Hi everyone!
Quick question:
Wich is the better one for gaming (no rendering and all that)-NVIDIA Asus GTX 660 ti or NVIDIA EVGA GTX 660 ti?
Im a newcomer so please describe what you are writing.
Many thanks to all! :)
As you can see by this link there are a few Asus GPUs to look at so could you perhaps narrow down which one you are looking at?
This is the page I came up with for the GTX 660ti.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121656
And of course my final question would be why Nvidia over Radeon? Let’s see what we can do to help send you in the right direction.
The GTX 660Ti is basically a slight upgrade from a GTX 660, both great cards regardless.
Another good card for around the same price point is the Radeon HD 7870, or the Radeon HD 7950.
Nvidia works better with Adobe programs such as premiere and after affects, thanks to Nvidia's CUDA technology.
For gaming, I would get neither. The 660ti is better than the 660, and is a fine card itself, but both are overpriced. If they were $40 cheaper, they would be a better alternative, but for the moeny, AMD has the better gcards.
I would spend an additional $10 and get a Saphire 7950 3GB at Newegg with their current $20 rebate. The 7950 is going to destroy the 660 and 660ti, especially in Crossfire. Get one of these, and be happy :)
Im verry sorry for my mistaces!I forgot to put "EVGA".
these are the 2 cards:http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121656
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130809
And also i dont know why i picked NVIDIA it was the first company i saw for GPUs.I think i desidet to go with
NVIDIA because AMD is more focused on CPUs (they started making GPUs because they bought ATI).
I would go with an AMD over nVidia any day... Sorry.
Better value AND performance for gaming. Just becuase they bought out ATI it doesn't mean that their graphics cards suck. It just means they bought out ATI. A 7950 will crush a 660, and a 7870 xt has amazing value for the price, as it is basically a 7870 with a 7950 processor on the pcb.
The only time nVidia wins is with the Adobe Suite, but as you said in your original post, you aren't even going to be utilizing Cuda, so there's no point to it.
AMD makes competitive GPUs, often at a better price. The fact that they also make CPUs doesn't detract from that at all, and shouldn't be a reason to write them off.
OK, you all have convinced me to look at AMD too!
So as a last thing,can someone put out a chart of AMD and NVIDIA in case of performance?
example: i saw on the internet that the Radeon HD 7950 beats the 660 ti GPUs,so for example wich GPU wold you compare to the Radeon HD 7870?
Keep in mind that i will have a AMD cpu :D
And also thanks for all the support and caring guys!
Is there much difference between the ASUS 7950 and 7970? Is it really worth the price difference?
Honestly for the price difference I would go for the Sapphire HD 7950. For the overall performance to cost ratio I feel it is your best value. I mean you are dealing with a card that has 3GB 384-bit GDDR 5 memory. It has a max resolution of 2560 X 1600. If I had a choice, this is what I would go for. AMD is also known for better drivers and produced more often to maximize the cards abilities.
Please consult
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU12/372
Know that they don't post the brand of the cards that they test, and as often as they can, they test the reference spec cards. I would recommend the Radeon 7870 XT, which comes in two brands in the US. One is the Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 XT, the other is the Powercolor PCS+ Radeon HD 7870. If you can source it, a really good version of that card is the Club3D Joker Radeon HD 7870.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiM10G7UyOg
As far as the Nvidia camp is concerned, the Geforce 660 is an excellent card, and two of them SLI'd together will max out most games on a 1080p display. If you want to buy a card now and SLI later, that is an excellent choice, if you plan on pushing multiple displays, or anything else of particularly high resolution, you may want to look at 660Ti or 670. Just to point out though, multiple monitor setups usually work much better with AMD based cards because they have the very nice AMD eyefinity system, which has had most of the bugs worked out of it in the impressive amount of time it has been out.
The Radeon 7950 is a far better product than the 660Ti, it still shares the bandwidth the bigger 7970 has with it's 384-Bit bus, and is one hell of an overclocker.
The 660Ti is ok, but even in CUDA apps, last gen Fermi will out pace it due to Kepler's poor compute power (except Titan)