SOLVED AMD HD 7950 vs Nvidia GTX 660ti?

[lnandez]

I would like advice on choosing a video card for my next build. I am undecided between the AMD Radeon HD 7950 and Nvidia GTX 660ti. My set up will be as follows:

CPU-Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo)& Hyper 212 evo
MOTHERBOARD-GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD3H
MEMORY-CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
PSU- SeaSonic M12II 620 Bronze 620W ATX12V V2.3
HARD DRIVE- SAMSUNG 830 Series 128 GB SSD and a Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB
MONITOR- RUNNING AT 1920 x 1080

I will be playing ME2 and ME3, Starcraft II, Diablo III, Battlefield 3 and LOL. I will be also doing some light video editing for youtube. I would appreciate any help i could get.
(i will be overclocking my cpu to about 4.0 GHZ)

 

[Knufire]

Both cards will easily max out, ME2, LOL, SC2, and D3.

BF3 might be close. The 7950 is technically a step up from the 660Ti but BF3 is VERY NVIDIA biased. Look at a GTX670 (non-Ti) review to see a comparison, since that would be the most recent data.

Not sure on ME3.

What software are you using for video editing?

 

[lnandez]

I haven't bought the software yet but it would be between these 3 because of my budget :CyberLink PowerDirector 10 Deluxe, Pinnacle Studio 16 ,SONY Movie Studio Platinum 12.
I appreciate the help knufire, I'm fairly new to this, lacking experience but It's great to be able to ask for advice of far more experienced people.

 

[EarthDog]

7950 would be my choice. It performs better than the 660ti in most games. The trick for you Inandez, is to see if those applications use CUDA, OPenCL or both for GPU accelerated editing.

 

[Knufire]

Looking at benchmarks, both cards max out all those games and perform nearly identical in BF3. It really depends, as ED mentioned, whether the video software you get supports CUDA (NVIDIA only) or OpenGL/OpenCL (both, but AMD tends to perform better).

 

[lnandez]

Understood, I'll go with the HD 7950, it's just a matter of me choosing the software that is most compatible with it. You have been of great help. It's definitely reassuring to know this. Being that the video card will be the most expensive single hardware I'll buy for my setup, I just wanted to be 100% on whichever choice i made (regret is something i don't want to have on such an essential piece of hardware for my build's purpose). Thanks, its much appreciated.

 

[I.M.O.G.]

Glad you got your answer. I cleaned up a couple off topic posts here.

Welcome to OCF.