blazorthon
Glorious
[citation][nom]sarinaide[/nom]Well I will still give the overall to Nvidia, but the AMD card advanced GPU technology forward a lot, the 7970 practically oblitrated the prior standing champion card (580) across the board, the issue was pricing, the GTX 580 was around $530 at the time, AMD perhaps overpriced the HD7970. With Kepler's release, the GTX 680 has the advantage on superior core and memory speed which is the reason for the better FPS, but I will wait on the HD RADEON GHZ edition cards, that way we can see just how good the GTX 680 is when Clock for Clock its on a even par.Processor wise, modular design and GPU/CPU integration is revolutionary, its just not perfected. I am willing to bide my time, the AMD architecture suits my future needs more than power efficiency.[/citation]
The 7950 has way more memory bandwidth than the 680 does, let alone the 7970 and in fact, this is how the 7900 cards beat the GK104 cards in some games, strictly because of GK104's memory bandwidth bottle-neck. The Kepler cards only have an advantage in GPU performance and performance per watt and even then, it's not a big advantage.
The 7950 has way more memory bandwidth than the 680 does, let alone the 7970 and in fact, this is how the 7900 cards beat the GK104 cards in some games, strictly because of GK104's memory bandwidth bottle-neck. The Kepler cards only have an advantage in GPU performance and performance per watt and even then, it's not a big advantage.