Best graphics card for gaming at 1080p 120fps.

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Treyhu2014

Treyhu2014

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I am building a new computer and i am wanting to game at 120fps on a 1080p on mostly every game. I have every component that I want except the graphics card. I was wondering what graphics card would work. btw i am planning to get 2 cards and run them together.

Here are my picks, and let me know if you have a better suggestion.

1: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487090&cm_re=970_ftw-_-14-487-090-_-Product

2: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125684&cm_re=970-_-14-125-684-_-Product

Games i am planning on playing are
-witcher 3
-BF Hardline
-Mortal kombat X
-GTA 5
-Arma 3
-The Division
-Heavily modded Skyrim

I plan to run them all on ultra without any problems.
Here is my components i am getting.
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/treyhu666/saved/#view=JVwp99
 
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octavecode

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If you really want dual cards then
2x r9 285 (as a cheapest solution)
2x r9 290 (best performance for the money in my opinion but power hungry)
2x gtx 970 (very good performance and low power)

OR buy a single gtx 980 now and later on when you can buy another one.
 
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Performance originates with the CPU. You've given yourself the best shot at holding your 120FPS goal with your premium CPU choice.

At 1080P in non-CPU bound conditions, any GPU configuration starting with a single R9 270X or GTX660 can be used to achieve 120FPS in pretty much any game made. In many cases that would be at low visual quality settings and no AA, but the point being, achieving high FPS at 1080P is not particularly challenging from a GPU perspective, in fact, you're more likely to be bottlenecked by the CPU trying to maintain this framerate in compute intensive games. Obviously, if you want to play a better visual quality settings, buy more GPU.

In DirectX games, nvidia traditionally has lower compute overhead, or better managed compute overhead, as a result, nvidia's DX implementation will typically raise the minimum FPS performance floor set by the compute side of the equation and CPU performance relative to what you would get running AMD's DX implementation. Granted, this doesn't hold true for all games but is certainly the trend. Expect up to ~25% better FPS minimums in CPU bound conditions on Nvidia's DX11 implementation.

Good rule of thumb is that AMD GPU's give more visual quality for the money while Nvidia GPU's give more consistent performance. For anyone building with a 120FPS performance goal, nvidia is the correct choice. If your goal was 30 FPS across triple 4K monitors AMD would be the better choice.

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Given the nature of the build as proposed, a pair of GTX980's would be a good starting point. Though even that will struggle to do 100FPS at ultra settings in games like Crysis 3 (though that title will probably be CPU bound to less than 100FPS too often for you to bother with such a high FPS goal anyway).
 
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Treyhu2014

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Guys I am just going to go with two GTX 980s. I would go with two r9 290x's but I want save a little power. Plus, I want to give Nvidia a try and see if has its worth all that money. Thanks for the suggestions guys. One more thing, I know its kinda of personal preferance but which should I go with reference, EVGA, MSI, or Gigabyte?
 
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I watched this video on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVABXyNxlic he said in his apion this MIS is a good choice to go with but i couldn't tell you from experience as i'm about to buy my 2nd graphic card but actually know how to install it this time :p also i would go with amd atm the moment as nivida lied about there 4gb gb ram on the graphic card it's only 3.5gb and 0.5gb of the old ram but amd is full 4gb just a suggestion.
 
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