Radeon HD 7970 XFX Black Edition or GeForce GTX Titan

[Chester]

Hello guys. I want to buy a new graphic card and i can't decide which one i should take.
What do you think?

[CharlieKasper]

GTX Titan of course... >.>

[Chester]

GTX Titan of course... >.>

Okay, thanks Charlie.

[CharlieKasper]

Simply because it is a very very powerful GPU. May be expensive but it is better than the 7970 in almost any way. Make sure you also take a look at the new GTX 780 - almost as powerful at less price.

[Devin]

The Titan has double the memory of the HD7970, is able to process more at a single time than the HD 7970 too and overall is more powerful.

Now the next thing to consider is your PSU, CPU and RAM, if those aren't reasonably powerful the card will be insanely bottle-necked.

[Chester]

RAM: 4GB DDR3
CPU: Core I7-970 6-Core 3.2GHz

[Devin]

You wouldn't exactly want your graphics card to have more memory than your PC has, if you were to get a Titan I would suggest upgrading your Ram to at least 8GB.

[Chester]

I will do that.
Thanks for the info Devin

[Ratko Gavrilovic]

You wouldn't exactly want your graphics card to have more memory than your PC has, if you were to get a Titan I would suggest upgrading your Ram to at least 8GB.

Anything more than 4GB will add no performance at all. It will just be a waste of money.
It doesn't matter how much memory a GPU has. It is mainly used for higher resolutions.
4GB ram with that card is perfectly good.

[Devin]

Why run a large GPU along with CPU when you have only 4GB of ram? He may as well install 32bit Windows at the same time as 64bit uses 1gb of ram on idle to begin with.  :redface:

[Ratko Gavrilovic]

Why run a large GPU along with CPU when you have only 4GB of ram?

Because any more than 4GB will not add any performance.
The only reason why people may use more ram is to be "future proof", but no build can be future proof really.

[Gmail]

I am an AMD user
and the Titan.. CLEARLY the titan, even tho it costs double, but it has double.. well almost double the power

[CharlieKasper]

Yeah lol... 6GB DDR5 RAM of GPU and 4GB DDR3 computer memory, sounds funny lol..

You're better of with another 4 gigs for RAM.

[Devin]

The CPU which he has, the i7 970 has 6 cores, now those 6 cores all share the tiny amount of 4gb of ram, by increasing the ram amount, each core will be able to process more at a higher rate of speed, you may say it won't increase performance but I say otherwise.

Try this, say each core has an equal slice of the RAM to occupy in this scenario, each of the 6 cores will only have 682 MB of RAM to use, by increasing the amount of Ram to 8 GB, each core will then be able to use 1.36 GB of ram, if it happened to spread the Ram equally between all of the cores.
Not to mention the CPU also runs 12 separate threads, the more Ram, the more processing ability there is, the more data is able to be transferred across to and from the processor at a single moment thus leading to increased response time and performance hand in hand.

[Chester]

Yeah lol... 6GB DDR5 RAM of GPU and 4GB DDR3 computer memory, sounds funny lol..

You're better of with another 4 gigs for RAM.

I'll buy 4gb of RAM. Found one store in Novi Sad where i can buy it for 90euros.