EVGA gtx 960 4gb sc or gigabyte AMD r9 380 4gb

[Demolisher210]

HI i was going to build a new gaming rig i am not a gamer who needs crazy graphics or fps or any of that but i was looking at graphics cards and these two got my attention either a EVGA gtx 960 4gb sc or gigabyte AMD r9 380 4gb which one should i get? i am open to new suggestions if you have them i was also wondering would a AMD athlon x4 860k bottleneck either of these two graphic cards open to suggestions on cpu to

[Chasem121]

380

[RZeroX]

380. but I would go with a Sapphire one instead.

[Guest]

380. but I would go with a Sapphire one instead.

Or MSI

[JebKerman]

both are fine GPUs, but a different 380 would be a lot better (aside from one from ASUS)

[comicsansms]

The R9 380, the Sapphire, XFX, MSI or Powercolor models of the R9 380 would be better than the Gigabyte model.

[Mcmole]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 380 4GB PCS+ Video Card  ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $159.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-28 23:48 EST-0500

[Dabombinable]

Gigabyte's AMD cards are crap and not much better on the Nvidia side, so EVGA GTX 960 4GB SC.

[Speshul_]

Go the 380 for more performance, go the 960 if you want shadowplay, and gameworks (some games look better with it although you will get better fps and performance in general with the 380) . I currently have a R9 380 SOC Gigabyte G1 gaming and I have been happy with it except i had some issues running Rainbow Six Siege (note this may have been patched). I'd suggest you go with the 380 unless you need to record gaming footage using shadow play (for youtube or something). Although bear in mind you could have a cpu bottle necking issues if you can afford it upgrade your cpu as well.

[LokiFire]

380 4GB by a land slide and a tsunami.

[mahbubvy]

Which one of these would be better for simple 3d vidoe rendering,video editiing,photshoping, etc...?????

[JebKerman]

Which one of these would be better for simple 3d vidoe rendering,video editiing,photshoping, etc...?????

960 if said programs can use CUDA

[i_build_nanosuits]

HI i was going to build a new gaming rig i am not a gamer who needs crazy graphics or fps or any of that but i was looking at graphics cards and these two got my attention either a EVGA gtx 960 4gb sc or gigabyte AMD r9 380 4gb which one should i get? i am open to new suggestions if you have them i was also wondering would a AMD athlon x4 860k bottleneck either of these two graphic cards open to suggestions on cpu to

get the R9 380 it perform better in games.

For CPU the athlon 860k is not the best and it will limit the graphics cards in some games, will be more of a limitation with the AMD GPU though. I would recommend an i3-6100 and a cheap compatible motherboard instead.

 

Which one of these would be better for simple 3d vidoe rendering,video editiing,photshoping, etc...?????

get the nvidia graphics cards, most of those mainstream applications that you are likely to use to accomplish such tasks support cuda acceleration and the nvidia card will be better overall.