Best graphics card?

[VisceralT]

What is the best graphics card for gaming?

When i say the best i mean is there an absolute hands down best card for gaming?

 

[MagicPants]

GTX 780 ti. And it's slightly better to have two of them.

 

[HeyyScott]

GTX 690 King of GPU.

 

[smorizio]

magic it used to be...with the 800 line dropping in feb it may be the newer 870 ti.

 

[endeavour37a]

Sure, the GTX 780Ti is about as good as it gets

 

[Gam3r01]

Single card: 780Ti
Dual gpu card: 690.
Personally dual gpu cards have proven themselves to have poor scaling and poor performance per dollar.
These are this gen, 800 series will change that.

 

[endeavour37a]

GTX 780 ti. And it's slightly better to have two of them.

Good answer !

 

[JuX]

How about 4 of them

 

[Gam3r01]

How about 4 of them

Once you pass 2 cards the scaling gets horrible. It quickly becomes diminishing returns compared to cost.

 

[MagicPants]

When you go over two gpu's you tend to add more latency to the system, as every card is working on rendering a frame that hasn't been displayed yet. So with 3 cards you're rendering at least two frames ahead of the input. With two gpus you're still rendering at least one frame ahead, but you only have to wait for a frame to be rendered before it's displayed half as often, so you end up waiting less.

If you are a competitive gamer, you want one very fast gpu in order to get the lowest possible latency. The GTX 780 ti is the fastest one you can buy right now so it wins. (If you wait for the 800 series, why not wait until the 900 series? any gpu is faster than one that hasn't been released yet.)