should i trade my HD7950 3gb for a GTX680 2gb?

[paitjsu sadff]

Hi guys!
I found a guy selling is GTX680 for 250$ and im pretty sure i could get quickly 250$
for my hd7950 online considering many ppl want them for mining and stuff...i'm here to ask,
should i do it? i should point out im only GAMING with the card and i want to still be as more
future proof as possible...also im not interested to go either crossfire or sli so don't consider
this as a factor either...only about gaming performance of single card and future games...
also both card are equivalent ''overclocked'' edition with 2 fans heatsink...

Also i should point out im playing mostly battlefield 4 and my current CPU is an FX-8350...
I can use mantle but right now it's stuttering like hell after 5-6 minutes due to the VRAM
getting maxed out...they will fix this i suppose...but will the 680 run as good with no mantle
as the 7950 with mantle? Also is the 2gb vram enough or it may not be enough in a near
future as some game i play often get close to the 2gb vram utilisation from what i can see
in afterburner...

 

[sweenytodd]

Sell your 7950 for about $400 and get a GTX 770 2GB. The 770 is basically an overclocked 680 and runs cooler.

 

[thdarkshadow]

Try to sell your 7950 for at least 300-350 and then get that 680. It is a good upgrade IMO. I believe even with mantle the 680 would be better and in all other games it will be quite a bit better. You also make some money out of the deal

 

[paitjsu sadff]

Thanx for the quick input guys, and do you think i should have concern about the 2gb vs 3gb? i play at 1080p resolution
and i like ultra quality textures like in BF4 some maps peaks at about 1850 mb. of vram with that kind of settings and i don't
plan on lowering these settings...will future games uses more vram ?

 

[thdarkshadow]

I don't think it will be an issue and nvidia thinks the same. Right now 2 vs 4gb perform the exact same at 1080p but that may change in the next few years. Idk really

 

[paitjsu sadff]

ok and is the GTX770 much faster than the GTX680?
and what kind of percentage improvement i can expect for jumping from the 7950 to the 680 or the 770?

EDIT: I juste played a session of crysis 3 with high settings and the memory usage peaked at 2.1gb in ''welcome to the jungle'' stage...so i think i will stick with my 3gb card... i would have like a faster card but then to have 4gb
of memory with nvidia i think i would have to go with a 770GTX 4gb wich is over 409$+ shipping on new egg...i think
ill stay where im at...thanx anyways

 

[sweenytodd]

5-10% increase http://anandtech.com/bench/product/855?vs=829

 

[paitjsu sadff]

5-10% increase http://anandtech.com/bench/product/855?vs=829

wow i would have thought way more improvement than that...i will not trade the extra gb of memory for that kind
of a performance increase then...thanx a lot, that seals the deal...it's sad though nvidia should have made every card
above GTX660 with 3gb or vram in my opinion ant the 670,680,and 770 should all be 4gb...

 

[sweenytodd]

Keep that card for few more years and upgrade it if it doesn't provide your needs anymore.

 

[paitjsu sadff]

Keep that card for few more years and upgrade it if it doesn't provide your needs anymore.

Yeah that's what i will do...in short, if i would like to see a real improvement in performance that would allow me to
turn up some more settings like 4X MSAA in BF4 for example, i think i would have to go with something
like an r9 290x or a GTX 780?... wich cards are completely out of the budget ATM...both cards cost above
600$ and even 700$ here in canada...

 

[sweenytodd]

Man we are on the same soil. I bought my non-reference 780 Ti when it was $730 on Newegg Canada, first day it came out. Now its $800 and on Memory Express its $850. That's because the demand for gamers are going towards NVIDIA cards and the retailers raised the price again.

The GTX 780 is the same in performance with the R9 290(non-X). You will max out games on the 780 and like you said you can turn on all the settings in ultra on BF4.