Water cooled 290x vs watercooled 780ti

culr · Mar 4, 2014

I'm looking to upgrade my graphics card, to either of these two cards and can't really be swayed on that.

Either of the cards will be custom watercooled in a 'desk case' with plenty of airflow.

I would like to overclocking the gpu if possible, but. It necessarily by a huge amount.

Will the watercooling allow me to of the 290x enough for it to be worthwhile?

Or will the 780ti just peform better when oc'ed/watercooled?

Nuclear101 · Mar 4, 2014

I would recommend the GTX 780Ti. It beats the R9 290x in most benchmarks, uses less power, compute performance is better. The only advantage of the R9 290x is a higher clock speed (not important as you are overclocking it), 4GB of RAM is more than what is needed for gaming on up to 3 monitors, pixel rate is only a bit better, a bit more render output processors, but not crucial, and a wider memory bus.

bob hays · Mar 4, 2014

^^^ basically what he is saying is, the 780ti performs better on everything (except mining)

Artemis50 · May 6, 2014

I am currently using a Sapphire 290x as I type this, and after 1 - 2 months of studying, i have literally just about seen a tie in these two products. The 290x is indeed a little below the 780 ti, but in this itself, the difference has been no more than 5 fps on average. The price difference so far has been anywhere between 70-150$ depending on the brand you are looking at in favor of the 290x. If you we're to add an after-market cooler to the 290x, given that most of these cards come with stock, i'm pretty confident that the 290x would indeed win over the 780 ti. (For personal interest, i am neither an AMD or nVidia fanboy.)

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