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GTX 770 VS. R9 290 for Rendering + Gaming

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Hello Everyone,

So I have already asked this question and didn't really feel as though I had a definitive answer. Although I am obviously comparing a tier 1 card to a tier 2 card, answer these two questions as well as you can.

1: For rendering in Blender, which one? I have the advantage of using cycles with the 770, but I could use an external renderer like LuxRender. Would using LuxRender give me a faster render using the 290 then cycles with the 770?

2: Based on your answer to question 1, does the vastly superior gaming experience of the 290 combined with its (either better or worse than the 770) rendering performance make it a better card?

 

Thanks for your answers! A little bit of reasoning behind your answer would be appreciated!

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R9 290. OpenGL

Better gaming

 

Especially better gaming

 

Because to be fair, either way it's not going to take THAT long.

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290, its superior in gaming and if you can render in Open GL it will be faster.

 

 

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well excon, spen was right for me. I have a Windforce 770 and i love it. i play everything on ultra and i can stream stuff to twitch well. I use that card to power 2 monitors and it powers them well. i just LOVE my GC, i have heard bad things about radeon but I have never used one so i can't make definitive judgement. I have no idea about the rendering performance but I assure you that the 770 kicks ass. 

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290.

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dude are you trolling 

if i helped you and im right give me best answer ok  ;)

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Wait, you guys are jumping too far.

 

Rendering really depends on programs used, if those are using your average OpenCL, OpenGL, GPU Compute, and stuff you're better off with the R9 290. No question about it. But in some programs like Adobe CS, Cinema 4D, and others, I think you'll be better with the GTX 770 since those programs are optimized to run Nvidia hardware (its too much bias if you'd asked me), its cheaper too at least where I'm from.

 

Gaming wise, the R9 290 will be a better performer overall. You could actually get a custom one that performs almost identical to the R9 290X. So...I'm with the others in saying the R9 290 is a better option than the GTX 770.

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290

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Wait, you guys are jumping too far.

 

Rendering really depends on programs used, if those are using your average OpenCL, OpenGL, GPU Compute, and stuff you're better off with the R9 290. No question about it. But in some programs like Adobe CS, Cinema 4D, and others, I think you'll be better with the GTX 770 since those programs are optimized to run Nvidia hardware (its too much bias if you'd asked me), its cheaper too at least where I'm from.

 

Gaming wise, the R9 290 will be a better performer overall. You could actually get a custom one that performs almost identical to the R9 290X. So...I'm with the others in saying the R9 290 is a better option than the GTX 770.

 

He did specifically said he'll be using Blender with LuxRender. AMD cards owned LuxRender with their stellar OpenCL performance.

 

290 destroyed 770 in Luxmark

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He did specifically said he'll be using Blender with LuxRender. AMD cards owned LuxRender with their stellar OpenCL performance.

 

290 destroyed 770 in Luxmark

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Well I did say the R9 290 is a better performer in compute stuff. I'm just saying that if he wants to try out or switch to software like Cinema 4D or even try some video/picture editing out with Adobe CS then he's better with the GTX 770 :)

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Realizing my budget is a lot less, I work my way to "I think these new games will run on a cheap ass CPU."

Then end with "The new parts launching next year is probably gonna be better and faster for the same price so I'll just buy next year."

 

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Depends on the apps you are using for rendering. Last time I checked Adobe CS Suite doesn't use Open CL, but that may have changed. So with Adobe (Again last time I checked) the 770 would be faster in rendering. In gaming the 290 would be faster as well with programs that support OpenCL

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Depends on the apps you are using for rendering. Last time I checked Adobe CS Suite doesn't use Open CL, but that may have changed. So with Adobe (Again last time I checked) the 770 would be faster in rendering. In gaming the 290 would be faster as well with programs that support OpenCL

Recently Adobe has partnered with AMD and it actually does better with AMD than Nvidia now.

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Yea the 290 will out preform the 770 by a mile

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 So get a R290 sapphire, best cards on the market, if not gigabyte or MSI

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Yep, the 290 will destroy the gtx 770 in everything except for drivers and overclocking memory. For some reason you can't get much of an overclock on the 512 bit memory even with the sapphire vapor-x. Plus you have to worry about the constant black screens from their memory if you try and overclock it too much.

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Yep, the 290 will destroy the gtx 770 in everything except for drivers and overclocking memory. For some reason you can't get much of an overclock on the 512 bit memory even with the sapphire vapor-x. Plus you have to worry about the constant black screens from their memory if you try and overclock it too much.

 

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Because anyone that overclocks cards does both the gpu clock and the memory clock. But like I said, a gtx 770 doesn't hold a candle to a 290. With a little bit of overclocking the 290 can be faster than the 290x.

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290, its superior in gaming and if you can render in Open GL it will be faster.

You mean Open CL?

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 So get a R290 sapphire, best cards on the market, if not gigabyte or MSI

 Actully tri x and and powercolor PCS+ are the best (pwc a little better) gigabyte and MSI not so much.

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 Actully tri x and and powercolor PCS+ are the best (pwc a little better) gigabyte and MSI not so much.

Lightning is superior to both of those.

 

 

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Lightning is superior to both of those.

But these 2 are super super cheap. In Croatia the PWC is 350eu

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Lightning is superior to both of those.

Don't think the lightning exists for the R9 290. Only the X

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Don't think the lightning exists for the R9 290. Only the X

yah that is what makes me sad :(

if i helped you and im right give me best answer ok  ;)

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