Which card is worth for money? Sapphire R7 250X Vapor-X 2GB or Asus R7 250X 1GB

wmlooi · Aug 21, 2015

Hi, I'm plan to buy one of this card but need your advice which card is worth for money. Asus is ~8% cheaper than Sapphire. Some members mentioned the performance difference between 1GB and 2GB VRAM is very little. Then, how about these 2 cards? Another thing is Asus got 3 years warranty and Sapphire is 2 years only. Please advice.
Thanks.

My PC specs
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Motherboard: MSI H61M-P31/W8
Processor: Pentium G2020 2.9GHz
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB RAM
PSU: Aerocool Strike-X 600W

Coolboy951 · Aug 21, 2015

it all depends on on youre resolution and AA in the game, the 2gb is a better option for that

Ghost Hacks · Aug 21, 2015

Depending on how much 8% is ($3 vs $10) I would go with the 2GB version. Although that's probably not gonna make much of a difference because of the address bit width and speed. Do you plan on overclocking the GPU? Can you save some money and wait and get something much better like a R7 265?

Also what games you plan on playing?

RobCrezz · Aug 21, 2015

More importantly, are both GDDR5? Or is one of them GDDR3?

wmlooi · Aug 21, 2015

My monitor is a bit old BenQ G925HDA with max resolution of 1366x768. So, this is the resolution I will be using for play games such as Evolve, Batman: Arkham Knight, Resident Evil: Revelations 2 and etc.

The 8% I mentioned is about $10. About overclocking the GPU, I think I will do it if the FPS is low for certain games. My budget is limited so this the best I can get. Before that I have a plan to buy a R7 250 because cheaper. But after I read some reviews and comparisons, I found the R7 250X performance is about 2 times better than R7 250.

Both cards are using DDR5.

lukall87 · Aug 21, 2015

I would definitely go with the 2gb model for $10.

wmlooi · Aug 22, 2015

Hi, I just found out a shop selling a used card Sapphire Vapor-X HD 5870 1GB DDR5 with 6 months warranty and 50% cheaper than Asus R7 250X. I know this card is quite old but the performance is better than R7 250X. Will this card worth for money?

Coolboy951 · Aug 23, 2015

wmlooi :

Pro:Faster
Cheaper

Con: It's old,
Old drivers
188w TDP
No Mantle

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