XFX 7950 or EVGA 760?

[Letchy]

Hey everyone.

I am thinking of upgrading from my current card (XFX 7770) to one of the two in the title.

What I'm wondering is, which one is more bang for my buck?

EVGA 760
XFX 7950

I know the extra 1GB or VRAM on the 7950 will not be much of an increase over the 2GB on the 760 - but I'm sure later games will use more.

I'm leaning toward the 760 as it is relatively cheaper and newer than the 7950.

I am currently running the 7770 alongside the Intel G2020 (I'll be upgrading to the 3570 before the graphics card).

Thanks!

 

[4745454b]

In your case is get the 760. Here in the States the 7950 is the cheaper card. But with the 760 being cheaper for you with similar performance is the better buy.

 

[Letchy]

Okay, thank you. Just a quick note - would you say a 750w PSU would be fine for that card? (For future proof too?) I almost forgot I'd need a beefier source of power, as I have 450w at the moment.

 

[4745454b]

750W is overkill. I'm running my 7950 off a 450W. (Rosewill Capstone 80+ Gold.) Your 760 will use less power then mine. 450-500W will be fine, I'd only get the 750 if you are planing on SLI at a latter time. No matter what, get a quality unit.

 

[Letchy]

Oh okay. I was thinking more later on as I'll be getting an SSD, another HDD etc. I think I might go for the Corsair CX600 or something then.

 

[leeb2013]

I recently bought 2 x XFX 7950 from Amazon and hated them. The cooler is woefully inadequate, I saw 105C on the GPU and a probe on the back of the PCB showed 95C! The top card sucked in the hot air from the lower card, the air was at 55C! The coolers are simply incapable of removing the heat from the GPU for any reasonably demanding game or benchmark.

I quickly replaced them with 2x ICEq turbo which are superb. Not only do they run at 65C when o/c to 1050MHz, but they also exhaust all the heat out of the case, leaving the case air barely above room temperature. They are also very quiet.

Go with anything but the XFX cards. For some reason, the reviews aren't too bad, but when you dig on the forums, many people say they overheat and wouldn't touch them. If you get the boost version, you'll barely see the boost clock as they throttle due to the high temperature. I was shocked how quickly they heated up, almost like there was no thermal paste on either. Whereas the ICEq's take so long to heat up, even during benchmarking, that sometimes I have to check they are actually doing something.

 

[Sangeet Khatri]

I would suggest the 7950. The reasons being the following :

1. More VRAM, of course games are now becoming more and more VRAM hog because of the increased texture resolutions and all the high res mods available which look awesome. This is only possible with more VRAM.

2. As soon as the VRAM utilization goes above 2GB on the 760, it would start swapping the VRAM to the HDD or RAM, and that would result in frame drops which you don't want. Wheras there is no problem with the 7950 since it has the extra 1GB RAM.

3. It has high overclocking potential. You can overclock it to get the performance to match the 7970 which is really awesome in performance.

Hence I would suggest you to go with the 7950 instead of the 760. The 7950 is simply better.

 

[potpolima]

go for 7950...it costs 10$ more but it is worth the price

 

[Sangeet Khatri]

It is actually cheaper in the USA.