderlands-2-performance/page5.html

 

This is not that relevant since thay used a 3960X...

[GPUXPert]

As much as I love Nvidia I have to say the 7970 is better than the 770 in almost all aspects.

[Katness Everdeen]

This is not that relevant since thay used a 3960X...

It's very relevant, since PhysX is single threaded on x86 very rarely dual threaded, a 3570K & a 4670K have significantly faster per-core performance than the 3960x.

[nokturrduk84]

You will want a 7970, it's faster than the 770 in 2560x1440, just as fast in 1920x1080, it comes with more VRAM, free games, overclocks like a beast, is 100$ cheaper, you get the console optimizations, you get HDAO, orders of magnitude faster OpenCL performance for editing in the Adobe Suite & you get unlocked voltage, so when you water-cool the cards you can actually get significantly more performance out of them.

if AMD is more faster, what is this then?

or this?

http://www.hwcompare.com/14643/geforce-gtx-770-vs-radeon-hd-7970/

[CarlosRex]

if AMD is more faster, what is this then?

 

or this?

Here : http://youtu.be/7Z6e0UtPZY0?t=1s

[nokturrduk84]

Physx works just fine on the CPU

http://www.techspot.com/review/577-borderlands-2-performance/page5.html

PhysX on a CPU? Sure.. it CAN be done... horribly. PhysX runs much better on a GPU where there are a bunch of little cores running it versus 4 heavy cores running it.

[MetroP]

PhysX on a CPU? Sure.. it CAN be done... horribly. PhysX runs much better on a GPU where there are a bunch of little cores running it versus 4 heavy cores running it.

Empirical evidence contradicts your claims.

[Humbug]

Just turn off PhysX, regardless of what card you buy. Don't encourage that proprietary crap.

 

Both are good cards, if price is the same I would probably get the 770 since it's faster in Crysis 3 and BF3.

[Dsgreek]

Guys .. I'm in Aus , cheapest 7970 is 389 and cheapest 770 like 489. So yeah. I'm waiting for R9 !!!!L LIKE I SAID I WOULD ! ..

[CyberneticTitan]

770 is a beefed up 680.

680 is around the same performance as a 7970

 

7970 at this moment of posting is cheaper.

 

Wait for R9 if you can.