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Need Advice. (660 GTX or 760 GTX?)

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April 24, 2014 11:28:58 AM

Hi there.

It's been about 3 years since I have done a upgrade on my gpu..
At the moment I have a GeForce 550 ti.

I've been looking to upgrade and I have been looking at these 2 cards.

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 (3 GB Video Ram)

&

EVGA GeForce GTX 760 (2 GB Video Ram)


I was wondering which of these cards would be a better buy for the long run?

I'm on about a $250 budget for the gpu and was looking for advice.

I have heard games like Battlefield 4 can be high on the video memory..and more recent games seem to be demanding more out of the video memory is why I have considered the 3 GB version of the 660 GTX.. is video memory that important or will the 760 GTX preform better?

I would like to get the 4 GB version of the 760 but my budget isn't allowing me to do that.
Any advice would be appreciated... I would also consider any other cards in the $250 range.


Here is some more specs of mine if needed:

Intel i5 2500k @ 3.30 GHz
8GB DDR3 RAM
H61M-E23 Motherboard

Kind regards,

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April 24, 2014 11:52:48 AM

GTX 760 will be quite faster, go with that one. It's newer aswell. :) 
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April 24, 2014 11:59:35 AM

gtx 760 would win easily. The larger vram won't help much due to small memory bus causing the card to drop frames before getting anywhere near 3 gb.
April 24, 2014 12:12:22 PM

@ak47jar3d Actually, it starts doing that after only 1.5 GB usage.
April 24, 2014 12:18:07 PM

cst1992 said:
@ak47jar3d Actually, it starts doing that after only 1.5 GB usage.


Its fair claim to make since the gtx 580 (a 1.5 gb vram card) would produce similar frames rates to the 760.
April 24, 2014 12:23:06 PM

No, definitely not. 660, maybe. But not 760. It's more powerful than that. Much more powerful.
April 24, 2014 12:28:01 PM

cst1992 said:
No, definitely not. 660, maybe. But not 760. It's more powerful than that. Much more powerful.


No way. Gtx 580 is the same tier of performance as gtx 760. Passmark has the cards right next to each other in there long list. Not saying its to only thing that counts, but 580 and 760 are in the same class in terms of performance.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
April 24, 2014 1:21:24 PM

Since when did the 690 get slower than the 670?
And you trust this site?

Here's something else for you:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_7...
The same review has FPS of various games for the 760 and 580 reference cards(In the end, that's what counts, isn't it?).
See for yourself.
April 24, 2014 1:27:39 PM

cst1992 said:
Since when did the 690 get slower than the 670?
And you trust this site?


Well played. I only use it as a last resort because these to cards are two generations apart and finding benchmarks will be near impossible. The best comparison I can find to 760 is 670. So I found some gaming benchmarks where the two are compared.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_670_re...
April 24, 2014 1:28:38 PM

Reply updated. See above.
'Impossible' is a strong word. Don't use it.

@ para182 Sorry for hijacking your thread.
Go with the GTX760. It's much faster.
April 24, 2014 1:31:47 PM

cst1992 said:
Reply updated. See above.
'Impossible' is a strong word. Don't use it.


When your wrong, your wrong, I will give you the benefit of the doubt, 770 is 13 percent better than 580. Additionally, its better than gtx 660 by 7 percent. :) 

***Sorry, my grammar fails me sometimes :) ***
April 24, 2014 1:40:39 PM

What are you saying? "When you, you wrong" doesn't make any sense.
GTX760 is definitely faster than the 580. If you look at floating point performance, the 580 has 1581 GFlops, the 660 1882 GFlops and the 760 has 2258 GFlops. If a card has 75% more performance in theory as compared to another card, how can it be practically slower? It'll not be exactly 75% faster, I agree, but it'll be faster.
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