R9 280x or GTX 770?

[jaffacakes]

I definitely recommend the Asus DC2 R9 280X over the Gigabyte GTX 770 because the Asus 280X runs significantly quieter than the Gigabyte 770 & the largely because of memory & memory bandwidth disadvantages of the 770.

And before you say 2GB is enough, I want you to check out PCPer's podcast.

In PCPer's testing both the GTX 770 and GTX 760 experienced numerous lag spikes that Ryan described as being "very noticeable" in Bioshock Infinite, both in 1920x1080 and 2560x1440, these lag spikes did not exist with an R9 280X, the conclusion was due to the 770 and 760 running out of memory

This time-stamped link will take you to when Ryan talks about it : http://youtu.be/_sl__2PEHRI?t=22m40s

 

Both the PS3 and the XBOX360 had 512mb of memory available for the GPU, in contrast both the PS4 & XBOX1 have 8GB of memory shared between the CPU & GPU. The majority of game development starts on the consoles due to quality & framerate targets and then trickles down to the PC, developers only had 512mb of VRAM to work with just two years ago and now they have 6-8 times as much, we'll start seeing much higher resolution textures in games and more memory intensive effects that the developers could not have implemented before, this includes global illumination and other forms of ray-tracing, longer view distances, more complicated depth of field effects, sub-surface scattering, more tessellation and so on.

And this issue becomes even more detrimental in SLI because as the game becomes more demanding the higher memory it will require and so you will run into a memory brick wall before you can make use of the additional performance of the second card.

And it's not just Bioshock Infinite, a lot of modern games like Tomb Raider, Batman Arkham Origins, Rome 2 Total War, Skyrim with high-res textures & BF4 in specific multi-player levels & generally in single-player.

 

What about the GTX 770 4GB edition? different brands made this edition and it costs €30-€40 more than the 2GB version. So i can run DirectX 12 and PhysX plus the nVidia features. And i don't get why AMD came up with Mantle, it's a failure.

[killercroc]

Go with the 280x

[jaffacakes]

Go with the 280x

Or should i go with the 4GB edition of the 770?

[Prokart2000]

Or should i go with the 4GB edition of the 770?

no

[Steemax]

My vote goes for the 770... I also chose the 770 but went with the 4gb version... thought it will come in handy when I decide to run multiple screens down the line.

[GamerDude]

My vote goes for the 770... I also chose the 770 but went with the 4gb version... thought it will come in handy when I decide to run multiple screens down the line.

Eh, no, the GTX770 simply does not have the rendering prowess to make use of the added VRAM for multi monitor setups. Adding more VRAM to a card is a gimmick because the card isn't powerful enough to make use of the extra VRAM. Sure, a 2nd card would be of great help, especially for multi-monitor surround gaming, but the memory interface (384bit on the R9 280X vs 256bit on the GTX770) can also be a limiting factor.

 

For 1080P gaming, it's a toss up between the two imo, go with the one that is cheaper. If priced the same, then toss a coin....

[emistery]

770 and then the 4 gb twin frozr gaming or 2 gb lightning