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7970 vs gtx770

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July 29, 2013 9:06:59 PM

gtx 770- $400
7970- $350

Is the 770 worth the extra $50?

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July 29, 2013 9:11:56 PM

The GTX 770 comes with a free copy of Splinter Cell Blacklist to help even out the value.
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July 29, 2013 9:17:48 PM

ahhh good point
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July 29, 2013 9:28:58 PM

Also The 79xx series have a 384bit memory interface while the 760s/770s have a 256 bit.
384 bit @ 5.8GHz =278 GB/s
256 bit @ 6.008GHz = 192 GB/s
GTX 780 384bit @ 6.008GHz = 288 GB/s

some food for thought.
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July 29, 2013 9:35:19 PM

The 770 is a much better solution. Runs cooler and quieter. Just read the reviews on the 7970's. You will need a 7970 GHZ edition to be close to the speed of stock GTX 770, while the 770's can be overclocked a good 10% +.

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July 29, 2013 9:42:36 PM

babernet_1 said:
The 770 is a much better solution. Runs cooler and quieter. Just read the reviews on the 7970's. You will need a 7970 GHZ edition to be close to the speed of stock GTX 770, while the 770's can be overclocked a good 10% +.



the overclock room of a tahiti chip is greater than a gk104 chip

to take a post in a different forum i posted:

7970 Pros
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Higher capacity to overclock(due to nvidia's green light program, voltage increases on nvidia gpus are locked) when max, will surpass the 770
3gb vram ontop of 384 bit memory bus alows for extreme heavy gameplay and more likely will survive next gen games due to the fact that next gen consoles have much more vram given to them
better general compute performance(GCN will be optimized for Adobe CS6 for example)
Comes with AAA games(depending on global location and store)
Resolution Scaling is superb(works better at 1440p then counterpart)
Crossfire Scaling generally is higher

7970 Cons
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Toasty hot
depending on model, fans can get loud under high clocks
power consumption is higher

770 Pros
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Faster Straight out of the box
Runs cooler
Newer
Ability to use Nvidia based GPU physics
Adaptive vsync allows less jerky framedrops
More stable SLI frametime
CUDA enabled programming
comes with splinter cell*

770 Cons
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Longevity of 2gb vram is unknown. newer games in the future will likely go past that barier(games like crysis 3 already has past the 2gb barrier)
Slightly crippled compute performance on general tasks
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