Radeon 7950 vs GTX 760?

Welshstig

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Which should I get for high end gaming? 
Which will last the longest? 

The 7950 3gb is £175 and come with three games of my choice or a gtx 760 2gb for £180 with ac black flag and splinter cell blacklist .
 
They perform very closely as seen in these benchmarks

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/855?vs=854

They should last about the same but the 7950 is a better overclocker, you could overclock it to 7970 level speeds if you went for one with a nice cooling design.

The other obvious factor is the three free games that come with it which should also make it a nicer short run value. If you're looking to play BF4 especially, the 7950 is the better choice.
 
The 7950 will have a performance advantage in Battlefield 4 and future Frostbite engine games (Star Wars Battlefront, Dragon Age Inquisition, Need for Speed Rivals, Mirror's Edge 2, next Mass Effect) as well as better performance in resolutions beyond 1080p. It overclocks very well to match the performance of the 7970.

The GTX 760 is a better choice if you do video recording, streaming, encoding, 3D gaming. Or want to take advantage of proprietary Nvidia features like Physx and G-Sync.

And then both feature different free games.
 

acid1drinker

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At stock the 760 beats the 7950 in most of the games. But when both are overclocked the 7950 has a bit of an advantage. I like freedom of adding in another card down the road if i need more performance and SLI being more stable the Crossfire the 760 is better choice. Also PhysX , stable drivers and nvidia geforce experience is a plus point for me.
But literally you can't go wrong with any of the choice.