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Originally Posted by Arizonian 
To each his own depending on what your using the GPU card for. I don't fold so the compute side means absolutely zero in my decision making. 3D Vision there's only one real choice. Period.
As for in games they are very comparable btw. No hands down winner. I see 7970 Lightnings with voltage bumps in the 7970 club not getting over 1225 MHz core. No driver excuses after 4 months of release.
My 680 gets 1228 MHz even without voltage locks. Many others get past that anywhere in between and up to 1300 MHz core click as well again no voltage bumps required. So back to them being comparable in gaming.
A lot of gaming features over AMD except for zero core. However zero core seems to be an issue working properly and Nvidia dosent have voltage drop problems as it all dynamic up to 1.175v.
To each his own depending on what your using the GPU card for. I don't fold so the compute side means absolutely zero in my decision making. 3D Vision there's only one real choice. Period.
As for in games they are very comparable btw. No hands down winner. I see 7970 Lightnings with voltage bumps in the 7970 club not getting over 1225 MHz core. No driver excuses after 4 months of release.
My 680 gets 1228 MHz even without voltage locks. Many others get past that anywhere in between and up to 1300 MHz core click as well again no voltage bumps required. So back to them being comparable in gaming.
A lot of gaming features over AMD except for zero core. However zero core seems to be an issue working properly and Nvidia dosent have voltage drop problems as it all dynamic up to 1.175v.
Again, hwbot has the average OC of the 680 as ~1180 MHz core and the average OC of the 7970 as ~1200MHz core. Saying that there are many exceptional 680s that will do 1300 MHz is no different than saying that there are many exceptional 7970s that do 1300 MHz. Obviously the 7970 takes more voltage to get there, but that's not super meaningful since A) the 680 is the more power efficient card to begin with, so nothing really changes between the two cards just because the 7970 takes extra voltage & B) the 680 is voltage locked anyways.
If the 680 got close to 1300 MHz as an average OC, then 680 OC would be better than 7970 OC on average. However, it doesn't.
http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/radeon_hd_7970
http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/geforce_gtx_680/
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