The GeForce GTX 770 Review: Calling In A Hit On Radeon HD 7970?

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Nice review as usual guys. I really like my GTX 780 and this one, GTX 770 will make AMD lower the prices for their 7970s which is good for customers. I just wish AMD could somehow improve their runt frames for CF so people who have that kind of setup can enjoy actual frames.
 


:pfff:

Cant you figure that out? The GTX770 can barely be OCd... An HD7970 has more room to OC, so that means... My rough guess... Up to 10%
 


VERY exatured... I have CF and I can not feel them. Only apparent on benches in my opinion..
 
I currently have a 660ti. If this thing is going to be $400, would it be better for me to buy another 660ti and SLI, or just buy this one?
 


you didn't read the article.

the 770 really can't be overclocked more then 5% or so, as it's basically a factory overclocked 680, its really pushing the boundaries of what the 104 gpu can do... so an overclocked 7970 GE will probably match it blow for blow, with almost no difference between them (as there is some more overclocking room still in the GE, particularly the ones with their voltage unlocked)
 
I would honestly like to know how you guys calculate practical fps. I recently crossfired a 7950 and a 7970, it definitely looked better than what I'm seeing posted. I honestly didn't even get much micro stuttering.
 


I am already aware that the HD 7970 will perform better than the GTX 770 once both are overclocked but having a singular source providing this insight is nice instead of having to gather multiple charts to illustrate this point to others.


I did read the article as well as other articles. The 770 is capable of roughly a 10% boost as demonstrated by anandtech and others. I am aware that the HD 7970 overclocks much better than the GTX 770 and that is why a direct comparison between the two overclocked cards would be nice to have.
 


SO you expect the reviewer to do 6 times the work???
 
I can pick up a 7970 Ghz Edition for 400, the cheapest 770 is 405 right now. Add in that game bundle for overkill and there isn't even competition. However, I like the 770's thermal solution, lower noise and heat overall as well. Regardless, there are no losers at this price point right now.
 

If it means it will take one sixth as much effort to explain things to new people in the forums, I'm all for it. 😀
 


Yes, I expect more when someone places a "Smart Buy"stamp on a product that is basically equivalent to current offerings and is the same price. Anyone with half a brain can buy a regular 7970 and overclock it to perform better than an GHz edition available on the market and it would cost less than $400 and would actually include games whereas the GTX 770 does not.

Painting a biased picture in this review is just going to lead to more fanboisim on the forums that is going to require even more effort to overcome.
 
[citation][nom]CarolKarine[/nom]the fact that every single site is comparing nvidia's next-gen stuff with AMD's current gen stuff kinda sickens me. don't start throwing around "Nvidia's got this gen in the bag" till we see what AMD comes up with. they've had what, 1 1/2, 2 years? I'm hoping for GCN 2 and a die shrink on a new architecture.[/citation]


[citation][nom]CarolKarine[/nom]I guess I should have clarified. I'm sick of people comparing gk110 and tahiti.[/citation]

It sicken me that you think like this...

Do you want reviewers to wait till AMD launches there new stuff? Well, It's not happening.

People want to know how a new piece hardware perform to others that is currently on the market NOW. Not waiting of a review of a new card that just launched 3 or more months down the line to compare another card from another company that is equal in generation.

It's just like when AMD launched the HD 5000 series in Sept. 2009. That was AMD next gen cards and nvidia only had current gen 200 series out.

Nvidia next gen cards (the 400 series) didn't come around till april 2010 (was delayed from the original date of Nov. 2009). That's a 7 month wait for review sites to compare two Next gen cards from each company.

Thus review sites compared AMD "Next-gen cards" to Nvidia "Current-gen cards" when AMD launched there HD 5000 cards.

So are you sicken this already happened in before but in reverse? If so then I'd suggest you leave review sites for hardware altogether as this has happen every time before now from both sides.
 


Kinda depends on what you're going for. The biggest drawback of the 660 is the limited memory bandwidth, which gets hammered as you crank the resolution and AA. This article showed some of that.

Between those two options, I'd go with the 770. It won't run your games quite so fast, but won't eat up near the power SLI 660s do.
 
Wait a minute. If 2x GTX770 bring superior performance than GTX690 for $200 less, shouldn't this mean that we might see price drop for GTX690? Nvidia should pricing it at $750 or something to make it attractive.
 
[citation][nom]Catalina588[/nom]Folding@Home Big-Time Discrepancy in reviewsCan anyone explain the material differences between this review's Compute Results for Folding@Home and the same FAHbench run at AnandTech? http://www.anandtech.com/show/6994 [...] -review/15Since FAHbench is self-contained -- load and go -- it's hard to figure how the results could be so different.[/citation]
If I had to guess they're probably using different versions of the bench. Tom's is using 1.1.2, which is an older version. Anandtech doesn't specify which version they're using, but based on their description of "recent core improvements" I suspect they're using the latest version, 1.2.0.
 
AMD had a Q4 2012 loss of nearly half a billion dollars, NVIDIA Revenue for fiscal 2012 overall was $4 billion up by 12.8%. I don't think Nvidia is that worried about what AMD does. Just like Intel isn't worried what AMD does. In fact some of my customers have reduced the AMD buying and switched to Nvidia and Intel because they are worried how much longer AMD will be around. Nvidia is out selling AMD more then 4 to 1 in the highend card market. I'm sold out of Titans and have double digits on backorder right now, I have yet to sell a 7990. Nvida owns the lower-end business market which as the highest reorder frequency. You got to hope AMD can fix things or when they die we'll all be paying more for GPUs & CPUs.
 
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