l33t-g4m3r wrote:Flying Fox wrote:In your infinite wisdom, should the OP get the 670 for 1920x1200 instead? That seems like overkill.
It is overkill, for the price, but not for performance. The new
7870 1536 would be what I'd get if I had to buy now, but I'd rather wait for the
760 Ti, which won't be
crippled with a 192-bit bus.
That HardOCP review (second link above) was ridiculous. They were they comparing a hugely overclocked HD 7870 MYST (with the Tahiti core) to a stock 660 Ti and claiming that because the overclocked card was slightly better in some situations than a stock 660 Ti, that the HD 7870 was the better card? The 660 Ti's performance was very close to the 7870 in most games tested, and it beat the 7870 by a good margin in Far Cry 3. Their conclusion sealed the deal:
If it was the intent for this card to be a "GTX 660 Ti Killer" then it has been successful at carrying that out
Okay... I guess they were trying to highlight the point that this HD 7870 with the Tahiti core could experience significantly improved performance due to it having overclocking headroom/scaling commensurate with other Tahiti cards - and in this sense is superior to the 660 Ti... But just blatantly comparing a stock card vs a highly overclocked card and claiming the highly overclocked card is better is a little odd for review methodology.
I do see what you mean by the memory bandwidth limitation impacting the 660 Ti with MSAA, etc. If I was looking for a video card in the $250 range, I'd give this new 7870 a good look. However, if you wait for sales, you can generally score an HD 7950 for only a few bucks more, so why settle for a more crippled version?