Buy ? GTX 970 OR R9 290

Best Buy 1080p price/performance

  • ZOTAC Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 price 500u$s

    Votes: 4 100.0%
  • SAPPHIRE TRI-X OC Radeon R9 290 4GB price 440u$s

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    4

brbkk rbrb

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hi guys Help me choose is for 1080p

ZOTAC Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 price 500u$s

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SAPPHIRE TRI-X OC Radeon R9 290 4GB price 440u$s

hardware prices in Argentina Suck know
 
The 970 will be faster than the 290 by about 10 to 15% while being more power efficient and generating a lot less heat, the Hawaii GPUs do run very hot. Whether all of that is worth spending the extra $60 is up to you.
 

Aviv

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970 is an overkill for 1080P 60FPS and the R9 is an old card.

I will say wait for Q1 2015 if you can , there is some talking about new AMD GPU's on the way and the rest of the 900 series. Plus FreeSync stuff so I woud not rush buying either one of this GPU's if you can wait it is worth it if you ask me.
 

Brighttail

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I would go with the 970 in a heart beat, not only is it faster, but it uses less power and has less heat. You can also overclock most of them almost to stock 980 speeds with no voltage increase. That being said I would offer the ASUS or MSI versions because they have the feature that the fans of the card won't even spin up until the GPU temp reaches 50-60 C, which means LESS NOISE!
 

ZeusGamer

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GTX 970 is not overkill for 1080P at all. I think you got it confused with GTX 980 where all games are higher than 60 fps (on 1080P)... but yes, OP, you should get the GTX 970 if you really can't decide.
 

Aviv

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Nope I am not confused , http://www.tomshardware.de/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-gtx-980-roundup-vergleichstest,testberichte-241658-12.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXl7tKCC8FY

 

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