Good graphics card below 300$

I'm planning to get GTX 760 but I don't know if you guys know a better card than this....

Suggest pls.

 

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280x or you can find a gtx 970 for $299.99 on sale in some places or on eBay.

 

I'd recommend a 290x as you can usually find them for under 300 and perform similar to a gtx 970 in 1080p.

 

Is AMD really that good? People say they experience some visual bugs in some games.

 

It's like trying to compare Apple products with Android.

AMD is your bang for buck type item. Cheap cards that perform very good. Resulting in you only having to spend a certain amount to be able to get such proformance.

Nvidia is your quality type stuff. I'm not a fanboy, but I've been using Nvidia cards for over 6 years now, and I love them. Yeah I pay a substantsial amount of money on my cards, but I get the best performance possible.

That's not saying AMD doesn't have performance. Some games are optimized exclusively for AMD cards. Some cards get high tempature clocks than Nvidia cards.

Two completely different brands, making two different type of cards that both have their pro's and con's.

 

Both are quality, idgaf what anybody says. AMD just happens to fit into budgets better because that's the only way they can compete with NVIDIA who has drastically more funds to advertise their products with.

This BS about how nvidia is the quality brand is false. They are different in their own rights, and when you understand what each excels at then its easier to decide between the two. AMD is drastically(key word) more powerful in compute situations, and equivalent or slightly lesser in graphics capability. AMD is also much less power efficient now that NVIDIA Maxwell cards are out, but its also cheaper than NVIDIA. Both companies have been turning out a lot of shitty drivers lately...so no longer does NVIDIA have the advantage there. Pick your poison. Gtx 970 or 290x..both will leave you very happy

 

Benchmarks say differently.

Plus the only AMD card to compete head to head with Nvidia was R9 295X2.

 

If you read what was stated, they both excel in different areas. Personally, I would listen to what SASRT8 says since I think he literally just builds computers 24/7.

If you look at theoretical benchmarks... yes. The AMD does "underperform" but those are stock-stock cards.

The MAIN thing I would be concerned with is power pull from the AMD 280x vs the GTX 970. -- I'm also not sure about heat output of the 280x. Maybe SASRT8 can shed some light on the heat issues I've been hearing about?

Also tehRonskie: You never really mentioned what you plan on doing with it. What are you planning on doing on this card? How many monitors, what kind of games, etc?

 

you're talking raw gaming performance, in which yes AMD does fall behind given the current Maxwell generation of cards. The 980 has come in and swept everything away by a decent margin in terms of gaming. AMD's 290x still blows it away in Compute tasks (especially OpenCL) by HUGE margins though. For an example that benefits from this - nobody cares to use an Nvidia for mining (the few people that still mine) because the performance in this genre simply isn't there for them. This also contributes to the reasoning why the AMD cards were sold out globally for almost 6 months, with price markups around an extra 200 dollars at one point....until the Bitcoin crashed.

The AMD 'hawaii' architecture with the 28nm GCN is known to be hot(r9-290/290x). these cards are known to take quite a bit to keep cool, but this is the nature of the beast. It's what they were designed around, and unfortunately for us as a generation...we want to see cooler, cooler, cooler! The heat can be subdued pretty well with an aftermarket cooler design and the temps will be in the mid 70s while gaming. Warm by most people's standards, but a very safe temp for that core.

Now, you're asking about the 280x skateman, which this card isn't based on the same core design as the 290/290x(Hawaii). The 280x is simply a rebadged/renamed and re-clocked 7970 from the previous generation. This is still on 28nm GCN fabrication process so they're similar but it operates on the previous core design codenamed as 'southern islands'. Anyways what all this means is that it's a COMPLETELY different card from the 290 and 290x, and as such the 280x is a much cooler card even in reference design models.

TL;DR- To be honest...there is not any heat issues with the AMD cards. They simply run warmer than we(society) is used to out of current-gen cards. with up to date drivers and bioses, they run exactly as we'd expect them to.