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Advice on GPU's pls

rsturbomad

rsturbomad

rsturbomad

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Hi All,

As per above I'm looking for a new card / cards.....I'm quite open to either red or green and TBH I've kinda swayed towards AMD recently just because of the price/performance ratio at the moment I think it's unbeatable. But saying that I don't mind spending if it's worth it.

DX12 is round the corner.......nvidia 870 and 880's due for release towards the end of the year and AMD will probably respond to their release promptly.

Is it worth waiting a little longer?

What card/cards will be future proofed for at least 2 years if my pockets start to burn now? :)

Thoughts on the Sapphire 290x 8gb in crossfire?

Many thanks
Stu
 
290 Xfire/780 SLI/780 6GB SLI

Probably 290 Xfire is your best bet

Make sure your PSU is up to the job though
 
I don't think VRAM is as important as some people/companies are making it..

AMD were using it as a BIG selling point for the R9's.. I think that's a little false, It helps but a R9 290 4GB won't outperform a 780ti 3GB.. It doesn't work that way..
 
Doomedspeed said:
I don't think VRAM is as important as some people/companies are making it..

AMD were using it as a BIG selling point for the R9's.. I think that's a little false, It helps but a R9 290 4GB won't outperform a 780ti 3GB.. It doesn't work that way..
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+1

I think that although in a very few examples, vram importance gets blown out of proportion. I'm quite sure Nvidia know what they're doing. ;)

As for dx12, I haven't kept up to date with what it intends to bring from the off. Usually, I tend to buy when I want to, not hang around waiting for something that is still a long way off.
 
Doomedspeed said:
I don't think VRAM is as important as some people/companies are making it..

AMD were using it as a BIG selling point for the R9's.. I think that's a little false, It helps but a R9 290 4GB won't outperform a 780ti 3GB.. It doesn't work that way..
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Hardocp show a 3GB 780 getting significantly lower minimum fps at 1080p ultra on watchdogs: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2014/06/11/asus_strix_gtx_780_oc_6gb_review_exclusive/3#.U9JIpbFtppU

That article shows the 3GB 780 clearly having to lower settings because of the high vram use of that game.

Now I'm not saying a 290 with 4GB makes it faster than a 3GB 780Ti either, but when you're trying to give advice to someone that wants a card/cards to last 2 years, I don't think turning a blind eye to raising vram requirements is helpful.

Many would say this is down to poor console ports, but let's face it the games from Ubisoft are popular and the op might want to play similarly vram hogging games in the next two years. Ubisoft seem to just reply with get more vram or turn down the settings as they have at least 6GB to play with on the XB1/PS4.
 
780 6GB. Same price as the normal 780s for a short time - buy one before stock runs out!
 
RanxZy said:
Hardocp show a 3GB 780 getting significantly lower minimum fps at 1080p ultra on watchdogs: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2014/06/11/asus_strix_gtx_780_oc_6gb_review_exclusive/3#.U9JIpbFtppU

That article shows the 3GB 780 clearly having to lower settings because of the high vram use of that game.

Now I'm not saying a 290 with 4GB makes it faster than a 3GB 780Ti either, but when you're trying to give advice to someone that wants a card/cards to last 2 years, I don't think turning a blind eye to raising vram requirements is helpful.

Many would say this is down to poor console ports, but let's face it the games from Ubisoft are popular and the op might want to play similarly vram hogging games in the next two years. Ubisoft seem to just reply with get more vram or turn down the settings as they have at least 6GB to play with on the XB1/PS4.
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Yup and the funny thing is that eventhough it eats Ram just like Wolfenstein they are certainly not Next-Gen graphics - just making all of the rest wonder if all those programmers are just too lousy to make some decent coding instead of people having to upgrade for bigger Vram and faster cards for something that really isn't any much prettier than games were last or the previous years. I blame all of these new hardware hungry Vram games for sloppy and inefficient programming.
If the games really had look that way much better (actually look like Next-Gen PC graphics and not Next-Gen Console graphics which were are the last 2 years PC graphics) then I would have better understanding for the increase Vram usage. As of now it it just simply bad comedy !
 
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If Watchdogs is a title that is key to the OP's requirements, then yes, I think consideration can be given. However, other than that and Skyrim, what others are there? I thought there was one other, but it escapes me for now.

What resolution is the OP running? System spec?
 
You can't really use Watchdogs as a base for comparing benchmarks. The game is total horse crud which has been badly developed with no optimisation!
 
arc@css said:
If Watchdogs is a title that is key to the OP's requirements, then yes, I think consideration can be given. However, other than that and Skyrim, what others are there? I thought there was one other, but it escapes me for now.
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Wolfenstein The New Order
 
Many thanks for your replies. Got lots to consider : )

Like my Graphics and realism so probably want to go with big VRAM and funnily enough have Far Cry 4 pre ordered.

Currently playing in 1080p on an Asus 144hz job but will be trying out 4k soon me thinks.

My spec should be ok :):-

CPU: i7 3960x hex @ 4.3
MOBO: Asus P9X79 Pro
RAM: 32Gb Kingston Hyper X Beast @2400
SSD: 1xIntel 330 for OS
2xIntel 520's for Games
PSU: OCZ 850 (Will be upgrading this if I go for 2)

Monitors: Asus VG278HE 27" 144hz
Iiyama Prolight 27"
Samsung 40"

Being drawn more and more to the 290x 8GB......two of so kind of contradicted myself.

Many thanks again all.
 
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It's really not worth the ridiculous figure it is, two 780 6GB would be as good (perhaps a bit less) & considerably cheaper
 
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