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ChillaxedUpgrader

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...that the HD7950 is really truly better than the FX760?

The threads seem to favour the 7950, but gaming benchmarks seem fairly even - perhaps even a bit in favour of the 760 as per http://anandtech.com/bench/product/854?vs=855

That's my main reason for questioning this.

There's more RAM on the 7950...

...but the 760 claims higher clock speeds for (in many cases) less dough, as per http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#c=142,71&sort=a6

On the other hand the 760 only has 256-bit memory bandwidth according to http://www.anandtech.com/show/7103/nvidia-geforce-gtx-760-review

while the 7950 sports 384-bit bandwidth as per http://www.anandtech.com/show/5476/

So, despite its clear memory size and bandwidth advantage, the 7950 seems slightly disadvantaged in gaming benchmarks - perhaps due to the greater clock speeds provided by the 760.

So if any GPU heads are up for it, please could you tell me why I should favour the 7950? Bearing in mind that I don't really do much overclocking....

Thanks in advance - D
 
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It depends what 7950 you buy, a sapphire vapor-x is better than almost all 760s but then there are cheaper ones that are on par if not lower than a 760.
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Really? Man that's from way cheap to way too much! Over here in England the 7950 is available from £191! That's like 320 bucks. Then the 760 starts at about £180. (All according to uk.pcpartpicker.com - today's prices)

But disregarding cost, I'm really wondering whether the 7950 still better than the 760 if you're not overclocking...
 
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Right, that's exactly what I have been thinking. But why do the gaming benchmarks on AnandTech reflect better on the 760? Is that simply because of clock speed multipliers on the 760s gpu? If so, does that mean that I would need to OC the 7950 to make it a better purchase?
 
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Ok so I found a thread saying the 7950 overclocks better than the 760. It's just something you do nowadays I guess. (Haven't done much overclocking before). So based on the info in this thread we can conclude with the following comment:

Although at stock speeds, the 7950 does not consistently outperform the gtx670, its superior overclocking potential means that you can achieve greater performance for relatively small extra cost.

Does that sound right?

 
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Yes it comes with Sapphire Trixx.

But I use MSI Afterburner to overclock my GPU. It also comes with Rivatuner OSD which can be used to display a frame counter or other running statistics while running a game. It's free of course. All overclocking software can be downloaded for free.

Then again you will probably find the GTX 760 to be much cheaper.
 
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