GTX 970 VS Radeon 7990

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The 7990 is undoubtedly better, but look at it this way, for the price of a 7990, you can use a pair of 970s in SLI and still save a lot of money. The SLI will bend the 7990 on its knees :evil:
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Depends on the game, but normally the HD 7990 performs a bit better (http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1074?vs=1355). The 7990 also uses MUCH more power to get the job done & is pretty old now (not sure if its even stil being produced?). I'd probably take a 970 with the option of putting a second on in SLI later.
 
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I don't trust Raedon much, so in terms of reliability, go with the GTX, but in terms of playableness? I'd actually reccomend a not much more expensive and better card, the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Twin Frozr, It's mine and it's AMAZING.
 
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The 7990 is undoubtedly better, but look at it this way, for the price of a 7990, you can use a pair of 970s in SLI and still save a lot of money. The SLI will bend the 7990 on its knees :evil:
 
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I can get the 7990 for the same price as 1 970 from my friend
 
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If its from your friend you could surely just go use it a bit in his PC - that'd tell you if microstutter was present - I know there were microstutter issues with xfire 7xxx but I'm not sure about the 7990. Also, if buying second hand remember you will not have a warranty so you might be having to buy another GPU in the not too distant future!

EDIT: Also, what res do you play in? at 1080p, the difference between a 970 and 7990 on a 60hz screen with vsync will be 60fps and 60fps - both are capable of maxing out new games.
 
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I was expecting this topic to come up.
Well, the answer to your question is in some games and particularly some scenes, it will and that is not because it is a bad card, but because AMD is, let's say not very good with their drivers. There is another point to Nvidia, who usually makes superb driver.
That said however, I heard that the newest AMD driver is a major step up from their old buggy ones and irons out most of the microstutter problems. In that case, the 7990 is quite a good deal for the price of a 970, I must admit.
However, the 7990 is already at its limit, being the older card, while the 970 is just starting out and will only perform better down the lane.
I can go on about this for a month and thank you for messing up mind by saying the 7990 is available for the price of one 970. I mean it was more expensive than the GTX Titan when it was released. I am going mad......
 
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