GTX 770 vs. Radeon 7970

[matttmoss]

Hey, tH community. Before the sumer ends I want to upgrade my graphics. I currently have a 7850.
I'm torn between a 7970 and a new 770. 3 factors though. Space, power consumption, and price. For space, probably NVidia, but I recently got a new case and I think it holds up to 16" with a drive bay removed.
Anyways. I have a 600W PSU. Here's my specs:
Intel i5 3.1 gHz
16GB gskill ripjaws 1600
MSI G41 Z77 mobo
Intel SSD
1TB Seagate HDD
Power Color Radeon 7850
DVDW
Oh, and I run dual monitors at 1080p. Maybe even 3 at some point
For price, I'm leaning towards AMD. It'll only take me a few weeks to afford it, and plus my friend can buy the 7850 off of me and run Xfire.

What do you think?

 

[sophiebeth100]

Hey, tH community. Before the sumer ends I want to upgrade my graphics. I currently have a 7850.
I'm torn between a 7970 and a new 770. 3 factors though. Space, power consumption, and price. For space, probably NVidia, but I recently got a new case and I think it holds up to 16" with a drive bay removed.
Anyways. I have a 600W PSU. Here's my specs:
Intel i5 3.1 gHz
16GB gskill ripjaws 1600
MSI G41 Z77 mobo
Intel SSD
1TB Seagate HDD
Power Color Radeon 7850
DVDW
Oh, and I run dual monitors at 1080p. Maybe even 3 at some point
For price, I'm leaning towards AMD. It'll only take me a few weeks to afford it, and plus my friend can buy the 7850 off of me and run Xfire.

What do you think?

The 770 is the better card, but only marginally. Lots of people prefer to take cards from Nvidia due to regular driver updates, but AMD are working on this and are catching up. If you can get the 7970 cheaper, then I say go for it. I believe this card comes with the AMD Never Settle deal too, meaning free games! No cards are 16" long, so I wouldn't worry about space. Power consumption is pretty similar, with the 7970 having a TDP on 210W and the 770, 230W. Both will be just fine on a 600W PSU.

 

[matttmoss]

The 770 is the better card, but only marginally. Lots of people prefer to take cards from Nvidia due to regular driver updates, but AMD are working on this and are catching up. If you can get the 7970 cheaper, then I say go for it. I believe this card comes with the AMD Never Settle deal too, meaning free games! No cards are 16" long, so I wouldn't worry about space. Power consumption is pretty similar, with the 7970 having a TDP on 210W and the 770, 230W. Both will be just fine on a 600W PSU.[/quotemsg]

I sure hope you're right. I ran my specs under the newegg PSU calculator and it comes up to 583W. The 680(Which I believe is similar to the 770) ran 512W. But if the 770 uses more power than the 7970....

 

[sophiebeth100]

The 770 is the better card, but only marginally. Lots of people prefer to take cards from Nvidia due to regular driver updates, but AMD are working on this and are catching up. If you can get the 7970 cheaper, then I say go for it. I believe this card comes with the AMD Never Settle deal too, meaning free games! No cards are 16" long, so I wouldn't worry about space. Power consumption is pretty similar, with the 7970 having a TDP on 210W and the 770, 230W. Both will be just fine on a 600W PSU.

I sure hope you're right. I ran my specs under the newegg PSU calculator and it comes up to 583W. The 680(Which I believe is similar to the 770) ran 512W. But if the 770 uses more power than the 7970....
[/quotemsg]

You should be pulling more than 450w at any time with that system. This calculator is more accurate:
http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

 

[Sn1992-1361850]

770 is definately a bettr card


U can have the detailed info of gtx 770 beating 7970 @

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-7970-vs-GeForce-GTX-770