All good and well saying you get the "best performance for the money", and all.... but how might us Noob ascertain exactly what 'good performance' actually means in the real world, though?
For example, I see the R9 290X has 1050MHz core and 4GB RAM, but the latter only runs at 5400MHz and yet it has 2816 stream processors. No value on the shader clock, though.
The GTX 780 Lightning has a 980MHz core and only 3GB RAM, but it runs faster at 6008MHz and while it only has 2304 stream processors, its 1960 shader clock beats a number of 780Ti models.
So which is 'better'... or is that part the actual can of worms everyone hates opening?
I know from fiddling with my HD6950 that a high core clock and shader count is desirable... but how can we noobs find a reasonable comparison between AMD 280-290X range and the 780-780Ti range?
I haven't mentioned the Titan, as it's usually well-expensive compared to these others!