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Ok, i have some.. more graphics cards on a website i am in my country, the problem is that all goes.. for esample.. in my country the monethary is "Lei" so they're price goes around 2650-2900 Lei, that in dollars means 755-827 $, and since there are 5 cards, ill need your help to choose the best one.. please..

They are in order from the cheapest to the most expensive one

First one:
Gigabyte NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980, 4096MB, GDDR5, 256bit, HDMI, DVI, 3x Display Port

Second one:
Asus nVidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II, 3072MB, GDDR5, 384bit, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, CoolTech Fan

The Third Card:
EVGA NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 OC Superclocked, 4096MB, GDDR5, 256bit, HDMI, DVI, 3x Display Port, ACX 2.0 Cooler

The Furth Card:
Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX980, 4096MB, GDDR5, 256bit, HDMI, DVI, 3x Display Port

The Fifth and the more expensive card from the site on Nvidia Family or somethink :
Gigabyte NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 G1 GAMING, WINDFORCE 3X, 4096MB, GDDR5, 256bit, HDMI, DVI, 3x Display Port

Help me decide on this please..

There is no AMD cards on this website that are going around this same price as the ones above and have the same performance or better, so only nvidia power <3 :D

But you may still recommend me an AMD card that goes around that price and its better than those i mentioned above?
 
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I would pick either the third or fifth card. The 900 series cards are more efficient by consuming less power, produce less heat, and are quieter. At the end of the day, Just get a 980 GTX and be done with it as it will definitely outperform the 780 ti. I definitely prefer the aftermarket coolers versus the factory blower style coolers are graphics cards. But if price is a factor, get whichever one is cheaper.
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I would pick either the third or fifth card. The 900 series cards are more efficient by consuming less power, produce less heat, and are quieter. At the end of the day, Just get a 980 GTX and be done with it as it will definitely outperform the 780 ti. I definitely prefer the aftermarket coolers versus the factory blower style coolers are graphics cards. But if price is a factor, get whichever one is cheaper.
 
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Is the last GTX 980 G1 GAMING card better than the AMD Radeon R9 295x2 card? lol the 980 power consumption is about 190w and the amd card is about 500w at max .. that is ridiculous, it would be better to get nvidia or amd?

EDIT: And one more thing, the 980 supports 5760x1080 while the 295x2 supports only 3840x2160, it seems that 980 could be better?
 
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There is a reason why the Radeon cards slashed their prices. Becasue they aren't keeping up performance wise with the 970 and 980 cards.

A single Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 is faster than the AMD Radeon R9 295X2. Benchmarks have also shown that it have very little difference of "losses" with the 295X2. Next, AMD Radeon 295X2, is a Dual GPU Graphic card. So the RAM is shared equally which means 4GB per GPU.

The only thing Radeon has on its side right now is price.
 
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Take a look at these benchmarks, at the 3,840 x 2,160, the R9 295x2 card is beating the 980 G1 GAMING (the fifth card i numbered) so easly, its so close that it haves doubles fps, while the r9 have 67 average, the 980 have only 45, so... thecnically, from benchmarks, the 295x2 seems doing pretty well in games.. ? but that power consumption is damn crazy.. "Maximum 500watts" they say... lol

And while all the cards here are failing to play the amazing crysis 3 game at max settings, all maxed out at a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160, the only one is the 295x2 that gives really good playable fps at this huge resolution, 40 average :O
 
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It greatly depends on the game you play. The reason the power consumption is so high is becasue it has two GPU's on the same card for the AMD card. It also costs nearly twice the money. For the same cost as an AMD 295x2, I would get two 980's and run them in SLI and then not only would power consumption be lower, but it would perform much higher than a 295x2. And if a GTX 990 ever comes out, which would have two 980 chips on the same card, then get that if you only want a single physical card instead of two 980's running in SLI.
 
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When does a 990 comes out? have you heard anythink? would be better to wait? some months? its no rush cause right now i got R9 270x 2gb oc windforce x3 so with this i kinda run anythink at max at 1920x1080,
 
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AMD cards usually run well when it comes to extremely large 4K resolutions. If you really want to be fair, Compare a 295x2 against 980's in SLI. Comparing a GPU with two chips on the card from the same generation versus a card with a single GPU on it is kind of an unfair comparison.

There are posts on this website already where poeple have already compared the two and the 980's in SLI won over the 295x2 becasue they are more power efficient, less noisy, and output far less heat since they require less power to operate.
 
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For me the 980 is 827 $ and the R9 295x2 is 1140 $ so .. i cannot actually buy two 980 cause its not like in your country, 980 at half a price.. for me its not :D but i will look deep into this, i want the best gpu for gaming, not 3d, not anything else, well, maybe for developing games, i mean working with the ureal engine 4, or with the cryengine, nothink more :)
 
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