Best PCIe Card For ~£330:
Radeon HD 7970
Great 2560x1600 performance
| Radeon HD 7970 | |
|---|---|
| Codename: | Tahiti |
| Process: | 28 nm |
| Unified Shaders: | 2,048 |
| Texture Units: | 128 |
| ROPs: | 32 |
| Memory Bus: | 384-bit |
| Core Speed MHz: | 925 |
| Memory Speed MHz: | 1,375 (5,500 effective) |
| DirectX/Shader Model: | DX 11.1/SM 5 |
| Max TDP: | 250 W |
AMD's Radeon HD 7970 is the only top-tier card we recommend for the price. You might be able to find a Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition card selling in the £340 range. If you do, that'd be a good buy too. But, at the £350 most GHz Edition models are currently selling for, we'd skip them. As they stand, the standard Radeon HD 7970s are quite overclockable, meaning you can coax much of the performance difference out of the cheaper card anyway.
There's not much reason to pay an extra for a similar-performing GeForce GTX 680 unless the Nvidia card's 55 W-lower thermal ceiling is necessary in your small form factor enclosure. In that case, spending more for better efficiency might make sense.
Read our full preview of AMD's Radeon HD 7970 for more information on the card and its accompanying architecture.
Honourable Mentions:
Assorted Multi-Card Configurations
The Radeon HD 7970 delivers such strong performance that we find it hard to recommend higher-performing (but sometimes-inconsistent) multi-card configurations for more money.
We'll call out some other promising options, though, mostly for folks with one of these cards already installed: two GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 2 GB cards in SLI, two Radeon HD 7870 LEs in CrossFire, two GeForce GTX 670s in SLI, and finally, two Radeon HD 7970s in CrossFire.
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Any chance of getting at least an honourable mention for it?
So is it me doing a bad research or this year graphics cards are much more expensive than last time?
So is it me doing a bad research or this year graphics cards are much more expensive than last time?