Gtx 770 or R9 280X For Gaming

[RageYo]

Trying to decide whether to get the 770 or the 280x

 

[Karadjgne]

Worth the extra $25 for the gtx 770.

 

[Martell1977]

Equal performance, 280X is usually cheaper.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/R9_280X_Gaming/26.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_770_TF_Gaming/26.html

Using apples and apples picked same brand for comparison, the factory overclocked 770 is 4% faster than the factor overclocked 280x.

The MSI 770 overclocked is 16.76% faster than the stock 770
The MSI 280x overclocked is 10.01% faster than the stock 770

The MSI 770 is $245 / the MSI 280x is $285

For $40 and more performance, I'd take the 770

Cheapest 280x is $240
Cheapest 770 is $240

So yeah, 770

 

[RageYo]

Is it a big deal that its only got 2ddr3 ram?

 

[HighEndGaming]

With the release of the 900 series the MSI N770 TF http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CZ58WUI has become a better buy than the R9 280X.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Is it a big deal that its only got 2ddr3 ram?

No one has yet to show ANY game showing any type of significant performance hit going from a 4 Gb 770 to a 2 GB 770....and that's at 5760 x 1080...... Now that does mean a game can **use** or claim to use more than 2 GB, what I am seeing as I have yet to see a published test that showed anything more than 1-2 fps at 5760 and if it isn't an impact there, I can't see it having an effect at 1920.

http://alienbabeltech.com/main/gtx-770-4gb-vs-2gb-tested/3/

This leaves five games out of 30 where a 4GB GTX 770 gives more than a 1 frame per second difference over the 2GB-equipped GTX 770. And one of them, Metro: Last Light still isn’t even quite a single frame difference.

Of those five games, two of them are unplayable at 5760×1080 although in these cases, 4GB GTX 770 SLI would finally make some sense over 2GB GTX 770 SLI. That only leaves Lost Planet 2 and two racing games that gain some advantage by choosing a single GTX 770 4GB card over the single GTX 770 2GB. And in Lost Planet 2, we were able to add even higher anti-aliasing – from 8xAA to CSAA8XQ and to CSAA32X – but the performance difference was greatest with 8xAA.

There is one last thing to note with Max Payne 3: It would not normally allow one to set 4xAA at 5760×1080 with any 2GB card as it claims to require 2750MB. However, when we replaced the 4GB GTX 770 with the 2GB version, the game allowed the setting. And there were no slowdowns, stuttering, nor any performance differences that we could find between the two GTX 770s.

Pay special attention to that last paragraph..... the game used or claimed to use 2750 MB of RAM, but were no slowdowns, stuttering, nor any performance differences that they could find between the 2GB and 4 GB GTX 770s. Look at the table on the web site and at 1920 res, a good amount of games actually ran slower w/ 4 GB.

I am sure someday we will start to need more than 2 GB at 1920 but as of yet, I have not found one published test showing any impact on any game w/ 2 GB .... if you find one, please point it out to me as I have spent many many hours looking