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R9 280x or GTX 770?

GLHolmstroff
By GLHolmstroff
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Same price range, similar performance, which one do you guys advise?

 

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They perform the same. 280x is usually chaper, but if they both are the same price where you live then definitely get the 770.

It will run cooler, make less noise, and overclock more.

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280x, it is kept perfectly cool and quiet by MSI or Sapphire's cooling solutions. That AMD cards run hot is a fallacy which it is forced to burden due to a poor performing reference cooler on the 290. If you could put that same cooler on an Nvidia card you'd hear no ends as to how hot the 780 ran.

The 280x also comes with 3gb of Vram which is only a good thing as games are utilising more vram than ever before, which potentially bottlenecks the 770, especially going forward.

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You could wait for further news about the R9 285X before you make a decision. It is said to come out some time after R9 280 which is September 2, 2014.

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