best gtx 960?

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The difference in power consumption between the 960 and 380 is around 70W. The difference between the GTX 970 and the R9 390x is around 100W.

Obviously not everyone is going to have issues with drivers. I've never had driver issues with my ATi/AMD GPUs, and I've had them since the Radeon 9xxx series, even though everyone said they were garbage back then and are still saying it. My worst driver experience was with my Geforce 4 MX-440 card. Point is, experiences of a single person are not always representative. Obviously when AMD has driver issues...


Well u can go with EVGA 4gb version..... I think Evga is best sinc it has best overclocking and evga works only with NVIDIA :)
 

by faster do you mean more powerful?

 
Okay the GTX 960 is a great budget current gen gaming card than can do high-very high settings but getting a 2GB can limit the card a lot as some but not all games like Farcry 4 use between 2-2.5GB on high settings. But on average games use about 1-1.5GB.

4GB is not useless as games are coming out with more special effects and better textures which will fill up the vram. Its a lot safer to get a 3Gb card if possible.

Also the higher the resolution the more stretched your vram will be.

What are you planning to use the card for? As in game making, modding (also using mods use a lot of vram in-game) or just general gaming but which games?

Also be careful of AMD GPU's as they are having huge problems with many games that have come out this year.
 
-Over heating (decreased life span)
-Game developers favouring Nvidia card optimisation over AMD
-More power consumption
-Driver issues (I have had 2 AMD GPU's in the past and the amount of time I have had to reinstall the driver due crashes, no sound, degrading performance and visual bugs)
 


Overheating was a problem with the early reference Rx 2xx series. Right now it's no longer an issue, other than a small bug in the recent Crimson driver that has already been remedied.

Game developers favoring nVidia... More like nVidia bribing game developers. But in any case, this is shifting. Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, all DICE games, Ashes of the Singularity, they all favor AMD. Even Fable Legends that was supposed to favor nVidia, favors AMD.

- More power consumption is true, but in reality it really doesn't matter that much. Do you know what the difference per year is between a GTX 970 and an R9 390x? Around $20 per year if you play a 1000 hours. That's gaming three hours straight every single day. The difference in power consumption between the GTX 960 and the R9 380 is smaller than those two.

- nVidia has a bunch of driver issues also. Here's an example on this forum; http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2227490/nvidia-driver-crashing-recovering.html
 


And what is the difference in power consumption between the 960 and 380? And my Nvidia cards run 24/7 and have had no crashes at all so that's likely related to something else mate.
 
This nvidia fanboys LoL.... Radeon has more Raw power, and nvidia has better support ( but that support only last for 1-2 years unitle next gpu made out ) so stop crying if u throw your money in garbage... Anyway U asked for best 960 GTX... But yeah you can buy r9 380 or 380x Dont listen to the fools who say drivers work like crap etc... Btw 256 vs 125 memory bandwidth... And True DX12 support... if you want Nvidia with full dx12 support u need to wait untile 2016... for next gen gpu's
 


Actually neither side has full DX12 support.

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-there-is-no-such-thing-as-full-support-for-dx12-today.html

Blind AMD fan is blind.
 

The difference in power consumption between the 960 and 380 is around 70W. The difference between the GTX 970 and the R9 390x is around 100W.

Obviously not everyone is going to have issues with drivers. I've never had driver issues with my ATi/AMD GPUs, and I've had them since the Radeon 9xxx series, even though everyone said they were garbage back then and are still saying it. My worst driver experience was with my Geforce 4 MX-440 card. Point is, experiences of a single person are not always representative. Obviously when AMD has driver issues, everyone blows it out of proportion because of the (probably unconscious) bias that they have bad drivers. With nVidia with their reputation of good drivers, their issues generally stay quiet.
After AMD's Crimson driver, everyone knows of the fan speed bug... Has anyone here heard of nVidia drivers killing Alienware laptops during the last few months for example?
 
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well after going over all this i've chosen to go with a gtx 960 g1 gaming 4gb but thanks for the insight on amd graphics cards I may in the future try a amd gpu thanks :)