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750Ti or something else?

mark2410

mark2410

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right, this gpu upgrade needs to happen soonish.

currently using a radeon 5550 so, yeah its old and not a fast card. never used to game much so wanted fan less.

im currently looking at the EVGA 750Ti card. in part because my psu is only a 430w and amd cards seem to just eat power in comparison. i know for the same cash a 270x is possible but im not changing the psu so unsure it would work anyway.

the big issue right now is mantle. i know i will be playing Beyond Earth which shall be mantle compatible. so, would i be better waiting till it shows and maybe getting a 260x?
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
What are the specifications of your system??

My Xeon E3 1220(basically a SB Core i5) and a GTX660 running off an XFX PRO 450W was lucky to see 200W at the wall when running 3DMark or during an intensive game.

You should be fine with an R7 265,R9 270 or GTX660.
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fx6300 slightly overclocked, a 20mhz bump to the fsb so it turbos to 4.5ghz.
 
well have went ahead an ordered a 750ti.

it was the appeal of that nice low power draw that swayed me over a radeon. fingers crossed mantle wouldnt have made a big diff anyway.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The power draw is nothing though - I did some more measurements with my newish Xeon E3 1230 V2(I had a Xeon E3 1220) and a GTX660 and I still barely see 200W at the wall and the R7 265 is still faster than a GTX750TI and consumes about 30W to 40W more. TPU puts the R7 265 as 16% faster over a bog standard GTX750TI.

The GTX660 power draw is comparable to a R9 270 IIRC.

To put in context at 20 hours a week gaming for 52 weeks constantly,you are seeing an additional £5.61 spent in power consumption at 18P a kWH(for 30W more power consumed).

Plus,you have just ignored entirely what I have posted right??

Civ5 only really used 4 threads and was still bottlenecked by single thread performance.

The Firaxis LORE engine looks like it will be used in Beyond Earth too,so it will probably show similar scaling too.

Look again:

http://techreport.com/r.x/amd-fx-8350/civv-lgv.gif

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That is Civ5 late in game. An FX8350 can barely match an IB Core i3 3220.

You want to see another engine which scales like that??

UE3 as used in Thief:

http://media.bestofmicro.com/L/L/427161/original/Thief-Mantle-Mid.png

UE3 scales upto 4 threads and again many of the UE3 based games tend to be limited by single threaded performance.

This is why Mantle makes such a difference for AMD CPUs in the game(and less I would say for BF4 which is reasonably well threaded).

I honestly don't understand why you could not even wait 4 weeks to see how the game does scales,especially since it is an AMD Evolved title.

Almost all the Civ5 reviews are done using Intel CPUs since they are faster for the game.

If I were you I would DSR the card.
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oh hell.

well now ive done the arsey thing of ordering a 270x too and will send the undesired one back. though not completely sure which one that will be. sometimes too many options isnt a great thing.
 
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