Gigabye 7770 $110 Nvidia GTX 560 GDDR5 1GB $149.99@ microcenter AR, cheapest online yet

This appears to be a better than the Sapphire card from MC that's $8 more AR.

This card specs are roughly 10% better and it has 4 video ports instead of 3 on the Sapphire.

correct me if im wrong, doesn't the 460 se beat this card by a lot? its going for around 100 on newegg..

A) 150W vs 82W. That is going to cost you more then $20 per year in power.
B) Just looked up a bunch of games. Did not find one that 460 won on max settings. A good 20% increase from the GPU compared to 460. Which actually surprised me, expected the 460 to win some.
Mafia 2 460 on medium: 68fps http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...,2876.html
Mafia 2 7770 on medium: 113fps http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...,2952.html
Dirt 3 460 on medium: 90fps http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...,2874.html
Dirt 3 7770 on medium: 307fps http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...,2961.html
Crysis 2 460 one medium: 52fps http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...,2872.html
Crysis 2 7770 on medium: 59fps http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...,2946.html

Thank you, I guess I wasn't reading this correctly. http://www.hwcompare.com/11908/ge...n-hd-7770/

Quote from figureskater546 : A) 150W vs 82W. That is going to cost you more then $20 per year in power. B) Just looked up a bunch of games. Did not find one that 460 won on max settings. A good 20% increase from the GPU compared to 460. Which actually surprised me, expected the 460 to win some. Mafia 2 460 on medium: 68fps http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...,2876.html Mafia 2 7770 on medium: 113fps http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...,2952.html Dirt 3 460 on medium: 90fps http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...,2874.html Dirt 3 7770 on medium: 307fps http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...,2961.html Crysis 2 460 one medium: 52fps http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...,2872.html Crysis 2 7770 on medium: 59fps http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...,2946.html

Acording to AnandTech, GTX 460 wins nearly every time. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Pr...536?vs=542 But the big draw to the 460 is that it does so well in SLI. I don't know how well the 7770 does in crossfire.

Quote from ScottP : Acording to AnandTech, GTX 460 wins nearly every time. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Pr...536?vs=542 But the big draw to the 460 is that it does so well in SLI. I don't know how well the 7770 does in crossfire.

thank you, thats what i figured.

Quote from stryder143 : thank you, thats what i figured.

Did a little digging, and I found that the 7770 in cross fire is between a single 6950 and a 6970 in performance. Two GTX 460's in SLI will perform on par with a single 6970 (256 bit 1 gig 460's, all cards at stock speeds)

Also SLI seems to be more stable with a greater number of games with current drivers.

Bottom line:
If power consumption is an issue: Go with the 7770
If your going to stick with one card: Go with the 7770

Otherwise, the GTX 460 still has allot of value. Just realize that the 460 is now two generations old with Nvidia rolling out the 600 series.

if you're going to pony up 150$ for a video card (the 560 obviously)... just spend another 50$ and buy something that will actually last you a while. the regular 560 will not. buy something better.

and the HD77xx was a complete joke. don't waste your time, get something thats going to last.

I'd agree 90% of the time 460 SLI beats 7770 in Crossfire. There are a couple odd exceptions, like Crysis 7770 has about 105% return, but that is an anamoly.
I would also agree with the 560, that card kicks and it's cheap now. Unless you are worried about power consumption.

Quote from ScottP : Acording to AnandTech, GTX 460 wins nearly every time. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Pr...536?vs=542 But the big draw to the 460 is that it does so well in SLI. I don't know how well the 7770 does in crossfire.

Comparing average FPS is a highly uneducated way of comparing performance. The 7770 it's a great card that people are overlooking

http://www.hardocp.com/article/20..._review/10

Making it the same price as the 7750's I want, ugg when will those ever go down in price?!

This seems like a warm deal... both okay cards, but there have been better deals circulating (it seems).

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I prefer the Nvidia cards, but the 7770 is not all that bad. It had the advantage of better power consumption and eyefinity (3 monitor display). I've had both, in this case I would pick the GTX560 if I had to have a card now. Otherwise, I'd wait it out until a better deal came out. Once Nvidia figures out it's yield problems with the 600 series, you're going to see the 500 significantly drop in price.