HD7870 or GTX660?

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Broba Fett

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Looking for a budget card for my new gaming build around the $200 mark.
The ones that I am looking at are $200 for the 7870 and $220 for the 660 (both Gigabyte models). Don't want to overclock but do want to go dual GPU at some stage when I get the money to upgrade and I need a bit more power.

I'm in Australia if anyone wanted to know.

What should I go with?
 
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Broba Fett

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Yeah the main reason I asked this was because there were still a few question marks over the AMD drivers for crossfire. Is it still getting there or on par with Nvidia now?
 
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From what I've seen the r9 280X seems to look good in xfire now... I'm not sure how HD 7870s would compare... From what I can see, the drivers have gotten better. I'm almost tempted to go xfire myself. from what I hear, with the new GPUs, you don't need a crossfire bridge!
 
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wrong, 660 destroys 7870 in terms of performance...

7870
pros - great price to performance ratio
cons - slower than 660 and consumes more power

660
pros - faster and more fps,, consumes less power(450W required psu)
cons - more expensive
 
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I wouldn't buy anything for a week or two....the introduction of new cards has not resulted in prices settling out.... 780 Ti tomorrow will shake things up again after AMD responds whether you go red or green, I think things will be cheaper towards the latter half of the month.
 
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Broba Fett

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Everyone seems split on this so would it be safe to assume that the performance difference between the two is minimal and that in practice you wouldn't notice the difference between the 2?
 
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Really its is slim on the performace between the 2 but its what the op wants I would suggest a 7950 if he could find one at a good price Like I did but seems as if there prices went up after I bought mine for 189 bucks at the egg now like 239 before a rebate guess I got lucky for a change lol.
 
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You'd see anywhere from 5-10 FPS difference between the HD7870 crossfire vs the GTX 660 SLI. If you can go 660 3Gb SLI, that'd probably be your best bet. I've heard about issues with GTX 660s though because of their 192-bit bus.

The advantage with the 7870s however, is you get the MANTLE support. You can expect a decent FPS improvement when you play BF4. It's rumored to double the performance of the GPUs. We shall see!
 
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Call of Dog: Ghosts? Haha! There's a game you can use the "S-word" for! Lol, that game runs so bad on ALL PCs. Just ask total buscuit. He has a dual Titan rig and he gets random framerate drops to 40 FPS and he had to download a mod so he could get his framerate cap to be higher than 90FPS.
 
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Ya tell me about it I dont have the BF4 I am not a big BF fan but I did buy the COD and was shock How crappy it runs I have to do some tweaks to get it to stop crashing from the get go in less then a minute it crashed so its running now but as you said modified!
 
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Broba Fett

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Yeah I havent got either but have seen friends play both and tbh I expected COD to be a lot better haha. It wouldn't surprise me if we see a massive update when they release it for the new consoles.

Back on topic though, I've done a little more research into AMD drivers and mantle and I think thats the way to go. The 7870 already beats the 660 in terms of performance on most games, and it can only be boosted by mantle (Ive heard ranging comments about this from turning everything it touches to titan-killers to not much of an improvement). But it seems like you will get a pretty decent performance boost. And AMD seem to have sorted out their s*** with the driver problems.

And at $20 cheaper that seals it haha ;)

Thanks for the help guys :)
 
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No prob! And remember to pick "best answer," or "Pick as the solution." I'm trying to get the ball rolling on this. People forget to do this all the time. I mean, it's sad that there even has to be an option for this, but it helps with social ranking on the forum. So if you please do that, that'd be great.
 
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Sangeet Khatri

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Single GPU --> AMD 7870

Dual GPU --> 2 x Nvidia 660.

I know that AMD have fixed a lot of issues, but they are still not there yet. The crossfire issues still exist with older DX9 Games, gaming at resolution higher than 1080p, and at multi monitor set ups.

So, if you are not playing older DX9 games, then you are fine.
If you are not playing at resolution more than 1080p then too you are fine.

But anyways for dual GPU, I highly recommend getting the Nvidia 660 over the 7870.

I personally am more of an AMD fan, but in the current situation, I would recommend the Nvidia 660 more just because it is way more stable than the AMD at Multi GPU configuration.

I hope this helps.
 
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