Best graphics card?

[Thecr04]

What is the best graphics card? no strict budget but roughly stick to 300.. Cheers
Is the - gigabyte radeon r9 280 3gb windforce video card any good?
Cheers

 

[lightcloud]

NVIDIA GeForce 760 or AMD R9 280 or the 280x.

 

[Mr_inflexible]

R9 280X would be the best choice.

Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-4.html

 

[photonboy]

Asus GTX770, or Asus R9-280X. (or wait for info about Maxwell GTX860 though new rumor says GTX860 may be 2015, with only GTX880 now. who knows..)
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-gtx770dc2oc2gd5
or
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-r9280xgaming3g

Benchmarks: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/R9_280X_OC/26.html

*Of the R9-280X cards the ASUS got the best review comparing MSI, Gigabyte and Asus:
Asus: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/R9_280X_Direct_Cu_II_TOP/31.html
Gigabyte: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/R9_280X_OC/31.html
MSI: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/R9_280X_Gaming/31.html

The Asus GTX770 is a very well built card. It, and one of the EVGA versions are the only models I recommend.

Since they're basically identical for performance (GTX770 vs R9-280X), it comes down to other differences.

R9-280X:
- 3GB VRAM
- Mantle support

GTX770:
- PhysX
- Shadowplay (record desktop/games with minimal impact on frame rate)
- Streaming (same NVENC encoder that makes Shadowplay work well. Steam streaming, Shield etc)
- G-Sync support (for new monitors)
- NVidia Adaptive VSync and other driver settings are better (though RadeonPro the unofficial tool has good features such as "Dynamic VSync" which I believe works like Adaptive VSync)

SLI is better than CROSSFIRE.



*If you don't care about any of the specifics then maybe get the R9-280X for the extra VRAM in case it's needed in the near future, otherwise I think the NVidia GTX770 is the better option.