Comparing my video card to others.

[Failhorse]

I'm looking to do a modest upgrade.
This is what i got. Yes it's discontinued, but you can still look at the specs:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150447

This is what i was looking at:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 0058927sbe

suggestions?

[Balubish]

Seems like a great choice. It got PCI-X 3.0 and fast mem clock and fast core clock. But if you want to be more future proof Id go with R9 270X with the upcooming Mantle support. Its a bit faster and 30 bucks more.
Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125476

Note: It all comes out to what ur gonna use it for, and what kind of games... TF2, well maybe dont even need an upgrade at all.

And btw I use Crysis as an example cause it takes alot of power on your GPU and PC generally. So if it can Crysis 3, It can do alot of games.

[GoDM1N]

The R9 270x will get very little FPS over the 7870 (Talking 1-5 FPS and they're actually the same GPU anyway), but the R9 will support this new Mantle which you might gain a considerable amount on new games as they come out. I haven't read anything about how much a improvement it is by having a card that supports it, but it seems people think it's worth spending the extra $30 for. I'm on the same XFX 5770 at the moment, I'm going with the R9 270X for that reason.

[Maringue]

Picking a video card is like Voodoo to me. It's such a pain in the ass to compare the performance based on the specs.

[Balubish]

Picking a video card is like Voodoo to me. It's such a pain in the ass to compare the performance based on the specs.

Personally I look at price range first, then I have 4 steps.

CoreClock Speed, Effective Mem Clock, Memory Bus and Mem Type = Higher the better. And I use that to compare.
1000MHz _________6000MHz_____________384Bit_______GDDR5 That are the specs on my newer card im waiting for.

And mem on the card is mostly for if you gonna use more than 1 screen. So nowadays 2GB is fine. I have 1GB on my card now, and on GTA 4 I couldn't have max view distance cause of mem lack :/ just to give u an example.

I might be wrong on the stuff but that is how I check for a new graphics card.

[WET BUTT DISEASE]

pay the extra 20-30 for a 7950 unless there's a good reason you're trying to stay sub-200

[GoDM1N]

Picking a video card is like Voodoo to me. It's such a pain in the ass to compare the performance based on the specs.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU13/583

[WET BUTT DISEASE]

Picking a video card is like Voodoo to me. It's such a pain in the ass to compare the performance based on the specs.

Budget
Radeon 7750 - doesn't require PCIe power plugs
Radeon r7 250 - equal to 7750, doesn't require PCIe power plugs

1680x1050
Radeon 7770 Ghz Edition - Baseline
Radeon 7790 - 20% faster than 7770
Radeon r7 260x - equal to 7790, comes with True Audio
Geforce 650ti Boost - 10% faster than 7790
Radeon 7850 - 10% faster than 650ti Boost

1920x1080:
AMD Radeon 7870 Ghz Edition - equal to 660
Geforce GTX 660 - equal to 7870
Radeon r9 270x - equal to 7870
GTX 760 - 20% faster than 660
Radeon 7950 - 5% faster than 760

Higher than 1920x1200, 3 Screen Gaming, 3D gaming, E-peen:
Radeon 7950
GTX 670 - 10% faster than 7950
GTX 770 - 20% faster than 670
Radeon r9 280x - equal to 7970 Ghz edition

[Maringue]

When I was asking advice on my last card I got (GTX 560Ti), someone told me there are some issues between Radeon and GTX in that more stuff is written for GTX and then gets ported to Radeon. Any truth to that?

[GoDM1N]

When I was asking advice on my last card I got (GTX 560Ti), someone told me there are some issues between Radeon and GTX in that more stuff is written for GTX and then gets ported to Radeon. Any truth to that?

Not any more because of Mantle. Most likely going to be the other way around now, or at least level the playing field. I do think what your friend said is true, but I don't know the facts about it. In a nutshell has something to do with Nvidia being made to work on DirectX while ATi was made to work on OpenGL before AMD took them over and made their own API (Mantle)