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GTX 960 or R9 280 for 1440p

At 1440 I would want a card with 4gb of Vram personally, in case any other games come along that you want to play.
So I'd try and stretch to a 290 or but a second hand 290 for that sort of money from the MM
 
Your best bet is to grab a 290 in the members market with that money. If you must buy brand new then get a 280. I cannot not recommend a 960 for 1440p.

Nvidia are missing out on 960ti sku that would fit perfectly here, though they would likely charge £200 for it and make it out of your budget anyway.
 
humbug said:
He doesn't want the 285, its a cut down GPU with less Vram, the 280 is better, more powerful and its what he asked about.
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ive seen the 285 beat the 280 in some benchmarks, i duno if thats drivers or some flakey results but yeh youd think the 280 would be better
 
Mei said:
ive seen the 285 beat the 280 in some benchmarks, i duno if thats drivers or some flakey results but yeh youd think the 280 would be better
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It does if the Texture LOD isn't too demanding, like Maxwell it has Texture Compression and Tiling (Currently AMD's only GPU with it) but there is no substitute for a nice fat 384Bit Bus. :)
 
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Mei said:
ive seen the 285 beat the 280 in some benchmarks, i duno if thats drivers or some flakey results but yeh youd think the 280 would be better
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I'd be wanting a minimum of 3gb video memory at 1080P these days, never mind 1440P so out of those two I'd go for the 280 personally. :)
 
A 280 will edge a 960 at 1440p and allow slightly higher settings due to the extra memory. Also a 280 is also cheaper than the 960, most 960s are closer in price to a 280X.

However for 1440p a 290 is where I'd go as a minimum and is the best bang for buck card out there and holds it's own with very new games.
 
Avoid 2GB cards at 1440p. I really struggled with hitting the vram limit on my 680 at 1440p. I switched to a 3GB 780 and haven't hit the limit yet.

Given a 500W PSU and a £150 budget I would look for a second hand 280x/7970. If you want a new card then a 280 would be your best choice.
 
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