gtx 670 vs gtx 680?

Well, a 680 is not much better than a 670, and I would get a 4 GB 670, very future proof.Evga, asus, gigabyte are great brands.But, asus and evga are the best.Evga is the most known for nvidia cards.
 
pastelsoda said:
is there even a 4gb version?
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Youll probably have to go to the vendors website to get the 4GB models (like evga.com where I go). As Newegg does not sell them yet for either the 670 or 680. And I have not seen them around anywhere aside from Amazon which I prefer not to buy things from if I can help it.

And btw, the 4GB 670 is slightly cheaper then the base model 680. $470 for the evga version. So yes, thats your best bet as I would venture to say in the future it will still hold up to the 680 and even outperform the 2GB 680 in high resolution games with AA as when games start using more memory, the 2GB cards will become more bottlenecked by their RAM (look at my 320MB card haha). Its just common sense that games will start to use more and more RAM as time goes on, so the more you get now the better off you will be down the road. I am saving for the 4GB 680 myself. Those extra SPUs are worth it to me and I believe they will show their colors in time.
 
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Whichever one you go for i'd get no other than EVGA.. If you look them up, they have an excellent feedback score as a company in general. None of the complaints come up that do from the other guys. The 670 4gb is a better deal than the 680 in terms of memory intensive usage, but the 680 still has more cores/shaders and they are stock clocked faster.
 
it's about like the 2500k vs 2600k, 100 bucks gets you very little for gaming, so 2500k is best if money is an issue, so 670 is best if money matters. As far as vram, 2gbs is more than enough and will be fine for any res for a few years, i would only recomend spending it for the 4gb is you plan to use 2 or more monitors.
 
jonnyp11 said:
it's about like the 2500k vs 2600k, 100 bucks gets you very little for gaming, so 2500k is best if money is an issue, so 670 is best if money matters. As far as vram, 2gbs is more than enough and will be fine for any res for a few years, i would only recomend spending it for the 4gb is you plan to use 2 or more monitors.
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I dont think 2GB will be enough for much longer. By next year, I would say 2GB would be almost a minimum requirement for HD gaming on PC. As there are a few games out there that will use 1-1.5GB of VRAM. One of which being GTA4 which according to what it was telling me, it was using about 1.5GB of VRAM. That is not including my system RAM. (Although it had to be using my system RAM as I only have 320MB of VRAM :p)

And surely the next Metro 2033 will be hungry, the current one already is.

Point is, I think the extra $70 you would spend to get twice the amount of VRAM (4GB) would not only be good bragging rights and you would thank yourself 5 years down the road when people with 2GB cards have to upgrade.

Take my case for example, 320MB was fine in 2006-2007. The only game around that time that really needed more than that was Crysis that I know of. Aside from Crysis, my 320MB was plenty fine for games then. 2-3 years down the road, 320MB was almost worthless.
 
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Agreed with above, 2GB is already too little at HD resolutions, let alone multi-panels. Get the 4GB if you can afford it.
 
pastelsoda said:
well I have frys 300 dollar gift card, and I can only get the cards from frys. So many people just said go 670 over 680, so I will.

are there any difference over
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121637
(None top Asus card)

vs

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121638
(Top asus card)

Are there any difference between the two besides the fact that one is OCed?
Frys only carrys 2gb version so far, so whatever they carry is the only thing I can get
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anybody know any difference?
 
The TOP model is their overclocked version, so the speeds are higher, so it will be faster and give better frame rates.
 
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