EVGA 03G-P4-3661-KR Geforce GTX 660Ti 3GB graphics card - Newegg - $272.50 AR/AC
 

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seems like a good price but for this price range I think it's hard to argue against the 7950.

how much better is the 7950? I'm in the market for something, but can't quite pull the trigger

Looks like I'll have to wait until BF to SLI. I paid $224 with AC3 for mine back in December. I am not paying more than $175 for the second one.

the 7950 is 382-Bit, and i believe it is equal or better in all games that aren't sponsored by nVidia. this is just what I've read around here though.

Unless you do any folding, for example for Folding @ Stanford.edu then Nvidia cards usually mop the floor of AMD cards. No disrespect to Radeon cards, but I've found all around, for any purpose, Nvidia is still getting it done more than AMD, for now.

thats not what the performance charts show...

Show me your performance charts...

The $150 in-game tokens for Free Games kills the deal. 7950 = faster + real games

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Pr...550?vs=647

also, according to Anandtech, the 7950 can boost almost up to the performance of the 680.

If you want brute force, go AMD/ATI.
You can run some pretty heavy duty crap for the price.
I just run NVidia because I tried ATI and I got a lot more FPS drops in-game.
Got tired of lagging at critical moments.

Just when I think I'm on the Ati side of the fence comments like these from experience makes me indecisive on what to get. In truth it may not matter as long as the card is from a top tier manufacturer. I may be served just fine with either no matter which I choose but pulling the trigger is so hard to do.

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I have : GTX 670 in SLI, i5-2500k, 16gb ram. dedicated gtx 460 for physx.

my favorite game : FTL

I bought it because I was so impressed by physx in borderlands 2. it was fun, but i haven't even played any of the dlc though i own it all.

what to take away from this? i don't know. maybe i'm just too old to be as interested as i once was in fps games. i used to play fps games all the time and thought they were amazing. now i'm 33 and i'm so much more interested in stories, in imagination, in the way a game makes me visualize things in my head that are way cooler than anything physx can ever do.

7950 its like a 670 so of course it can boost near a 680 just same as a 670 to a 7970 i have a 680 msi lightning edition and can handle those heavy games, hope i had the money and get me the titan which would smoke all cards

Main problem about those performance charts is that they don't measure folding and folding is very floating point calculation heavy. So a stat to really be concerned with are FLOPS and at present the GTX 680 is logging about 3.1 TFLOPS while the Radeon HD 7950 is clocking about 2.87 TFLOPS. Now that's not a whole lot of difference but in folding terms that is substantial enough.

Now that being said, not everyone can afford a 7950 or a GTX 680 so if we dial it back to a 660 Ti and a 7850 and the results are similar, 2.46 TFLOPS to 1.47 TFLOPs.

It's kind of always been like that though with Nvidia and Radeon cards since Nvidia started introducing CUDA cores.

FLOPS & TFLOPS?? holy crap... I got some googling to do.

this graph shows the GTX 660 Ti a hair ahead of the Radeon HD 7950, as far as performance and yet for a few bucks cheaper to boot: PassMark [videocardbenchmark.net]

thanks for the info.

PassMark is a good general base but benchmarks don't mean a whole lot... I mean obviously a 650TI isn't better than either of them... but in generaly a 660Ti, 670, and 7950 are within like 10% average of each other. Don't forget you can overclock too, depending on your setup you can also overclock more or less...

Also, software hasn't caught up to the hardware yet, drivers keep offering continual improvement on both ends.

the original comparison that i posted was between a 7950 and a 660TI....not a 680, not a 7850.

but just for arguments sake, the 7950 was $230 back in November, around half the price of the 680 at the time.

Despite always preferring Nvidia (overall driver quality is heads and shoulders higher than ATI) - my current reasoning for upgrading to an Nvidia 6 series card is Project Shield.

I want to be able to stream games throughout my house to my televisions with almost zero lag - and the Project Shield handheld looks awesome too. I could play my favorite PC games without having to be held up in my den.

GTX 660ti and Radeon 7870 are better comparisons because they are more power efficient and can run on even a 450W PSU depending on the manufacturer as long as it has a decent 12V rail.. The 7950 and 670 are powerful cards but are going to need a PSU that can handle them. If you already have a 650W or better PSU then go 7950. If you don''t, then the 660ti is better, though the 7870 will give you more bang for the buck.