7870cf vs gtx970 strix

[Mister-E]

I was looking to upgrade my graphics card setup, 7870 2gb crossfire, for some higher fps gaming at ultra settings. I was thinking the gtx970 would be a good replacement card for me mainly because of the increase in vram and no cf issues. Now I'm close to buying one, and I got some doubts based on valley results.

With my current setup, I score about 2800 on extreme HD (so with aa at x8). The scores I find for the gtx970 are 2400. Are the gtx cards really less powerful then a 7870 crossfire setup?

I have the feeling I'm underrating my current system as crap, while maybe it's still quite okay.

FD Define S
3x FD Venturi HP14 pwm (intake)
1x FD Dynamic GP14 (exhaust)

Samsung S24D590L 1920x1080p @ 60hz

GA-Z77X-D3H
I5 3570K @ 4,5 ghz
Cryorig R1 Ultimate
MSI HD7870 2gb Crossfire
(1125 core/1325 mem)
4x4gb Corsair Vengeance @100 mhz
RAID0 Crucial mx200 250gb(x2)
WD 2tb harddrive

 

[Gingerbread]

Thing is, as you said 7870cf is quite powerful. Beats the gtx 960, sure the 970 is a big upgrade from the 970, but I am not entirely sure it is worth investing into that. Personally I'd wait a few months more for the next generation of GPUs and upgrade then, since after all your current setup is capable of handling everything more or less, even if you have to reduce settings.

 

[renz496]

In real world they probably about equal. Also gingerbread has a point. Better wait for next gen rather than upgrading to current gen gpu if the upgrade are not really that fast compared to your current performance

 

[PatrioticPickle]

Yes your 7870 CF will perform better in synthetic benchmarks, but in actual games you will find that the 970 will beat it in games that don't support crossfire (obviously) which is most titles. And I reckon it would nearly beat if not come really close to beating out the CF setup in games that support crossfire anyways, because from what I have experienced with crossfire anyways it doesn't give that much of a performance increase in games as barely any have good support for it.

But as the others were saying, I'd wait until the next series of AMD and Nvidia GPUs come out. They are rumored to be announced next month.

 

[Mister-E]

Okay, skipping the 970, I'll wait... sigh....

 

[Gingerbread]

Don't mean to disappoint you, but better now, than when you buy the GTX 970, it proves not to be such a huge boost and then new GPUs come a month later

 

[Mister-E]

Totally true, except, buying, tweaking and optimising is more fun then waiting . I'm guessing most on the forum are familiar with that