gtx 780 3g vs rx 570 8g vs r9 290 4g big battl

[thekingofmonks]

Post-scriptum:

-just think of this as a pc you're building for your son but with the lame parts that you put in your old pc years ago

-THE MSI COOLER LOOKS LIKE crap

-take into consideration the possibility of undervolting

[Crunchy Dragon]

Given you know this already

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rx 570 8g (biostar 6pin card with msi cooler) - pros: most efficient, still supported, has most vram

Feels like a no-brainer to me.

 

-Moved to Graphics Cards-

[thekingofmonks]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Given you know this already

Feels like a no-brainer to me.

 

-Moved to Graphics Cards-

but the other cards look cooler ;(

[Crunchy Dragon]

4 minutes ago, thekingofmonks said:

but the other cards look cooler ;(

If that's your only issue, I'd just throw in the GTX 780 and not expect to do much beyond 1080p.

 

Or get a case without a window, then you don't need to care about how things look because nobody will ever see it anyway

[jaslion]

8 minutes ago, thekingofmonks said:

but the other cards look cooler ;(

They are also like A LOT worse and do not have dirver support so they might not even work in your programs.

 

However every single card listed here is the wrong choice for you. If you will do some rendering of your autocad files as you'll need cuda on a SUPPORTED gpu (so the 780 isn't applicable here).

 

Either way raw performance wise the 570 wins and it's also supported and has enough vram.

 

 

 

 

[Gokul_P]

8 minutes ago, thekingofmonks said:

but the other cards look cooler ;(

Get a case without the side panel or get a different Board.

[mariushm]

It really doesn't matter which would be faster, the choice should be RX 570 simply because there's still support in the current drivers for them, and most games will continue to support the Polaris series for a long time, because variations of these chips are present in consoles.

 

It also has hardware h264 and HEVC decoding, partial/hybrid vp9 decoding,

 

32 minutes ago, thekingofmonks said:

-take into consideration the possibility of undervolting

 

can be silent with the right fans or by uploading custom bios in them (you can use a tool like SRBPolaris (just be careful which version and from where you download it, some versions are bundled with mining viruses or other crypto password stealers) to edit the bios/firmware and configure custom fan curve, you can set lower default clocks for gpu and ram if you want... )

 

290 is too old of a generation, same for GTX 780.

[AI_Must_Di3]

You know, you can get a custom shroud made or even make one yourself if you have the tools and the little bit of perseverance it would take. Or drop the whole thing and install a AIO on there. Many come with a shroud/fan setup for the memory slabs and the waterblock/pump is for the gpu. You could even put a aftermarket gpu air cooler on it. Theres plenty of possibilities to make it look better, what you want is the capability on a newer arch and the vram for plenty of frame buffer. They are all very close to each other in performance really, but the 570 is the best pick there. On a newer, latest, mobo/cpu/ram setup it could probably really shine since the cpu will have all the power it needs to feed it as fast as it wants to go.