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There should be a caveat added to your ratings. The driverstack and game optimizations mean that your hierarchy is occasionally skewed. Take a look at Anand's GPU Bench, the 660 Ti meets or exceeds the 7950 in games like Battlefield 3 and Portal 2. Yet Tom's rates the 660 Ti as being comparable to the 7870. If you play these games, nVidia is actually more performance for the money.
 
Well I do think the HD 7790 should be one tier higher in the chart. According to the article "Radeon HD 7790: A Good Value At $150", the 7790 scored 12% higher than the GTX 650 TI and it got stuck in the same tier. I could understand if the average was 5% or less, but 12% is a pretty strong lead, especially since there are literally more Overclocked versions of the card on the market than actual reference design versions for only a few bucks more. Also even though the aim of Radeon was to make the card exactly between the 7850 and 7770, it seems closer in performance and specs to the 7850 than it is to the 7770. But that's just my opinion.
 
So ive been waiting since February for a 670 FTW, or 680 significant deal or price drop..
Does anyone see the new cards coming out soon dropping these prices a bit?
 
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How accelerated GPU PhysX runs on hardware is different when running systems with either Nvidia or AMD GPUs. With Nvidia you can run PhysX on the GPU or CPU. On AMD you can only run PhysX on the CPU. There is no way to run PhysX on a AMD GPU.
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It would be nice to do a Tom's Hardware test latest graphics cards from AMD and nVidia with games that use PhysX.
As PhysX adds efffets graphics and nVidia PhysX use hardware versus software for AMD, it is likely that nVidia cards gain in all tests (for AMD vs nVidia cards similar).
So if you play games that use PhysX better buy nVivia cards?
If you please do not say that the nVidia PhysX is not used by the game because it is completely false. Many games (2013) use it now and then AMD cards are really disabled.
 
I think it is premature to suggest any Crossfire configuration until AMD has fixed the issues revealed by FCAT testing, and those fixes have been verified by multiple sources.
Also, I still don't see any excuse to buy a card for gaming that has DDR3 (e.g. the HD6670), when there are only slightly more expensive GDDR5 versions available.
 
the 660ti should be on the same tier as the 7950 and 7870xt, as it performs nearly the same in benchmarks, trading blows depending on game. I'm confused about your tier rating system which often seems to make no sense. I mean, I know you have to draw a line somewhere, but your often drawing it in a different place for NVidia/amd gpu's and intel/amd for cpu's.
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2012-vga-gpgpu/benchmarks,135.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2012-vga-gpgpu/19-Tom-s-Hardware-Index-C-Extreme,2977.html
both your own index rating systems show pretty much the same thing. This is a little misleading for consumers.
 
Something does not make sense to me on the hierarchy chart. The GTX 295 is higher than the 560TI? My friend has the GTX295 pared with an i7-920 and I have the 560TI pared with an i5-2500k and his, in our experience, does not even compare to my 560TI. Can someone direct me to a comparison those two cards?
 
I'd like to see a special recommendation for the card that allows for "nice looking" quality settings at 1920*1080(1200). I may be willing to fork out $X, but if a cheaper card does what I need, why would I? Obviously I look at tests, but the quality settings are usually adjusted to the range and don't tell me in all cases whether a card could handle better or not, and nowadays, my time is limited (why else would I look at the monthly charts first? :) ). You used to say "Excellent performance at...", which would be a good step in that direction.
 


Two good 460s are just a bit slower than a stock 670, RAM issues not withstanding. Do you have
a 460? Are you thinking about a 2nd? What core clock is your card?

I've done a lot of 460 tests, if I can help with info, let me know.

Ian.

 


Yes Ian, I have 2 in SLI - right now they OC at 808 core clock, 1955 mem clock, 1v
EVGA SuperClocked 01G-P3-1372-TR / PNY SuperCLocked VCGGTX4601XPB-OC
I'd appreciate your help in getting the most out of them - I'm currently looking into getting an aftermarket heatsink for my top card - check here
 


It is a bit strange, but an HD7950 can not be as small as a GTX670. So you can use the Nvidia in a smaller form factor. But still, does not make to much sense.
 
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