GTX 660 or AMD 7870?

Dostya

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The happy merchant will give me Crysis 3 and Bioshock Infinite if I get the Asus GTX 660, but is the 7870 worth the extra 20$ and no games.
 

notea

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The 7870 XT (Tahiti LE) version is comparable to the GTX 660Ti if not a bit more powerful, the normal/older 7870 (Pitcarin) is equal to the GTX 660 in performance, maybe a bit more powerful too

but how come the seller is giving Crysis 3 and Bioshock infinite with the 660, those titles are bundled with AMD cards with the Never Settle promotion, i think you should look into this
 

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IDK dude, he is giving out those games with the GTX 660, and not with the 7870. I can only find good ASUS cards here. But, oh well, this is a third world country I am living in.
 

Dostya

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Asus amd Radeon 7870 2GB DDR5, HD7870-DC2-2GD5-V2

 
The 7870 and 660 run neck and neck, within 5% in fps
Frame latency is another issue.

As ya can see here the 660 Ti and 7950 are a close match in fps
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_660_Ti_Power_Edition/28.html

Not so much in frame latency
http://techreport.com/discussion/23981/radeon-hd-7950-vs-geforce-gtx-660-ti-revisited#metal

The 660s can be doubled up in SLI w/o issue.

CF is off the table at the moment
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-card-benchmarking-frame-rate,3466.html
 

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Dostya

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I am hyped up for ROME TOTAL WAR 2, is the gtx a good choice?
 

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Glad to hear.
Thanks bro.
 

notea

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not really, different games favour different cards, like BF3 will favour nvidia cards, while AVP will favour AMD cards, but i can say that as a whole, AMD cards tend to be better @1080p and above