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ladies and gentlemen what is crack-a-lackin' what is Papa lop and we've got two graphics cards right here that were both released in 2012 this one here is the HD 7950 it came in at 399 USD MSRP when it was first released had three gigabytes of vram and was released on the 31st of January and has the GCN architecture the one above it is the GTX 670 which came into the same MSRP of 399 but had a 2 gigabyte via Ram buffer and was released three months later on April 29th however I do believe you could get a 4 gigabyte variant of it however today's tests are going to be really interesting at least for me personally because I'm gonna be putting seven years later both these graphics cards through the latest titles and seeing if the 7950 really has aged better than the GTX 670 because a lot of people are saying that AMD's fine wine technology if you bought this back in the day it was gonna perform better in the future and 2012 at least off the top of my memory both these cars were performing in a similar ballpark however you may notice that both these Ram scouts are looking a little bit dirty so we're gonna give them some tech yes loving that's where we clean them up so they can have the best chance of performing the best they can on the test bench and also with that said I picked up both these graphics cards for 40 Ozzie dollars each which is about 28 USD so that's under 10% of what they were going for 7 years ago so talk about a bargain but let's get this comparison on the road but before we do give these two graphics cards some tech yes loving today's video is brought to you by raid Shadow legends if you guys are out and about with your smartphones and need a game that is completely free to download and play then this brand new RPG title is it it's got a really good storyline awesome 3d graphics raid boss by its PvP battles and also hundreds of champions to collect and customize and also on top of that the player base and the raids are getting really big really quickly 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result here apex legends where I'm testing just outside of water treatment and I'm running across a bridge and we see here that the 7950 it was a clear victory both out of the box and when it was overclocked it just smoked the 670 solutions here the 4 gigabyte edition really didn't make a difference here even though when we put the 4 gigabyte in it's going over that cap of 2 gigabytes usage for the vram so it looks like Nvidia is doing something at a driver level to mitigate any potential vram bottlenecks in games but looking at the next title now Tom Clancy's the division 2 we had another victory for the 7950 scoring 36 and 40 3 FPS respectively versus the 670 s which performed in a similar ballpark there wasn't too much of the difference here but moving over to a newer title generation 0 I don't know if this is a mainstream title or it's considered an indie title but this is where they performed in a similar ballpark between the 7950 and also the 670 but we will have to give the victory here to the 7950 as it did score higher results ultimately I've been moving on now that outward which is a newer title as well and here's where the 670 actually scored a victory but again there wasn't really much of a difference at all between the two you bite and for gigabyte variant here for v rams so nothing much gained if you purchased that extra 2 gigabytes back in the day but one title where it did make a difference was a dirt rally 2.0 and here the 17 50 scored out the victory overall but we can see here that the four gigabyte edition did get better one percent and point one percent lows so if it's anything we need about three gigabytes of vram to play on high settings for dirt rally 2.0 and have it be a smooth experience but the last time we're looking at here is anthem 1080p high settings and this one that was a victory for the 7950 yet again wasn't a massive victory but a victory nonetheless and the two gigabyte in full year out variants really didn't make a difference here on the side of the six 70s but moving over two times by just the standard edition not the Extreme Edition we saw these 7950 scoring about 300 points both out of the box and also when it was overclocked and then the last figure we're looking at is power consumption where these 7950 didn't use up about 30 watts more if I had to average things out so 670 is a bit more efficient by the 7950 is giving you more performance and if we look at titles like apex legends especially that 30 watts is well worth it so there we have it with the Radeon HD 7950 versus the GTX 670 both these graphics cards back in the day were very popular in fact I'd say they are one of the most biggest changes for both AMD and NVIDIA we're on AMD side they went from 40 nanometer to 28 nanometer and changed the architecture all in one go and NVIDIA also did the same thing went to 28 nanometer and change to Kepler so we saw massive increases in efficiency and also performance - so these graphics cards did mark a big error for PC gamers and at the time even though the 670 performs similar the 7950 it's looking like nowadays the difference is in favor of the 7950 but how much of that is due to driver optimization truly continuing for the 670 remains to be seen I mean outward being sort of like an outlier here did show the 670 beating the 7950 so I'm guessing in all the other titles AMD have optimized the drivers for the 7950 quite well as opposed say for instance on the 670 Nvidia might have just simply even though they say they support the latest title they're sort of optimizing for Kepler maybe they're just leaving Kepler behind who knows guys let us know in the comment section below what you think is going on between these two cards but if you're in the market to buy either of these and they're the same price I would definitely be going for the 7950 over the 670 now also before I get on out of here some interesting things to point out during this comparison was the two gigabytes of extra VRAM really didn't make a difference at all on that 670 and that's mainly because the card itself is limited by its main stream processors power and that we don't really have enough raw GPU power for the extra two gigabytes of vram to make a difference and in case of the 7950 another odd behavior I saw was out of the box it sort of struggled to get to a thousand megahertz it sort of jumped between nine hundred and a thousand and actually recorded this live on the capture card for you guys to see but when we overclocked it it just stuck at that eleven hundred and twenty megahertz score all day everyday so that definitely did give the favor to the 7950 especially when it was overclocked and was good to see that's actually more of a stable card when you overclock it so the irony there is quite funny overclock your graphics cards for stability but guys let us know in the comment section below which of these two cards would you pick I mean if this one had a better cooler on it yes it's the reference cooler yes it was back in the day when these reference coolers were obnoxiously loud once the graphics card had any strain on it but to be fair I put it up to a hundred percent fan speeds for the overclock and that did bring the temperatures under 70 degrees so it was fine to handle over clocks when you put that fan speed at 100% even though it's unbearable this card right here is definitely when gigabyte we're on top of things that wind force coolers are good the over clocks are actually really good this is one of my favorite generations of gravis card for AMD it's just when they got everything right in my opinion the cards overclocked well the coolers were good out of the factory the performance was great but of course I need to know what you guys think let us know in the comment section below with that said I hope you guys enjoyed today's video if you did and be sure to hit that like button and also if you're out and about and need a game to play on your smart phone completely free and check out today's video sponsor of rage chatter legends link is in the description hello and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye so one of the three wind force fans on that HD 7950 actually like lifted up while I was had the data vac on it and it cut my finger but I was like now I'm just gonna keep going so apparently the data vac can fix your wounds you