Which graphics card do you use and why?

>>58182978
GTX 970

>why?
It was the cheapest nvidia GPU that had over 100 GT/s at the time of purchase

>why nvidia?
AMD's linux drivers at the time were basically nonexistant

>why 100 GT/s?
ewa_lanczos at 4K res

>>58182978
GTX1080 FTW
> AMD has no alternative.
> mad madVR settings
> games, I guess?
> Photoshop 12 hours a days

Crossfired 7770s because I haven't found the time or money to replace them yet. Probably going to replace them next AMD GPU gen.

>>58182978
Sapphire RX 480 8GB
>1080p gaymen
>enough VRAM
>won't be gimped to hell in 2 years

1060 cause it's better price:perf in Europe than the 480.

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>>58182978
NVIDIA
Drivers are king

I had nothing but driver issues with a 5970 and 290x.

My PC on the right

>>58183149
u cant put graphics on gun no wonder gpu not work

GTX 950
>Poor as fuck right now
>Getting a 1060 asap
>950 is doing all right while I get more money

>>58182978
EVGA GTX180SC,

because whatever

>>58183280
*1080

980ti, got it cheaper than 1070. Needed a card that would compliment i7 haswell.

>>58183149
>NVIDIA
>Drivers are king

>have 1060
>drivers rape my OS
>games crash constantly
>old games wont boot
>troubleshooting doesn't help
>serious stuttering in modern TripleA titles
>cant play witcher3 with hairworks on

So i refunded that fucking piece of shit and got an RX 480 figuring even if it was slower it could not possibly be a worse experience.

>Crimsons drivers work silky smooth
>occasionally a mouse icon get retarded looking or some minor visual glitch happens in the game like the compass icon in fallout 4 getting fucked up but no one single driver issue that crashed my system or crashed a game
>no stuttering....AT ALL
>everything maxed out
>old games run just fine
>can manually force modern effects through the crimson driver into the old games to improve them
>have a fucking tessellation limiter that after reading online I set to X16 for my witcher 3 game and now I can run it at 60 fps Ultra WITH FUCKING HAIRWORKS ON!!
>Drivers are so non-invasive i dont even need to run DDU anymore when I update or uninstall

AMD might of sucked in the past but as of this generation the AMD driver Experience is So much fucking better than Geforce that unless you need the power of a 1080/ti and cannot wait for Vega you would be mentally retarded to pick a gtx 1060 or even a 1070 over an AMD polaris GPU

I mean holy fucking shit what good is an extra 5-7fps average in a game when both cards drive over 60fps on MAXIMUM settings?

The experience Im having with a 480 is so good at 1080p thats its guranteed im upgrading to Vega when it drops and I build a 4K system. Nvidia can lick my taint.

>>58183272
see
>>58183368

GTX 1070

Because AMD literally doesn't have a 1440p worthy GPU right now.

>>58183368
You probably got a faulty card dumbass. That can happen with either brand.

>>58183368
Guess what, I got a faulty GTX1080 FTW. EVGA released a bunch of faulty cards worldwide. RMA took a few days, but works like a charm now.

Also, good luck playing on maximum settings with a 1060. Lol.

>>58183457
>maximum settings
Literally a Jewish meme designed to sell new cards.
Stop being a faggot.

>>58183457
The card ran benchmarks without issues. It was the games it could run to save its fucking life.

And it wasnt like it couldnt run the games if you walked settings down to high it ran fine for the most part on every game. It was when you went to ULTRA that shit got fucked up and thats the fraud. All the reviewers matched this up to an RX 480 and said it was faster. What they forgot to mention is that on synthetic benchmarks and with Average measured FPS its faster but if you crank the settings all the way up it stutters like a motherfucker and the drivers are unstable as fuck.

RX480 is an ULTRA settings card in that on ULTRA settings it does not fucking stutter and it gets either over 60fps on average or close enough to it. The GTX1060 is a fucking fraud. Maybe your 1080 runs well but everyone who bought a card below that got scammed

>>58183581
Literally bullshit.
You've never used a 1060.

>>58183581
>RX480 is an ULTRA settings card

here's your (you)

>>58182978
GTX 950

>why Nvidia?
>Blender is most optimized for Nvidia

>Why 950?
>old 750 died and didn't I want to shill out the 500 bucks for a 980 and found it for 100 bucks on ebay

waiting to get a 1080 ti with tax return. If they aren't shit as the rumor mill is suggesting.

Radeon HD 2600 Pro
>why?
I don't feel like upgrading an MXM GPU and even if I did the max upgrade is an 8800GS

>>58182978
Ok gpu history time it seems...

GeForce 8400...cuz it was cheap and worked at the time.
Gt 730...same reason.
Gtx750ti...great 2 years ago for the 100 price. Can't complain.


Current RX 470 8gb. Can run anything at 1080p with no issues. Better than 1080p are just meme resolutions at this time so why bother with anything else? With 1080p I'm at the point where anything bigger is pointless shit and anything lesser is EXACTLY that.

It's the best card for 1080 right now.

And fuck that rx 480 4gb shit...the 480 isn't significantly more powerful but high textures can use the extra v ram. The 470 8gb is the better choice.

GTX 950

>cheap
>runs Second Life and DIRT 3
>cheap

Waiting for Vega

gtx 950, I was an amd fanboy for a while. I like what they're trying to do but i'm a poorfag who can't afford to buy into ideas.

>case says amd on it
>intel cpu and nvidia processor

>>58182978
What GFXcard should I buy?
I'm currently on a 770GTX2GB (Unfortunately 2GB)
Honestly I'm looking towards a 1060GTX as my current Situation as a student doesn't offer me much more than that.
What are your recommendations?

Also >>58183149,

>Nvidia Drivers are king
>Nvidia, the company that fails against AMD at longetivity of the cards
>AMD Cards tend to work fairly well for a long time, sometimes even getting driver updates making them perform even alot better with newer games.
>Same Cards from Nvidia tend to get outperform AMD Cards pretty well at first, but die hard over the years because of shitty driver support. Same AMD Cards tend to outperform nVidia Cards big in more recent games.

Idk, but I've had my share of experience with all the junk I've hoarded on gfxcards.

>>58184009
>Nvidia, the company that fails against AMD at longetivity of the cards

how so?

>>58182978

Second hand GTX 760 because I'm poor. Runs all games I like no problem so I'm good.

>>58183368
Are you the same anon who was shitposting about Crimson drivers being superior to Nvidia ones for the last week? Nobody, even the AMD biased /g/ believes this shit for a minute anon. Stop shitposting.

>>58184080
are you stalking him anon?

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>>58183581
ha


No.

>>58184012
Aside for the 8800GTX (And around that timespan) most Cards outperformed similiar Cards from AMD by alot sometimes, but quickly got insignificant, as they weren't able to perform all that well with newer games while their AMD counterparts stayed relevant for quite some time.
More recently, (I don't exactly know when, as I haven't had a AMD card for awhile but I read and heard alot of news about it) AMD threw out a Driver that magically made alot of games work ALOT better with older/weaker Cards. Especially the weaker ones from the R7/9 200 series. I even had a testbench for one of my old 7870 cards and a friends geforce 670. The 670 worked quite well with Far Cry 3. The 7870 which is inferior, didn't work as well, but when I turned on Witcher 3, the 670 like 20% worse than the 7870.
I don't know if it's the CPUs fault for that, but the i7 4790k was used in both accounts.

>>58184012
Look up current day benchmarks of the 780ti. It loses to a 290X and even to a gtx 1060. now look up old benchmarks of the 780ti vs the 290X and the raw specs of the 780ti which was a 700$ flagship GPU on its release.

I don't remember all my gpus mostly because I was an illiterate retard back then coming from a 3rd world shithole where 1 in 20 kids had a PC at age of 12. But this is what I remember

>Some fucking 5-10 years old Pentium 3 pc in a white Linkworld case my parents bought me for $100 (Which in my country was shitload of money back then for your average poorfag family). Those games and hardware had to be like 5-7 years old but I didn't care, I still fucking loved it.
>Then I had some prebuild with AMD cpu and ATI GPU that I can't remember for shits. I bet that pc is still somewhere in my garage.
>finally started having some of my own money so I changed pc and bought myself a 8800 GT, ran like a fucking dream
>9800 GX2. That card was a fucking nightmare. I got it off my cousin who was upgrading his pc and it was ridiculously fast when compared to 8800 but it was a double GPU that looked like a nightmarish sandwich. Still people bitch too much nowadays when their $300 card cannot run some game on ultra details at 1440p. I remember cards back then not being able to run anything at 60 fps like Crysis or GTA4. Either way that card went dead on me in a year.
>After going back to 8800 I switched to 560 gtx. It wasn't anything special but for its price I loved that card, still works lying in a box in a corner of my office.
>Swapped to 280x, it was first time I actually decided to trust AMD when it comes to GPUs because on paper that card was as good as 770 and I was just a shitty poor uni student. Had nothing but issues with it. RMA'd it, got another one, got issues again. Never got my money back, still salty as fuck.
>After 280X I jumped onto 970 gtx before the 3.5 meme came out. I know /g/ shits on it and I would be first to jump back on AMD's side if it wasnt for 280x being garbage and fact that I never actually had issues with it. It ran like a dream.
>Decided to swap it to 1070 gtx once I graduated, found a full time job and finally saved up some money.

>>58184280
So yea personally I have a better experience with Nvidia when it comes to spending my own money. I'm interested in ZEN cpus though. My 3570k starts to show its age.

>>58182978
GTX 1070

Because Ayymd a shit for pajeets and I like my games to actually run properly.

>>58184315
Same. Nvidia cards have always been good to me. I've also never had a problem with AMDs CPUs for that matter. My 965 BE and 8350 were great. However my 7870 was shit, and gave me nothing but problems as well as one I had before that as well but that was ages ago been using Nvidia GPUs for a while now and they work just fine.

>>58184009
Get an rx 470. You don't need much else unless you're doing Greater than 1080p.
Or the rx 480 8gb if you have The cash

The 1060 is a great card but longevity and nvidea don't go together.

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>>58183368
Sounds like ur OS.
Windows 10 didn't work right on my gtx1080.

My 780ti was rock solid on Windows 10
I had a grand total of 2 driver issues the first week of having it.
That's was it.

AMD has gotten better, but they are still below Nvidia.

>>58182978
RX 480

> GTX 1080 not a big enough leap over 980 Ti, so I'd need to upgrade to 1080 Ti/Vega/whatever anyways in early 2017
> needed something with HDMI 2.0 and ideally DP 1.3/1.4 though
> general spite against Nvidia for what happened with my GTX 670 (Kepler) with Maxwell and ever-shittier dirvers

Amd 4850 in my first custom build because it was the best I could afford.
6950 unlocked to 6970 in my second pc because once again it was the best I could afford.
Now a 1060 6gb because in the games I play it is objectively superior to the rx 480.

>>58182978
GTX1080 Founders

Because their drivers are always updated immediately whenever a major game is released. I used to like ATI, but the last ATI card I used was the 7970. It had problems like frame stutters that never got fixed, while my friends with their Nvidia cards never had problems.

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>>58184429
Is that gun barrel made of fucking plastic or what

>>58184512
>barrel

Are you mentally deficient?

Used to use ATI back in the mid-00s, nVidia since 2010.

Shit just werks, ATI kept fucking up on me with every driver update, nVidia has yet to fuck me over in the last 6 years.

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>>58184512
That's a cz 75 without the slide.....

Anyways, AMD is for poor people

>>58183581
EVGA 1070 FTW

> bought below 1080
> happy as fuck

just sayin

>>58183039
AMD ProDuo is like same performance

>>58184433
All the fanboys who forked out 700$ for a 1080 are going to be so pissed when it crashes down to 450$ after vega gets released.

According to initial leaks Vega is such a beast at 4K that Nvidia is going to have to Respec its 1080ti for GDDR5X and use Fully unlocked GPUs with more SMs enabled than even on the titanXP in order to trounce it.

Either that or they are gonna release a gimped titan for 900$ before vega and cash grab like bandits on unsuspecting consumers

>>58183368
Can confirm AMD is king these days

Sapphire fury nitro, or basically anything that's not Nvidia.
I have been salty since they bought and disbanded 3dfx.
I still have my pair of voodoo 2s too.

>>58182978
r9 270x 4gb

>why amd?
I gave into the amd budget gaming meme

>why this card?
because my friend who already had a build helping me with my own pushed for more initial power over expandability with a better card and I suffered for it, my entire build is cornered and bottlenecked and the best I can do is push through it with money.

next stop, gtx 1070 or vega if amd can impress me with a compelling price.

>>58184594

I used to buy AMD before 2015 (a total of six AMD GPUs). The total Crimson clusterfuck on an R9 280X was what finally put me over the edge.
Now I own a 970 and 1070 and I don't think I'm going back.

Intel integrated graphics

>>58184656
>According to initial leaks

Every AMD fanboy post ever before the next AMD gen is released.

>just you wait, AMD will catch up next gen

Every AMD fanboy post ever after the next AMD gen is released.

Nvidia because its just better

>>58183368
>my 1070 does 90+ fps at max settings at 1440p
>friends 480 does 50+fps at high settings at 1440p

>>58184656
>Just wait
>AMD will beat nvidia

GPU is released, slower than Nvidia's.

>Just wait for optimizations

>>58185105
This is actually what happened with the 1060/480

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>>58185105

>one meh-tier game is heavily AMD optimized
>amd fanboys keep shilling its benchmarks in every single thread

290x passed through to windows
chose it because at the time it was a cheaper GTX 780 which were the best cards out.

GTX 950 host card
because triple monitor, good performance for light linux gaming.

RX 470
Just upgraded from a 7970. Don't really need the extra performance; just wanted the 3x DP.

Always AMD because they give a shit about open source.

...and it's pleasing to have a matching CPU and GPU.

>>58183149
2016 has been one of the worst years for NVIDIA in terms of driver stability, to say they are still king would be wrong.

R9 Nano
>best perf/watt at the time of purchase
>mitx build
>wanted a gaming monitor without overpaying for gsync

I'm happy but I'm sure there is a better alternative now 1.5 years down the road.

The R9 380x 4 GB is a SOLID economy card. I got mine for a STEAL at $120 on EBay. Nothing by NVidia can compete in that price range. You can still probably find one for under $150.

Nvidia because amd suck poointheloo

GTX 1060

Linux drivers

1060 because I dont play vidya that much anymore and am not interested in VR or 4k in the forseeable future.

Gtx 760 budget build meme card. It gets the job done

nvidia because amd/ati always had shitty OGL support

>>58185299
Also, I say "economy card," but it will still play most games at 60fps at max settings. Dark Souls II with ENB barely EVER moves from 60fps. It was advertised as a 1440p card, after all (though it's performance in that territory is definitely not stellar)

>>58182978
xfx r7 370 2gb


>why?

i like it, i didnt need much power, and it just works, the little dood has held up with the i7 2600 its with

and it was cheap too

R9 280

Because the alternative was a GTX 960 and you really think i'm gonna go for the inferior hardware?

>>58184648
>AMD ProDuo
https://www.amazon.com/XFX-RADEON-3xDP-Graphics-R9-PROD-8VRW/dp/B01EFR43ZG

So, uh, does it beat a double 1080 FTW?

>>58184411
I know, I stated the same shit in my post, but I like the features nVidia Cards bring out of the box. While the new Geforce Experience overlay is shit, I still like it for streaming to my laptop quick and easy without Steam. Especially since it has in my network a much better latency for some reason and I can control my whole pc without doing much shit. And Shadowplay is quite nice too, since I like to record some footage sometimes.

>>58182978
XFX R9 290 DD @ 1080 MHz with fixed fan profile (stays under 80°C under full load)'

I see no reason to swap it out yet as it still maxes everything despite being 3 years old.

R9 290 which just died. Was a hand me down from a generous friend, who can't find the receipt.

Fuck.

Sapphire overclocked Radeon HD7850 2GB

Still a quite good card and does pretty much whatever I need it to

>>58185398

I just upgraded to the next budget build meme card: GTX 1060 3GB.

It's great. Much better than my old-but-loved GTX 760 but still a budget build meme card.

>>58184203
>More recently, (I don't exactly know when, as I haven't had a AMD card for awhile but I read and heard alot of news about it)
It was like 4 years ago, though we still get update that increase performance noticeably like the relive update 20 days ago or so.

R9 280x. Holding on to it till Vega. I don't play games much anyway.

>>58182978
It's well-known that AMD hardware is subpar compared to Intel + Nvidia hardware. This is also further compounded by the fact that Intel + Nvidia have better drivers and a better relationship with game developers. Intel + Nvidia is well-supported and well optimized.

AMD is the budget-bin bargain thrift-store 2nd-rate bottom-bucket off-brand no-name poor-people choice. AMD tried to make up for this with Mantle, but Mantle failed.

Why would you go to McDonalds for a hamburger when you can go to 5 Guys or In and Out?

R9 280x
It was 130 euros refurbished a year ago. Pretty sweet deal, the games I run aren't that demanding, so it does get me enough fps to make use of my 144hz monitor. I have luckily experienced no driver issues.
Would upgrade to 480, but there is just no need for it now.

every AMD vs Nvidia thread ever
>AMDrones need to desperately justify their purchase with complete bullshit

>Nvidia speaks for itself with performance and sales

>>58186178

Don't forget

>AMDrones point out small flaws in nVidia products
>NOVIDYA IS FINISHED SURELY AMD WILL RISE UP AND TAKE THEM DOWN A PEG WITH SUPERIOR PRODUCTS
>AMD continues to put out budget stuff and not capitalize on nVidia fucking up
>AMDrones continue bitching while nVidia continues holding majority share of the market

Bonus points for:

>b-b-but AMD also make CPUs

and yet they still have less market share than Intel.

>>58183368
>Nvidia can lick my taint.
C-can I?

I want all my 'gameswork' so I get Nvidia

>>58186118
> well-known that AMD hardware is subpar compared to Intel
agreed
> + Nvidia hardware
kek. Maxwell is stripped down shit that got marketing spin as "efficient" because Nvidia bribed every TWIMTBP parter to bottleneck every other architecture with meaningless tessellation/ROPs flooding.

GCN is hot as fuck because at least in part because it just brute forces everything and doesn't live or die by per-game driver optimizations that get sidelined every time a new gen comes out.

>>58183368
nice shill :^)

I'm still using a flashed 6950. Please send me something nicer ;_;

neither

>Intel HD
>software rendering

ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!

gtx 1050ti

Too poor to buy 1080 but at least its nvidia

>>58186553
>Nvidia bribed every TWIMTBP parter to bottleneck every other architecture with meaningless tessellation/ROPs flooding.
Source?

>>58186553
Can somebody translate this fucking reddit nerd-speak?

>>58182978

Nvidia. I went back and forth for about 10 years just fine (going back to ATi), then I bought a 5870 that gave me troubles then later a 7970 that was the biggest nightmare I have ever experienced in PC hardware. Took 3 RMAs before I got one that functioned properly, random black screens, hyper heat problems for no apparent reason even when massively underclocking, randomly just stopped being detected as a card. Then the functional one worked for 1 month before dying in a glorious artifacting light show. Got my money returned and bought a 680 instead and haven't had a single problem since.

Nvidia for gaming.

>>58186712
Yes

>>58186714

>680

Meant 780

>>58185621
>And Shadowplay is quite nice too, since I like to record some footage sometimes.
AMD has Relive now, which is basically on par w/ shadowplay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKWUY_zGv6Q

>>58182978
>dedicated graphics
plebs. im running intel hd2000 integrated.

who the fuck needs a childs toy in their pc anyway?

PNY 1080 blower style because it was $385 after taxes.

>>58183399
This guy knows. FTW

>1440p meme

I remember when 290x was a great card for 1440p. And by "remember" I mean like fucking last year. There is no 1440p card. You have to buy top of the line every year to stay in that game and it's just a fucking meme. Just stick to 1080p or go 4k on 27'', don't be a dipshit. 27'' 1440p dot pitch is basically just 24'' 1080p. Think about what you're doing.

>>58183149
careful, you don't want to shoot your computer accidentally

>>58186224
>AMDrones need to desperately justify their purchase with complete bullshit
>implying NVIDIA fanboys aren't stupid as fuck

>>58186118

kek, seems ironic to say this but enjoy your overpriced radiator

>>58182978
GTX 1070 because the RX 480 wasn't fast enough for the games I wanted to play on my display. Would have gladly gone AMD if the RX 490 had been out sooner.

>>58186118
Ummm.... You realize how dumb this argument is, right? You say "Why would you go to McDonalds?" Yet the McDonalds franchise is massively more successful than In-N-Out or 5 Guys....

is the 8gb 480 worth the extra cash over a 4gb 470 for 1080p? ($90 australian)

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NVidia.
Because that damned AMD never release a workstation graphic card with similiar CUDA driver support, causing the pricing to be monopolized by NVidia

R9 fury nitro because why the fuck would I get an rx 480 or gtx 1060 for the same price?

Also I'm sick seeing this "AMD cards age like fine wine" meme. They've been making driver improvements that aid as far back as the HD 7000 series becuade they've been reusing the same gpu's en mass since then. The software suite has gotten much better in the past 2 years, but spouting this shit about how they support outgoing cards that they technically still sell is going to backfire horribly. It's been an excellent time to own an AMD card, as even my 7870 was still getting driver updates until I replaced it, but you idiots are going to be booty blasted when they finally have enough new stuff to drop support.

>>58187569
I would say yes but depends on what you play. I can easily use over 4GB on my 390

Sapphire RX 470 8GB
>Good open source Linux drivers
>900p screen so I don't need THAT much
>Got it for the same price as the 4GB version, cheaper than a 4GB RX 480 too
>Tired of supporting the nvidia jews after they cucked everyone with the 3.5GB maymay, Fermi DX12/Vulkan drivers, Maxwell signed firmware and GameWorks

>>58182978

RX 480, best bang for the buck in the market.

>>58183399

390 is still pretty competent against the 1070 in 1440p performance.

490 when though.

>What GPU
AMD FirePro m6100
>Why?
Its what came with my Precision when I got it off of ebay. Thinking about getting the newer ones, but they're too much

gtx 1060

i hate it. le superior nvidia drivers meme is absolute garbage.

>>58183065
I'm getting this soon, hopefully it's better than the meme.

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The comparison of the 1060 6gb and rx 480 is the closest that is currently on the market, outside of maybe the fury x at $300 and the 1070 at $400. The arguments over it happen because people try to argue for which is better IN GENERAL. This isn't a provable thing. There is a correct card for each situation.

Do you play overwatch or other blizzard games? Then the 1060 is superior.
The rx 480 is better at a handful of AAA titles. You're upgrading your card because you want to be able to play a specific game. The cards are close enough in all games that the ones where they are not close should be your deciding factor.

I put an extra AIO cooler I had on my 1060 and I kind of wish I bought one of the good RX 480s because I could probably bring it up near 1500mhz and it would beat my 1060 that runs at 2150 with out throttling. I'll be doing some fairly significant hardware mods for voltage and power limit which I'm hoping will let me go to 2300 or so core clock. I'm also going to be trying to implement the best cooling for the memory I can since the card scales very very well with memory overclocks.

That said AMD release new architectures less frequently than nvidia and so I am extremely excited for Vega and plan on buying one.

>>58182978
GTX 1070
>why
My 970 died in May this year and they gave me full refund, so all that was left was to wait until the release of the 1070.

>>58182978
Raddy 290, because at the time of purchase it had the best price/perf ratio of available cards. Got it for 2/3rds of 970.

>>58184009
You can grab a amd fury(x) for around 220-300 on a good sale. I know everyone here hates reddit, but the buildapcsales sub reddit is great for keeping up to date on shit that's on sale. Everyone does the work for you and you just buy. Got my sapphire fury nitro for $250. It may be 4gb of vram, but being hbm is competes with 8 GB gddr5. Also looks sexy as fuck.

>>58182978
Depends on which has the model that best fits my price:performance requirements for that particular generation.

>>58187200
Never understood the 1440p autistic virgins at all. ITs 70% more pixels than 1080p Its a nice upgrade in resolution but its nothing that WOWs you and as for 144hz panels........on maxed out settings a gtx 1080 BARELY manages to saturate 144hz at 1080p and that high refresh rate only has one purpose. first person shooters. It has no use in ANY other kind of game because game devs dont design their in game mechanics around 120hz and 144hz. When you unlock the frame limit in games like Fallout 4 shit gets completely fucked up and immersion breaking.

We wont see higher than 60hz optimization for non FPS games until 120hz is the standard on PC and consoles and that will happen.......in 2025

>>58182978
R9 380X
Best cost effective card (at the time) with full AMDGPU support.

>>58182978

>Nvidia GeForce GTX 500 series

Why? Keeps my room nice and toasty in winter. Don't need to use it for gaming just have it folding or bitcoin mining in the background.

>>58188436
>Using a TES/FO game as an example
Nigga you dun fucked up.
I want a faster monitor because it also makes all of the animations in my OS and window dragging smoother. It's also great to have for games like DotA, LoL, Battlerite, ESO, Elite Dangerous, pretty much anything with fast paced movement.

>>58182978
HD4600, I am poor

GTX 970
>just werks
I'll probably upgrade in a year or two.

GTX 1070
>Why
It's a nice card that does it's job well, wasn't terribly expensive and AMD simply offers no alternative in this case.

>>58188514
hey, that's what I used from 2008-2011

>>58187569
Yeah. Its like this...
4gb 470...good budget card.
8gb 470...1080p sweet spot.
4gb 480...a piece of hot shit with no reason to exist.
8gb 480...getting a bit pricey but worth it.

what's the best GPU driver for gtx 760 on loonix?

I'm using 346, I know nvidia starts to cuck their drivers since new shit came out so I haven't updated

rx 480 8gb

Because it can decode 4k x265 without using my cpu for less that $240

>>58183010
How often do you get 3.5?

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>>58182978
390X

My faggot friend talked me into buying a 970 over a 290x. I'd punch his No-chin if I ever saw him again.

>>58182978
VEGA

I'm stressed between the rx 480 and r9 fury for 1440p gaymen. that memory bus though what do?

1070 8GB from Gigabyte.

nghhhh

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>>58189081
>My faggot friend talked me into buying a 970 over a 290x.

So did you actually have any issues or are you just memeing about the 970 like the rest of /g/ that doesn't even have it?

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>>58189087
I am calling to you guys for help

>>58189087
>>58189225

For 1440p they're both equally shit.

>>58182978
>Which graphics card do you use and why?

GTX 660

>nvidia
No reason to pick AMD if you can buy Nvidia

>why
I'm poor, don't wanna upgrade yet, most new games run okay and I'm not a consumerist whore

>>58189284
shit whats the newest meme then

>>58188963
>4gb 480...a piece of hot shit with no reason to exist.
OEM's Love it.

>>58189087
Get the RX 480 unless you can get a crazy cheap deal on a Fury

>>58189298
Sadly.

>>58182978
7970 ghz edition
Sold my 780ti because it was cucked so bad it wasnt even much of a upgrade anymore over the 7970 ghz.

Plan on upgrading to whatever AMD is offering in the $500 bracket once Vega comes out.

Asus GTX 1070
I liked the look and it was $360. Runs Warthunder at 200fps+ so I can take nice wallpaper screenshots and feel like an idiot with an overkill build because my monitor is 1920x1080 @ 60hz. Considering a 1440p monitor soon, any recommendations for a 27" 1440p monitor?

nvidia, better linux drivers

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>>58189299
>>58189284
???
who is right

and i am on the search for crazy cheap deals on fury cause i am leaning towards that so far

>>58189428
Fury is faster but 480 has few issues and draws way less power

480 can still deliver solid 40-45fps on ultra settings at 1400p so walk the settings down to high and you got your 60fps lock

gtx 1060 is faster in several titles in 1080p but the 480 fucking wrecks its shit in 1440p due to the larger memory bandwidth.

fucking jewvidia still didnt learn their lesson from the 960 and is trying to cut corners on cards while charging full price.

>>58182978
>gpu
gtx 970
>why
because (at the time) it was in my price range, and it performs better than the competition at pretty much the only thing I use it for (playing gta 5, or not very intensive games).
Also I was pissed off with my previous amd cards being nothing but issues with drivers for about a month after each update.

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>>58189472
ty wise man

>>58189307
>With Radoen Grafix
>New! RX 480!

>>58189087
Fury is faster.

>>58189318
>7770 to 480
i feel the same way anon

>>58189609
Fury nitro for 260 on newegg is kickass. Over engineered custom pcb and an insanely effective cooler. Better than the rx 480 8gb across the board.
If your case can fit it and you psu can handle it then there's no reason not to.
Try to find recent reviews of newer cards that include the fury in the benchmarks. Still does 1440p at 60+.
I played through witcher 2 at 4k 60fps on ultra a couple weeks ago. 4gb of hbm is plenty.

>>58182978
>GTX680
>Because i got it for 50 euroburgers and i needed a gpu quick

>>58188950
I mean the Intel integrated one

Gtx 780
I've had it fora few years now and it rarely lets me down
I have no I intention to go past 1080p 60 and it can still do max settings in new AAA games like DOOM at stable 60 fps

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>>58182978
>GTX 1070
It was the better choice than wasting money on a 1080 when both cards will need reduced settings for 4K
>>58183368
Thats nothing special, Witcher 3 Hairworks needs a 1080 even at 1080p
Did you get the 3 GB version?
>>58183457
EVGA worked on the problem, the FTW models look awesome and the new thermal pad cards aren't that hot anymore. 62° with stock clocks 65° after I ocd to 2139 / 4500 MHz.
>>58183652
Also I doubt that Hairworks work with AMD cards, isn't that a Nvidia exclusive like HBAO+ and PCS shadows?
>>58183807
>>58183818
>MFW HD2400 Pro desktop until 2012
>>58189218
Both were quite shitty, the 290 is a radiator and the 970 is 3.5. 400 series AMD cards aren't that bad, unfortunately they seem not interested in the highend market.
Maybe Vega releases by 2020

>>58182978
Previous graphics card was a GTX 680. Current one is an R9 390.

Have been interested in going team red all year with the amd linux drivers finally starting to mature, and got a good deal on the 390 during Black Friday, so took it.

>PNY GeForce GTX 1070 Graphics Card
>PNY Technologies PNY GeForce GTX 1070 - Founders Edition - graphics card - 8GB
>PNY Technologies PNY XLR8 GeForce GTX 1070 8GB OC Gaming
>PNY Technologies PNY GeForce GTX 1070 - Graphics card - GF GTX 1070 - 8 GB GDDR5 - PCIe 3.0 x16 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DisplayPort


So forgive the retardation, as this is my first graphics card in like 7 years, but is the last one really the only one that can output to 3 monitors simultaneously?

>>58191875
No, I'm sure they all have at least three out ports, but they're probably a mix between HDMI and dvi
The last one has three display ports, which you might not want since it didn't really catch on like HDMI

>>58183818 Getting a GTX 1050 today to replace my GT 730.

>>58183368
>had a 750Ti for 2.5 years up until 2 weeks ago.
>not even the slightest of problems with the drivers

>bought a new in box xfx DD r9 290x 8gb
>amd relive kept crashing and alt tabbing me while playing
>alt tabbing took longer cause relive was slowing it down
>drivers fucked up my wifi connection
>amd took 1 week to fix this issue
>drivers didn't update automatically so I missed the fact that it was their moronic drivers and not my router at fault.

amd only on if you are on a budget. I can't complain , it is super fast (considering its age) and cheap but fuck those drivers.

>>58191928
People need to stop buying TVs to use as monitors and buy actual monitors that have DP.

Also I use a 390X, there was no 8GB 970 or 980.

>>58191928
If you have a 4k monitor, HDMI may not be supported at 60hz (like mine). I use display ports. I guess if you want to run 3 4k monitors, you'd need it.

>>58182978

Nvidya
loonix

>>58192061
>Three 4k monitors

>>58192038
>>bought a new in box xfx DD r9 290x 8gb
>290x
>new

GTX670

I am not a man child. I don't need to upgrade my card every fucking year.

>>58191928
To be fair the only thing that can't be replaced is my Cintiq which uses a Display Port/DVI-I. I'll be upgrading my monitor and running a projector off it at times but the Cintiq is my only un-replacable piece.

I'm building a machine for the first time in like 7 years, but my monitors/cintiq are pretty new.

Side question: is it better to use a solid state drive as a secondary sort of backup drive or are they reliable enough to use as a primary? (in general) I'm largely doing a lot of large resolution psds and maybe some video editing so I'm not sure if I'd use an SSD as a primary considering the potential limit to r/w. (is this even an issue? like I said, brand new to SSDs.)

>>58182978
>GTX 980

It was the best value for money at the time £200.

Ideally, I'd like to upgrade to a 1070/1080.

MSI 980ti 6G

Picked one up cheap as fuck 2nd hand, and its the perfect 1440p card

>>58183807
MUH iMac 24"

Asus Strictly RX 480
>GTX 970 only lasted for a year and a half before shitting itself

>>58185171
This. The 480 has closed the gap in dx11 games, and wins pretty consistently in dx12

GT 630 because I'm cultured as fuck

[spoiler]Really want an upgrade however since I built that shit in 2012[/spoiler]

>>58192661
Welp I'm retarded. Time to sleep.

>>58182978

Whichever ones are best at the time.

>>58185171

The 290X also. Hoping they keep up their streak. Everyone wins from driver optimizations.

PNY 750TI 2gb, cause i got it cheap, has low power consumption, and isnt a brick.

EVGA GTX 1060 6 GB not overclocked

> why?
AMD was much more expensive and it ran out of stock pretty quickly.

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>buying jewvidia ever

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GTX 960

I built a new computer in May 2015, but I still play nothing more demanding than source games on Linux.

>>58191643
Hairworks a shitty one up to the tressFX amd made pretty much entierly for that shitty tomb raider reboot.
Except tressFX is open source, much like freesync (you know those cheeky cunts named it that as a jab at gsync) but nvidia refuses to support anything amd has touched.
So nvidia did what nvidia does and made sure it would use retarded amounts of tessellation, so retarded that only their latest and greatest cards with loads of otherwise worthless tessellation units could handle it. It's like what they used to do with physx.
But like physx you can still enable it, and like physx it runs like shit unless you have the right hardware.
But amd has allowed limiting tessellation in the drivers since chrimson. Which reveals that there is no real difference between 16x tess and the 64x tess it uses, and amd cards can in fact handle that level of tess just fine.
Both technologies from both companies are retarded and have no real use and will likely never really be used again, but yeah fuck nvidia on that one.

>r9 290
>I'd have to spend over $600* (gtx1070) to get a worthwhile upgrade, doesn't seem worth it


*I could buy used, but even then it'd be over $400 for a furyx/980ti, and a 390x/980 is barely 5% different

>>58192409
If it was a hardware problem, did you try RMA'ing it?

RX 470 4Gb. Its great. 60+ FPS in every game i tried at 1080p high/ultra settings. I wish Polaris was faster with madVR's NGU though.

>>58182978
GTX 1070 because I'm not poor and dumb

>>58183078
Same here

>>58182978
Intel HD because I don't care about gaymlel

>>58192038
>I had to wait one week to ALT Tab like a neckbeard

do better with your complaints faggot

>>58182978
Titan X (Pascal) because why not??!!

Have they announced any dates for RX 490 or 1080 Ti yet?
How long do they usually release dates before release?

>>58182978
r9 390, upgraded from a 760. Won't be upgrading for a long time.

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>>58187899
>390 is still pretty competent against the 1070 in 1440p performance.
It's not even close outside of maybe something like DOOM
>>58192928
Where is a GTX 1070 over $600? I got my overclocked 1070 for $380 after mail in rebate.

gtx 1060 it was cheap and I needed to replace my 680.

Intel(R) HD Graphics P4600. Works well enough in Linux w/ 4K display. I don't gayme anyway.

>>58182978
970
insane value
I would like a 1080 but there is literally no reason to upgrade. maybe in 1 or 2 generations I get the *70 or *80 of that year

>>58183078
>being europoor

>>58194896
>working two jobs to afford mortage because the television tells that's what's required for freedom

>>58194869
>anadshill
Opinion discarded.

>>58195145
>benchmark doesn't show what I like therefore it's a shill

AMDfags are insufferable

>>58183065
I would love for Vulkan to make some progress on Crossfire capabilities. If this were the case (and devs actually wrote some games in Vulkan) I would crossfire some 480's in a heart beat.

>>58194869
Canada has a shit dollar and we get shafted on tech prices, 1070s fall between $500 CAD (for shit cooler mini ones) up to $700 CAD, with the water cooled AIO/hybrid cards going up to $800 CAD (price of lowest tier 1080s)

>>58182978
Sapphire nitro r9 380 4gb
>why
Upgrade from 750ti and its there until amd releases their 1080 competitor so i can decide if i buy that or a 1080. Also it performs better and was cheaper than a gtx 960 4gb.

gt 750m


cuz fuck niggers

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Got it for $25 because poorfag.

How did I do?

RX 480. Amdgpu just works, unlike nouveau.

>>58197498
When did you buy it?

>>58197821
About 4 months ago

>>58197890
You fucked up.

I've been picking AMD GPUs since 2007 or so.

I can't say they're amazing or anything like that. I can even say that more often than not I felt the urge to just sell my GPU and buy some nvidia, due to incompatibility issues and such. I'm one of those nitpicky faggots who notices stutter in animations (such as those produced by desktop compositors) and gets really pissed off. I was always told that was due to shitty amd drivers on linux, hackintosh or whatever I was using so I always thought of picking nvidia.

The thing is, they're definitely pricey.

Galax GTX 1080 HOF.
>all white internals and case
>muh aesthetics

>>58197924
What would be a good place to look for something better on a poorfag budget?

nvidia
I'm not a fucking poorfag lol

>>58182978

RX480 4GB Nitro+.

No point getting the 8GB one for obvious reasons since im gaming at 1080p. And because I can very easily OC it at even 390X levels and above.

1050ti low profile. Only thing I could fit into an sff optiplex 3020.

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Did have a GTS 250, now have an R9 270. Plays every game I like at 1080p 60+ fps at high settings.

Thinking of upgrading to 1440p >60 Hz with FreeSync, which right now would mean getting an R9 Fury. Might as well wait for Vega though.

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GTX 1080 because I want to play in 4k and this card does a well enough job at it for now. If a revised Titan X Pascal with a fully unlocked GP102 happens, I might get that one though. 4k is sweet.

>>58184080


umh. but amd drivers and the software is far superior.

enjoy your botnet drivers that is a nightmare to use compared to the much better AMD alternative.

>>58182978
Radeon R9 380 because it was the best value for around $200. My build is completely imbalanced towards my CPU, I have a i5-6600k overclocked @ 4.7GHz, but I can always upgrade to a new GPU when I need it.

I'll go with whichever brand provides the best value at a given price range at the time, because I'm not a corporate fanboy moron.

>>58198446
>4k
>not 1440p 144hz