PC Build [GPU]

[plutomaniac]

That depends. The OP clearly stated the best price/performance card and anything above a 770 cannot be included in that category. If you get a good after market card you can achieve as I said 770-like performance no matter the fewer bells and whistles the cheaper model has. I have an MSI GTX 660 Ti Power Edition which has the same core as 670 etc. The only main difference is memory bus which is 192 instead of 256 clocked at 6GHz. However I have overclocked it at 1.2GHz core (stock is 950 I think and 1010 for the MSI pre-overclocked card) and 6.6GHz memory. Benchmark it all you want, it scores higher than most non-overclocked 670s. The same applies to 760 and 770 as they both have the same kepler core. Before kepler (fermi that is) the 460 was indeed a lot slower from a 470 and that was because it used a different core.

If you know how to overclock, you shouldn't have any problems. Pre-overclocked cards are slightly bumped versions just to add a selling point most of the times. If you get a good piece though, then you can achieve a lot more.