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AMD Radeon R9 295x2 VS Nvidia GTX980 SLI

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September 21, 2014 8:31:24 PM

Whats the better choice here?

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September 21, 2014 8:33:09 PM

No competition, 980SLI all the way. Even 970 SLI competes and beats the 295x2 http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_9...
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September 28, 2014 10:51:04 PM

Gam3r01 said:
No competition, 980SLI all the way. Even 970 SLI competes and beats the 295x2 http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_9...


If you are running 4K or use a triplescreen setup, the R9 295x2 is the clear winner. 8GB of usable memory. Same link above and other benchmarks elsewhere shows the R9 295x2 outperforming Nvidia at 4K everytime.
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September 30, 2014 7:57:06 AM

First thing, single Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 is faster than the AMD Radeon R9 295X2. Benchmark also shown that it have very little difference of "losses" with 295X2. Next, AMD Radeon 295X2, is a Dual GPU Graphic card. So the RAM is shared equally which means 4GB per GPU. Just imagine being SLI-ed. Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 being SLI is a clear winned. To add more, a single GTX 980 beats the GTX 780, GTX 780 Ti and AMD Radeon R9 290X. It's the fastest single GPU Gprahics card now. With that being said, rumors are AMD will launch AMD Radeon R9 390X to compete it and been said that it will beat it. Will be release in February 2015. An exciting moment and fear moment too. To be honest, Im a Nvidia fan. While that is true, Im not a complete fan boy. I like Nvidia because they are fatser and have so much technology support. Like 3D suroorund, VSync, Shadowplay, Cuda etc. I also learning stuff that need these support. But choposing the correct winner is uneasy. There no winner. Just faster or better. Also, overkilling is waste of momey except if you plan to use it later. An AMD Graphics card or more precisely, AMD whole, focuses more to gaming. Intel and Nvidia are more to server, 3D etc and of course, in some games, it's an overkill. So, if you were to play games, on a 4k or 3 display, both Radeon R9 295X2 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 are good with pricing with more to Nvidia since they also have those supports. But if to say Nvidia increases the price, and you are playing games on 4k or 3 display with no plan to use the supports, I would advice to go AMD. But if you want to go 3D etc, Nvidia is the way to go.

Lasty, it all comes to what you want to use it for. Good luck :D 
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September 30, 2014 9:10:30 AM

What benchmark are you looking at where a gtx980 beats a r9 295x2?

For 4k and triple screen setup, I believe sli gtx980 is on par with the r9 295x2. It wins on some games and loses on others.
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September 30, 2014 9:13:22 AM

SFFMedia said:
Gam3r01 said:
No competition, 980SLI all the way. Even 970 SLI competes and beats the 295x2 http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_9...


If you are running 4K or use a triplescreen setup, the R9 295x2 is the clear winner. 8GB of usable memory. Same link above and other benchmarks elsewhere shows the R9 295x2 outperforming Nvidia at 4K everytime.


It doesnt have 8Gb of useable memory, its 4gb for each gpu, just like 980 SLI.
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October 1, 2014 5:29:48 AM

bbundaegi said:
What benchmark are you looking at where a gtx980 beats a r9 295x2?

For 4k and triple screen setup, I believe sli gtx980 is on par with the r9 295x2. It wins on some games and loses on others.


Many benchmark shown that 9/10 Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 single (same setting for every tested graphics card - variety 4k from Medium to Ultra setting 4k) wins when battle the AMD Radeon R9 290X. Besides, many benchmark also shown 8/10 Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 SLI (same setting for every tested graphics card - variety 4k from Medium to Ultra setting 4k) wins when battling AMD Radeon R9 295X2.
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K21A933 said:
bbundaegi said:
What benchmark are you looking at where a gtx980 beats a r9 295x2?

For 4k and triple screen setup, I believe sli gtx980 is on par with the r9 295x2. It wins on some games and loses on others.


Many benchmark shown that 9/10 Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 single (same setting for every tested graphics card - variety 4k from Medium to Ultra setting 4k) wins when battle the AMD Radeon R9 290X. Besides, many benchmark also shown 8/10 Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 SLI (same setting for every tested graphics card - variety 4k from Medium to Ultra setting 4k) wins when battling AMD Radeon R9 295X2.


You keep referencing benchmarks but fail to produce them
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