GTX 660 vs Radeon R9 270X
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Vitric9
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It hard to compare graphics cards in a AMD vs Nvidia manner. You can use Specs as a useful guide when comparing two GPU from the same architecture ie: R9 270X vs Radeon HD 7870 as they both use GCN. note the r9 series is very slightly tweaked version of GCN, ie GCN 1.1. the GTX 660 and HD 7870 were in similar performance and price range last year. in terms of GPU compute power victorst1 has it right in that order. Just for a point of reference the HD 7870 has about 2.56 TFLOPs and the GTX 660 has about 1.9 TFLOPs. But there is a good amount of AAA titles that teh GTX 660 out performs the HD 7870. Also Video Memory can perform differently on the same Architecture for example a GTX 770 2Gb on a 256bit bus clocked 7010MHz can better offer a bigger buffer than the exact same GPU in the GTX 680.
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I have a 660. never use it. isn't that great.
if you play games at 1900 resolution at this point in time I would buy a 3gig card.
your next monitor may need the extra ram ( higher res will be the norm as 1080p is now )
some games already pass the 2gig mark storage - and some major titles will probably be pushing the limit in the near future.
you list a 280 above............. wouldn't waste my time on anything less if those 3 were my options.
if you play games at 1900 resolution at this point in time I would buy a 3gig card.
your next monitor may need the extra ram ( higher res will be the norm as 1080p is now )
some games already pass the 2gig mark storage - and some major titles will probably be pushing the limit in the near future.
you list a 280 above............. wouldn't waste my time on anything less if those 3 were my options.
swifty_morgan
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if it wasn't in your budget why did you even list it?.............. and believe it or not, bigger really is better.
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The R9 280 graphics cards range from $250-$300 And considering that it is not much less powerful to the $400+ R9 280x makes it a compelling value. Though then there is GPU binning and maybe some R9 280 GPUs do not perform as well as others
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yes, that is a very good card with a very good cooler (Twin Frozr by MSI), highly recommend it.
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