Best graphics card for 2X 1440p monitors

[licant]

i'm looking to get two 2560X1440 displays and i'm curious about what the best graphics card for the money is. I'm not looking to do heavy gaming maybe kerbal, GTA, hearthstone, and a couple others similar to that. The monitors i'm getting get 60 FPS and i would only be gaming on one of them with maybe youtube or netflix on the other. I might also be doing some mild picture and video editing on the computer. other then that no extreme graphics chores. looking to get the best card for the money. not looking to spend over 600 and looking for a little lower then that. I would be wlling however to spend a little more if i could upgrade to 3 1440P or 2 1440 and a 4K later down the road. Thank you for your help

[Coombzy]

I don't know how much they're in the states but I would say an R9 390x.

[EllieThePurpleFuzzy]

390/390X would be recommended or i would wait until Pascal / Arctic Islands with HBM2.

[i_build_nanosuits]

R9 390X or GTX 980 can do 1440p gaming very well.

[Sam Z Man]

R9 Fury

[Stardar1]

980ti on sale

[afyeung]

 

GTA is not what I would call "not looking to do heavy gaming". My watercooled 290 that benches better than the stock 390x could barely maintain 30+ fps on maxed out settings at 1440p(It's so beautiful though and worth it). That's why I needed to add a 390x to my rig for enjoyable framerates at 60fps+. 

[Fredrikmikael]

 

 

60fps? get the 980TI

[MMKing]

The 980Ti is the only choice for over 60FPS at 2560x1440, and they start at around 650USD.

 

But if 650USD is out of the question, you can take a look at the 390 for about 300USD and the 390x for about 425USD. The 980 is a good card, but the performance compared to the 390x is practically nonexistent and the 390x has double the Vram. For value, the 390 is about 125USD cheaper and performs 10 to 15% worse.

[licant]

GTA is not what I would call "not looking to do heavy gaming". My watercooled 290 that benches better than the stock 390x could barely maintain 30+ fps on maxed out settings at 1440p(It's so beautiful though and worth it). That's why I needed to add a 390x to my rig for enjoyable framerates at 60fps+. 

yea gta would be the heaviest game i would be running and I dont need to run it at max setting. but i might look into the 960 ti

[licant]

The 980Ti is the only choice for over 60FPS at 2560x1440, and they start at around 650USD.

 

But if 650USD is out of the question, you can take a look at the 390 for about 300USD and the 390x for about 425USD. The 980 is a good card, but the performance compared to the 390x is practically nonexistent and the 390x has double the Vram. For value, the 390 is about 125USD cheaper and performs 10 to 15% worse.

can the 980ti power both monitors. One running the game one running something else? Also do you think it can power 3 monitors later on or would i have to get another card.

[Praesi]

 

 

60fps? get the 980TI

Reference Benchmark. ? Custom 980Tis are way above the TitanX.

[i_build_nanosuits]

60fps? get the 980TI

that's bullshit you just have to not crank the ''advanced settings'' to max (which BTW won't change ANYTHING...just make the game run like poop) and it run at 90FPS+ consistently on the 980ti @ 1440p (i know, i own one and i play GTA a lot)

It's very easy to get an 80FPS experience at 1440p even with a GTX 980, you just have to tweak a few settings and you get 95% of the fidelity but 155% the framerate vs. max settings EVERYWHERE.

And also they patched the game recently and it now run better than ever i don't know how old these test you show are, and on what driver they were executed, or anything else about even the test machine.

GTA5 run really well, it's a very nice PC port, you will have an amazing experience playing it even with a GTX 970 or an R9 390 GPU at 1440p. (I know, because i was playing it on my GTX 780 @ 1440p not to long ago and it was running perfectly fine on high settings.)

[i_build_nanosuits]

can the 980ti power both monitors. One running the game one running something else? Also do you think it can power 3 monitors later on or would i have to get another card.

you can power up to 5 monitors, 3 through display port, 1 HDMI and 1 DVI

[afyeung]

 

Advance settings aren't the major performance hit most of the time. Shadows and grass are a huge performance killer. Most benchmarks run grass on normal which looks even worse than the next gen console version. Ultra grass is probably the most demanding feature you can enable other than maxed out AA. Also soft shadows has a fairly large impact, and I forgot which setting but without maxing one of the shadow options sliders, you'll get shadow pop in and flickering which ruins the experience. GTA 5 completely maxed out isn't too hard to run. I'm sure a 980ti could maintain a solid 50 -60fps even during demanding scenes and well over 60fps every where else. 

[Starelementpoke]

There's always the Fury X if your looking to spend a little less. Performs quite well, and beats a ref. 980ti. Could always go 390 xfire though, but the power draw might be a bit much.

[don_svetlio]

There's always the Fury X if your looking to spend a little less. Performs quite well, and beats a ref. 980ti. Could always go 390 xfire though, but the power draw might be a bit much.

390X CF needs a 850W PSU

[Miguel Batista]

Look, if he doesn't want to max out everything, a 390 will do wonders. Really anything above that and you gain very little in terms of visuals and spend a lot of $$ for it. And latest patch has my 980ti easily pushing over 80 fps. Could pissibly make 90 but my OC has been destroyed by tge last couple of drivers (1450 MHz now down to 1418).

Heck regarding graphics fidelity, I am now sorry I didn't go for a 4K monitor and keep settings lower... The game looks amazing at 4k...

[Starelementpoke]

390X CF needs a 850W PSU

Like I said, power draw might be a but much.

[don_svetlio]

Like I said, power draw might be a but much.

980 SLI needs 750W

[i_build_nanosuits]

Advance settings aren't the major performance hit most of the time. Shadows and grass are a huge performance killer. Most benchmarks run grass on normal which looks even worse than the next gen console version. Ultra grass is probably the most demanding feature you can enable other than maxed out AA. Also soft shadows has a fairly large impact, and I forgot which setting but without maxing one of the shadow options sliders, you'll get shadow pop in and flickering which ruins the experience. GTA 5 completely maxed out isn't too hard to run. I'm sure a 980ti could maintain a solid 50 -60fps even during demanding scenes and well over 60fps every where else.

i indeed run shadows on softest and grass on high, otherwise major FPS hit for no reason (it looks exactly the same)

These are the settings i use i get 80FPS+ (i would say average 90FPS), 1440p with FXAA (looks georgeous, sharper then even 8xMSAA at 1080p, i tested both)

 

[Starelementpoke]

980 SLI needs 750W

Pretty sure 980's cost a good deal more.

[Prysin]

R9 390X or GTX 980 can do 1440p gaming very well.

390X would prolly fare better with the much higher VRAM.... also, AMD does scale marginally better at higher resolutions then Nvidia does (god knows why though)

[don_svetlio]

Pretty sure 980's cost a good deal more.

980 SLI is 200$ more expensive and yields lower performance since SLI scales worse

[Starelementpoke]

980 SLI is 200$ more expensive and yields lower performance since SLI scales worse

???, Am I missing something? This proves my point I think? (Did I have a point?)