Quote Originally Posted by Knytestorme View Post
So now comes the decision of which way to go.

Asus 2Gb 680 is $699, Asus 3Gb 7970 with 6 outputs is $679.....

The slight extra speed of the 680 does not seem to outweigh the extra framebuffer size and ability to run one character per monitor fullscreen of the 7970 but am interested in others opinions before I pull the trigger next week.
It's a tough call but, there's something that stuck in my mind from glancing over lots of threads on it over the past few days. People were talking about the memory bandwidth on the GTX 680 and how it might be lacking at higher resolutions. Now, I realize that most of us don't play above 1920x1080 but, that's 1920x1080 x3 or x5 or more... so the pixels start adding up. I don't know enough about all of that to really make the call but, I can't imagine you can go wrong with the 7970.

Here's a thread about some memory bandwidth stuff - http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2234397