AMD Radeon HD 7770 or GTX 650 or other?

[xflowpipe]

Hello!

I recently built a AMD system with a FX 8320. I also purchased a GTX 650 for 85 bucks from microcenter. Now, I am not sure if I am happy with the GTX 650. I dont do any gaming. All I do is watch videos and regular work on the computer.
People keep telling me I should get a AMD card so it can play "nice" with my CPU thus an AMD system. I also hear that AMD cards offer sharper image when watching videos thanks to AMDs App acceleration on the GPU. I am not sure if the Nvidia card even has that.

oh and Nvidia GTX 600s are not fully compatible with DirectX 11.1 for Windows 8?

Any thoughts on the HD 7770 or GTX 650?


Thanks

 

[songorocosongo]

Just keep the one you have. If you don't play games then there's no reason to get a better graphics card. And with the things you said wou'll be doing even the 640 was a nice contender. I used to have an AMD HD6850 and when I changed it for a GTX 660 I only noticed a difference when playing games. Now that I'm doing some 3D rendering stuff, there would've been improvement surely. But in images and videos, even in blu-ray you wouldn't notice any difference

 

[SuperGamerBoy]

keep your current card.

 

[JD88]

Everything you've heard isn't true. AMD CPUs don't interact any differently with AMD cards than Nvidia. The image quality will be no different either. For watching videos a 650 is the same as a 7970.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Im gonna agree with JD above ..... but would just note that actually nVidia GPUs have been shown to work better in certain instances with AMD CPUs in SLI than AMD cards in CF do. There's a THG article on the topic.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crossfire-sli-scaling-bottleneck,3471-12.html

Our big revelation is that AMD’s FX-8350 performs 5% better in SLI than it does in CrossFire. When all else is made equal, AMD’s current flagship host processor really does favor Nvidia's graphics technology. Whoops.