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September 2, 2014 3:39:40 PM

As the title says, I'm building my first PC, which will be mainly used for video editing and 3D rendering, so if I wanted to get the best GPU, would I go with AMD or Nvidia for that matter?

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September 2, 2014 3:51:49 PM

Go with AMD, you get more performance whilst paying less money and besides, to get good performance from nvidia, you need to go with one of the quaddro cards which cost an arm and a leg to get
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September 2, 2014 4:03:20 PM

If your usage is video editing or other multicore enabled apps, the amd chips offer more cores for the money. But... if you have a big budget, the new haswell-E chips will be hard to beat.
For such apps, see if they can make use of CUDA, a nvidia exclusive.

If your use is gaming, intel chips perform better per core.
On gaming, let price be your guide. You will get similar performance per dollar with either amd or nvidia cards.
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September 3, 2014 12:57:05 AM

geofelt said:
If your usage is video editing or other multicore enabled apps, the amd chips offer more cores for the money. But... if you have a big budget, the new haswell-E chips will be hard to beat.
For such apps, see if they can make use of CUDA, a nvidia exclusive.

If your use is gaming, intel chips perform better per core.
On gaming, let price be your guide. You will get similar performance per dollar with either amd or nvidia cards.


I'm getting the i7 4930k, for the hexa cores sake, and the higher cache, and since you guys recommended going with AMD, I'm probably going for the SAPPHIRE TRI-X R9 290X 4GB GDDR5 OC, as I believe that it provides the best cooling out there, which can provide higher overclocking as well, but I heard that Nvidia's CUDA platform really makes a difference, which kinda drag me back from getting an AMD card.
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September 3, 2014 1:15:54 AM

It depends, how much can you spend on a gpu? if you're job is reliant on the rendering etc, a titan will be better
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September 6, 2014 8:19:48 AM

legend001523 said:
It depends, how much can you spend on a gpu? if you're job is reliant on the rendering etc, a titan will be better


Well, my job does rely on rendering and video editing, which depends on the GPU power, but the Titan is way out of my budget. :D 
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September 6, 2014 8:28:43 AM

What applications are you using? Most of the big name ones support GPU acceleration, which means a mid range workstation card may end up performing notably better than a high end gaming card in them. Find out if your applications support CUDA, Stream, or OpenCL, as that will tell you which brand you should go for.
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September 6, 2014 10:47:07 AM

You probably want to wait until the GTX 980 drops on September 19th before making your decision.
http://wccftech.com/geforce-gtx-980-alleged-benchmark-t...

Personally, I have found Adaptive VSync to be an indispensable feature of Nvidia cards, and PhysX is something I wouldn't want to have to pass up if I have the opportunity.
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September 7, 2014 4:49:09 AM

hunter315 said:
What applications are you using? Most of the big name ones support GPU acceleration, which means a mid range workstation card may end up performing notably better than a high end gaming card in them. Find out if your applications support CUDA, Stream, or OpenCL, as that will tell you which brand you should go for.


I'll be mainly using Adobe applications, which, as far as I know, take advantage of the CUDA cores found in Nvidia cards.
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September 7, 2014 4:51:17 AM

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You probably want to wait until the GTX 980 drops on September 19th before making your decision.
http://wccftech.com/geforce-gtx-980-alleged-benchmark-t...

Personally, I have found Adaptive VSync to be an indispensable feature of Nvidia cards, and PhysX is something I wouldn't want to have to pass up if I have the opportunity.


I'll probably wait anyway, I won't be getting the system before 2015.
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