Radeon 7950 Eyefinity vs GTX 680 Surround

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I have a $500 budget for a GPU and was wondering whether I should get the 7950 or the GTX 680. I am not sure which card would run multimonitors better when SLI'd/Crossfired. I know the GTX 680 is a lot faster, but the 3GB of vRAM on the 7950 might help with higher res (5760x1080) gaming. What do you all think?
 
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Oh, yeah. That was Fermi and yes it was a power hungry mofo. The GTX 480 was especially bad. The 680 though is very efficient, more FPS per watt than any other GPU on the market right now, and it is apparently around 170W max power usage (190W TDP, up to 225W max draw given the two 6 pin connections).

But yes I do agree a solid PSU is important. I've been happily running a 750W Corsair unit for a couple years now with crossfire 5850s and water cooling and many fans and HDDs.
Oh, yeah. That was Fermi and yes it was a power hungry mofo. The GTX 480 was especially bad. The 680 though is very efficient, more FPS per watt than any other GPU on the market right now, and it is apparently around 170W max power usage (190W TDP, up to 225W max draw given the two 6 pin connections).

But yes I do agree a solid PSU is important. I've been happily running a 750W Corsair unit for a couple years now with crossfire 5850s and water cooling and many fans and HDDs.
 
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Most people do not live by a Fry's or Micro we all do not live in hickville USandA

You just trolled the crap out of this thread. I can't tell if you are trying to insult me or insult your self with this [strike]sentence[/strike] set of words. Are you seriously trying to tell me I'm a hick because I live next to several electronics stores?

Besides the point, it can be found online as well.
 

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Obviously it is all of those things because it is dual GPU. It might be 10-15% faster on a normal resolution setup, but 5760x1080... It's litterally the difference of playable vs. unplayable at decent setttings. I saw the MSI veriety at Fry's this past weekend for $598 (open box).

Although, I wouldn't recommend all of the above. I think I'm going to buy two 7870s when they drop to <$300. Not sure though. The fact that the new Kepler card can power 4 monitors makes me want to switch, but not at the $500 price point for one card. I'm not confident there is 1 card on the planet yet that can power 5760x1080 BF3 at >60Hz frame rate.
 
Holy christ how many bloody accounts do you have?!? And I'm very sure Haliburton would be rather unhappy to find out a buffoon is using their namesake.

As for the 6990, he has a $500 budget. Yes, I do admit it will be fastest at 5760x1080 for a single card solution, but at the same time, he might as well get CF 7850 instead which should be even faster and OC better. Besides, he also was wondering which card would work better when in CF/SLI, and the 680 should be the king in SLI assuming their scaling is on par with everything else these days.
 

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well compare the 680gtx to the 7970 not the 7950. Also for 3monitor user do you realy want to risk beeing bottleneck by a 2gb GPU ?

First I,m not sure yet the 680gtx can run bf3 at ultra with 4aa in multiplayer :http://media.bestofmicro.com/X/L/320025/original/BF3%20ultra%205760.png

well first compare the 7970 not the 7950.

Personaly I won,t go with the 680gtx for my 3monitor PC even if I'm a fan of Nvidia. Personaly I'm going with 2x GPU so I can still run the next big game at max quality with 4aa. Nvidia with his 2gb might not be able to perform that.
 

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Ya I said it yesterday just prior to the GTX 680 release that 256bits memory bus and only 2GB Vram are really going to limit the GTX 680 to one monitor but then again Nvidia understands that only like less than 3% of PC gamers are running three monitors so there rational is on the right track but there conservatism might come back and bite them in the ass and i mean it is after all supposed to be a high end card.

I totaly agree that 3monitor user are a minority but the same can be said with 2560x1600 user and if your just playing in 1080p your realy wasting your money if you buy a 500$GPU.

Making that gtx680 a 3G card would have attracked both the 30inch monitor user and the tripple monitor user. Now we're torn apart.

But I guess that some 1080p user will dot he same mistake as I did and will overpay for a GPU.
 
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