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Here are just my thoughts on these two very different setup. This all came from my experiences and I am no expert. This is just informative for people who may or may not be choosing to buy video cards.
There are a lot of hype and anger between both sides. I originally had a gtx 670 FTW SLI setup and i LOVED it. I bought them for $400 each (before tax). installation, evga precision x, and nvidia drivers were all amazing. I would have to say the temps on this setup were amazing. People are 100% correct to say that this fan style is better for SLI. I rarely went over 60c when i'm gaming, and I don't think I ever saw numbers go higher than 68c when I am benchmarking or stress testing.
Here is my Unigine 3.0 score with clocks at 1200+/1750.
As you can tell they are not too shabby. it was actually a very good setup. However I did notice stuttering and some performance drops when I gamed at 2560x1440. I believe it was because of the vram limitation at the time. Skyrim, Hitman Absolution, and Battlefield were a few that got affected.
At the time I decided to downgrade because I needed money and bought myself an MSI 7950.Now that I am working again, I bought a 2nd one just for kicks and started messing around with it. I paid $300 for them (before tax). They are NOT kidding when they said drivers were a nightmare. For 2 days I couldn't figure out why my computer wouldn't recognize the video cards. Everytime i tried to install the drivers it just said "device not found". I for sure cleaned up all my drivers from nvidia and it wasn't until i found THIS THREAD: http://www.overclock.net/t/988215/how-to-properly-uninstall-ati-amd-software-drivers-for-graphics-cards that the drivers finally installed (which didn't make sense cause I was trying TO install the amd drivers...lol). It was a mess. But after the drivers were installed I don't think I have come across any problems yet. The temps are a little higher as expected (because of how the coolers are) but its not as bad as I was lead to believe.
Anyway, I did a mild OC and got it to 1100/1350. Here is the Unigine 3.0 score for that:
I'm no expert, and i don't know what clocks of AMD translates to Nvidia, but all I know is I didn't really push either that hard and I got these scores. It was impressive to me that it scored this well. I have been playing games as well and it has been pretty consistent. Don't ask me to compare these cards in 1080p. I wouldn't know. But so far, for 1440p, price vs performance its definitely the 7950. I'm actually glad that I ended up switching... although I hope I don't ever run into more driver problems.
If you guys have any questions or concerns, Or need to me try/check something let me know.
p.s. I lost my screenshot of the stock gtx 670 SLI unigine run
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damn that would've been a good comparison.
There are a lot of hype and anger between both sides. I originally had a gtx 670 FTW SLI setup and i LOVED it. I bought them for $400 each (before tax). installation, evga precision x, and nvidia drivers were all amazing. I would have to say the temps on this setup were amazing. People are 100% correct to say that this fan style is better for SLI. I rarely went over 60c when i'm gaming, and I don't think I ever saw numbers go higher than 68c when I am benchmarking or stress testing.
Here is my Unigine 3.0 score with clocks at 1200+/1750.
As you can tell they are not too shabby. it was actually a very good setup. However I did notice stuttering and some performance drops when I gamed at 2560x1440. I believe it was because of the vram limitation at the time. Skyrim, Hitman Absolution, and Battlefield were a few that got affected.
At the time I decided to downgrade because I needed money and bought myself an MSI 7950.Now that I am working again, I bought a 2nd one just for kicks and started messing around with it. I paid $300 for them (before tax). They are NOT kidding when they said drivers were a nightmare. For 2 days I couldn't figure out why my computer wouldn't recognize the video cards. Everytime i tried to install the drivers it just said "device not found". I for sure cleaned up all my drivers from nvidia and it wasn't until i found THIS THREAD: http://www.overclock.net/t/988215/how-to-properly-uninstall-ati-amd-software-drivers-for-graphics-cards that the drivers finally installed (which didn't make sense cause I was trying TO install the amd drivers...lol). It was a mess. But after the drivers were installed I don't think I have come across any problems yet. The temps are a little higher as expected (because of how the coolers are) but its not as bad as I was lead to believe.
Anyway, I did a mild OC and got it to 1100/1350. Here is the Unigine 3.0 score for that:
I'm no expert, and i don't know what clocks of AMD translates to Nvidia, but all I know is I didn't really push either that hard and I got these scores. It was impressive to me that it scored this well. I have been playing games as well and it has been pretty consistent. Don't ask me to compare these cards in 1080p. I wouldn't know. But so far, for 1440p, price vs performance its definitely the 7950. I'm actually glad that I ended up switching... although I hope I don't ever run into more driver problems.
If you guys have any questions or concerns, Or need to me try/check something let me know.
p.s. I lost my screenshot of the stock gtx 670 SLI unigine run
