SAPPHIRE R9 290X 8GB GDDR5 vs EVGA GTX 980 Superclocked 4GB

Hardware GPU
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ok so i am in the market for a new GPU im not going to lie up till now ive been a nvidia fan boy i was even going to upgrade to the evga 980 SC from my evga 295 co-op but then i was blown away as i saw a post on a ati product that has 8 gigs of gddr5 and now i dont know which to buy im so lost its been a LONG time since i bought a video card i could use help here i wont be over clocking i wont be useing a sli or cross fire setup

 

things i do

video editing i use sony vegas

and then play video games from old to new

 

i have a 850 watt PSU

 

so please any help would be awesome thanks guys (please note if you say get this product because its better isnt a valid point ....WHY is it better?)

 

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vegas supports both opencl and cuda so from a content creation side of things you should be fine with either.

The extra vram might help with video processing but I cant say for sure, try and find some benchmarks :D

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The 980 is too expensive for what it is. Like 10 FPS faster than a 970 for $200+ more.

Find some benchmarks and see what is faster in Vegas either CUDA or OpenCL.

What resolution do you game at?

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well id like to step up to 4k

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Then get the 290X. At 4K they are the same performance wise and the 290X is much cheaper.