Radeon or Nvidia?

[Umegadem]

I have a budget of about $350 and would like to buy a graphics card. I'm not too sure what brand and model to use. I usually play First person shooters especially Battlefield 4.

 

[smeezekitty]

If you can stretch your budget this will tear through BF4: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125505

 

[Nuckles_56]

if you can manage to get another $14 then you can get this card which will do an excellent job and beats the more expensive nvidia equivalent in everything except power consumption and a few nvidia preferred games http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvr929wf34gd

 

[17seconds]

First you always need to make the simple choice of whether you want to play any PhysX games. Start there, because that's one of the few things that is actually different about your choices.

 

[ZeusGamer]

Depends actually.

It's a personal choice.

You want to play games that have PhysX? Best to go with Nvidia. Want Price/Performance ratio, go with AMD.

 

[Rationale]

You're sure you don't want to wait for some DX12 cards to release? They're supposed to in just a few months. It'd suck to buy an epic card like an R9 280X or GTX 770 now, and then miss DX12 immediately.

 

[smeezekitty]

You're sure you don't want to wait for some DX12 cards to release? They're supposed to in just a few months. It'd suck to buy an epic card like an R9 280X or GTX 770 now, and then miss DX12 immediately.

Depends on how bad he needs a GPU. If he doesn't have anything that will play decent games
then it might be worthwhile just to buy a DX11 one now.

I am personally skeptical about DX12. Unless it is backported to 7 it will not get much adoption

 

[Rationale]

You're sure you don't want to wait for some DX12 cards to release? They're supposed to in just a few months. It'd suck to buy an epic card like an R9 280X or GTX 770 now, and then miss DX12 immediately.

Depends on how bad he needs a GPU. If he doesn't have anything that will play decent games
then it might be worthwhile just to buy a DX11 one now.

I am personally skeptical about DX12. Unless it is backported to 7 it will not get much adoption

The X1 and PS4 were apparently both designed for it. It may show up in a startling number of ports.

 

[Umegadem]

What's DX12? I'm sorry I'm new to upgrading a pc

 

[smeezekitty]

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/03/20/directx-12.aspx

 

[ZeusGamer]

Will AMD GPU's support DX12?

 

[renz496]

^ all GCN parts will support DX12. but AFAIK the spec for DX12 are not finalized yet. So there could be new feature that require new hardware that did no exist on current generation of GPU (nvidia for their part said in the past that there will be new feature in DX12 needing new hardware).

 

[ZeusGamer]

^ all GCN parts will support DX12. but AFAIK the spec for DX12 are not finalized yet. So there could be new feature that require new hardware that did no exist on current generation of GPU (nvidia for their part said in the past that there will be new feature in DX12 needing new hardware).

Well that sucks!