Geforce GTX 960 4gb

[UberHaxorNova]

Is there a big difference between the Gigabyte GV-N960OC-4GD - https://nz.pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvn960oc4gd

and the Gigabyte GV-N960G1 Gaming-4GD - https://nz.pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvn960g1gaming4gd

besides one of them having a extra fan and the $50ish price difference?

 

Want to get of these but not sure which one is better.

[don_svetlio]

Both are sub-par GPUs that are bottlenecked by the 128-bit bus making the 4GB pointless,

I'd look into a R9 380 4G - that's about 15% more powerful on average and has almost double the bandwidth to support the memory.

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

The r9 380 would be a wiser decision

[UberHaxorNova]

Ahh yeah the r9 380, I had a look at that but my mate said that Radeon used older technology (Same stuff as they were 3-5 years ago) as NVIDIA been upgrading steadily.

In this case, my mates theory is false?

[PlayStation 2]

Ahh yeah the r9 380, I had a look at that but my mate said that Radeon used older technology (Same stuff as they were 3-5 years ago) as NVIDIA been upgrading steadily.

In this case, my mates theory is false?

Your friend is obviously some sort of fanboy

Yes the 380 is a refresh, a refresh of a card that's barely 1 year old.

Nvidia's guilty of refreshing old cards too, pretty sure it was 670 to 770?

[Vozella]

What games are you planning to play? Do you care about wattage?

[don_svetlio]

Ahh yeah the r9 380, I had a look at that but my mate said that Radeon used older technology (Same stuff as they were 3-5 years ago) as NVIDIA been upgrading steadily.

In this case, my mates theory is false?

Your friend is biased

The 380 is barely a year old as a chip and has better DX12 support than the 960, showing gains of up to 30% while the 960 barely achieves 5% more rendered frames in DX12. Not only that, the 380 has the same level of color compression as well as Tess performance as a 960 making it better in every aspect. Not to mention the bandwidth bottleneck on the 960

[don_svetlio]

What games are you planning to play? Do you care about wattage?

Wattage for both is about the same - 170-180W

[UberHaxorNova]

What games are you planning to play? Do you care about wattage?

Wattage not really I don't think, so it should be all good.

 

Games like in 1080p, 60fps and high performance like FO4 and Battlefront

[don_svetlio]

Wattage not really I don't think, I'm gonna get a seasonic 650W one so it should be all good.

 

Games like in 1080p, 60fps and high performance like FO4 and Battlefront

Battlefront barely gets 45fps on a 960 whereas it holds a steady 60 on a 380.

[UberHaxorNova]

Your friend is biased

The 380 is barely a year old as a chip and has better DX12 support than the 960, showing gains of up to 30% while the 960 barely achieves 5% more rendered frames in DX12. Not only that, the 380 has the same level of color compression as well as Tess performance as a 960 making it better in every aspect. Not to mention the bandwidth bottleneck on the 960

 

 

Your friend is obviously some sort of fanboy

Yes the 380 is a refresh, a refresh of a card that's barely 1 year old.

Nvidia's guilty of refreshing old cards too, pretty sure it was 670 to 770?

haha i had my doubts about his comments, thanks for clearing things up guys! 

[don_svetlio]

haha i had my doubts about his comments, thanks for clearing things up guys! 

No problem. I'd say digital foundry is a good source of benches on frame rate and frame time for situations like these. It gives raw numbers and is fairly unbiased.

And, before your friend tries to bring in the "features" argument, every Nvidia feature has an AMD equivalent.