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akashic

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This is very specific as i am on a budget, and by specific i mean the manufacturers have to be the once listed below

The situation is there are two cards within my budget that i am considering as "best value for the money"

The AMD one is Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3gb with Boost

The Nvidia one is Evga Geforce GTX 760 2gb SC ACX

Both comes in at about 240€ (conversion rates from my currency)

Both these cards increase with about 30€ if i go for another manufacturer hence it is very specifically either of those two cards, the "third" options would be going for a lower model of a different manufacturer such as the HD 7870 or the GTX 660 (660 Ti is only about 2-3€ cheaper then the GTX 760 listed above)

For good measure i should add that i will be running a single 1080p monitor, and i have no immediate plans of running two monitors
 
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Zero Cool

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Since both cards cost about about 240€, the EVGA GTX 760 is definitely the better choice. The ACX cooler on that card works great! Here is a graph to help you compare the GTX 760 to the other GPU's you listed:

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akashic

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relative performance i'm not sure exactly how i should understand that is that like on average in games or something?

But as far as i can tell from that graph, it would apear that EVGA is actually one of the better manufacturers
 
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coozie7

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In all practical terms there's no difference in overall performance.
The GTX760 PhysX, some Nvidia only AA modes that reduce the performance hit when applying AA and CUDA.
The HD7950 overclocks like a thing possessed, has more VRAM and should come with a nice little collection of games (download codes actually) which you can either use or Ebay and support for Direct Compute.
Either CUDA or Direct Compute only come in useful if you use software that takes advantage of them.
If you want the games, go AMD, if you want PhysX/better AA go Nvidia.
If you can't make up your mind flip a coin, you'll win whatever side it lands on.
 
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yeah but as i said any other manufacturers are much more expensive, the gigabyte is actually much more expensive like 50€, the thing is both the cards i've listed are on sale at the moment, and only those two manufacturers (in that series) which is why i was asking just specifically for those two =)
 
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I am not really using the Physx as much, but am not really too much interested in anything other the "manager games" well besides diablo and fifa, and i think those game does make small if any use of Physx, either way i think thats probably the winner
 
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One thing to remember about Nvidia cards is that they perform very badly for BitCoin mining.
This 7950 would do well for BitCoin mining and then some more, only if you are into that sort of thing.
 
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After a few bad graphics cards and motherboards I always prefer to buy a better implementation of a component and get slightly lower performance but have it running reliably until replacement. I would not recomment EVGA. I've RMAed two mobos so far and had temperature problems with 2 SLI graphics cards because of bad cooling system.
 
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