Current GPU Recommendations

FIIRETURRET · March 19, 2015

I've decided that I am probably going up upgrade my GPU for an up-coming game that goes by the name Star Citizen. As most of you know it's a fairly demanding game. So I wanted to get some advice on what to get. I'm looking to spend around $500 U.S. and I'll probably end up buying used. I was looking at an R9 295x2, and a GTX 980. I would like to hear some feedback especially from people who have either owned one of these two video cards, or who currently owns the graphics card that they recommend.

soaringchicken · March 19, 2015

What resolution do you plan on playing at? And obviously the 295X2 will give better performance, especially at higher resolutions

FIIRETURRET · March 19, 2015

right now probably just 1080 but id like to get a three monitor set up once I have the room.

RedSphyxis · March 19, 2015

right now probably just 1080 but id like to get a three monitor set up once I have the room.

a 980 would do for triple 1080 for most games not sure for starcitizen though. And it also depends on how high you want your framerates to be.

FIIRETURRET · March 19, 2015

well I would definitely want a frame rate that hovers 60 fps even when there's plenty of models, textures, effects that sort of thing. I am running a GTX 760 right now and I do ok with Star Citizen running on medium to high, but i definitely notice frame rate issues. I would also want to run the game on at least high.