with nvidia GTX950 4gb graphic card or a and R7 -360 graphics card

[Dyanne]

would like to buy my 13yr son a gaming computer for xmas - on a tight budget and trying to compare the two graphics cards nvidia GTX 950 to and R7-360

 

[pete_101]

The GTX 950 is the better performing card out of those two. An R7 370 is closer matched to a GTX 950, but not the 360.

 

[outlw6669]

As with the above, the GTX 950 is the better of the two cards.
In aggregate, it performs marginally better than a R7 370 even.

 

[okcnaline]

GTX 950. No arguments. R7 360 remains virtually unchanged from R7 260, which gets beaten by the GTX 950 which has similar performance to GTX 760.

 

[lunyone]

I would go for the GTX 950, if it was up to me. Even the R9 380 is about $15 more than the cheapest GTX 950, so if that is a similar cost or cheaper, I would opt for it. Otherwise the GTX 950 should be fine.

 

[photonboy]

Hey,
NVidia has superior DX11 drivers, which for your interests basically means you're losing performance on many modern games with an AMD GPU if your CPU isn't strong enough to avoid a CPU bottleneck.

Basically any AMD CPU is going to have this issue or Intel CPU older than an i5-2xxx though I'm speaking fairly roughly here as it varies by the game quite a bit for starters.

AMD has recently stepped up its game but NVidia is far better off financially and has been much better at keeping drivers up to date.

Basically, unless the AMD card seems really worth it go for the NVidia.

Other:
The GTX950 is far more power efficient than a similarly performing AMD card as well, but still make sure you support it (i.e. might need a 400W Power Supply or better with 6-pin PCIe connector or adapter).

 

[spentshells]

For 15 dollars more the 380 is a far better option than the 950 in 2GB and 4GB flavours. The 380 has a far larger resource pool and regardless of drivers the 380 is a decent step above the 950 as it overtakes the 960 in most scenarios, while the 380 is for the most part cheaper and faster than the 960, mind you it's not by a large margin
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[spentshells]

For 15 dollars more the 380 is a far better option than the 950 in 2GB and 4GB flavours. The 380 has a far larger resource pool and regardless of drivers the 380 is a decent step above the 950 as it overtakes the 960 in most scenarios, while the 380 is for the most part cheaper and faster than the 960, mind you it's not by a large margin
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