News - The Order of Play - Radeon vs. GeForce in 3DMark

[Biscuit]

Yeah, which is nice to see, though a 0.3% lead on its own doesn't really seem like much, but add the price advantage to that too and I know I would definitely be thinking about buying from the red team if I were buying today, but I wouldn't be buying a reference GPU, it would have to be something like the Gigabyte or Sapphire overclocked tripple fan models as these are now around £400 which works out around £55 less than a GTX 780 Ti.

I dont think its worth basing the decision off the results of a synthetic benchmark. I think if you did a full analysis of all the current popular games, the price/performance ratio would be almost the same as it was on release. In fairness, the decision would still be that the 290X offers better overall value, depending on which game you are looking at primarily, but the 780Ti is still faster overall.

[KeyboardDemon]

I think my games would be BF4, Elite: Dangerous, Assassin's Creed series (I still have a few to play!) and Hitman: Absolution at the moment.

The point I'm making though, is that I am not ruling the 290X out now, which of course is something I did 7 months ago after running the tests, I did actually run the 290X in my FX8350 rig for quite some time before upgrading that to another EVGA GTX 780 Ti SC ACX card but I have yet to try to 2 cards in SLI, been a bit worried about trying 2 of them when I only have a 750 watt PSU.

[mudpie]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 VendorGiga-Byte Technology Co., Ltd. G1
11287 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980(1x) and Intel Core i7-3770K Processor @4.5 ghz
Firestrike basic version.
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3618425