280x vs 770 vs 290 vs 780

[kathir28]

Hello
i'm looking after a gpu and i'm concidering: 280x, 770 and maybe a 290
so is their a big difference between these GPUS?
All of this gpus will be ASUS and maybe EVGA.
And how would the 290 perform vs the 780?
edit: And would the price of the 780 go down in July- august?

Thanks in advance!

 

[XtraSweat]

although the r9 290 is the best value for money high end card right now, if given the choice again id go for the 780, the extra cost is worth the reduction of hassle you'll experience by not having to deal with catalyst and amd drivers. also, when overclocked to the limit, the 780 does outperform the 290x at 1080p and 1440p, but only just. also the 290x is absoloutely not worth it, as the r9 290 when overclcoked to the limit is just as fast as the 290x when overclocked to the limit to within 2fps.

I agree that the 290x is a waste, I also have no experience with the nvidia drivers and have always used amd so I cannot compare them but I haven't ever had a problem them personally.

 

[tomsmithy666]

i can say that by comparison, the nvidia control panel is leagues ahead of catalyst, and geforce experience is a wonderful thing to use, my biggest problem with amd has been that the gpus do not reset to stock if an overclock fails and instead continually crash the driver, which is something that does not happen on nvidia cards, they just return to stock and recover