Upgrading GPU... Confusion between AMD/nVidia.

Nvidia is currently better value, they've usually been the slightly more expensive guys (because of more technologies) but at this moment in time, a 760/770 is fantastic value. A bit of overclocking as well make 'em fly.

The 7970 is only just slightly ahead of the 760 in most games, but with the 760 being cheaper, you get a hell of a lot more price per dollar.

I'm not sure on the pricing in USD, but I'd say a 770 would be the one to go for yourself, it'll handle BF3 ridiculously easily and BF4 will no doubt run awesome as well.

AMD's new graphics cards are unveiled in 5 days. Wait until then. 7870 is a lot weaker than the rest here, and the 7970 would be your best bet at that price range, with the 770 performing slightly better for a bit more. But wait a few days first.

*Also 7970 is miles ahead of the 760. The 7950 however is around the same performance of the 760, but cheaper. All good cards anyway.

hey squish go with Gtx 770 it is more future proff inted f buying a amd 7870-7970

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why nvidia
its has physics by nvidia
better then a 7970 or 7870 here is comparision http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-7970-vs-GeForce-GTX-770
its is new genration gpu with gpu boost tech.
if you need a more than a gtx 770 you can SLI in futre


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Like skull face said, wait five days. The odds are pretty high that Nvidia will drop their prices and AMD's present cards will drop too perhaps. Besides, the new AMD's just may be awesome and demand your purchase!

Highly unlikely if the latest rumour has any truth to it, do you know how to say "re-badge"? :lol:

Eh, I dunno about re-badging with AMD's new cards, they've already done that with the OEM 8xxx cards and it's coming up to 2 years since the 7970, that's long enough to not rebadge really!

With naming conventions getting changed as well I just don't see the cards that really matter to us people being rebadged, seems like commercial suicide to do so after this long!

Rumours floating around suggest that there is only the one new GPU at the top end and all the rest are just reshuffled and renamed as everything gets moved down a couple of slots to make way for the new GPU that will still be on the 28nm node.

Does that rumor have more weight than the rumor that they're not rebadging though?

I mean, either of us could be wrong, but rumors are rumors...