What graphics card would you choose?

[blurryy]

Words out on the streets, GTA 5 is coming to PC I believe next month. I have a

AMD Kaveri 10 Compute Cores (Stock Heatsink, none OC)
12GB RAM
1TB HDD
128GB SSD

Currently have a PNY GTX Geforce 650 Graphics card, I need something with a little power I'm assuming. I want to play GTA 5 high + settings.

 

[WildCard999]

Nvidia GTX 970 or the Radeon R9 290 (depends on what your budget/PSU is).

 

[sincreator]

The r9 290 is the bang for buck winner right now in north america IMO. It can be found around the $250 mark, which undercuts most of the r9 280x, 285, and the more expensive versions of the gtx960. It is one hell of a card for that price. The next card up in performance level would be the GTX970. They are found between $320-400 depending on the model. It depends on if this difference in performance is worth the extra money. I don't IMO, check it out: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1068?vs=1355

Nvidia needs to have the gtx970 at the $300 mark right now for me to recommend it.

 

[Wolfshadw]

@Link from the Future
"Recommended" <> "Required"

The pertinent minimum system requirements for the game states an AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs) @ 2.5GHz (Source). The OPs CPU is a quad core AMD Processor running at 3.5GHz. The OPs CPU should be fine.

-Wolf sends

 

[WildCard999]

@Link from the Future
"Recommended" <> "Required"

The pertinent minimum system requirements for the game states an AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs) @ 2.5GHz (Source). The OPs CPU is a quad core AMD Processor running at 3.5GHz. The OPs CPU should be fine.

-Wolf sends

We all know games never run any good on minimum specs LOO that's just basically to launch the game. Typically often times the recommended specs are underrated. At any rate an AMD APU will not run GTA V any good and I will bet on that.

The OP may have a APU but they still use a dedicated GPU for gaming so theres no need to upgrade the CPU (APU) at this time and the APU should not bottleneck any current gen GPU's.

 

[WildCard999]

blurryy if you give us a budget we can help you pick out a good GPU for you. Also please post your current PSU.

 

[blurryy]

PSU: CX600M corsair ( i know people say its unrealible..)
Budget around 120-220$ graphics card.

Note: I will not upgrade my CPU I just bought it a few days ago. If I can't play on ultra settings, can I play on medium ?

 

[sincreator]

Maybe a r9 280 or a gtx960 would be a good option then. Up to 1080p you should get high settings in most games. Ultra on some older titles. Medium in upcoming games.

 

[WildCard999]

For the money the R9 280 is going to be a good price/performance buy. Its a really good card that also has plenty of vram and also if you get it from XFX is comes with a Lifetime warranty (plus ive bought quite a few gpus from them with never any issues).

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-r9280atdbd

 

[cst1992]

"lifetime limited" warranty?

 

[WildCard999]

"lifetime limited" warranty?

Sorry just noticed that lol, fixed! LIFETIME WARRANTY!!!

 

[jackfrost005]

gtx 980 is best but gtx 970 and gtx 960 can also run every game on high+ settings

 

[cst1992]

@Link from the Future
"Recommended" <> "Required"

The pertinent minimum system requirements for the game states an AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs) @ 2.5GHz (Source). The OPs CPU is a quad core AMD Processor running at 3.5GHz. The OPs CPU should be fine.

-Wolf sends

While I technically agree, in Rockstar's case, a faster CPU would be more or less required - let's not forget GTAIV.
Not that it matters now.