Mid range AMD or Nvidia GPU?

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Jumping right into the subject i am looking to treat my system with a new GPU. However recent events have made my thoughts on what would work best for me very clouded. Things like AMD's Mantle, Nvidia's G-Sync, the whole price to performance things and so on. 

What i am trying to find out is, what brand (not sure if that is the right word to use) would benefit me the most in terms of features. 

 

I currently use my PC to work on, game with old and new games, edit photos with Photoshop Elements 9 (hoping to upgrade to Light room in the next years or so) and multitask a fair amount on 2 monitors (planning to upgrade to 3 in the future).

AMD's Eyefinity feature looks to be fantastic for gaming and productivity but Nvidia's CUDA could provide a boost with Adobe Lightroom photo editing software from what i have understood.

I do not care about things like Advanced Phys-x on Nvidia or hot temps wit the new AMD R series of GPUs as i normally play RTC or Simulator games, and i have very good airflow on my case too. 

Furthermore i am looking at a mid range card that could pull at 1080p on most games at high settings (not necessarily max settings). So if anyone has a recommendation shout out with why and i would be glad to have a read.

Normally i know exactly what hardware i want and why, it is mainly due to the fact that i do not really understand all the new features of the new products and how they would impact the consumer (or how effectively they would). 

If there are spelling and/or grammar mistakes sorry but i think i have covered them all, and thanks in advance to anyone who reply's to this. 

 

***EDIT***

Sorry forgot to say if anyone wants to ask questions on my current system or other questions on my uses for it please by all means go right ahead.

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Do you have a particular budget and what are your current specs?

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Current Specs are:

Processor - AMD Phenom II X6 1045T @3.48GHz

MB - ASUS Sabertooth 990FX/Gen3 R2.0 Motherboard

RAM - 16GB (4x4) GSkill Ripjaws Z Series 1866

Graphics/GPU - ASUS Nvidia GTX 550Ti

Primary Hard drive - 128GB Crucial SSD (forgot what model)

 

And as for budget i am looking for up to £300($480) on the high end but about £200-250($320-400) would be ideal. 

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i found this: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1NsM2

its arround 250 pounds on Aria pc. Upgrading to a FX8350 could also be an good option later on.

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How about an AMD 7930 or nVidia 670?

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After a fair amount of research it has really high specs for the money, but i cannot find much about power consumption. I do not think it should be too much of a problem have a 650w PSU its just i have 7 hard drives to run with that too. Would power be a problem?

 

 And yes the FX8350 is something i am wanting to get in time. but for the moment what i have seems to work quite well 

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I could not find anything relevant on the 7930 but the 670 is very pricey, compared to the suggested R9280x it looks over priced though i could be overlooking something :S 

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280x is faster than any given Nvidia card that is sub-£300. You're fine with your 650W. Plenty of headroom.

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Thank you for your help ^.^ 

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mid range is always AMD 

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Thank you ^.^