R9 280 dual-x VS GTX 960 or a similar nVidia GPU with at least 3GB vRam

[Manos Liakos]

I've freaked out..all day long I've been searching about those two cards. Whether the R9 is better or the 960. They seem to have similar performance, despite the smaller memory bandwidth of the 960. The 960 fully supports dx12 and dx12.1, g-sync, blah blah... My main concern is vRam. I think that 2gigs of vRam in 2015 is not enough for 1080p gaming with ultra settings and high textures etc.. If I could find at the same price range (200€) an nVidia GPU with at least 3GB of vRam, I would definitely go with it.
On the other hand, there's another version with 4gigs, but despite the fact that it is more expensive, I read on many sites that 4gigs doesn't make that much of a difference compared to 2gigs of the same version. (960)

I want some serious answers, my mind has bottlenecked and I don't know whether to go with R9 280 because of 960's vram lack, with 960 because it seems to be faster, cooler, more stable and all that stuff, or with another choice of nvidia with 3 gigs. Please, some help...

 

[johnnyb105]

I think the 960 only has 128 bit bus there for the 4 gb v ram is useless its crippled..

 

[Manos Liakos]

so gtx 960 2gb or sapphire r9 280 dual-x 3gb?

 

[bakumonsuno85]

xD im stuck at the same exact question but my mind tells me so hard that the r9 280 will win my friend has one (sapphire version too) and he doesnt lag at any game so by the way are you greek anyway get the msi or gigabyte version of r9 280
this is my opinion

 

[hatib]

Go for r9 380x

 

[bakumonsuno85]

no the new r9 300 series has drivers like a sh** im a amd fan boy but face it nvidia has better drivers if they fix them all hale the r9 300 series

 

[hatib]

I know there driver issues on amd r9 300 series but in 2-3 week the drivers will be updated after update the gpu working fine i am myself a nvidia fan boy but why i recommending this because it has better performance then gtx 960 i myself use gtx titan x but in this price range this is the best gpu

 

[bakumonsuno85]

if they update the drivers and work fine i will agree with hatib
go for the r9 380 when the drivers take an update

 

[Rullze]

r9 280 or r9 380