GPU Value Comparisons

Lord Nikon6 said:
Well, depends on how you want to overclock it. I have the powercolor 7870 Myst, and I did expirment with overclocking a bit with litecoin mining. I can say this, the card is LOUD when overclocked, but mine only has one fan. I think it should overclock okay, but not sure.

You can get a Sapphire card for cheaper than the gigabyte eventually I think though.
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LOL! So true on the Myst! That card is actually a Boeing engine in disguise!
 
hereticangel said:
For the people buying cards out there , make sure you get 3gb vram + cards , seems 2gb is to little these days :(

Testing a gtx 680 here , runs out of vram on bf4 :(

Just something to keep in mind , i am running at 2560x1080 and dell releasing there new 4k monitors soon also :P

4k bracket go for R 9280x

5.5k go for R 9290 , best value for money card in world right now!
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If you're dealing with higher resolutions sure; but still at 1920 do you think 3gb vram is important?
 
Electric said:
1920 I can't see how 3gb is necessary.
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Yeah, 2GB is the norm for 1920x1080. You won't see a massive performance increase between 2GB and 4GB at that res. Maybe 5%, which is not worth the extra cost.
 
I will test at 1920x1080 today , but i was nearing the limit of 2gb on it also , will just make double sure now.
 
EmileS said:
LOL! So true on the Myst! That card is actually a Boeing engine in disguise!
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hahaha indeed. pushing the card makes it sound like the computer is going to hover around. Decent card though apart from that.
 
hereticangel said:
For the people buying cards out there , make sure you get 3gb vram + cards , seems 2gb is to little these days :(

Testing a gtx 680 here , runs out of vram on bf4 :(

Just something to keep in mind , i am running at 2560x1080 and dell releasing there new 4k monitors soon also :P

4k bracket go for R 9280x

5.5k go for R 9290 , best value for money card in world right now!
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Dice did warn of this. My HD7970 has 3GB memory. :)
 
I'm running R9-280x in crossfire and windows 8.1 and i can see I'm using more than 3GB vram and i think it's due to dx11.2. Sharing of the system ram with graphics memory. I'm @ 96Hz 2560x1440 and man it's amazing. Getting 96FPS on high to ultra without msaa and HBAO turned off
 
nelis said:
I'm running R9-280x in crossfire and windows 8.1 and i can see I'm using more than 3GB vram and i think it's due to dx11.2. Sharing of the system ram with graphics memory. I'm @ 96Hz 2560x1440 and man it's amazing. Getting 96FPS on high to ultra without msaa and HBAO turned off
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Things some of us can only dream of...
 
EmileS said:
Things some of us can only dream of...
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I wish I went with the Sapphire toxic R9-280x in crossfire rather than the club3d ones. The club3d card doesn't come with any cooling on the memory only the heatsink that covers the card. All i can say is it sounds better than it really is.

i have some issues with Farcry 3, Crysis 3 and sometimes in battlefield 4 where i get some frame drops. I had to disable frame pacing to be able to play. Frame pacing on + vsync is a no go for crossfire.
 
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nelis said:
I wish I went with the Sapphire toxic R9-280x in crossfire rather than the club3d ones. The club3d card doesn't come with any cooling on the memory only the heatsink that covers the card. All i can say is it sounds better than it really is.

i have some issues with Farcry 3, Crysis 3 and sometimes in battlefield 4 where i get some frame drops. I had to disable frame pacing to be able to play. Frame pacing on + vsync is a no go for crossfire.
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Let me know if you want to get rid of one of those cards at a good price :p Want to see the difference in my BF4 performance from my 7870 LE.
 
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