Guild Wars 2

Hi guys, cannot decide bout` those two, which of those gives better perfomance on GW2? actually that`s the only game im planning to play.
I wanna OC it to reach even better effects.

A little bird told me the 7950 overclocks a little better than the GTX 660Ti. However, you might get more stable frames if you grab the GTX 660Ti. Then, depending on the cooler, on average I hear the 7950 runs slightly louder but the GTX 660Ti runs a little warmer. Personally, I’m an Nvidia fan and would grab a GTX 660Ti, but with that said there is nothing wrong with a 7950 with proper drivers.

What CPU do u have?

It may well be that the answere to ur question be irrelivant depending on ur CPU.

Im gonna buy a i7 3770k, forgot to say sorry

The 7950 will smoke the 660ti if u plan using anti aliasing, suppersample and that kind of stuff (memory intensive). It is also a better overclocker, the hd7950 slightly OCed is as fast as the gtx680. The 660ti is fast but Nvidia cripled the memory bus speed and size, which makes the hd7950 a much better card overall for the money.
I wouldn’t even consider the 660ti for a high end rig, it is a bad SLI card due the memory issue. Now the 670 FTW is a very good card but a little expensive also. So i would either buy the hd7950 or put a 80$+ and get the gtx670 which is at least on par with the hd7950 in horsepower, SLI scalability and that kind of stuff.
I actually will buy 2 gtx 670 for a new rig (only waiting for Ivy-E, or haswell-E), it is a pretty good card.

7950 for sure.

IMO if i was considering a 660ti. the AMD equivalent would be a 7870XT/LE.

As above, think of the 670 as the 7950 equivalent.

I dunno how thigns r now but last i checked Nvida card still had ‘smoother’ FPS visualy over AMD, but AMD had high FPS. I think it was to do with microstuter or some such, cnt recall of hand.

Nvidia’s 700 series ‘should’ be coming out around July, though nothing officaly announced, might be an idea to hold on a bit..i know i am.

I think they will skip 700, they will only make 700 OEM and Mobile GPUs (rebranded 600 series) They will launch a 700-800$ Titan version tho which is very nice. Even if they launch the 700 series card they won’t be a lot faster than 600 since they will use the same manucafturing process (28mm), so waiting is a little pointless, even if they launch a better performing cards they will cost more money, specially since AMD won’t launch the 8000 series this year. My recomendation will be get the best ur money can buy atm. HD 7950/7970 GTX 670 300/400$ range is a sweet spot.

saw some pics of someone OCing the 7950 to 1200/1600, I guess what can be done with 2 of them…
They aint so expensive, 310$ (290 after Rebate) so it`s not impossible to Crossfire them

The hd 7950 is a very good crossfire option. For dual graphics setups u need 2 things basically, good memory size and high bandwith. The 7950 offers that sure the GPU is not as fast as the 660ti but the memory makes up for it, it is a very bad idea to go dual cards using med/low end cards cuz of that they lack of memory performance which becomes a bottleneck, remember even in SLI/crossfire both cards will be sharing the memory of only one of them. High end cards in the other hand don’t have this problem, they are made for it, the more/faster/wider the memory interface is, the better will be the multiple card performace.
Notice if u crossfire 2 hd7950 for example u are aiming at 4k resolutions or 3 monitor configurations, other than that is overkill.
Note: A hd7950 running at 1200/1600 will probably beat a gtx 680 in most games, which is sick for a 300$ card.

My GTX 680 windforce OC OC is @ 1241/1625 and could probably do more. The HD 7950 is a great card for sure and will probably be easier for most people to OC. I just got sick of the crappy ATI drivers with my old 6950 unlocked.

I don’t think drivers are such and issue at this point, the have been improving in that front since 12.11, they won’t be releasing a new gen card this year, instead they will work closer to game developers in order to improve the drivers support which is nice. Not a very huge fan of AMD drivers but have to say if they improve in that front will be very hard for Nvidia to keep their prices as high as right now, they have lost quite a lot of maket share during 2012 and they will only loose more if AMD drivers gets on par with Nvidia. Only reason to pay more for an Nvidia card that will perform similar or slower is the drivers right now, have to say that is enough reasson for me, but who knows.

I would very strongly recommend the Nvidia. I hate to say it, but this whole the way it’s meant to be played nonsense even made windows break for some ati cards. This problem isn’t ati’s but entirely because of lazy devs who won’t optimize for ati cards. But that still makes it your problem. Wish it wasn’t so because ati usually has far better price/quality.

I bought myself an nvidia because I just couldn’t keep up with ati-related bugs anymore. So many games that just won’t work.

Or what propaganda can do for an honest competitor.

I would never say SLI is overkill for single monitor setups.

There are a few, not many, but a few games out that even at 1080p with all the bells and whistles on like AA, will not stay above 60 FPS even with 2 SLI’d Titans. The most obviose game being Crysis 3 which minimum FPS drops can be in the 40’s still, though the average is above 60.

So overkill ..no. More than whats ‘normaly’ need, yes.