What card should I get?

I wouldn't get the 660Ti unless it drops somewhat below the 300 mark. The 670 is 399 and it beats the 660ti. The 7870 is good too but if you are gonna be playing bf3/gta I would go with nvidia.

660Ti is already out and priced at $299 it sits inbetween the 7870 and 7950 in performance! http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-660-ti-...

I'd get a GTX 660 ti and overclock it... The reviews show that it can reach GTX 670 area performance pretty easily.

OP, if you can't afford 7950/7970 - definitely get 7870. 660Ti really isn't worth it.

How good the cards seem to be is much dependent on who does the reviews.... I found THG's review somewhat ...er shall we say "curious".



I don't think I have ever seen a review couched in quite such a dramatic way.

OTOH, Techpowerup comes up with a completely different scenario. In their test suite (Alan Wake, Batman Arkham City, BF3, BattleForge, Civilization 5, Crysis. Crysis 2, Dragon Age II, Hard Reset, Metro 2033, Stalker CoP, Starcraft 2, Shogun 2, Skyrim, WoW, Diablo II, Max Payne 3, Sniper Elite V2), we see the following:

The 7870 finishes with a total of 1236.6 fps and delivers that at a cost of $0.23 per frame.
The 7950 finishes with a total of 1348.2 fps and delivers that at a cost of $0.24 per frame.
The 7970 finishes with a total of 1532.8 fps and delivers that at a cost of $0.30 per frame.

The 660Ti finishes with a total of 1387.4 fps and delivers that at a cost of $0.22 per frame.

The 660 Ti finishes about 3 % ahead of the 7950 but does it for $30 (10%) cheaper

So then do you guys recommend the 660ti becuase it sure seems taht way considering that it is thesame proice but better performance... ill look it up but any other measurements would help me!

Yes for $300 it is a solid buy.

Not me, that's for sure. I suggest that you get yourself the 7870, or 7950 if you can afford it.

can i hear an argument... because from what i see the performance is better and it favors the kind of games i like to play(also add minecraft to that list)

That sounds great! but again can you guys show me somthing(benchmarks for the games i like) thank you!  

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Do you think my system could play gta IV icenhancer max if i got the 660ti or 7870ghz
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Here are scores by itself

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/647

Here it is compared to the 670:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/647?vs=598

Compared to 7970, really this wasn't needed:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/647?vs=508

I like the 660ti more then the 7870 because from what the benchmarks say it supports the kind of games i play a lot more then 7870... and is not far behind on the others

yeah but what kind of game is a nvidia game? and im really kinda same on both sides but im not sure

I meant 7970 to try it out. Nvidia games I mean games that perform better on Nvidia gpu rather than amd. For exampe BF3, Batman games, Portal.

yeah ok how about gta IV that is a big one for me i really want to install the icenhancer mod but that seems to be VERY hard to run... also can this run minecraft/tekkit very well do you konw...

Also what is crysis best on nvidia or AMD?

Crysis is one of those games that demands a lot. It will give you good frame rate at 1920x1080 on both Amd and Nvidia, with a little more fps on the nvidia cards. Of course as you go up in higher resolution both types of cards are somewhat similar as long as you aren't comparing the 7970 or 680.

My brother plays minecraft on a gtx 555. Stupid card from dell but it could run crysis 2 on high and fSX also.

Not sure on GTA IV I hear its demanding too. It hasn't been compared much in benchmarks because both types of cards are close with that game. I don't see why you wouldn't be able to run that mod if the card is powerful enough and you have a good cpu/ram too.

well the mod is very demanding...also i can play minecraft just wondering if the faster gpu would help with low fps even though i got almost the same with a 40$ gpu   so i dont know... what is the most demanding game out there?

I would saw Crysis and BF3. You should be able to play Minecraft thats nothing but pixels lol.

yeah i know   but that game is bullshit coded... which card is better at tessellation proccessing... I heard the 7XXX series has a very good one does the 660ti have a comparable performance?

If you are talking about TSAA then the nvidia cards have that too and it does a pretty good job at not using more resources really. The new gen nvidia's have I think two new tessalation and anti-aliasing technologies and for the games that support it, does pretty good.

If its a month from now that you will be buying the card then I would wait and see how the price game goes. If the price of the 660ti doesn't drop or no deals show up and the 7870 or 7970 do show price drops then go for one of them.

Sounds like for what you want to do the 660ti should be fine. I would go for a 670 but I don't know if that is in the price range you want. Sounds like from what you want to do, nvidia would be a better choice.

ok thank you... so can the 660ti handle any game on 16aa?

At a resolution of 1920x1080 I'm not sure at full 16aa. You may have to turn that down a bit. Not sure why 16aa would be necessary anyway. I would turn down aa to highten some other options.

doesnt a higher aa increase the picture quality?

also I understand that i should make sure everything else is at top performance but I was just wondering which card filters it faster

Aa is for the edges and smoothing, as long as u have other settings on high you shouldn't need too much aa.

alright how much would you say is the best of quality/peformance?

I would say x4 or x8 would be enough. And either card will do that without issues.

OK thanks i think i will come back to the forum once i get the money and make sure im making the right decicsion   but until then i will watch the prices and decide from there! thanks for the help guys really appreciate it!

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