GTX 770, Radeon HD 7970. Radeon HD 7850

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Whovian98

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Which would be best? A single Geforce GTX 770, Radeon HD 7970, or 2 Radeon HD 7850s crossfired?
Specific models:
770: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127741
7850: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127663
Two possible 7970s: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127732
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121560
The rest of my build that is coherent to this question is as follows:
AMD FX-6300 six core proccessor (soon to be overclocked)
ASRock 990FX Extreme3 (two lanes running at x16)
So which would be best?
 
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7850 CF is definitely a no no...

Depends on what you are doing really. In gaming, 770 is ahead by a margin of 10-25% (1080p). The gap will be less if you are playing higher resolution. If you dare enough to change the BIOS of the 7970 to a boost one I would say maximum a 10% difference to the 770 :).

However if you are also doing/only doing non gaming stuff, the 7970 is a way to go. It is just going to be better at it.

Here is the 7970:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125413

The 770, stick with the MSI one. Excellent card.

For the Processor I'd get a 6350 or a 8320 for a few increase in money :).
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Well I would have to say a GTX770 out of the 3 are the best deal going right now. AMD has XFire issues and have no idea when they will be fixed, Nvidia does not. At $400 base price the 770 is just real hard to beat with what AMD has right now in performance. You talk about 2 cards a couple of times, that says Nvidia is what would be your best bet.
 
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I was curious though because the 7970 has many more stream proccessors, it is also 384-bit versus the 770s 256, and has another 1gb of memory. Does the 770 still perform better? Any idea where I could get some benchmarks? I'm having trouble finding some.
 
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7850 CF is definitely a no no...

Depends on what you are doing really. In gaming, 770 is ahead by a margin of 10-25% (1080p). The gap will be less if you are playing higher resolution. If you dare enough to change the BIOS of the 7970 to a boost one I would say maximum a 10% difference to the 770 :).

However if you are also doing/only doing non gaming stuff, the 7970 is a way to go. It is just going to be better at it.

Here is the 7970:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125413

The 770, stick with the MSI one. Excellent card.

For the Processor I'd get a 6350 or a 8320 for a few increase in money :).
 
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TechPowerup offers the following chart to show the relative performance of the MSI GTX 770 and the stock 770 against the other stock cards:

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As others have said cross-fire is a no go right now and it's better to grab the best single card you can afford. In this case the GTX 770 edges out the 7970 Ghz edition. The review goes on to indicate that they prefer the MSI edition you chose for the quiet operation.

Go with the GTX 770 for the better performance and quiet operation.
 
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