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The better graphics card you choose, the higher detail settings you can select.
Your maximum frame rate may be limited by your CPU in some situations, but picking a faster or slower GPU won't change this.
For 1920x1080 resolution, the GeForce GTX 770 or Radeon R9 280X will allow the highest detail settings.
Other cards that will give you medium to high detail settings, from slowest to fastest; GTX 750 Ti, R9 270, GTX 760, R9 270X, R9 280, R9 285. R9 cards are AMD Radeon, GTX cards are Nvidia GeForce.
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You can go up till the R9 280 without bottlenecks but since you couldn't afford an i5 I'd say the R9 270X is a good budget GPU , if not the best !!

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The better graphics card you choose, the higher detail settings you can select.
Your maximum frame rate may be limited by your CPU in some situations, but picking a faster or slower GPU won't change this.
For 1920x1080 resolution, the GeForce GTX 770 or Radeon R9 280X will allow the highest detail settings.
Other cards that will give you medium to high detail settings, from slowest to fastest; GTX 750 Ti, R9 270, GTX 760, R9 270X, R9 280, R9 285. R9 cards are AMD Radeon, GTX cards are Nvidia GeForce.
 
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Unfortunately though the benchmarks show the card in this order

750ti , R7 265 , R9 270 , GTX 760 (nowadays)/R9 270X/R9 285 , R9 280 , R9 280X/GTX 770

You can clearly see that in the latest R9 285 Benchmarks .

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-r9-285-tonga,3925-9.html

It feels like the 270x and 760 are now on par , the 280 pulls ahead slightly the 285 is somewhere in between so I categorized that with the 760 and 270x as there's not much difference .
 
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Did you mean to say "Those Two benchmarks show the cards in this order" ?
because those two are certainly not representative of all games.
Some games do much better on Nvidia while others work best on AMD and I'm just trying to clarify things for future visitors.
 
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No I didn't , some games favor AMD and some games favors AMD but usually the 280 pulls off leaving the GTX 760 a split second behind. The new Benchmarks on most websites show that the OC 270X is on par or a split second behind the 760.
 
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It depends very much on the game, settings and driver versions.
Even between the R9 280 and R9 285, one is faster in some benchmarks and in some benchmarks the other is faster.
I actually edited my original post to move the GTX 760 below the R9 270X (which I have mistakenly called an R7 as well). The hierarchy list shows the GTX 760 above the R9 270X, but I think they have always lumped the GTX 760 in with the GTX 670 and it isn't as fast.
The categorization you have given is fine.
 
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