What’s “OG” and “TG” In DirectCU II Cards?,Are Those New Versions Of Overclocked Cards?

what is backplate need for?

It’s for dual-sided memory chips, better heat dissipation.

you missed MSI Hawx model of GTX 660 Ti …

For me Gigabyte 660 Ti, i like their bios update method and the cooler is quiet, and should be lower priced than ASUS.
2nd Option is Msi PE, their pcb components are very good also.

You said you’re buying GTX 670. Keep it that way.

YEs , but MSI , ASUS or GIgabyte ? or no difference?

thanks. Giga wf3x can be overlocked too isnt it? So i will get GIGA 3x its price is good.

1080p, but as shown at least in the Tweak Town review, for any kind of decent lookign game nowadays, 2Gb on a 192 bit bus barely cuts it. As seen with AvP specifically, the card could barely handle 4x MSAA. just narrowly being abel to keep a steady 42 FPS. That just doesn’t seem like a good value. Granted I prefer to use FXAA considering I don’t notice any blurring that people speak of except for some specific cases, I would still want a $300 card to be able to handle traditional AA in games like Arkham City or BF3. Which it doesn’t look like this card is able to do with only 2 Gb. If however 3 Gb versions of the card fixes that problem for the most part, and does it for only $350, then I’ll have a serious decision to make between that or a 670.

Sorry, a typo. It’s a 2GB card. There are only Galaxy and Inno3D cards with this memory size. But others will likely release such cards too.

that is nice. i will buy in few days :) my current vga is gt430 cant wait for performance difference :D

What about approximate prices?

Wow you surely had alot of work here, keep up i love the website.
Also in your opinion HD7950 3GB or GTX 660Ti 2GB?

If your budget is limited to $300 then go with GTX 660 Ti.
But if you own a high-resolution monitor, then wait for HD 7950 to get cheaper.

I would buy HD 7950, GTX 660 Ti performs like 1.5GB card (which was confirmed in few reviews).

:D i still havent buy :D now which is recommend ? for 1080p :) i have got 400 dollar budget :)

I can get the old 810 mhz sapphire HD7950 for around 300 euro here where i live in a special promo which is about the price of the 660 ti, I also have a 1080p monitor.
Is it worth it over the 660ti? Thanks.

Yes, this is a bargain for €300. Take it :)

i mean all popular games :)

How much is the MSI Twin Frozr 3 7950? That’s the best overclocking 7950 on the market. If you can find that card, 1100-1200mhz is within your reach at 1.1-1.175V (the upper voltage is actually a stock voltage for a 7970). That’ll be 30-40% faster than a 660Ti. The Sapphire Dual-X should also be a good overclocker.

I love these types of charts. They are SO useful to quickly compare cards. Prices can be found by each person in their respective countries. However, being able to see how 5 Asus 660Tis differ is awesome! Your site is $$ in the bank. I hope you are getting WAY WAY more traffic than 2 months ago.

MSI Power Edition is great for overclocking.
Asus Direct CUII is the quietest.
Gigabyte Windforce 3x is the best balance of the 2 above at the cheapest price.

~ €315
http://geizhals.de/797232

Yes, quite easy to judge, thanks to the link you posted from 3Dcenter, we have a very good overview of the performance. It’s really worth to pay extra €15 for a better card and I’m pretty sure that HD 7950 will receive another price drop. There is a clear winner here.

GTX 660 Ti only wins on 1920×1080 resolution with 4xAA. All other benches are in favour of HD 7950.

I do not understand why everyone says that 660ti gtx is faster and much better than amd 7950. I saw youtube coments that said it was better was even better than 7970. Many people are blind.

I think there’s nothing new there, we wouldn’t already know.
€349 Price for 7950B is a joke, everyone can overclock the card and spare 50 EUR….

It’s marketing. Look how AMD announces their card and how NVIDIA does. NVIDIA puts many videos, marketing materials on their website, while AMD is quite boring with their press releases only.

Yeah both cards win in different games. But 7950 wins with higher resolution. For my readers where most use 1920x1080p GTX 660 Ti is a better solution.

I will give you the stats of this website, stats about resolution people use.
1. 1920×1080 31,52%
2. 1366×768 9,09%
3. 1280×1024 8,58%
4. 1680×1050 8,40%
5. 1920×1200 5,83%
6. 1440×900 5,44%
7. 1280×800 4,20%
8. 1600×900 3,54%
9. 1024×768 3,51%
10. 320×480 2,48%
11. 768×1024 1,54%
12. 1360×768 1,30%
13. 1280×720 1,05%
14. 2560×1440 0,95%
15. 1600×1200 0,82%
16. 2560×1600 0,55%
…
25. 5760×1080 0,19%

So the Radeon HD 7950 is better solution for only 2% (8% if we count 19×12) of my readers :)

Yes you can.
EVGA Precision X for instance.

320×480 are mobile phone users right?
In this moment i use 1440×900 with my Nvidia G210 ;)
I´m expecting some price drops on AMD side but is time Nvidia make some cuts too.

Well keep in mind that 7950 has real 3GB of VRAM and it has 30-40% overclocking headroom and it can actually handle 8x MSAA even at 1080P. Then you have some new games coming out that use DirectCompute shaders for lighting and contact hardening shadows such as Dirt Showdown, Sniper Elite V2, Sleeping Dogs. In those games, AMD will have a large advantage over the 660Ti. Actually if we consider overclocking, 7950 is more of a competitor to the 670, not 660Ti.

LOL, i´m not on my PC, main gaming rig remains off for 3 months due no graphics card, it has 1920×1080 resolution monitor.
You think if i use this 1440×900 will buy a 300 euro card :)
1080p with AA was the main cause to replace my 560Ti, in Dirt 3 for example at max settings uses peak 989MB Vram, so my 560Ti was at limit.
But 660 Ti is expensive 340 EUR 915MHz Asus DC II.
7950 Cost about 350 EUR 880MHz MSI TF3.

Portugal=crisis :(
and you?

I have already saw this card, and 7870 VTX3D, but don´t know about warranty and support of this brand.
My 560 TI Top was purchased here in Pixmania :)
But i have to pay more 10.99EUR for transport…
German store? I don´t know what kind of Tax i have to pay.

Yes we have free shipping but converting GBP to EUR makes cards expensive.
I haven´t played Max payne 3, Dirt showdown, Sniper Elite v2… stupid G210 :)
Maybe is better wait till end of month and see if AMD drop prices.
Thanks for help anyway.

@BestJinjo:disqus solid copy man

completely agree with 7970 GHz world’s fastest GPU

but AMD is too much late to fix it , bz Frostbyte 2 powered games on NVIDIA is todays best dealing news in many place

I saw GTX 660ti in INDIA at 455 $ including bloody taxes
just 7 days to go

Thanks, now that’s my new wallpaper

Have you thought about HD7970 MSI Twin Frozr 3? It’s just £11 more than the MSI GTX660Ti Power Edition
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-msi-gtx-660-ti-power-edition-oc-28nm-6008mhz-gddr5-gpu-1019mhz-boost-1097mhz-cores-1344-2x-dl-dv

vs.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/3gb-msi-radeon-hd-7950-5000mhz-gddr5-28nm-gpu-880mhz-1792-cores-dual-link-dvi-i-hdmi-2x-mini-display

£269.75

This 7950 hits 1100-1150mhz , with less than 1.175V, possibly 1200mhz. Performance > GTX680/HD7970 Ghz Edition at those speeds!! This is the highest binned 7950 chip I am aware of. Everyone I’ve seen gets these cards with 80%+ ASIC which is very high for a 7950 chip. Mad overclockers on HD7970 PCB with 6+8 pin power connector.

It’ll be super fast in Sniper Elite V2 and Dirt Showdown:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/geforce-gtx-660-ti_10.html#sect3

£269.7=343 EUR, thats way too expensive for me, usually i don´t pay more than 250 EUR for a card, and this time i increase max value to 300 EUR, anything above is out of option.
Even GTX 660 Ti for 325 is too much, thinking to keep the card for 2 years.
Dirt 3 is better in Nvidia Dirt Showdown is better an AMD.
Thanks anyway for tip.

Among those the 670 AMP sounds like the best deal. That card isn’t the quietest 670 though. Look at Asus DirectCUII 670 or Gigabyte Windforce 670.

Also, I asked you about the 7950 vs. 660Ti, not about 7970 :)

7950 is basically an underclocked 7970 with a bit less shaders and textures. Otherwise, it’s more or less the same card as the 7970. This is why it can be a great value if you can find it for cheap and don’t mind overclocking it.