Spec my new GPU :)

[Arthalen]

Rig in Sig. Feels a bit long in the tooth these days, but has been playing my games adequately - but since that's mainly been MMOs, ermm, that's nothing to stressful for what I have.

But I feel the upgrade itch, and want to play some BF4 - so I need a card that's worth the £££ outlay by giving me a decent +% increase over my 6950 and has Mantle - so yes, AMD.

Suggestions?

 

[Arthalen]

You play right into AMDs hands like a little puppet.
AMD says Mantle, naive people jump onto it, even though there are no benchmarks and everything is speculation.

If you want AMD just say so... but to use Mantle as a reason.?.
Or do you know something no one else does?

Not really, but from some of the Developer video's its interesting technology and I've been a bit of an AMD fan for quite some time. I've had a AMD Generation card for the past ... 10 years? I think the last Nvidia card I owned was a 8800GTX

Perhaps I'm being a bit blithe with my choice because I've been out of the hardware scene for a couple of years now, hence asking for a little advice. I will consider any options - from some quick review benchmark research, I don't think a 280 card is going to give the improvement I'm looking for in terms of frame rates, and I'd have to stump up the cash for a 290 or go home.

It does seem a Nvidia 770 4GB card would give me what I want, at a slightly lower £250ish price point.

Hmmm, choices.