Torn between AMD/ATI/RADEON(not sure) or NVIDIA gpu brands...

[Sempron Guy]

-Hmm point taken...now that u mention it murag i read somewhere or heard na in order to run more monitors more efficiently at least 1 gb ram for a monitor? Correct me if im wrong.

You need at least 2GB of vram to drive multi monitor gaming but that would also depend on the card's muscle power. And at that budget range, it would be very hard to recommend a card for that usage. An HD7850 might be able to do multi monitor gaming but you will have to lower some eyecandy to be able to do so.

[vangeoffe]

I only have 1 criteria for choosing video cards given roughly the same ang price og performance... and that is power consumption... whichever is lower between the 2, mao toh akong kuhaon... no brand loyalty...

Let's say budget nako is 15k (+/- 1k)... I will look for the most powerful card on that price range with the least power consumption... for now, Nvidia clearly win in this category...

And that goes to other PC parts as well... power consumption akong critical deciding factor...


p.s.

Lahi man gud kung ikaw mag bayad sa imong kuryente og daghan pang uban responsibilidad...

-Well said sir, good point and I never really thought about power consumption until you mentioned it hehe. In this case your suggesting i go nvidia then? I suppose mas power efficient na ila gpu's compared to amds or radeons. Although i do pay my own electric bills and wala mansd ko major responsibilities to take care of, consideration taken, thanks for this.

[vangeoffe]

You need at least 2GB of vram to drive multi monitor gaming but that would also depend on the card's muscle power. And at that budget range, it would be very hard to recommend a card for that usage. An HD7850 might be able to do multi monitor gaming but you will have to lower some eyecandy to be able to do so.

-Hehe yeah 2gb, i meant to say 1gb PER monitor not 1gb for a monitor, my bad. So ang settings turned down a bit is ok with me as long as playable and still looks decent.

[Sempron Guy]

Probably decent looking yes. As to power consumption, HD7850 vs GTX 650 Ti there's barely any difference.

[butitoy]

if ang basehan is performance per watts.

i wud go 2GB DDR5 HD7770 | 7790 for sub100 watts

2GB HD7870 for amd and 2GB DDR5 GTx760 ti for nvidia for tier @ sub200 watts

http://www.hwcompare.com/14808/gefor...adeon-hd-7870/

Specifications

Model	Geforce GTX 760	Radeon HD 7870
Manufacturer	nVidia	ATi
Year	June 2013	March 2012
Code Name	GK104	Pitcairn XT
Fab Process	28 nm	28 nm
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Memory	2048 MB	2048 MB
Core Speed	980 MHz	1000 MHz
Shader Speed	980 MHz	(N/A) MHz
Memory Speed	1502 MHz (6008 MHz effective)	1200 MHz (4800 MHz effective)
Unified Shaders	1152	1280
Texture Mapping Units	96	80
Render Output Units	32	32
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 11.0	DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.3	OpenGL 4.2
Power (Max TDP)	170 watts	175 watts
Shader Model	5.0	5.0
Bandwidth	192256 MB/sec	153600 MB/sec
Texel Rate	94080 Mtexels/sec	80000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	31360 Mpixels/sec	32000 Mpixels/sec

bout kaayo ug boxing pa. edad ray deperensya

[senpai91]

-Hehe yeah 2gb, i meant to say 1gb PER monitor not 1gb for a monitor, my bad. So ang settings turned down a bit is ok with me as long as playable and still looks decent.

err..its not 1gb per monitor. kay mag depende na sa resolution ang mo consumo sa memory. the more memory you have the more you can maximize your resolution. example lang sako 3-way eyefinity + 1 monitor for post process production...all are at 1080p. so that's 3x1080p + 1 1080p(32'' Samsung Series 5) on HD6990 4GB is already enough.

check out how your set up will be: Set Up

nvidia is surround technology same as eyefinity.

[vangeoffe]

if ang basehan is performance per watts.

i wud go 2GB DDR5 HD7770 | 7790 for sub100 watts

2GB HD7870 for amd and 2GB DDR5 GTx760 ti for nvidia for tier @ sub200 watts

-if only i can find 2gb sa 7770 or sa 7790 here in cebu then i'd put it on the top of my consideration list already, sadly way stock sa places i know.

[vangeoffe]

err..its not 1gb per monitor. kay mag depende na sa resolution ang mo consumo sa memory. the more memory you have the more you can maximize your resolution. example lang sako 3-way eyefinity + 1 monitor for post process production...all are at 1080p. so that's 3x1080p + 1 1080p(32'' Samsung Series 5) on HD6990 4GB is already enough.

check out how your set up will be: Set Up



nvidia is surround technology same as eyefinity.

-Hmm, i don't think i'll be using 1080p monitors, heck i only have two 20" right now but after i've bought a gpu i'll add another 20" so 3 na. So would 2gb of vram be sufficient be it eyefinity or surround?

[senpai91]

sufficient nana. pero kung mag gaming...mag depende nana sa power sa gpu. crysis 3 on my set is mag pinal, murag himatyon akong gpu sa duwa. and that's 3 way only. toned down jud ang settings ana kung mag gaming ka on a buget card.

[vangeoffe]

sufficient nana. pero kung mag gaming...mag depende nana sa power sa gpu. crysis 3 on my set is mag pinal, murag himatyon akong gpu sa duwa. and that's 3 way only. toned down jud ang settings ana kung mag gaming ka on a buget card.

-Crysis 3? Nah too mainstream d ko magduwa ana haha hipster..anyways noh? and you have a 6990 too, i guess nana lng jud ka bug-at ang crysis 3, like i said im not looking to play crysis 3 mansd. Not much into fps games, although i did like bioshock series ug half-life series.