7950 vs 6870CFX

[Dankaru]

Upgrading my PC in a couple of weeks. I'm going back and forth between getting 1 Radeon HD7950 or 2x Radeon HD6870. Which do you think would perform better. and can I even CFX with a PSU that's only 550w. I'm not planning to upgrade the PSU yet.

CM HAF X
AMD Phenom II X4 965
OCZ Fatal1ty 550w PSU
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB)
CM V6GT Cooler

 

[Dankaru]

Title is wrong* Its 7950 and 6870 x2

 

[rolli59]

Go with the single HD7950 at least there will be no micro stutter and performance not far of. 550watt would be low for the CF anyway.

 

[lt_dan_zsu]

To be honest you can handle almost any card with 500+ watts. To all power freaks I'm not saying it is The best option but it still would work. Some guy ran 560ti's OCed 2 HDD's and like tons of RAM with a 600w. It was also OCZ. But to answer your question I think I 6870x2 is better as most people compare the 6870x2 to a 7970. But you will probably get similar performance with either.

 

[gamerkila57]

HD 7950 for sure ?

 

[lt_dan_zsu]

Wait change that. I didn't realize you meant crossfire I thought you meant there was a 6870 double card. I would go with a 7950, it leaves more room for upgrade and uses less power.

 

[EchoOne]

7950 will beat 6870's x2 any day...i had both... lol currently have a 7950 overclocked past 7970 performance

 

[rwayne]

Personally I don't think your PSU is strong enough to crossfire HD 6870s.

I would definitely go with the HD 7950 but I am not sure of it's power requirement.

 

[Dankaru]

Ive heard that the 7xxx series has alot of driver issues. You guys experience anything?

 

[dudewitbow]

Ive heard that the 7xxx series has alot of driver issues. You guys experience anything?

I havent, I just troubleshooted someones 7850 today pretty quickly. usually if there is something wrong with the stable driver, using another version/beta driver fixes it most of the time.

 

[zander1983]

Go for the 7950, can add 2nd 7950 later. Or even the 7870

No upgrade path getting 6870.

And a 650w PSU would be just fine.

 

[Pyree]

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[Dankaru]

Thx everyone for their input. I actually ended up getting a VisionTek 7970 got a deal on one for $389 at MicroCenter. It's running great. Playing ffxiv on my 5770 was really laggy. But with the 7970 I have the graphics turned up and everything is going great.

 

[verbalizer]

Thx everyone for their input. I actually ended up getting a VisionTek 7970 got a deal on one for $389 at MicroCenter. It's running great. Playing ffxiv on my 5770 was really laggy. But with the 7970 I have the graphics turned up and everything is going great.

nice move....
+1

 

[Dankaru]

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[Mousemonkey]

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