Evil Mastermind :
I want to play games like tomb raider, assassin's creed, and mmorpg. I was curious which one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127884&cm_re=msi_4g-_-14-127-884-_-Product Recommended
its not $150, its 179.99, SUPPORTS DX12
thatd be your best bet. I mean youc ould go lower with DDR3, but keep in mind DDR3 is shit, and you do not want that type of memory interface (hency why xbone cant play in 1080p no matter what lie microsoft makes up)
Because you said Assassins Creed I recommended a 4GB GDDR5 Card, you will not get the performance you seek from just a 2GB at 150$ because youll also need a good cpu to help with the latency caused by using your system ram to help with processing graphics.
If you like Nvidia this I can recommend around your budget. 169.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127904&cm_re=msi_2g-_-14-127-904-_-Product
Although its not 256bit like the MSI 2G r7 370.
It has massive clock speeds
Effective Memory Clock
6650 MHz
Boost Clock
1317 MHz
CUDA Cores
768
SUPPORTS DX12
The counterpart the MSI 2G R7 370. does not have as impressive of clocks.
plain 1000 core clock, and 5600mhz memory clock. the benfit is the 256bit memeory set and the 1024 cores instead of just 768.
but when we think about speed and cores, it really all depends and I don't know enough to know what cores do in terms of GPU's but i do know more is better.
This 750Ti has low ammount of steam processors also made by msi
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127783 at 129.99
boost = 1137 MHz (Gaming mode) SUPPORTS DX12
normal = 1059 MHz (Gaming mode)
128bit,
640 cores.
5400mhz mem clock
this one is older and i think i had a card like this doesn't have external power support so your motherboard needs to be good ;D
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127784 119.99 pretty much same specs as above
actually after double checking, exactly the same specs as above but is 10$ cheaper. and only has 1 fan rather than 2 for cooling. DOES NOT SUPPORT DX12
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202165 Recommended
sapphire r7 370 129.99
it has 1024 cores
256bit
965core clock
5400mem clock
SUPPORTS DX12
and a EVGA GTX 142.99 DOES NOT SUPPORT DX12
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487028
640 CUDA Cores
2GB 128-Bit GDDR5
PCI Express 3.0
Boost Clock
1268 MHz
mem clock 5400
only thing is its low cuda count