Hello, so I am building a new PC and I see that the price of the GTX 760 4 GB model, and the GTX 670 2 GB model are pretty similar, and I am wondering, which would be better to buy? If it matters I am running 2 1080p monitors
Owner of a GTX760 here, would probably reccomend over the 670
though honestly for the price of a 4GB 760 you would probably be far better off with an eBay HD7970
I would Recommend a HD 7950 as you can overclock it and its easy to setup eyefinity if you want to do that with you 2 monitors. You also get free games and the 7950 is probably gonna get even cheaper so that you could add a second HD 7950.
Yeah but nuuuugh AMD drivers.
Literally no one wants to have to use those.
GTX 760
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[QUOTE=nutcake;41828915]Yeah but nuuuugh AMD drivers.
Literally no one wants to have to use those.[/QUOTE]
This was true in the days of XP and Vista but problems are few and far between today and probably has damn near the same incidence as problems with nVidia cards.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;41834809]This was true in the days of XP and Vista but problems are few and far between today and probably has damn near the same incidence as problems with nVidia cards.[/QUOTE]
How about their horrible inconsistencies with frame times making gameplay more stuttery than Nvidia counterparts at the same average framerate. That was fixed up...maybe a few months ago? AMD's engineers never caught it until review sites did, superb quality control right there. So are you still gonna tell me it was only true in the XP and Vista days? I know John Carmack would definitely disagree with you, as would developers posting on twitter about how they're working with AMD to get satisfactory driver performance AFTER the game is released. I could also throw up anecdotes about Crysis 2, Metro 2033 and last light, and stalker, but that's not really necessary and not really evidence anyway, although it doesn't paint a good picture either way.
[QUOTE=Kaabii;41835073]How about their horrible inconsistencies with frame times making gameplay more stuttery than Nvidia counterparts at the same average framerate. That was fixed up...maybe a few months ago? AMD's engineers never caught it until review sites did, superb quality control right there. So are you still gonna tell me it was only true in the XP and Vista days? I know John Carmack would definitely disagree with you, as would developers posting on twitter about how they're working with AMD to get satisfactory driver performance AFTER the game is released. I could also throw up anecdotes about Crysis 2, Metro 2033 and last light, and stalker, but that's not really necessary and not really evidence anyway, although it doesn't paint a good picture either way.[/QUOTE]
How about something average people actually notice or care about...?
[QUOTE=Protocol7;41835088]How about something average people actually notice or care about...?[/QUOTE]
I dunno. If you Google AMD microstutter I think you'll see people do notice that sort of thing. It's sort of insanely annoying to have a 60fps game feel stuttery and jerky.
I have only ever heard about microstutter with SLI and Crossfire setups.
I've seen complaints about stutter on AMD single and multi card setups for years now. There was already in depth testing on it [url=http://techreport.com/review/21516/inside-the-second-a-new-look-at-game-benchmarking]two years ago[/url], and complaints predating that are why it was being investigated to begin with.
Let's Google AMD microstutter...
[URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-Radeon-CrossFire-Drivers-Driver,23214.html"]AMD Working on Drivers to Fix Micro-Stutter in CrossFire[/URL]
[URL="http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/amd_anti_micro_stutter_crtossfire_driver_delayed_to_late_july.html"]AMD anti Micro-stutter Crossfire Driver delayed to late July[/URL]
[URL="http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28515209-AMD-CrossfireX-Stutter-Fix-Drivers-Due-Out-Today-July-31st"]AMD CrossfireX Stutter Fix Drivers Due Out Today July 31st [/URL]
[URL="http://www.overclockers.com/micro-stutter-the-dark-secret-of-sli-and-crossfire/"]Micro Stutter: The dark secret of SLI and Crossfire | Overclockers[/URL]
[URL="http://techreport.com/news/21625/multi-gpu-micro-stuttering-captured-on-video"]Multi-GPU micro-stuttering captured on video - The Tech Report[/URL]
[URL="http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2227169"]7970 x2 Crossfire Microstutter unbrearable[/URL]
Anything mentioning frame latency on single-GPU solutions refers pretty much exclusively to the 79XX series of cards.
Considering the HD 7000 series has been around since the time of Scott Wasson's report, it's not really surprising most references to it that you'll find on the first page of Google regarding single GPU setups talk about that series of graphics cards.
By the time AMD officially acknowledged it [url=http://www.anandtech.com/show/6857/amd-stuttering-issues-driver-roadmap-fraps]a year and a half later[/url] anything that wasn't an HD 7000 series card wasn't very relevant to current discussion. I could go back to older Google results, but since AMD has since fixed this particular issue within the past few months it's not something really worth discussing since now single GPU setups from both vendors and SLI run fine, with only CFX still being problematic. AMD has continually improved their drivers, but it's just incorrect to say the bulk of their issues are from long ago in the days of XP and Vista, they're much more recent than that. Even their openGL problems still existed during the time when Windows 7 was the latest version of Windows, which was some time ago since now we have Windows 8, but it's not as long ago as Vista.
ati cards are better, I've literally been using dual 7870's with zero microstuttering issues and I sell them every day to customers in single and dual setups and never have them come back complaining.
My experience with AMD: Driver crashes - random freezes, some games not working. Driver not wanting to have proper resolution. Windows 8 'Something is wrong with this driver' popups - just to mention a few.
AMD CPU's: Cheap ass shit BSOD'ing
GTX 670 is better
it is like GT740 , and GT650
GT 650 still better then the GT 740
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