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Originally Posted by
Arizonian 
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Originally Posted by
jtom320
YOu don't have to worry about this being a great overclocker. Nvidia is using voltage locked cards now remember? 7950 will no doubt be slower at stock but just like the 7970/680 race will probabally pull ahead in the aggregate once OCd.
Which review did you get the assumption about the over clocking pull ahead? Because
single 680's beat single 7970's when over clocked.
It's the dual GPU's where Nvidia's scaling sacrifice a performance hit to have better video quality.
Nvidia has always addressed micro stutter better than AMD therefor in turn less scaling performance and crossfire 7970's pulls ahead.
1. In the thread you linked there are many 7970s ahead of 680s in 3dmark. Only one persons 680s pull out ahead.
2. I could just as easily pull up a Heaven results thread with 7970s ahead of 680s by about the same amount the 680s are ahead of the 7970s in 3dmark.
Which is the point. Game to game synthetic to synthetic each card wins some and loses some. 7970 takes crysis, metro, avp, witcher 2 etc while the 680 takes bf3, skyrim, dirt 3 etc. Overall with a max OC I'd give the nod to the 7970 but you are certainly entitled to your opinion. For me the card that does better at high resolutions and has a higher overclocking threshold is more impressive however. If your only woried about 1080p which you are certainly entitled to be I could see how you wo uld like the 680.
And as far as scaling goes AMD just has the leg up right now. I'm sensitive to Microstutter and I can't notice it on either set of cards if they're running over 60 which if your running two high end cards is not too much of a problem. Microstutter results at low framerates don't really concern me because I would never had a weak dual GPU setup.
