Unsure what graphics card to get for my motherboard.

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Hey Tom's Hardware folks,
I've been lurking around for quite a while now on this forum, but just made an account just now. I currently have a AMD FX-8350 cpu and have decided to switch over to intel. I have purchased:
-Intel i5 4670K
-Gigabyte z87x-ud3h
I'm just unsure what graphics card to be buying, ive tried searching multiple forum post. But they seem to be displaying diffrent answers each time. I mainly play games such as world of warcraft and league of legends and use my computer for Autocad and Matlab for engineering. If anyone can recommend me a Good graphics card that can run all these with ease and smoothly that would be great!


 
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Check the requirements of your releases of Metlab and AutoCAD first if you're using them for work, gaming type cards are not always the best option for serious applications.
Nvidia cards seem handle OpenGL better than AMD but both handle DirecX as well as each other.
If both use CUDA then the GTX760 is the sweet spot for gaming but if your work software needs more compute power you could move up to a GTX770.
If both use Direct Compute or Open CL an AMD card like the R9 280 is their sweet spot or the faster R9 280X if more compute power is required.
Note: I'm assuming you'll want good work performance if time is not too pressing you could drop to either a GTX660 or R9 270 for those games for now, just bear in mind the less powerful...
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Check the requirements of your releases of Metlab and AutoCAD first if you're using them for work, gaming type cards are not always the best option for serious applications.
Nvidia cards seem handle OpenGL better than AMD but both handle DirecX as well as each other.
If both use CUDA then the GTX760 is the sweet spot for gaming but if your work software needs more compute power you could move up to a GTX770.
If both use Direct Compute or Open CL an AMD card like the R9 280 is their sweet spot or the faster R9 280X if more compute power is required.
Note: I'm assuming you'll want good work performance if time is not too pressing you could drop to either a GTX660 or R9 270 for those games for now, just bear in mind the less powerful cards will age faster than stronger ones.
If I'm correct both apps are fully multi threaded, moving to an i5 will be a downgrade as it can only handle 4 threads while the 8350 runs 8 and is much faster in fully multi threaded software.
 
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