Hi people,
A few weeks ago I would have been 100% sure that I was going to get the Gigabyte GTX 760 4GB but now since AMD has released their new R9 series GPUs I'm having problems deciding which GPU to get.
It's a decision between the 760 above, the Gigabyte GTX 770 4GB or the Gigabyte Radeon R9 280x 3GB
Now the GTX 770 is far more powerful than the R9 and produces higher FPS in games usually by about 20-40 FPS more but it's also £100 more than the R9 (£ is British currency)
Here are the links to the Benchmarks graphs for each card and also the prices
GTX 760 benchmarks - http://tinyurl.com/gtx760results
GTX 770 benchmarks - http://tinyurl.com/gtx770results
R9 280x benchmarks - http://tinyurl.com/r9-280xresults
You may notice that the GPUs in these links are a different to the ones I am going on about, but I tried looking for benchmark scores on the cards I want and I couldn't find any but these cards have the same base and boost clock speed so I know roughly how powerful the Gigabyte cards are.
Here are the links for the prices
GTX 760 - http://tinyurl.com/gtx-760prices
GTX 770 - http://tinyurl.com/gtx-770prices
R9 280x - http://tinyurl.com/r9-280xprice
I know the obvious choice would be the 770 and honestly as I'm writing this I'm falling for the 770 more and more but I just wanted other people's insight. What I don't want though is opinions on which card you like, I want facts on which card would provide more throughput in terms of FPS in games on high/ultra details.
I'm not an Nvidia or AMD fanboy, I choose a card based on price and performance, the brand of the card isn't really relevant.
If it helps, my build will consist of:
Intel core i5 4670k
Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1600Mhz
Gigabyte Z87 D3HP mobo
Corsair CXM 750w PSU
Windows 8 (no hate please, I'm getting it for 8.1 update and DX11 updates)
128GB SSD (O/S and a few games mainly installed on this)
That's the main parts of the build which I thought would help with an answer to my question.
