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Hey Guys,

These are the two cards:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121638
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121560

I wont spend anymore atm because im australian and alot higher in australia.

I will eventually be going with sli or crossfire depending on what card i end up getting.

I would be overclocking the card and i will be playing MW3 and battlefield 3 and Minecraft.

Which should I go with for better performance gaming and rendering videos?
 
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he isn't going to buy 2x670 to play on one 24 monitor.
can you tell me why GTX 580 beats HD5970 on metro at 2560x1600and even the game dont work at all when 4x AA enabled,
when HD5970 is faster than GTX 580 at 1920x1200 ?
here http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-6990-antilles-crossfire,2878-6.html
because 5970 is limited to 1GB frame buffer,so he need 4GB 670 for SLI.
its embarrassing for an expert to write a post like that
this post for urban legend
 
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Open box? Not a valid comparo
Click to expand...

Hell no! Brand spanking new, just big Canada Day sale event that mostly hit AMD cards, none of the new generation nVidia was on sale, and probably won't till Black Friday/Cyber Monday... wasn't going to wait that long.
 
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if you still dont understand this quote can help you
(But 2560x1600 or higher is where you’d expect to use a dual-GPU card after all, and the 5970 stumbles a bit at that resolution with AAA turned on. Once we swap over to 4x MSAA, each Cypress GPU’s 1 GB frame buffer is overwhelmed and we see performance crater. )
 
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Are you forgetting the 670 can OC like a beast as well edit better idea who has 7950 that's reading this thread please step up to the plate and somebody with a 670 step up as well we can settle this non sense once and for all that way edit maybe not once and for all but at least for today we can :lol:
 
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well what should we run, also my 7950 reaches it's limit around 1100 so mine isn't the best.
 
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Well because these types of debates get down right nasty think we half to take a vote as to what to even bench or somebody will cry foul maybe was a bad idea on my behalf
 
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Based on the cards you linked...I wouldn't get that version of the Sapphire card. Not sure if you have the version that I'm going to link but from what I've found, it runs a bit louder and hotter. I would look towards either an MSI board which sells for $319.99(check for your pricing) in the states or the Sapphire board below.

Sapphire
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102983

And to answer people's comments on GPGPU accelerated rendering...Some programs are being written in to include it during some renderings. 3dsMax is starting to include it blender is getting plug ins that will be allowing it. More and more companies are seeing the benefit of using that Process.

And as for pricing...$80.00 difference between a good 7950 and a 670, I'd say that its something to really consider.

7950's
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600286767%20600286739&IsNodeId=1&name=Radeon%20HD%207950

670's
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600315498%20600311820&IsNodeId=1&name=GeForce%20GTX%20670
 
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The ball is in your court. Apparently you haven't heard about all the new technologies that debuted alongside the Kepler GPU's. It would seem to be a prerequisite before giving advice on the subject.
 
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really bc last time I checked they were... forced ambient occlusion, fxaa, traa, physX...

does catalyst 12.6 (forget latest)? have these features? To the best of my knowledge it does not

no need to make a chart, just use your brain!
 
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Agreed it's to bad more don't think like that and realize they are both great cards in their own respect but nope just can't let it go somebody always hast to be best
 
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this is quote from gtx 590 review can prove why gtx 670 4GB better for SLI
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-590-dual-gf110-radeon-hd-6990,2898-15.html
(Without anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering applied, the GeForce GTX 590 scores a narrow victory in Metro 2033 at 5760x1080. However, my postulations about available graphics memory seem to be coming true here. Even more so than at 2560x1600, 1.5 GB per card is just not enough to facilitate this resolution at aggressive settings, resulting in a veritable slide show from Nvidia’s newest card. And it’s not that the 6990 is playable. But its 2 GB per GPU is able to cope much better.)
i can find more benchmarks to prove that ,but i don't have time.
 
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right, it is tricky cause alot of the benchmark programs out there aren't very good. some benchmarks somehow show the 580 doubling my OC 7950 scores.
 
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it seems I owe you guys an apology,

I'm a huge after effects user and the second I saw the word "rendering", I just couldn't think of anything else (where the GPGPU would actually make a difference), my bad guys

Other than that, I'm always on the green team (since the 5xxx series cards 😀)
 
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