Asus GTX 780 DirectCU II vs Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC

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The two products in question:
I'm hopefully at the point where I'll be able to order parts for a new PC within the next week or two, but I'm still unsure in a couple of areas, GPUs being on.

There are plenty of suggestions flying around but I had it limited it down to an Asus GTX 780 until recently when this R9 290 popped up.
I was just wondering what your opinions are between the two cards? Positives, negatives, personal experience etc.

Thanks o/
 
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Well in general the 2 cards perform very much the same but at higher than 1080p resolutions the 290 takes the lead depending on the resolution used.

If you are comfortable with a warmer, louder card then the R9 290 is perfectly worth it at a lower price point.

However if noise is an annoyance then consider the GTX780 instead.
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What resolution will you be gaming at?
What games do you plan on playing?
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For now just 1080p single monitor as that's all I have, but I'm considering grabbing a 2nd monitor closer to summer.

As for games I'm thinking it'll mainly be BF3/BF4, Titanfall, ESO, League of Legends, L4D2, Minecraft. Other than those it'll be just random, non intensive games sitting in my Steam library.
 
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Sapphire R9 290x Tri-x is what i recommend. I have the same problem as yours i'm confused when i am picking my card and I ended up on R9 290x because in some test and references R9 290x is better than GTX 780 but it is not energy efficient like GTX 780 has low TDP and R9 290x can do well in high res. games 1080p up. well in some reasons i also want GTX 780 because of price is lower than R9 290x.
 
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Well in general the 2 cards perform very much the same but at higher than 1080p resolutions the 290 takes the lead depending on the resolution used.

If you are comfortable with a warmer, louder card then the R9 290 is perfectly worth it at a lower price point.

However if noise is an annoyance then consider the GTX780 instead.
 
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I agree with this :) but in my own experience i have 290x tri-x it doesnt do much noise only at 100% of course :D
 
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Fair enough.
Same site, Asus review. No Tri-x, was not in review. Compare to first:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_780_Ti_Direct_Cu_II_OC/23.html

My point here is that they are both good cards. The Tri-x is actually quiter under load.
 
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true :)
 
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I had the same choice. I finally decided to go for the R9 290 tri-x. bought it for 396 euro's (Azerty.nl). The main reason to buy this card is the OC capabilities it has. With the proper OC it can outperform the 780 ti by far. I must say that it runs very quiet (compared to my two older HD7950 vapor-x which where one of the better HD7950 in the earlier days) and is very fast ( I already overclocked it to 1150 (base clock is 1000) on the gpu and 1350 on the memory. With this minor overclock it out performs my earlier crossfire HD7950 with mantle. So that is nice.

My advise is to buy one of these if the price is still around the 400 euro's in your country. The other by default highend cards out there are much more pricier.
 
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Thank you all for the help! The 780 was the original plan and I think I might just head down that route.

The cards you guys are comparing with reviews are the Ti and the 290x which are pretty much just upgrades so I'm guessing it's roughly the same idea, difference wise, when you compare the 780 and the 290 themselves.

I don't know if I'm going to be grabbing another monitor or two, or just a better single monitor but even if I do I'm assuming the 780 will still do the job well, and I could always stick a 2nd 780 SLI in there further down the line if I really needed it.

Either card the OP is comparing are very good cards. I would consider price heavily. EVGA makes a very nice 780 as well.
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I did look at EVGA's 780 but for the difference in performance, cooling, and noise and even the price I just decided on the Asus.

From what I've seen in most threads I've read a lot of it's down to personal preference or nit picking when deciding on a GPU of the same type. Personally I've worked with NVIDIA cards before and have always had an easy time (not that I'm dissing AMD either, I think I've had 1 before but I really can't remember) and Asus also have a great track record.

Again, thanks for the help! If you have anything else to say I'll probably see it as well so thanks for that!
 
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