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Radeon HD 7950 at $220 or Radeon HD 7870 at $140

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April 24, 2014 1:26:13 PM

I'm currently still looking at upgrades from my Radeon HD 5970, and I noticed that a HD 7950 doesn't go for all that much these days. 220 seems quite reasonable for a card of that caliber.

My question is though, is it worth 80 bucks over a 7870 in the present situation? The extra memory bandwidth seems quite attractive, especially if I end up doing Eyefinity across three 1080P monitors. Is this rational poor or is my head in the right place?

Your opinions and advice are greatly appreciated :-)

And specifically, here are the links for the two cards:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Take overclocking into consideration as well. I don't mind cranking those cards up as well, as my HAF 932 case seems to do a phenomenal job of moving air about. If I were to guess, the 7950 has a bit more overclocking headroom since the clock rate isn't starting as high.

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April 24, 2014 1:38:32 PM

Yes 80$ are definitely worth for HD-7950 :) 
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April 24, 2014 1:39:31 PM

with any video card your better off buying the gpu that has the most cuda (nvidia) or stream processors (amd)
right now the r line the replacment for the older 7x cards are mostly over priced do to bit coiners. both amd and nvidia are having foundry issues with there 20mm gpu chips. both of them had hoped to have there newer lines out by now.
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April 24, 2014 1:42:13 PM

If you want to get into the math, 7950 is 7 percent faster than 7870, but in this case costs 37 percent more. From a math perspective, no! In general, a 7950 for 220 is a great deal considering the lesser r9 270x sells at a similar price. In short, if you can afford 7950, do it.
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April 24, 2014 2:22:28 PM

Both are very close in performance and should play games at about the same settings or very similar, i would go with the 7870 and overclock it, this way you save a bunch, put that in a jar and when you have some more sell the 7870 for 150$ and buy a r9 290 when the prices will come down or find one for cheap on used market...that's what i would do! :D 

What is your CPU and PSU, are they good enough for such a card?
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April 24, 2014 6:15:36 PM

I'm running a Phenom II x6 1100T at 4 ghz, and my PSU is adequate for my current 5970, which is far more power hungry.
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April 24, 2014 6:35:57 PM

well check benchmark 5970 vs 7870 i think your current card is in fact faster...at least its not a worthy upgrade im sure of that, side upgrade at best...
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