Picking between 2 same GPUs.

[InfiniteNoise]

For my future SFF build, I've narrowed the GPU choices to these two cards,

Sapphire R9 380 Compact ITX
Sapphire Nitro R9 380

Prices are same for both, but I'm not sure which one to go with, I can fit either card into a Silverstone SG05 without any fiddling, with the ITX card I can easily fit in a smaller case should I ever go down that route but SG05 is already small enough.

If you know of any other card in £150 range that I should look into, let me know, it'll be paired with i5-6400.

For Nvidia, there's GTX 960 but it seems like it's a bit behind the cards I'm looking at, sure it draws a bit less power and runs cooler, but heat/power draw isn't a problem for me anyways.

If I hold off for couple of weeks, I can easily add R9 Fury Nano to my build, this sounds like a good choice, it'll certainly last longer than R9 380/GTX 960, I'm considering on doing this.

 

[InfiniteNoise]

I've been looking over things again.

If I decide to go for it now/new few days, Nitro would be the better option, you're right, the Compact only has 2GB VRAM vs 4GB on the Nitro.

My monitor is 1920x1200 and I have no plans to upgrade it anytime soon, maybe to a 2560x1600 in next couple of years, so Fury Nano probably would be overkill until I do upgrade, so I've been looking at other GPUs, GTX 970 (either Zotac or Gigabyte's ITX version, both fits nicely in SG05, the others don't look like they can fit in easily), the card seems to hit a sweet point.

But yeah anyways, if I haven't decided on anything now and still haven't decided on it in couple of weeks, Fury Nano's mine then.

Things are a bit complicated when there are so many cards at difference price points and you're not sure what your budget is. >: