AMD vs nVidia: Go!

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Captain_Tom said:

Kantor said:
Nvidia dominates the top end, but since I have no desire to spend £400 on a graphics card, AMD.

I actually disagree.  I love the idea of the Titan, but in practice it is nothing to write home about.  Beating a Flagship card that is over a year old by 20-35% is no big deal at all when it costs 3x as much to do so.

If the Titan was 60% stronger than the 7970 GHz, overclocked just as well as it, and cost ~$800 I would agree.  But it just doesn't.

The 7970 is currently 2 years old and will be 3 years old before that particular GPU is even going to be potentially retired.
Other than the R9 290X, AMD's entire new line-up is re-badged 7000 series parts.

I don't recall any time during the "GPU wars" where a GPU was badged as a high-end part for 3 years!

It's actually cheaper to get multiple 7970's than a single Titan, you would also get more performance too, that's where Titan lacks any real value unless you intend to go SLI and *really* need the performance.