I would say AMD give more bang for your buck at the moment , for that price R7 265 is a better option .

But things change week by week , with special offers price reductions , so start watching them prices and reading up on the cards in your price range .

AMD are working hard on Linux drivers as they want a Steam machine , Nvidia are better at Linux drivers , full stop end of sentence .

Ebuyer had a R9 270 for £109 with free postage , a week back , so watch and pounce when you see that bargain .

Edited by deleted (Thu 05-Jun-14 15:03:22)

it will run modern games, but how well will it run them?

pixel count aka resolution is a performance killer so what resolution (monitor spec neede) will you play at.

I suspect there will be down tuning of graphics details but as long as thats ok then card should be fine.

Have upped my aim to the AMD R7/R9 cards, they seem to offer a larger boost for not much more money.
Be nice to run at 1920x1080p and have some spare oomph for a couple of years.

Extra disk space is the easier upgrade, so now watching out for the price dips and offers.

Yeah don't go for the second mortgage bundle like Toady's for petes sake

Well i'm running a fairly old card AMD HD6950 and i can run most if not all games with high/ultra settings @ 1920x1080

so the R9 270 is comparable to that about 10% quicker than mine for sure.

Edited by epyon (Thu 05-Jun-14 20:04:09)

And how many did you get to buy your console ?

How many what ?

In reply to a post by MrTAToad2:

And how many did you get to buy your console ?

That sentence makes no sense to me by the way ?

You will have to excuse us that PC game , if we start talking gibberish , as the anticipation of the steam summer sale has that affect .

yes AMD is more performance for the pound.

Nvidia usually has the top spot for the ultimate cards and there seems to be some percieved higher quality about them hence their usual higher prices, but there is many happy amd gamers out there.