Best Graphics Cards For The Money: October 2014 (Archive)

[Klementh]

The GTX 580 is a tier higher than the 660 Ti only in its dreams.

 

[Onus]

At 1360x768, you'd likely find that a GTX750Ti offers all the performance you need.

 

[logainofhades]

Hi, guys don't know much about cards, but my budget is limited, it's either a 960 2gb or r9 280, about $200, I'm a little worried about power draw, and I'm upgrading from a HD 6970. I'm playing on a TV 26" 1360*768 resolution and kinda want the free Witcher 3 game from Nvidia promo, TY.

GTX 960 more than likely uses less power than your HD 6970.

 

[tgraffx]

Ask a GPU miner if he cares about draw...

 

[flushfire]

That GT 730 is actually a GT 630 with more bandwidth - not a GT 640. It's probably still a little bit slower than the R7 240 GDDR5. Both cards should be benchmarked to check.

From what I've been reading in my local forums for internet cafes, which IMO makes up a large part of the <$100 market in my country at least, the 730 is a little faster in most cases. Seems logical as it has higher base clock and more cuda/stream processors. Although the ddr5 240 has a lot more memory bandwidth, it's not hard to imagine the GPU not being able to fully use it. The 730 is also cheaper and easier to find. The only game I've seen where the R7 240 performs better is in NBA 2K15.

Anyway the difference in performance isn't that big for it to be the deciding factor, whichever is cheaper is the better choice and the 730 is cheaper in every retailer I've seen that have both.

 

[littleleo]

Hi, guys don't know much about cards, but my budget is limited, it's either a 960 2gb or r9 280, about $200, I'm a little worried about power draw, and I'm upgrading from a HD 6970. I'm playing on a TV 26" 1360*768 resolution and kinda want the free Witcher 3 game from Nvidia promo, TY.

These should be around that amount.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487028&cm_re=2G-P4-3757-KR-_-14-487-028-_-Product

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487091&cm_re=02G-P4-2966-KR-_-14-487-091-_-Product

 

[buygpu]

My recommendation for entry level cards (<120$) are the AMD radeon R7 260x, NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti, and AMD Radeon HD 6970, if you want to play the most recent games.

http://buygpu.com/top-performing-low-cost-graphic-cards/

 

[RannonS]

Are there any reasons as to why there aren't any of the post Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPUs?

 

[allawash]

Any reason for the inordinate amount of negative reviews on the 260x and people experiencing black screens? It seems to be a problem among all the manufacturers. Almost bought one and got scared off after reading a lot of reviews from various sites.