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7950 vs GTX760 vs R9 270X?

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November 16, 2013 2:35:23 AM

Hello there, I want to upgrade my GPU as I am in the process of selling both my Radeon HD7770's. I was looking around the internet, and I realized I had a best choice of 3 cards.

Either of these: (They all cost around the same)

Phantom GTX760 OC
XFX 7950 DD Edtion (900MHz)
MSI R9 270X Hawk

I have heard that Nvidia cards have better support with things like drivers ETC.

But AMD cards have a new technology called mantle coming out in the near future.

So, which is best?

Rest of my rig:

AMD Athlon II X4 640 (Will be upgraded soon to a FX-6350)
Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3
8GB Kingston HyperX Blu 1600MHz
Either the R9 270X, GTX760 or 7950?
Antec GX-700 Case
FSP Bluestorm II 530W (80Plus)

Which card is better, the 7950, GTX760 or R9 270X?

Thanks!

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November 16, 2013 2:38:57 AM

7950 DD is the fastest and will overclock the best. and as for drivers i have no driver problems in my setup.
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November 16, 2013 10:39:53 AM

I own a XFX Double D Radeon HD 7950 myself. It has great cooling. Some of the best I have ever seen actually. If you have the cash to spare you should get the black edition. You should be able to do some good overclocking. But if that is not your thing then just get the regular edition. The cooling is so good the performance never degrades. EVER! Or at least extremely slowly considering you get a lifetime warranty with the card. Hope I helped!

Tim
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November 16, 2013 10:42:13 AM

Forgot to mention: Because you are upgrading to a 6350 in the future, your performance will improve with games that are optimized for AMD cards.
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November 16, 2013 2:20:07 PM

Reply to 17seconds: You seem to be forgetting that he is using a pretty good AMD processor. Which means that he will get a performance boost with games optimized for AMD cards. Plus you don't need a NVidia card to use Physx. You can download a driver for it to use your processor as opposed to your video card. Just something to keep note on. :) 

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November 16, 2013 2:33:27 PM

nvidia does great even on games its not optimized for. Funny how amd needs boosts ;) .
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November 17, 2013 12:25:50 AM

timtheman678 said:
Reply to 17seconds: You seem to be forgetting that he is using a pretty good AMD processor. Which means that he will get a performance boost with games optimized for AMD cards. Plus you don't need a NVidia card to use Physx. You can download a driver for it to use your processor as opposed to your video card. Just something to keep note on. :) 


How could I forget something that's not true? There is no such thing as a game optimized for an AMD CPU. They do not exist. And there is absolutely no PhysX game that will allow High/Advanced settings with acceptable performance on the CPU with an AMD card. None.

And where did you come up with the notion that an Athlon II is a "pretty good" processor?
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November 17, 2013 12:33:37 AM

GTX760 is still the best. I'm using FX-4100 with a 550 Ti and there's no bottleneck at all, NVIDIA works good with AMD CPU.
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November 17, 2013 4:50:56 AM

Nvidia works great with everything. I want to believe in the new amd cards i really do!!! Especially the 290x but i just cant with all the problems people are having with them :( 
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November 19, 2013 2:00:19 PM

17seconds said:
timtheman678 said:
Reply to 17seconds: You seem to be forgetting that he is using a pretty good AMD processor. Which means that he will get a performance boost with games optimized for AMD cards. Plus you don't need a NVidia card to use Physx. You can download a driver for it to use your processor as opposed to your video card. Just something to keep note on. :) 


How could I forget something that's not true? There is no such thing as a game optimized for an AMD CPU. They do not exist. And there is absolutely no PhysX game that will allow High/Advanced settings with acceptable performance on the CPU with an AMD card. None.

And where did you come up with the notion that an Athlon II is a "pretty good" processor?


Please can you not criticise my CPU, i'm 14 and I cannot afford to have the best and latest. But the Athlon II is fine for me.

I think i'm gonna get the 7950 and a decent PSU and overclock the hell out of it :D 

Thanks!
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