Best Grapic Card for my desktop.

[Daniel Sandoval Salazar]

I wonder who is the Best Graphic for my
my specifications are:
Motherboard:asrock p67 fatal1ty performance
CPU: Intel i5 2500k
ram: 8gb g-skill
psi: 750w corsair bronze

I want to play the witcher 3 when it comes in really good details.

my budget is 400dls.

 

[Vynavill]

I think a R9 280x or a GTX 770 will fit your needs. It's up to you, but I'd recommend the R9. Really, these days and IMO, they're pretty much on par, with amd having the advantage of a better value-price rate. But, should you be into physx and that stuff, get a 770.

The cpu is still a good one and shouldn't prove to be a bottleneck.

With a 750w you could actually get to the upper tier, but you'd slightly exceed the budget if going AMD. You should consider it tho, with a bit of overclocking you'd be fine...

 

[TheMentalist]

I would go for the 770. nVidia is putting some serious tech in this game, so it will make their gpu's shine rather than radeons. The specs aren't official yet but i don't think a 770 won't be able max it out. Get the 4GB edition to be sure.

 

[Embra]

Is you cpu OC'ed?
Witcher 3 could be brutal.

 

[sincreator]

How about this r9 290? http://www.ncixus.com/products/?sku=93995&vpn=R9290%2DDC2OC%2D4GD5&manufacture=ASUS&promoid=1264 $379.99 after rebate, and will be a fair amount more powerful than the other cards suggested. Not that they aren't good suggestions though.

 

[TheMentalist]

I was suggesting the minimum he should be aiming for. Anything above that(staying in the budget) will off course be better.

 

[Vynavill]

As sincreator suggested, a 290 is also a viable choice and should prove to stay slightly under his budget while not getting too far from a 290x, no matter the partner he's buying it off to. I'm not so sure of this, but as far as I know, if going 290/290x he's better off with a Sapphire Tri-X OC rather than an ASUS. I'm owning the 290x DCUII OC, it runs great, cool enough and is dead silent unless you're manually cranking up fan speed, but those 100°c VRM temps are a huge no-no. I suppose the 290 doesn't go too far from that...

If going NVidia, anything above a 770 will exceed the budget on a range between 20$ and 100$, depending on partner and the place he's buying it from. So, should he want to get in the upper tier, he'd be restricted to AMD.

Really tho, you can usually achieve really good graphics without maxing out everything. So, getting an NVidia just because they're putting tech into the game (like almost 90% of the games out there which sport that silly "The way it's meant to be played" sticker/opening trailer) and thinking it'll run better on them because of that is not a good reason IMO...

 

[TheMentalist]

Yep, agreed. The 780 needs to drop in prices. Just like the 290 did.

 

[Shubhanshu Mehra]

R9 290X is the best card and im currently using it . It can handle Watch dogs on 120 fps easily

 

[Vynavill]

Well, thanks captain obvious, but the 290x is best as much as the 780 Ti. Too bad they're over the budget the OP stated, so they're a no-go.

Also, I still didn't test it, but before patch the game was hard to run maxed out at 1080p, even on multi-gpu systems, so either you aren't running maxed out @ 1080p (which is usually the main reason you buy a top-tier GPU) or the patch actually made the game incredibly better...

 

[Shubhanshu Mehra]

Well yeah I turned the shadows off

 

[TheMentalist]

Well yeah I turned the shadows off

What are you talking about? The 290X handles everything maxed out(even with shadows on).

 

[Vynavill]

You're still missing the fact it depends on resolution and game itself. Pre-patch watch dogs had considerable issues running maxed out on multi-gpu systems... Still didn't test after the patch, provided it's out on pc, so I don't know if things got better.

But anyway, it can vary from game to game. 1080p maxed out AC4, as far as I've been told, can't run constantly at 60fps and is actually around half that value on single gpu systems. Cod ghosts can run without any effort, provided you got physx and fur effects off if you're on amd and don't have an i7 backing it up.

If you're taking a top tier gpu with the thought that it'll run everything at the best of their settings, think again. It'll prove to be much better than any other model, that's for sure, but it'll just be a better future-proofing solution, nothing more, nothing less. You're still going to need tweaking the game settings from time to time.