I just find it amusing how NV buyers always defend their purchases but I rarely see the same from people who buy AMD cards from time to time. The real NV never showed up this round.Ĭontrary to you already painting me an AMD fanboy, I really don't have an allegiance to either brand. These type of gamers are easy to spot since instead of criticizing NV from dropping the ball this generation and not giving us the real GTX680, they defend the brand and won't acknowledge that NV went from having a 20% lead with GTX280/480/580 against HD4870/5870/6970 to losing the single-GPU performance crown, while charging MORE for their slower product. Typical NV buyers will buy NV generation after generation no matter what. $280 HD7950 925-950mhz cards are 10% slower than GTX680 for way less $$:Ĭontrary to you already painting me an AMD fanboy, I really don't have an allegiance to either brand. A $360-370 1Ghz HD7970 delivers GTX680 level of performance, HD7970 Ghz after-market cards like Asus Matrix are faster than any 680 and GTX670 is getting destroyed in price/performance by after-market HD7950 cards. NV's cards above $300 are currently overpriced. In the games you listed when GTX680 is winning, it's doing so by 10-15%. When GTX680 behind in the most GPU demanding titles, it's often losing by 20-30%. That's not in games like Hard Reset where you get 80+ fps already or WOW where you are above 100 fps: Ironically, where the extra power really helps more often happens to be AMD cards are leading in the majority of cases. Assassin's Creed 3 will run faster on NV cards. My statement is more to say that in the most GPU demanding and latest titles, you can count on 1 hand significant wins by NV. Of course there are more than 5 games where NV is winning among 1000 games in the world. That means from your list there are only 5 games and in some of them the difference won't be felt. Hard Reset - again not GPU demanding to make a playability difference, but I'll give you that one. So the only way NV has an advantage there is through PhysX. GTX680's choice.īorderlands 2 can be maxed out on a GTX660Ti. Again, irrelevant as this game's performance will vary by more than that based on the CPU rather than HD7970 Ghz vs. Same for WOW that you mentioned (5 fps difference above 100 fps) and less than 2 fps at 1600P. No point in discussing irrelevant performance difference in COD games. It's pretty obvious that the frames are so ridiculously high with flagship cards in COD games, it makes no difference to playability. If you want to bring up COD, at least bring up Black Ops 2 as it's probably the latest title COD fans are playing on the PC. From a raw performance perspective, the HD 7970 was faster than the two NVIDIA cards, but not to the extent that it was noticeable within game play."ĬOD:MW3? A console port that can be maxed out on a GTX560Ti, no one cares. "The HD 7970, GTX 680 and GTX 670 were all able to perform at 2560X1600 with FXAA High enabled. They are roughly equal in multiplayer and many websites show HD7970 Ghz faster in single-player. GTX680 lost its advantage in BF3 for a while now. "Just for the record, of a quick count of recent games/AAA titles, Borderlands 2, Max Payne 3, Dragon Age II, Hard Reset, BF3 multiplayer, CoD:MW3, Total War: Shogun 2 (since the latest patch), and WoW: Mists of Pandaria -8 titles- favour the GTX 680 over the HD 7970GE." I just did it and I'll keep doing it as long as this bug exists. At least you'll have a new, shiny card with latest BIOS. If you have a 7000 series card for months, send it back with the excuse "flickering black artifacts on DX9 games" and you'll get a brand new. Also, AMD's bad economical situation, makes a possible recall impossible. It exists since the cards had been released, and still no fix. Incidentally, it seems AMD took the lead for good, almost on all games but 7000 series has a serious bug on DX9 games, which might be Hardware Problem. Meanwhile, currently the graphics are more than fine. After -at least- 2 more generations, they will be DX11-ready. They always increase the horsepower steadily to keep flowing GPUs. These are completely capable for DX9 games, like Skyrim on Ultra even with 8xMSAA, but not DX11 ( 1080p of course ).Īll these shiny features and tesselation. This game with so many DX11 features, truly exposes the fact that even the latest generation of GPUs ( 600/7000 ) aren't fully capable yet.
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