Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 vs Sparkle GTX 560 SE ?

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So lately I've been lost between these 2 cards, and couldn't decide which one to buy for my new PC.
Since the 2 are about the same price where I live, I want to choose the best of them. Now I've found a lot reviews on the internet about the 7770, but could only find a few for the 560 with no actual testing or benchmarking.
The specs that set them apart as I noticed are :
1) The 7770 is 1.2 Ghz while the 560 SE is only 736.
2) The 7770 is 128-bit based, while the 560 SE is 192-bit.
Note that they're both PCI-Express 2.0, same 1 GB GDDR5, and gonna be connected to a Gigabyte B75M-D2v Mobo, 4 Gb's of Micron 1600mhz RAM, a 500 Gb WD hdd, an i5 2400/2500S CPU (They're basically the same but the 2500S is more power efficent), and 500w PSU.
Thanks for your time !!
 
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Hmm that's an interesting question - They are both very old cards, and I know first hand how far behind the curve you'll be. I still have a 7770 in my desktop and most games I need to run on the lowest presets, sometimes have to manually turn things down further. Some new games (Battlefield) can't hold a playable frame rate at any settings.

Of those two cards I believe the 7770 comes out slightly ahead, although there really isn't much in it. I would absolutely advise that you spend the money on a more modern card. Something like an R7 260 will get you better overall performance - Not much, sure. But definitely more bank for your buck, and at the low end every bit counts.
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Hmm that's an interesting question - They are both very old cards, and I know first hand how far behind the curve you'll be. I still have a 7770 in my desktop and most games I need to run on the lowest presets, sometimes have to manually turn things down further. Some new games (Battlefield) can't hold a playable frame rate at any settings.

Of those two cards I believe the 7770 comes out slightly ahead, although there really isn't much in it. I would absolutely advise that you spend the money on a more modern card. Something like an R7 260 will get you better overall performance - Not much, sure. But definitely more bank for your buck, and at the low end every bit counts.
 
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The GTX 560 SE is also the same GPU as the GTX 555 OEM card that was installed in the Alienware X51. Basically, search for a few reviews of that small gaming PC to get a better idea of its capabilities.

Within this past year I had both an ASUS HD 7770 2GB and a GTX 555 (that I bought from eBay). I tried them both primarily with Skyrim in the same machine over a period of a couple months. At stock speeds the HD 7770 was a little bit better. Once OC'd to the max it would run Skyrim on the "High" preset fairly smoothly. The GTX 555 was extremely easy to overclock - I got it up to 1 Ghz (from 736 Mhz) with a small tweak of the voltage using ASUS GPU Tweak. At 1 Ghz it was definitely faster than the HD 7770 at its max overclock. I could use the Ultra preset with Shadow quality on High and get the same FPS as the HD 7770 on the High preset. The AMD card used a lot less power and generated less heat though.

Long story short, if you have no intention of overclocking them the HD 7770 is little bit better. If you do overclock them the GTX 555 has the potential to be a good deal better.
 
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I'm not intending to do any OC'ing soon. So yeah, I guess the 7770 will be the one, plus I'm not aiming to max out all the games I get I just want decent fps at 1080p regardless of the graphical setting which I think the card will be more than enough :D
 
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Obviously it depends on the rest of the set up, but on my work desktop (the one with the 7770 and a Core2Quad Q8200) I couldn't even get 30 fps in the single player part of Battlefield. There were serious stutters and slow downs and after half an hour I just gave up because it was horrible. I have a gaming laptop that is my primary gaming machine these days (I spend so much time traveling for work :( ) so it wasn't a big deal to me and I still got a lot of fun out of BF4, but... Consider mine a cautionary tale.

At the low end every single penny makes a big difference. Results really do vary and you can't take anything for granted when it comes to gaming with old components. If you have the chance to try before you buy, I would absolutely advise that. I'd also say that even if you have to wait a long time to save up enough to get a solid, modern card - Say an R9 270 - Then absolutely wait and do that.

I know what it's like to have to sit back and just wait. And it sucks. Really it does. But unless you are in a genuinely dire situation, say where your GFX card literally exploded and you have to buy something new just to make your machine work again - Just... Be patient. Save up. It's worth it. You'll get something that you can use for a few years to come, instead of something that pretty soon (as soon as DX12 drops) will just be totally obsolete.
 
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Yep, valid points you got there. Btw I'm talking about the Sapphire Ghz Edition, not the stock one, and based on my reasearch (which lasted 4 weeks) I think my Cpu can give it enough juice to be realtively "good".
I have a really tight budget tbh, and where I live games arrive like 1-2 since the launch ex: BF3 was available only 2 months ago D: So keeping up isn't going to be a problem, I hope.
 
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