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Need Some Advice: 5970 or 280x or Graphics Card in a range of £100 - £150

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May 29, 2014 12:38:30 PM

I need help deciding whether to get the 5970 or 280x because i like them both.

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May 29, 2014 12:42:39 PM

battle309 said:
I need help deciding whether to get the 5970 or 280x because i like them both.

thanks for feedback


280x would be a far better choice than 5970
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a b U Graphics card
May 29, 2014 12:45:00 PM

280 all the way! on newegg has one 280 for only 199us!
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May 29, 2014 12:52:37 PM

i visited http://www.hwcompare.com/ and compared them both this is what i found

280x 18% less power
280x 13% more bandwidth
5970 113% more texel rate
5970 241% more pixel rate
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a b U Graphics card
May 29, 2014 1:19:10 PM

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
You are looking at theoretical figures there look for some actual benchmarks. Or better yet if you have a 5970 currently benchmark it and compare it to a 280x in a review. The cpu stuff might be different but look for a game that isn't cpu bound.
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