Powercolor R9 270 vs GTX 750 Ti FTW

[haroldragaofficial]

I'm in a very strict budget of $400 and right now, Powercolor R9 270 is $111~ and 750 Ti FTW is $109~

Not sure which one to get because FTW's stock OC is around 1.19GHz and Powercolor R9 270 is @ 930MHZ

Need help guys!!! Thank you

 

[Eggz]

The graphs you posted confirm what we're saying: The 270 and 750 ti FTW are similar. The 270 comes out ahead in most benchmarks by a bit, but the 750 ti FTW is right there and even ahead in some. They are similar. Take a look at Metro Last Light, arguably the most demanding game, and the FPS of the cards is so close you wouldn't even notice the difference. To be honest, it's basically because neither card can run Metro Last Light, but that's slightly beside the point.

No one ever said the 750 ti is some super performer. It's meant to showcase high energy efficiency and solid performance, which is does. If you don't care about energy efficiency at all, then that undercuts the value of the 750 ti. Just depends what you want, but it's still a good performer - all things considered - that keeps up with the 270.

I also think a lot of this is based on special pricing of the 750 ti FTW. It's usually a total win under normal pricing that clearly goes to the 270 and 270x for offering a WAY better value and slightly better performance. Who makes the card doesn't matter to me. If Toyota suddenly offered a new video card that did better and was cheaper than the gtx 980 and 290x, I'd own a Toyota card. They don't, however, and the best high-end card out there now is the 970 given the price. Before that it was the 290x given the price.

 

[p3n1s]

Eggz what I said in my first post still holds, there are few games where they have similar performance, everywhere else 270 stomps it. Also 270 wasnt OCed on those latest benchmarks you and I showed, but 750ti is.

You saying that it comes out by a bit is a lie, it comes out by a lot in most, but in very few they are comparable, you are conveniently cherry picking those few.

Power consumption wont change a thing for OP, he wonders which one is better performer.

290/970 and what ever has nothing to do with topic at hand.

 

[Eggz]

You're being abnormally hostile. I understand you think the difference between 30 and 37 fps in BF4 is huge. I just don't agree. Neither card is all that great, and switching out one card for the other wouldn't be a night and day difference. Not at all. It takes multiples of difference to feel the kind of vast superiority you're talking about. For AMD, a vast improvement that's readily apparent comes from upgrades like swapping out a 6850 for a 290x, or a 550 ti for a 970 for Nvidia. But if you're just looking to game on a budget, choosing either of these cards will be fine. No one is going to give you a gold star or become jealous of your computer for having the opposite card as them.

Also, I'm not making up lies. I've gone through generations of cards and CPUs going back to 3DFX through the current day, and have seen again and again that a few FPS here or there between applications is not earth shattering in the way you make it out to be. So 43 to 51 fps, who cares? But 30 to 60+, now that's something you'll feel.

As for mentioning the R9 290x and the GTX 970, your previous comments made it pertain to this discussion. You are the one who accused people of being biased toward one graphics card company over another, so you made it relevant. The point was just that the company who designed the chip makes no difference to which card is faster, hence the hypothetical about Toyota.

There was also no cherry picking to prove a point. I was open since my first post about the fact that the 750 ti FTW will only come out ahead in limited cases, so I posted one of those cases. I even went as far as to actually say that the 270 is a more powerful card - from the start:

In the end, thgough, the 270 WILL generally beat out the 750 ti in terms of horsepower.

This is enough explaining because it seems like you just want to argue for the sake of arguement, and I also think you're out of line by calling people names and otherwise being hostile. It appears that you also made a Tom's profile recently with the intention of starting a flame war (only a few posts, all made recently), so I suggest you be more amicable to avoid being flagged by moderators.

 

[p3n1s]

You make half the arguments in your head and are answering to things I never mentioned nor alluded towards.

I hope OP checks all the graphs and makes his decision, I made my post for him to see that and not for few twerps to trip over after being called out.

Adios fanboys.