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Best Video Cards: April 2014

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Interesting article from Anandtech. Well worth a read and sums up the pros and cons fairly of all gpu's mentioned.

The big product launch for April was of course AMD’s new flagship dual GPU card, the Radeon R9 295X2. Packing a pair of Hawaii GPUs, AMD went above and beyond the norm for their latest dual GPU card. By utilizing a closed loop liquid cooler – a novel enhancement to video card cooling – AMD was able to use their powerful (and power hungry) Hawaii GPUs without any compromises, shipping the card at a blistering 1019MHz with both GPUs fully enabled. From a performance perspective the R9 295X2 is for all intents and purposes equivalent to a set of R9 290X Ubers in CrossFire, but taking up less space and more importantly achieving that level of performance with greatly reduced noise levels. However R9 295X2 is also a hungry card, and will set back buyers $1500 and 500W in load power consumption, so it goes without saying that it’s decidedly in the luxury category and will only be affordable to a small number of buyers.
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Meanwhile NVIDIA did not announce any new products in April. In fact they launched one less product than we expected. The company’s dual-GPU GeForce GTX Titan Z, which was previously announced in March at GTC 2014, was scheduled to launch this month. However it is as of this morning a no-show with no word from NVIDIA on a delay, so we can only assume is has been delayed in to May.
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http://anandtech.com/show/7981/best-video-cards-april-2014
 
you just wait till I get my new man cave sorted, I will change that to a Gasp expression in more ways than one :)
 
Considering a 7870XT can be somewhat playable at 4K in BF4 with medium settings I'm fairly sure even dual 7970s/280X's will be fine at high setting for it.

Although that may only be for current games. Watch Dogs looks like it'll give current GPU's a good ole beating.

I don't playing super graphically intensive games, and I'm sure my dual D700's will do me well at high settings in crossfire. Just waiting for that AOC UHD monitor to be in stock.
 
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