I'm thinking of going to an ASUS brand, though I'm unsure if I want to switch to an AMD brand or stick with NVIDIA. I know a lot of people have opinions about this and have a lot of resentment to one brand and another due to some sort of circumstance or experience. I'm still a new builder and have wondered what I should choose when looking for a graphics card. Currently, I'm looking to go to a 950 due to money, though should I wait for the cards to drop in price later on in the year. (Yes I know Black Friday and Cyber Monday are a few months off, though this is still my research phase and I might impulse buy.) I'm currently using a 750 ti from Zotac, and though it's a great card, I'm looking to up it up some and see what else is out there, both on the AMD side and the NVIDIA side.
Is ASUS comparable to EVGA or other name brand?
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Chugalug_
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The 950 will not offer a good increase over a 750ti, only around 40%.
You will be better off going for the RX480 for $200 USD, which has 970 level performance, and is VR ready.
This is leaps and bounds ahead of the 950, more than doubling it in performance with a better value price.
What are you current specs and what is your budget for your graphics card?
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This is not a constant .... but this is how the last generation (9xx) proved out for the best selling AIB models.
nVidia cards - MSI Gaming > Gigabyte WindForce > Asus Strix >> EVGA SC
AMD Cards - Sapphire / MSI > Asus
So far, this seems to be holding for the 10xx series cards ... on the AMD side, we haven't seen any non-reference cards.
There is no difference between brands on the reference cards and they all should be avoided.
You are about 3 months too early to be asking about what to purchase on Black Friday.
Right now, things are way different than they will be in November. For one, the $200 RX 480 doesn't exist as it can't be had for any less than $270 this week and now the lowest priced on on pcpartpicker is $344. Not only that, but no AIB cards have appeared on the channel so far.. and these will certainly be out by November (I expect August)
The 1060 is expected to drop Tuesday, ill be faster than the 480 and there will be AIB cards on the release date according to various vendors. Meanwhile cards in your budget niche (RX 470 / GTX 1050) are targeted for 3rd quarter release (by September 30) . Once AIB cards for those drop, you will be able to get the kind of information you are looking for.
http://videocardz.com/nvidia/geforce-1000/geforce-gtx-1050
nVidia cards - MSI Gaming > Gigabyte WindForce > Asus Strix >> EVGA SC
AMD Cards - Sapphire / MSI > Asus
So far, this seems to be holding for the 10xx series cards ... on the AMD side, we haven't seen any non-reference cards.
There is no difference between brands on the reference cards and they all should be avoided.
You are about 3 months too early to be asking about what to purchase on Black Friday.
Right now, things are way different than they will be in November. For one, the $200 RX 480 doesn't exist as it can't be had for any less than $270 this week and now the lowest priced on on pcpartpicker is $344. Not only that, but no AIB cards have appeared on the channel so far.. and these will certainly be out by November (I expect August)
The 1060 is expected to drop Tuesday, ill be faster than the 480 and there will be AIB cards on the release date according to various vendors. Meanwhile cards in your budget niche (RX 470 / GTX 1050) are targeted for 3rd quarter release (by September 30) . Once AIB cards for those drop, you will be able to get the kind of information you are looking for.
http://videocardz.com/nvidia/geforce-1000/geforce-gtx-1050
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40% is a HUGE increase. The 950 would be a GOOD upgrade over the 750ti. Considering the GTX950 is roughly half the price of the 480, I don't see them as being a fair comparison. Of course, if you're upgrading, the GTX1060 or RX480 would be the way to go if you could.
Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, XFX, and Sapphire are all top tier brands. I would consider Zotac, PowerColor, Galax, HIS, Visiontek, and Club 3D as tier two brands. I'll be quick to admit that I'm not super familiar with all of those brands I'm labeling as tier two so they may be better than I'm giving them credit far.
n0ns3ns3
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I'd move the Zotac to tier 1. The rest is true.
Though I still consider MSI (and to some extent Gigabyte) as "wanna be" top tier. They made huge advancement in last decade, but not there yet. OC any of them can have a successful model, but generally EVGA/ASUS/Sapphire (and Zotac?) are true high end graphics card makers.
The two best lines i've seen are Zotac Amp! extreme and EVGA Calssified (and FTW). Really high quality designs with high grade components. Not just numbers on paper.
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The MSI Lightning had the best OC'd performance according to TPUs testing followed by the AMP Extreme, Matrix, HOF, Classified. These offer a 1-2% performance advantage for the $100 or so price premium.
As for the ones that sell well (Strix, SC, Gaming, Windforce) from the major vendors or what I call "the big 4" ... the EVGA has been the perennial "4th" place finisher. The 5xx series brought EVGA down hard; the SC series has historically been no more than a reference card with a nice cooler. Aside from "reference" cards, the only card to "stand out" and not in a good way with 5xx was the EVGA SC as the stock VRM couldn't handle what the competitions cards were delivering. Asus took the top spot this generation and carried it thru the 6xx series.
With the 7xx series, MSI made great strides.... there 1st series of cards finished 2nd to Asus but later steppings proved to be superior performers. With the 9xx series, Gigabyte G1 and MSI Gaming were the only 2 cards to consistently break the 1500 Mhz barrier in published reviews. Giga won more head t head battles than it lost but has a pretty high user dissatisfaction rate with 3 times the number of egg owner ratings than the other 3.
But if you want to judge a card, you need to know what's on the PCB. No different from a MoBo in this respect. Unfortunately, in the rush to have reviews read on release day, too many web reviewers don't take the time to do detailed tear down reviews. When you see consider differences in power delivery design how many phases, what chokes and caps are used, how MOFSETS, VRM, memory are cooled (thermal pads, heart sinks, etc) you can predict how they will finish in the rankings. For example ... read the bottom third of pages 2 thru 4 in the tear down review below and you don't need to turn to the test results or conclusions to see how they finish ... it will be obvious from reading how the PCB was designed.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/09/19/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-review/2
So far the only "meat" I have seen in reviews is the number of phases (MSI = 10 / Giga = 8 / Asus = 7 / EVGA = reference)
As for the ones that sell well (Strix, SC, Gaming, Windforce) from the major vendors or what I call "the big 4" ... the EVGA has been the perennial "4th" place finisher. The 5xx series brought EVGA down hard; the SC series has historically been no more than a reference card with a nice cooler. Aside from "reference" cards, the only card to "stand out" and not in a good way with 5xx was the EVGA SC as the stock VRM couldn't handle what the competitions cards were delivering. Asus took the top spot this generation and carried it thru the 6xx series.
With the 7xx series, MSI made great strides.... there 1st series of cards finished 2nd to Asus but later steppings proved to be superior performers. With the 9xx series, Gigabyte G1 and MSI Gaming were the only 2 cards to consistently break the 1500 Mhz barrier in published reviews. Giga won more head t head battles than it lost but has a pretty high user dissatisfaction rate with 3 times the number of egg owner ratings than the other 3.
But if you want to judge a card, you need to know what's on the PCB. No different from a MoBo in this respect. Unfortunately, in the rush to have reviews read on release day, too many web reviewers don't take the time to do detailed tear down reviews. When you see consider differences in power delivery design how many phases, what chokes and caps are used, how MOFSETS, VRM, memory are cooled (thermal pads, heart sinks, etc) you can predict how they will finish in the rankings. For example ... read the bottom third of pages 2 thru 4 in the tear down review below and you don't need to turn to the test results or conclusions to see how they finish ... it will be obvious from reading how the PCB was designed.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/09/19/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-review/2
So far the only "meat" I have seen in reviews is the number of phases (MSI = 10 / Giga = 8 / Asus = 7 / EVGA = reference)
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My personal preferences would be Sapphire for AMD and EVGA for nvidia, but I'm too much of a DEAL shopper that I would not hesitate to get something different if the price is right. EVGA has top notch customer support, and probably the easiest rebate return.
I like the Asus nvidia cards a lot better than the Asus radeon cards.
I like the Asus nvidia cards a lot better than the Asus radeon cards.
Tradesman1
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XFX puts out good GPU, I've used a number of them in client rigs. I normally look to EVGA and Asus first for nVidia cards, the Strix line from Asus has become my favorite, they upgraded the CU cooling design (from the 7xx cards and it's really good, jusrt picked up a 1080 OC and it's looking good, also have a 980Ti and a pair of 980 Strix models
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