EVGA 670 FTW vs 770 FTW

Adam Barakat · Jun 15, 2013

I'm looking to buy a new GPU as my previous one was dead on arrival, and I am now at a crossroad, I dont know whether to save my money and purchase an EVGA GTX 670 FTW or fork out an extra £100 for an EVGA 770 FTW.

I am running an i5-4670k and 8GB Ram.

Here is the EVGA GTX 770 FTW:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-219-EA

GTX 670 FTW:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/EVGA-NVIDIA-Signature-Edition-Graphics/dp/B009GB17SI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371337492&sr=8-1&keywords=gtx+670-+ftw%5D

Should I simply get the GTX 670? or is it really worth the extra £100 for the GTX 770 FTW?

All opinions are appreciated

vmem · Jun 15, 2013

just get the regular 770, the FTW edition isn't really worth the price difference

expl0itfinder · Jun 15, 2013

Adam Barakat :

I would actually advise going with a baseline 680. It offers slightly better performance than the 670 FTW for around the same price point.

sam_p_lay · Jun 15, 2013

They're cheaper here:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/nvidiageforcegraphicscards/nvidiagtx670keplerseries/02g-p4-2678-kr.html

And the benchmarks I saw have it slightly faster than a stock GTX680 if anything, though we're talking about 1% difference - for all intents and purposes equal. I haven't seen a GTX680 below £330, so I'd say this is a good deal!

sam_p_lay · Jun 15, 2013

And the GTX770 cheaper here:

http://www.dabs.com/products/evga-geforce-gtx-770-1111mhz-2gb-pci-e-3-0-hdmi-superclocked-8QLS.html?q=evga%20gtx%20770&src=16

Though that's £80 extra for a framerate gain that will be averaging 10-15%. Could turn 30fps into 34fps. I wouldn't say it's worth it, but your idea of value might not be the same as mine

DarkSable · Jun 15, 2013

expl0itfinder :

Sorry, but that's an awful idea. Any 680 is bad value over a 670 - they're 2-4% faster and cost 20% more.

sam_p_lay · Jun 15, 2013

Hey Sable, been a while

How ya doing?

DarkSable · Jun 15, 2013

Not too bad - been busy with work lately, which is why you haven't seen me around as often.

sam_p_lay · Jun 15, 2013

I wasn't aware actually - I've not been on here for a while either (except occasionally dropping into the Linux forum). Now that Haswell and GTX700s are out though, hardware is a little more interesting again! Not that the new stuff is especially groundbreaking, but it's new anyway

Just treated myself to that EVGA GTX670 FTW I linked and currently blasting through Crysis 3 on it.

JackNaylorPE · Jun 15, 2013

I make a specific point to avoid the SC and FTW in my builds.... I had a problem with a FTW card a while back and found that these lines typically have rather chinsy VRM modules. I can't find anything on how many phases the SC and FTW 770s / 780s have but in past generations (5xx and 6xx), the Windforce from Gigabyte , DCII from Asus and PE from MSI all had more robust VRMs ..... the EVGA Classified on the other hand has extremely robust VRM

DarkSable · Jun 15, 2013

Jack, the 670 FTW has the same VRM setup as the Asus and MSI you mentioned there - they're all built on a stock 680 PCB.

Just throwing that out there, you can't lay a blanket claim like that, as it's not alway strue.

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