Hey /g/. I'm building a new rig soon and I want your opinions on the graphics card. NVIDIA or AMD? And why. Provide sauce if you can. My budget is preferably lower than $150 but I am willing to go $200. I will be gaming a lot, but also some mildly intensive SolidWorks
AMD is cheaper, and same quality. However, watch out for marketing. Intel tells you the number of physical cores, so a quad core would act as 8, and AMD tells you the opposite, as it would act as 8, but be physically 4.
>>51421707
Intel has the best gpus
>>51421707
>AMD is cheaper
not true, the 970 is currently the best value for money currently. you can find them for $250 and they perform on par with the $550 fury and $500 980 once OCed
>>51422036
gere you go Patel
>>51422093
he's right tho
>>51422127
cherry picking graphs
>>51422162
there's nothing cherrypicked about it you shill, battlefield 3 and 4 are AMD sponsored games
>>51422202
>>51422036
Both the 970 and 390 are way better deals than the next few cards up, especially at 1080p and even at 1440p. There's really no reason for the 980 and 390x to exist at all and the Fury/Fury X are pretty shit too for the price. The only card more expensive than the 970 and 390 worth its salt right now is the 980ti, and it costs double while giving around 35% more performance which really sucks ass. The more you spend on a GPU, the more you get jewed the fuck out.
>>51419187
r9 270x for the low end budget, r9 380 for the high end. If getting used get a non ref r9 290 at the high end or a used 280x at the low end budget.
>>51419187
>lower than $150
A GTX 950 on sale
>$200
A GTX 960 4GB on sale
Next question
>>51419187
R9 380
Protip : I have one.
Ether that or a 970 meme card
I live in NZ btw.
there is a huge sale of them right now.
>>51424194
contuined
that's the R9 380 4gb model i just got one for $381NZD brand new
Other places around the world must be cheaper I think.
>>51419187
hearing good things about 380 and it's just over 200. I personally have owned a 270x and it got the job done on most games at ultra settings. Currently use the 970 and I haven't found a game it can't handle yet.
380x just released and it's pretty viable for 1080p, stronger than 4gb 960 and 380
Nvidia is better because more games are using nvidia physics. The 960 is a good card and it's only $200
