GTX 770 ACX SC 2GB VS HD 7970 Vapor-X 6GB

[Charlie Husky]

Ok im doing a build soon an i have worked out what i wanna put in my build and now all thats left is deciding my graphics card and have worked my way down to 2 cards that i wanna go with.
1: eVGA GTX 770 2G Superclocked $509
2: Sapphire ATI HD 7970 Vapor-X 6Gb $689

It will be going into a build that will include:

Case: NZXT Phantom Full Tower Case
CPU: AMD FX-8350
CPU Cooler: Noctua D14
RAM: GeIL 16 Gb Veloce DDR3 1866 MHz
SSD: Kingston Hyper X 240 Gb
HDD: 1TB Seagate
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
PSU: Silverstone Strider Plus 850 Watts

I know that the GTX 770 is faster but im not sure if the 2GB will do it for me as i am going to keep my same screen setup of 3x 24" LED running at 5760x1080.

Any hints or tips about which GPU to use would be great thanks.

Note my price limit is $700 for the Graphics card.

 

[David Lugarov]

If your price limit is 700$ then drop the 770 and go for the 780, specifically, EVGA's SC ACX 780. It is 350$ cheaper than a Titan and it outperforms it most of the time. It comes with 3Gb which is plenty for triple monitors and is way faster than a 770 or 7970. However, if you get such a fast card, your CPU will bottleneck, the processor you chose might sound powerful with 4.0GHz, 8 cores and all, but it's weak. An i5 3570K outperforms it, and you'll lose 10 to 30 fps in some games with the 8350. What I recommend, you get an i5 4670K, 4th gen processor, and for the motherboard you get an MSI Z87 GD65.

 

[Zac Lloyd-Jones]

If your price limit is 700$ then drop the 770 and go for the 780, specifically, EVGA's SC ACX 780. It is 350$ cheaper than a Titan and it outperforms it most of the time. It comes with 3Gb which is plenty for triple monitors and is way faster than a 770 or 7970. However, if you get such a fast card, your CPU will bottleneck, the processor you chose might sound powerful with 4.0GHz, 8 cores and all, but it's weak. An i5 3570K outperforms it, and you'll lose 10 to 30 fps in some games with the 8350. What I recommend, you get an i5 4670K, 4th gen processor, and for the motherboard you get an MSI Z87 GD65.

+1

Thats what I'd do if it was me.

 

[Charlie Husky]

If your price limit is 700$ then drop the 770 and go for the 780, specifically, EVGA's SC ACX 780. It is 350$ cheaper than a Titan and it outperforms it most of the time. It comes with 3Gb which is plenty for triple monitors and is way faster than a 770 or 7970. However, if you get such a fast card, your CPU will bottleneck, the processor you chose might sound powerful with 4.0GHz, 8 cores and all, but it's weak. An i5 3570K outperforms it, and you'll lose 10 to 30 fps in some games with the 8350. What I recommend, you get an i5 4670K, 4th gen processor, and for the motherboard you get an MSI Z87 GD65.

i have decided to go a 2 way sli ASUS GTX 770 DirectCUii. im also getting an i7 4770k cpu aswell as a nzxt 820 case and a sabertooth z87 motherboard

 

[David Lugarov]

As you wish, 2 770s is a good combo, you won't need to upgrade anything for the next few years. In 2 or 3 years we'll have new gpus that will be much faster and more affordable, until then, no need for an upgrade.