[SOLVED] What card to buy? $100 - 270x, 760, 5600g

[EzTec]

Living now in Medellin Colombia guys looking to build with the options I have available to me... price point 100 bucks and the only ones I found that seem worth it are:

R9 270x (Asus Dual fan)
Nvidia GTX 760 (Ref design)
I had the R7 260x in mind too but I think both above are better

My last option but really really stretching would be the Ryzen 5 5600g for 199.99 on Amazon but If I could save some $$$ I'm happy to do so on one of these GPU's and a cheap CPU.

If you can recommend maybe some others to consider? prices here are a little diff. then the states as I only have Mercadolibre and Facebook Marketplace avail. to me.

Games: I don't play anything too crazy, GTA V, Diablo 3, wouldn't mind getting into COD or Battlefield.

 

[alexvdm]

Living now in Medellin Colombia guys looking to build with the options I have available to me... price point 100 bucks and the only ones I found that seem worth it are:

R9 270x (Asus Dual fan)
Nvidia GTX 760 (Ref design)
I had the R7 290x in mind too but I think both above are better

My last option but really really stretching would be the Ryzen 5 5600g for 199.99 on Amazon but If I could save some $$$ I'm happy to do so on one of these GPU's and a cheap CPU.

If you can recommend maybe some others to consider? prices here are a little diff. then the states as I only have Mercadolibre and Facebook Marketplace avail. to me.

Games: I don't play anything too crazy, GTA V, Diablo 3, wouldn't mind getting into COD or Battlefield.

looked around and it seems the r9 270x is better than the 760, altough you should try to find a comparison between both of them on the games you play, in gta v for example, the 760 gives 10 more fps. suerte

 

[Math Geek]

of those 3 the 290x is by far the best one, followed by the 270x and then the 760.

 

[EzTec]

looked around and it seems the r9 270x is better than the 760, altough you should try to find a comparison between both of them on the games you play, in gta v for example, the 760 gives 10 more fps. suerte

Yeah, I've been looking at comparisons for most of the day haha little bit obsessed with finding the best one I can and decided to come back here since the community here has helped me a lot in the past.

 

[EzTec]

of those 3 the 290x is by far the best one, followed by the 270x and then the 760.

Oh wow, interesting. yeah, It looks like the 290x is great, but seems to be right in line with the 760 from the benchmarks and testing but honestly, all three aren't that far off from one another.... thanks for your input.

 

[Math Geek]

been a while for those old models but the 270x and 290x are nowhere in the same league.

the 290x was near top of the line when it came out and the 270x was a more mid-range option at the same time. there is no question in my mind which is the best option

not sure what comparisons you are seeing but .....

 

[EzTec]

been a while for those old models but the 270x and 290x are nowhere in the same league.

the 290x was near top of the line when it came out and the 270x was a more mid-range option at the same time. there is no question in my mind which is the best option

not sure what comparisons you are seeing but .....

ah sorry about that, my mistake... I didn't mean to write the R7 290x I meant the R7 260x fixing in the edit above.

 

[Math Geek]

ok, now that is a bit of a difference. lol

the 270x would then be the best option. it would trade blows with the 760 depending on the game. i don't recall the generations though. do a quick spec sheet check and see if one is newer and might have an extra instruction set or the like.

other thing it vram. the more the merrier and if one has a bit more, then it is the better option as modern games usually like as much vram as it can get

most of the 270x's had 2 gb as the 760 does. but some models had 4 gb for the 270x

 

[EzTec]

I do appreciate both your feedbacks, I'm going to research a little more about the generations and if I'm not wrong they both have 2gb vram... yeah not the best but seems to hold up in gaming benchmarks

I absolutely appreciate the information given just wondering if there's another model I'm not considering that might be better for maybe the same price. I imagine hard to suggest as prices are different

 

[jacob249358]

Make sure you have a good power supply and good case airflow. The 290x can pull up to 300w. Also none of those cards still have driver support. Might run into problems with that.

 

[Math Geek]

we'd have to look where you are looking. does no good for me to find prices here in the US when you are in Colombia.

can you link to a store with a budget in local currency? might be an odd entry that is a touch better. a good resource for general performance levels is tom's hierarchy of gpu's

Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart - 2015 GPU Comparisons

ranks every gpu to make it easier to see how one falls with another

 

[EzTec]

Make sure you have a good power supply and good case airflow. The 290x can pull up to 300w. Also none of those cards still have driver support. Might run into problems with that.

You can just download drivers from the interweb, can't you?

 

[Math Geek]

Make sure you have a good power supply and good case airflow. The 290x can pull up to 300w. Also none of those cards still have driver support. Might run into problems with that.

he realized the mistake and corrected it to the 260x and not 290x. changed the conversation totally. lol

 

[Math Geek]

You can just download drivers from the interweb, can't you?

if they are available. older hardware may not get drivers for the newest OS's. the 270x has win 10 drivers as does the 760 so should be ok on that side of things

 

[EzTec]

we'd have to look where you are looking. does no good for me to find prices here in the US when you are in Colombia.

can you link to a store with a budget in local currency? might be an odd entry that is a touch better. a good resource for general performance levels is tom's hierarchy of gpu's

Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart - 2015 GPU Comparisons

ranks every gpu to make it easier to see how one falls with another

thanks for this, yeah I'd like something like mercadolibre colomia but if you're not looking for something specific it's like Ebay... just a hot mess of everything and sadly there are no good options like microcenters or newegg haha... Amazon does ok of a job as of recent times but they still don't offer everything yet

 

[EzTec]

Well I think I'm going with the Asus R9 270x, can you guys tell me what CPU to pair it with? I'm truly at a loss of what would even be a decent option haha

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 specs (gpuzoo.com)
ASUS Radeon R9 270X DirectCU II TOP specs (gpuzoo.com)

These are the two comparibles and I chose the Asus as it seems to have more features