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Is there nvidia card that matches 7850 1GB?

postmortemIA

postmortemIA

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From my limited research Radeon 7850 1GB seems to be one of best when it comes price for performance, and < $150.

Sorry, I've been little busy, so I didn't keep up with the latest offerings.
Is there something on nvidia side worth considering for the same price? From looking at the AT bench it doesn't seem so.
 
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How does the 650 ti Boost do with OC-ing ?
Oft times we hear that the 7850 is an OC champ and you can get around 50% more performance out of it.
 
Really comes down to bundles and features, AMD has a good bundle, Nvidia has a $75 f2p bundle which is either great or terrible, oh and better features 😉
 
Think ultimately you should go 7850,fact you pick 2 games of your liking from a list of good games and the fact it just overclocks assuming you buy a voltage unlocked version just makes it the obvious choice.I had a TF3 7850 2gb at one point and loved it to death as it ran cool,quiet and even overclocked it damn near 7870 performance with a 1050 core overclock and has good performance per watt going for it and i am sure the 1gb 7850 version is equally as good from the majority of vendors.
 
I would spend $20 more for an HD7870 2GB.

When demanding games come out, you'll have to completely disable MSAA on your card. The minute that happens, the 7870 is 28% faster than GTX650Ti Boost. And for that you pay what $25-30 more* and get 2 free games you can bank until December 31, 2013 (including possibly BF4).

*The cheapest 650Ti Boost I can find is $145.
 
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At this point, I wouldn't recommend anyone buying a 1gb card, unless you're not gaming and in that case you wouldn't need a 7850/650 anyway.
 
Really hard to go with the 2GB 650 Ti Boost for $145 over the card Russian posted, unless it's out of budget. It's $30 more though, which is a decent jump at that price bracket.
 
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i bought that 7850 1gb deal around march, and realized if i had a little more patience and a little more digging i could have got the 2gb version for the same price......anyways i sold the two games that came with it(which were then unreleased) for about $65 and there was a rebate for $10 or $20..bought for $180 minus $75/85. still a great deal.
 
OP the HD 7850 2GB is the best for close to USD 150. also the HD 7850 at 860 mhz is matched by a stock GTX 650 Ti boost which clocks at 1033+ mhz.
once overclocked its a no contest. the HD 7850 and GTX 660 are closely matched once overclocked.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814131473

if you can push a bit higher go for the sapphire HD 7870 which RS suggested
 
I'd get a HD 7850, and unless you are on 720p, get the 2GB version. I quite easily hit over 1.5GB with 1440p, so you will want the headroom even if you are on 1080p.
 
runzwithsizorz said:
I have a 7870 2 gig oc. Please explain MSAA (anti aliasing?) and why disable it?😵

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He is buying a GPU now. I presume he'll keep this one for 1.5-2 years. There is no way you will be able to use MSAA and keep all settings high in the next 2 years on a 650Ti/7850/7870 level card. For most of us, we back off MSAA first before dropping down from High to Medium quality settings. When the time comes to disable MSAA, and it will, the performance delta between 7870 and GTX650Ti will grow. I think the extra $25-30 spent for 7870 over GTX650Ti/7850 is worth it in this case.

The card I linked also has GPU clocked at 1050mhz, up from 1Ghz of a standard 7870. It will start coming a lot closer to GTX660Ti and really separate itself from 7850/650Ti Boost.

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The 650Ti Boost makes no sense to me. 7870 costs 17% more but is also 17% faster with AA, 28% faster without AA at 1080P, but you also get to bank 2 free games with the 7870.

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raghu78 said:
GTX 660 is no match for HD 7870. slower than HD 7870 when both are at stock . also the HD 7870 scales much better with OC due to a full 32 ROPs and 256 bit memory bus.
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nonsense. out of the box a 660 even slightly faster overall than the 7870 is some reviews.
 
Been more of a nvidia fan more then amd but i tell you man,amd right own just dominates in the value for buck over nvidia especially with your 2 or 3 games wow.

Even if you don't care for the games amd offers,sell the voucher to someone who does and it cuts your overall gpu purchase costs even more still making it hard for a nvidia competitor to come close.

Maybe in January when their bundle game deal is over then can people reevaluate what's hot and whats not price wise but amd dominates no question about it right now and the choice people should go for.
 
Looks pretty close to me, plus you get the benefits of Nvidia software.

Silver voucher can't be worth much currently, all the games are old in the list. Possibly you might get a decent title if you wait, but Nvidia is offering Splinter Cell Blacklist which is going for $30-$45 on ebay.
 
toyota said:
nonsense. out of the box a 660 even slightly faster overall than the 7870 is some reviews.
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you don't have your facts right.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/04/01/asus_geforce_gtx_660_directcu_ii_oc_video_card_review/4#.UhEliX_3x8E

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/05/15/asus_radeon_hd_7870_directcu_ii_v2_review/6#.UhEhe3_3x8E

the games where GTX 660 performs well, like Farcry 3, a HD 7870 OC still beats a GTX 660 OC by 5 -10%. In games where GTX 660 performs not so well like Hitman, Sleeping Dogs, the HD 7870 OC is 15 - 20% faster than GTX 660 OC.

Farcry 3 1920 x 1080 Ultra 4x MSAA

GTX 660 OC(1228 mhz) - 32.8
HD 7870 OC(1200 mhz) - 35.6

Hitman Absolution 1920 x 1080 Ultra 4x MSAA

GTX 660 OC(1228 mhz) - 54.4
HD 7870 OC(1200 mhz) - 63.6

you need a GTX 660 OC to get close to a stock HD 7870. once both cards are OC'd there is literally nothing a GTX 660 wins.
 
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raghu78 said:
you don't have your facts right...

you need a GTX 660 OC to get close to a stock HD 7870. once both cards are OC'd there is literally nothing a GTX 660 wins.
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Not according to TPU's big ol' basket of games.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_660_HAWK/28.html

Once both are O.C'd you'll get an unnoticeable few percent/FPS more out of the HD 7870:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_660_HAWK/31.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/VTX3D/Radeon_HD_7870_XT_Black/31.html

Yes, we all know the reviews are a number of months old, but its unlikely that anything earth-shattering is going to happen between last fall/winter and now on the performance front via driver optimization for either. Of course the two can have reviews/games cherry-picked to death, but outside of Nvidia or AMD favored titles there's not a whole lot of difference between them (other than price which is favoring the HD 7870 right now).
 
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