I have been looking for a new upgrade from my Radeon 4870 and was thinking I would go to Radeon HD 7870, but I found some benchmarks with a large sample size that seems to show that the Radeon HD 7870 is outperformed by the GTX 480 (3451 vs 3558). I looked up the specs on the GTX 480 and the HD 7870 and got
GTX 480 ~ $199
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130759
1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP
Radeon HD 7870 ~ $309
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125418
2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP
GPU Benchmark from passmark
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
The only difference I am seeing is the memory interface vs memory amount, so does the memory interface really make that much of a difference or am I not looking closely enough?
GTX 480 ~ $199
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130759
1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP
Radeon HD 7870 ~ $309
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125418
2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP
GPU Benchmark from passmark
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
The only difference I am seeing is the memory interface vs memory amount, so does the memory interface really make that much of a difference or am I not looking closely enough?