Cut the prices oF hd 7700 series and hd 7850 losers…

“Touching the performance” of HD7850, while losing by 28% in games? That’s like saying HD7950 is touching the performance of GTX680 or GTX660Ti is touching the performance of HD7970 Ghz edition using your fanboy math.

You said “HD7700 series your ass is finally kicked?” HD7750/7770 series had no real (28nm) competition from NV since mid-February 2012. Wow, finally in mid-October, NV decided to show up but there is a small detail you missed. A $119 HD7770 does not compete with a GTX650Ti, rumored at $149, when HD7850 is $159 now. Thanks for the laughs. You would do well during the 2nd US presidential debate.

Is it great for consumers that GTX650 Ti is offering more choice? Yes, but your statements are too fanboish about anything NV does to take seriously.

Not sure how companies reducing prices is them being losers since as a consumer I love it when companies reduce prices. I guess NV fanboys love paying high prices and don’t want NV to drop prices to offer them more performance for their dollar spent. Noted. I am glad many other NV owners on this site disagree with you. You should pass this on to JHH so next round he can withhold the real GTX780 and sell you a mid-range GTX760Ti as a re-badged GTX780 for $499. I heard you’ll love it since you hate it when NV drops prices as it means they would also losers in your eyes.

Well I didn’t delete anything, I have no idea why your comment wasn’t posted or was removed. Didn’t come from this mod :D

idk know when i comment here and i check after 15mins its says no comments so i thought it was deleted that why i type again

“Getting 2 GB GT 640 would be smarter idea than paying for 7850 1 GB,” ?????? I am seriously hoping thats a typo. Everyone knows that GT 640 gets blown out of the water by HD 7750.

GTX 650 2 gb won’t mean anything, unless the game can use that much and most games don’t. Even then, the perfomance gap is probably too large for GTX 650 Ti to catch up.

so get a 7770 or older gen card?

Not, it’s not a typo. You save money, and you know you’d be able to play certain games at low settings. With 7850 you are in risk that 1.5 years later, you would hit that 1 GB limit. Well, 7850 might be massively faster than GT 640, but the speed becomes irrelevant when the player would be forced to use “low/medium” textures to be able to play the game at all. Basically an user would save 20 bucks for 1 GB card, but it would come back and bite him two years later.

Strangely 2GB DDR5 7770 are next to nonexistent, the same can be said about 7750. 2GB DD3 AMD cards are on the market, however difference in speed would be the same as between GT 640 and GTX 650, which means more reliable drivers, better high res videos, CUDA, and Linux support would make NVidia better choice. Strategy pay 89 bucks now, then grab something later is perfectly viable, at least GT 640 can be used as a CUDA device, and has tinny power consumption which allows it to be a secondary card on the system.

The cheapest 2GB card with DDR5 is GIGABYTE GTX 650 2GB. The cheapest card with passive cooling and 2+GB RAM is Zotac GT 640. If you seen any GTX 450 with 2GB DDR5, show it, otherwise current situation is as I wrote. There is nothing available with 2GB DDR5 for the low end of market, and 1GB versions would start hitting theirs limits relatively soon (1-2 years)*1. If you want to grab a card for only one two years do so, but you can upgrade then use low end card like GT 640 in secondary computer for watching anime, a high res video loves these 2 GB RAM (especially with filtering), CUDA*2 (or OpenCL) also NEEDS a lot of RAM. Thus some low end cards does have some advantages.

Reasonable AMD 2GB cards starts at 180 $.

*1 This reminds me about my experience with 5700, people with X1950 could play games at full speed in high settings, then developers switched. I was able to play games, people with X1950 don’t.
*2 CUDA programs prefers secondary card, because watchdog can reset device when card is connected to monitor. (We are generating a new map in CUDA, it would be just a 15 seconds instead of 3 minutes… 5 second timeout -> driver not responding error -> watchdog resets device -> program crashed/froze.) Generally, it’s better to have faster card than two cards, but when user have a card to spare…

True, but Nvidia drivers is not more realiable than AMD. Same could be said about AMD. I hear people spin this all the time and there is no basis to it. BS on that

Opengl/HSA vs CUDA take your pick. We know and have seen what AMD is pushing it to do. Nvidia vs. AMD+ rest of ARMy. And, why would you buy a 80 dollar card to do CUDA/Opengl anyways???

We all know next gen console is mostly AMD and radeon hd 7XXX derivative. Radeon hd 7XXX eat kepler for breakfast in compute and ill be damned if AMD doesn’t push that. Not sure about GT 640 vs 7750 compute, we do know that 7850 is comparble to GTX 680 compute, I think?

There are too many 1 gb cards in the world. It will be stupid for game makers to make a game only for 1gb+ cards in the forseeable future. GT 640 is so slow, even if Radeon hd 7850 is brought down due to not enough memory, you are still gonna get higher FPS on the lower setting. AND GUESS WHAT, HD 7850 gonna prolly cost the same as GT 640 now by the time that happends. You just can’t fix a slow core by tossing more memory at it, low setting may even be too much for GT 640 in the future.

AMD linux support is better than Nvidia I believe.

You can grab a radeon hd 7850(Which is a really good OCer can get near GTX 580) or even 7770/7750 and play games on high setting(or high med for the 7XXX) for 3 years or you can slog through games on low setting(maybe medium setting) with GT 640 for 3 years.

Buying a GT 640 2gb is the worst overpriced decision ever.

Oh ya, sorry, I gotta do that :) I’ll find you there soon.

no dude gpu memory does not dictate performance in fact in most cases bigger memory impact makes some games slightly slower. the 640 2gb cant even match a 7750 1gb much less a 7850 of thrice the performance… but if this 650ti is priced accordingly (say $129) it will be a much better option than a 7770. and just like any hobby there is always the next best thing for just a little more money, in this case its the 7850 then the 660 then 7870 then the 660 and so on…