Asus GeForce GTX 770 or Asus R9 280X

[Dannylad110]

Hello Everyone!

I would like to know which card would be the most suitable to upgrade to at this time; this should be based on:

- Price
- Performance in 1920 x 1080
- Performance on multi 1920 x 1080 monitors
- Future-proofing
- Latest Directx version supported
- Performance in Windows 7
- Suitability for my system

My system specs are as follows:

HP Pavillion Elite 490uk
Intel i7 870 @ 2.93 GHz
8 Gb DDR3
1.5 Tb Hard Drive
NVidia GeForce GT 230

I'm planning on upgrading to a 700W power supply and a new case.

What are your thoughts on this?

Thanks for your help!

 

[badboyrog2]

gtx 770

 

[NiCoM]

Really depends on what games you're playing, they trade between amd optimised games & nvidia optimized games. Though i think the 770 is better overall. Even though it doesn't come with the newer ASUS cooler like the amd.

 

[Dannylad110]

I thought much the same, they are very similar indeed

It's just that the AMD one has more GDDR5

 

[Dannylad110]

Bump.

Does anyone have any clue on if either one will serve me better in 4 or 5 years?

I think I'll be going for the 770 mostly because of driver support and the experience software; plus PhysX of course.
I'd still like to know if I'd be missing out on the support for the later Directx versions though.

Thanks for your help!

 

[NiCoM]

Bump.

Does anyone have any clue on if either one will serve me better in 4 or 5 years?

I think I'll be going for the 770 mostly because of driver support and the experience software; plus PhysX of course.
I'd still like to know if I'd be missing out on the support for the later Directx versions though.

Thanks for your help!

well in 4-5 years they're probably still even in performance, the 3GB dram on the 280X might be useful in 4-5 years, but not extremely important.
Both of those cards should be able to run DirectX 12 when it comes out.