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GTX 770 or wait for AMD Hawaii

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September 5, 2013 12:49:32 PM

Hello everyone! A couple of months back I got a Radeon 7970 and it's a beast card and all but it recently started crapping out on me. I started getting tons of artifacts in games (no it's not my PC, I tested in 4 other PCs.) Now I'd like to know if I should get a GTX 770 or wait for the new AMD GPUs (I don't want to get another XFX 7970 as I read that they have terrible quality control issues.)

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September 5, 2013 1:07:46 PM

I'd go for the GTX 770. It's 13% faster (relative) than the 7970 and everything I've read points to the 9970 using a 28nm chip that performs very closely to the GTX 780 but at a cheaper price point. I know it's still all speculation right now but if my card was crapping out on me I wouldn't want to wait weeks, maybe months to see what the new cards bring. However, if you wanted to buy another 7970 then I agree with the1corrupted that for the price they cannot be beat!
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September 5, 2013 1:36:32 PM

do you by any chance have a warrente?
September 5, 2013 2:19:42 PM

gokitty199 said:
do you by any chance have a warrente?


Yeah I have the warranty and I just issued an RMA.
September 5, 2013 2:21:25 PM

Wow, so many answers for a thread I posted what, an hour ago? I think I'll grab a GTX 770 over the 7970. By the way, I have an FX-8350 so I don't think I'll even be able to use newer cards to their full potential (I'm talking about a GTX 780 and over.)
September 5, 2013 8:09:30 PM

TSX-Crytek said:
Wow, so many answers for a thread I posted what, an hour ago? I think I'll grab a GTX 770 over the 7970. By the way, I have an FX-8350 so I don't think I'll even be able to use newer cards to their full potential (I'm talking about a GTX 780 and over.)


If you're talking about using PCI Express 2 or 3, don't bother unless your running 3 monitors at 1440p. If you have just ONE monitor, there is literally no discernible difference between PCI Express 2 and 3. I've proven it with benchmarks.

I posted about it in this thread: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1791176/pci-expres...

Zero Cool said:
I'd go for the GTX 770. It's 13% faster (relative) than the 7970 and everything I've read points to the 9970 using a 28nm chip that performs very closely to the GTX 780 but at a cheaper price point. I know it's still all speculation right now but if my card was crapping out on me I wouldn't want to wait weeks, maybe months to see what the new cards bring. However, if you wanted to buy another 7970 then I agree with the1corrupted that for the price they cannot be beat!


13% faster? I beg to differ... http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/829?vs=768
September 6, 2013 5:09:38 AM

the1corrupted said:
TSX-Crytek said:
Wow, so many answers for a thread I posted what, an hour ago? I think I'll grab a GTX 770 over the 7970. By the way, I have an FX-8350 so I don't think I'll even be able to use newer cards to their full potential (I'm talking about a GTX 780 and over.)


If you're talking about using PCI Express 2 or 3, don't bother unless your running 3 monitors at 1440p. If you have just ONE monitor, there is literally no discernible difference between PCI Express 2 and 3. I've proven it with benchmarks.

I posted about it in this thread: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1791176/pci-expres...

Zero Cool said:
I'd go for the GTX 770. It's 13% faster (relative) than the 7970 and everything I've read points to the 9970 using a 28nm chip that performs very closely to the GTX 780 but at a cheaper price point. I know it's still all speculation right now but if my card was crapping out on me I wouldn't want to wait weeks, maybe months to see what the new cards bring. However, if you wanted to buy another 7970 then I agree with the1corrupted that for the price they cannot be beat!


13% faster? I beg to differ... http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/829?vs=768


I'm talking about stock clocks. You selected the overclocked Ghz Edition for that benchmark.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/829?vs=770



That list is for a 760 but you can see both the 7970 and 770 and their relative performance at stock clocks.

It doesn't really matter however, at $120 (after rebate) less for the 7970 Ghz Edition, it is definitely the better deal.
September 6, 2013 12:28:20 PM

Ok, so now it's down to getting a GTX 770 or a 7970 GHZ edition. If I get the 7970, the Sapphire would be a good choice right? What's the best GTX 770? I don't care about free games.
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