r9 290 or 780

[laptop-]

The r9 290 and 780 are bot very close in price right now and I can't decide can you guys plz help me. And if you say one Is better than the other can you tell me why it is. Also I'm going to be using theses cards for gaming on a single 1080p display and for some video editing. And please no fan boys / girls

 

[jbrown156]

The r9 290 and 780 are bot very close in price right now and I can't decide can you guys plz help me. And if you say one Is better than the other can you tell me why it is. Also I'm going to be using theses cards for gaming on a single 1080p display and for some video editing. And please no fan boys / girls

the r9 290 would be the best ... both are strong but the r9 290 is the stronger one .. i would suggest however though i you can to buy a gtx 970 or 980 instead of both

 

[Denis Stoikovski]

For 1080p i may go with the 290 but since it isn't 290x i would go for the 780:note the 980 is cheaper and powerful,also it uses lower wattage.

 

[laptop-]

Well this is my build and my budget is $1700
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/FWFpVn

 

[Thaisnang]

Get this--> http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8qDf23

 

[laptop-]

I'm going to be doing a lot of video editing isn't 16gb or more a must? Or is ddr4 different?

 

[Thaisnang]

I'm going to be doing a lot of video editing isn't 16gb or more a must? Or is ddr4 different?

DDR4 is faster than DDR3 so yeah that should compensate for some the RAM requirements for video editing in comparison to DDR3. 8 Gb RAM is fine if you are editing video footage of 20-30 mins at a time even if its HD. 16 GB is helpful if you are editing HD video footage which are 2-3 hours long. And if you are into Blu-Ray editing you may need around 30-40GB RAM

 

[laptop-]

Ok so 8gb of ddr4 is like 16gb of ddr3 kinda and isn't the 780 better for video editing because it has more cuda cores?

 

[coozie7]

If you are going to video edit seriously, check your software documentation and the vendor/publisher website and see what GPU acceleration it can use and which it responds to best.
For gaming the R9 290 and GTX780 run vey close and both are available with excellent (quiet and cool) third party heatsinks, but be aware some of the AMD cards (Sapphire TriX particularly) are very long, so check the case you finally decide on can handle one.
Agree on the memory, at least try the system with 8Gb, if it's good enough you've saved enough to give yourself a little treat, if not, well, it's not exactly hard to install is it? 😉
If this is going to be used for REALLY serious stuff, don't forget to add a second HDD for backup, or to run in a mirrored array, it's just annoying for us gamers if a drive fails, imagine how it'll feel if you loose a portfolio that's taken years to build up.

 

[Thaisnang]

Ok so 8gb of ddr4 is like 16gb of ddr3 kinda and isn't the 780 better for video editing because it has more cuda cores?

DDR4 should be something like 10-12GB of DDR3.But DDR4 is mainly emphasized for lower power requirement. And those CUDA cores will help but the performance diff between 970 and 780 would depend upon on how efficiently your software can utilize them.