should I wait for gtx 7xx?

francisbojczuk

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I'm planning on getting a nvidia gtx 660... should I wait for the 760? Will it be the same price or will it be significantly more expensive? If so is it worth it?!
And does anyone know when it will be released?
 

Fulgurant

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1. Depends. Do you want it right now? If so, buy it. If not, wait and see.

2. Don't know what the price will be. It's reasonable to assume that the 760 will eventually stabilize at or around the price of the 660, but then again the 780 is far more expensive than the 680, and will likely remain so for a good long time (because AMD isn't poised to respond at the moment). If Nvidia simply moves every card up a tier, then you might find that the 760 costs significantly more than the 660, but that it also performs better (on par with a 660 Ti?).

3. No idea if it's worth it.

4. Don't know. Maybe in a month or two?

Bottom line: if you think the 660 is a good value for you right now, then feel free to buy it in good conscience. The 660 isn't suddenly gonna turn into a crap card when the 760 is released. All of NVIDIA's new releases (save the 780) will use the same architecture from the previous generation; we're not talking about a big leap in performance, and what performance increases we do see are likely to come at a price premium at least in the short term.