SSD or better GPU?

[cevalier]

Hello, I am about to build a new computer and I have a choice to either get the r9 280x gpu or other and an ssd or the gtx 780 without an ssd, I want as good fps as possible but will my games load slow without an ssd? what do you think I should get? I will be BF4 and other high graphic games.

 

[Blaise170]

The GTX 780 is quite a bit more powerful than the 280x. The 280x is more comparable to the GTX 680. The 280x should last you a long time though, and by the time you need a new graphics card you'll have gotten a lot of use out of your SSD.

Personally I'd go with the R9 280x and an SSD, unless you just want absolutely top notch graphics performance.

 

[cevalier]

How much fps do you think the 280x can get in BF4/BF3?

 

[cevalier]

The GTX 780 is quite a bit more powerful than the 280x. The 280x is more comparable to the GTX 680. The 280x should last you a long time though, and by the time you need a new graphics card you'll have gotten a lot of use out of your SSD.

Personally I'd go with the R9 280x and an SSD, unless you just want absolutely top notch graphics performance.

How high fps do you think the 280x can get in BF4/BF3? The thing is that if I have high enough fps so I can play on high/ultra settings with the 280x I would go with it but If it can only handle low/medium I don't want it but I know the 780 can handle it.

 

[Blaise170]

At least 60FPS, since this video is using an R9 280X on ultra and no stutter even though he's recording.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaePJXjvNJw

 

[cevalier]

At least 60FPS, since this video is using an R9 280X on ultra and no stutter even though he's recording.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaePJXjvNJw

I still can't decide :/ In the gtx 770 video in Battlefield 4 his avg fps was 56 and max 75 which is better than the 280x and the 780 would be even better than that, could you explain to me instead of the graphics card how big of a difference would the ssd make in loading into games in for example BF4? When starting the computer I don't really care about a 10 seconds faster startup for the price of $125

 

[Blaise170]

An SSD will make the game boot faster if you have it installed there, but as far as actually improving game speed, it won't do much.

 

[cevalier]

An SSD will make the game boot faster if you have it installed there, but as far as actually improving game speed, it won't do much.

How much faster? lets say I load into a BF4 game in 10 sec with a normal HDD, how fast would that be with an ssd?

 

[Blaise170]

From the pcpro website:

The SSD advantage

For the ultimate in performance, there’s no substitute for a real SSD. Equipping our test PC with Samsung’s SSD 840 Pro gave all of our tests a huge boost. Windows 8 rebooted in only 23 seconds, and the 5GB file-copy test completed in a lightning-fast 34 seconds – around a fifth as long as the hybrid drive took. Crysis loaded in a swift 22 seconds too: in a multiplayer game, that could give you a real advantage over other players.