Graphics Card for Bioshock Infinite

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My wife is a Bioshock fanatic and wants to play Infinite on her PC. My HD 7970 came with a coupon for the game for free so I'm going to give it to her when it's released. Her current card is an HD 6870 and I see the recommended requirements are a 6950. I'm wondering which card I should upgrade her to. I want something that will probably (since it's not released yet, no way to be sure) play the game on high/very high settings and also be a worthwhile upgrade to her 6870. I was thinking either a 7870 or 7950?

[[UFO] rad87gn]

Depends on what you want to spend. But, I'd go 7950.

[rotNdude]

I wouldn't upgrade anything at this point. Wait for the final game requirements to come out and decide then. What CPU is in this computer?

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The official system requirements have already been released. It's an i5-2500

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Minimum Video Card: DirectX10 Compatible ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVIDIA 8800 GT / Intel HD 3000 Integrated Graphics
Recomended Video Card: DirectX11 Compatible, AMD Radeon HD 6950 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

6870 should be fine with it

[Daddio]

agreed the GPU should be ok for minimum settings here is the "recommended"

i would consider what the other specs were before I replaced one component for a single game if its a 1080p or less resolution it should be OK - depending on the screen size?

BioShock Infinite Recommended PC requirements:
OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 64-bit
Processor: Quad Core Processor
Memory: 4 GB
Hard Drive: 30 GB free
Video Card: DirectX11 Compatible, AMD Radeon HD 6950 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
Video Card Memory: 1024 MB
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

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It's a 24" display at 1920x1080 and I don't want her to have to play on minimum settings, hence wanting to upgrade her GPU.

[rotNdude]

Since the game isn't released yet and performance benchmarks are pretty nonexistent, I would go with the 7950.

[DELONG]

you consider reference GTX 670 cheap cards now thay dont get hotter than 74C very easy to over clock and with my I72600 stock GPU 8 gigs of wallmart ram i get 80+ FPS in crysis 2 max edition every thing on ultra dx11 with hi res textures on at 1920x1080 on my 60'' plasma 600hz tv

[Jamebonds1]

40 FPS can't hurt player so I would wait to see how between new game and your wife are doing with highest setting. If it is too low FPS, then upgrading video card. If you don't wait having to upgrading video card after tryout new game, it would waste money.

[PowerHaus930]

I love my XFX 7950 Black Edition. The performance is a little bit behind the 7970 but with a little OC'ing it is on par with a standard 7970. I haven't had one problem with it and would highly recommend it.

[SyStM]

Unless they suddenly announce that Bioshock Infinite will be going DX11, then the 6870 should be fine, i'd say wait for the next line of AMD/Nvidia GPU's for any future games your wife might want to play.