AMD equivalent to the Nvidia 770?

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dagoth04

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I had my eye on the Nvidia 770, but a buddy of mine suggested that I try out an AMD video card since I have an AMD processor (AMD phenom II).

First, is there any real benefit to having an AMD gpu and cpu?

Second, I had my eye on the 4 gig version of the 770, which costs around $500. What AMD card is comparable?

Thanks in advance.
 
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DiaSin
The most comparable AMD card is the HD 7970.. But there is no real benefit to matching an AMD card to an AMD CPU. Honestly I would not get a card that powerful on your CPU, it will probably bottleneck. I would look at a GTX 760 / HD 7870 as the maximum on your current system. Also, the 4GB EVGA GTX 760 FTW is right around $320. However, unless you either play at 2560x1440 or higher, or heavily mod Bethesda games, i.e. Fallout or Skyrim, there is no real need for the 4GB version. 2GB will be plenty.
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There is no particular synergy between an AMD CPU and an AMD GPU.

The Radeon HD 7970 is approximately equivalent to the GTX 770. It's cheaper though, and comes with 3 GB standard. The main downside is that AMDs multi-GPU technology is inferior to Nvidia's, but that doesn't matter if you just use one GPU.
 
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The most comparable AMD card is the HD 7970.. But there is no real benefit to matching an AMD card to an AMD CPU. Honestly I would not get a card that powerful on your CPU, it will probably bottleneck. I would look at a GTX 760 / HD 7870 as the maximum on your current system. Also, the 4GB EVGA GTX 760 FTW is right around $320. However, unless you either play at 2560x1440 or higher, or heavily mod Bethesda games, i.e. Fallout or Skyrim, there is no real need for the 4GB version. 2GB will be plenty.
 
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