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Originally Posted by Stublerone
You asked for the decision between 670 and 7970 in your topic line. It is for sure 7970!!!! In this game, you will have less problems and it is as fast as a 680. Latest driver improvements and other things made a lot of tech-pages in the internet let revise their decision about the fastest card on the market. With some new overclocked versions of the 7970, you can see that they are nearly equal, bit ati got back the lead with the fastest single card.
It is cheaper, has more vram (which is an essential thing -> for cod, you should have more than 2.5gb preferrably). And if you are a guy, who sticks with such games and not only with casual games, I would prefer the 7970.
As I have it too and I am a guy playing games like sims, pc exclusive games and some streaming engine games like arma, I love this card, although I am normally also on the nvidia side.
This time (for now) ati got a very good card and if I review technically, I come to the result, that the 680 is fast but lost features. It is simply a potentially good card, which was thrown on the market to hold the fanboys, but technically insufficiently featured. The 7970 has all up-to-date features, a high quality bill of material and a better performance for the money.
Thats my current opinion and I never thought, that I would say that one day: ati has the better card, especially for cod!  |
Im sorry, what?
First of all, i have 1280 Gb memory and i never run out on high settings in loD, heck iv managed just fine on 1024 Gb if i lower just a couple of settings from unlimited to high . Standard memory on any GTX 670 is 2 Gb.
Second: Gtx 670/680 is gaming cards, not a jack of all trades. The technical features you speak of is irrelevant and never ever used by 95% of the costumers. ( mining etc.)
Third: The
only reason Ati can claim the throne (hmmm) is because the launched a card thats oc`ed to the hilt straight from the factory, not the partners like Gigabyte, Asus etc, but from ATI themselves, witch is unheard of and only shows that.....well, i wont go into that.
Fourth: Gtx 670 is as fast or (most of the times) faster than the 7970, even in Battlefield on Ultra, with its insufficient memory mind you. (and im not even talking about the 680 here) if you dont count the "all new" Gigahertz version from Ati, witch in reality, is a oc`d stock 7970 with differant bios, as i already mentioned.
Fifth: Gtx is cooler, less noisy, and draws less power than the 7970 and essentially costs the same (10 euros here and there)
I dont mind you recomending what you see as a good card but keep to the facts please, its the OP money and he is the one about to spend alot of it. I always use what i like and owned Ati cards to, but the fact of the matter is that Ati was left behind this time around. (7*** series vs 6** series).
Btw, what problems with NVidia in CloD do you speak of? As far as i know Ati owners is the ones who have had problems with CloD since its release.
the OP now got 2 different opinions, lets not take it further and let him find out what's true and what's not by googling.
P.S NedLynch, accidentally deleted my first post, dhu.