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Started by Martin22 | | 3 answers
Choosing a New Graphic Card
I am bying a new monitor (Dell UltraSharp U2713HM 69cm (27") LED monitor VGA,DVI,DP,HDMI (2560x1440) Black) and I thought I would up grade the Graphics Card my buget is £150-00 anyone got any thoughts. The Drawing software I use is Autodesk Revit 2015. Autodesk has a list of cards there is nothing to say how old the list is and nothing to say about the picture qulity output is, even when you look on the supplier's site. I am not a computer geek I am a designer.
Any help would be gratefully received

Thanks Martin
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September 17, 2014 6:08:54 AM

R9 280x would be the best bet for your budget.
September 17, 2014 6:02:14 AM

Yeesh. That's a good question OP.

Now I am partial to Nvidia, but right now at your budget range I'd say the AMD R9285 is correctly suggested above.

I recently went up to 1440p (same monitor as yours, lovely screen!) and especially in modern titles the performance hit is pretty huge.

I would personally have waited for the new Nvidia line, but my old computer died and I got a 780ti - and there are some titles I still cannot max out completely at this resolution!

If have a bit of patience, I'd say hold on for a few months for the new cards to come out, and maybe shore up the cash a bit so you can get something sexy. If not, the AMD cards are going to be your best bet.
September 17, 2014 5:55:07 AM

Hi Martin,
You have two needs that direct in two different directions to me. For low cost, gaming efficiency at high resolution, I'd say go with the new AMD r9-285. But if you are using your computer as a workstation exclusively for architectural design, I'd go with a Nvidia GTX 770. The reason is mainly because Nvidia has put alot of efforts recently in enhancing performance for real time rendering programs and post production rendering (photoshop, illustratior, after effect, etc.).
AMD - best bang for the buck in terms of performance/price ratio at high resolution (2560x1440 and over)
Nividia - will cost more, but have dedicated features that will enhance the performance of many design programs (Mental Ray, Vray RT, Photoshop, After Effect).

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