AMD GRAPHICS, need an expert's advice plz

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moeali

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Hi everyone
i need an expert's advice on this issue, i was going for the gtx 970 but now i'm short on budget
i found the following options for the cash i have:

Sapphire R9 280X OC Dual-X 3GB GDDR5 (Does Sapphire make good cards btw?)

MSI R9 270X Gaming OC Twin Frozr IV 4GB GDDR5

which one should i go for, also is the 270x 4g a Crossfire or there is a one card 4gb 270X?
also my motherboard is Asus H81M-C, would it fit? (i have a 730W power-supply)
 
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Both are good manufacturers. Not sure what the benefit of the 4GB of VRAM on the 270X is, but the 280X is definitely the better card graphically speaking.

http://anandtech.com/bench/product/1043?vs=1041

shows the benchmark differences.

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-280X-vs-Radeon-R9-270X

Normally, I don't use GPUBoss anymore for benchmark comparisons, but you can at least see the raw hardware differences of the 280X vs. the 270X:
-- 60% more shading, texture mapping & compute units
-- 50% larger memory bus width

Power-wise, you should be good with either card.

So, if they're roughly the same price I would get the 280X.
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Sapphire makes good video cards, And I'd go with a 280X over a 270X any day of the week. It's a much stronger card, not quite a 970, but only a couple tiers below, and with the rebates and sales and such, a great deal right now. As far as a 270X 4Gb, that's a single card, would be used for crossfire, here's the rub, that card isn't powerful enough to need the 4Gb VRAM even in crossfire. Go with the 280X and don't look back.
 
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is the 280x better than the GTX 960? also would it go with my mainboard (my PSU is Thermaltake SMART 730 W and i have a core i7)
 
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would it fit on ASus H81M-C Motherboard, and would this PSU be sufficient? : Thermaltake SMART 730 W
 
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Both are good manufacturers. Not sure what the benefit of the 4GB of VRAM on the 270X is, but the 280X is definitely the better card graphically speaking.

http://anandtech.com/bench/product/1043?vs=1041

shows the benchmark differences.

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-280X-vs-Radeon-R9-270X

Normally, I don't use GPUBoss anymore for benchmark comparisons, but you can at least see the raw hardware differences of the 280X vs. the 270X:
-- 60% more shading, texture mapping & compute units
-- 50% larger memory bus width

Power-wise, you should be good with either card.

So, if they're roughly the same price I would get the 280X.
 
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