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What is the best GPU out there for no more than £500

Goucho

Goucho

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Hi guys i do a lot of FPS gaming and video recording/editing/rendering. I will soon be collecting bits for a new build ( still deciding on what CPU route to take) but one thing for sure is i have £500 for a new GPU and i want the best there is for that price to do the job i want ;)
 
Being 2 gpu's means it's running in crossfire and not all games support it well. Best case it will perform twice as fast as a single 290x, worst case it'll just run as a single 290x. Recently there have been a few new games released where crossfire (and SLI for NVidia cards) haven't worked well until a patch and/or new drivers have come out but generally once a game does support it it works very well.
I've only had my 295x2 for a little while but I've not had any problems so far running Crysis 3, Dragon Age Inquisition, World of Warcraft and Shadows of Mordor.
In games such as those where it's well supported it will be significantly faster than a single 980 (unless it's one of 8Packs cards under ln2 ;))
 
I'd have thought if he's spending £500 on a gpu then the cpu will be pretty good as well but yes, the i5 would be a sensible minimum for SLI/xfire.
 
stuie said:
I wouldnt go that far, any of the recent core i5s and i7's from sandybridge onwards could run two 970s I for one wouldnt upgrade my 3770k if i was to change from my 670s to 970s
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He meant class*.

The 3570/3770/4690/4790 are all basically within a few % of each other (in games any way)
 
the 980 is roughly 10/15% more powerful than a 970 but cost's close to the price of 2 x 970's which inmost situations where SLI is utilised correctly beats the 980 by quite a lot.

But both have Pro's and Con's

SLI = More annoying driver related issues / More Heat for example.
 
As for the "Best" card, that's up for debate as there are multiple factors that can be involved.

The highest performing card for that amount is easily the AMD 295X2
Yes you will stumble into a problem at somepoint with Crossfire (and SLi for that matter) but these issues are usually dealt with swiftly via driver updates.

If you don't want to go multi-GPU then the next best performing card would be the highest overclockable GTX 980.
 
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