• 780ti vs R9 290(x)
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Hey I was just wondering what would be the finer choice in terms of power? I'm thinking of going with AMD, but I'm not sure if nvidia would be worth it if I could afford the expense. I have also heard that the Titan is not worth the expense right now and I do not plan to dish out that much money anyway.
780 Ti > R9 290X > R9 290 > Titan > 780 in terms of performance on average. Sometimes each of these outperform one another (even the R9 290 can occasionally outperform the 290X oddly enough). Only the 780 sports non-reference cooler models unfortunately, and the R9 290 and 290X have problems with very poor cooler performance due to having too much thermal grease and generally being poorly manufactured. For that reason I can't really see myself recommending them; although, honestly the 290 does have the best value out of all of them when you consider performance per dollar. I say go for the 780 ti, especially if you can dish out a little extra for an aftermarket GPU cooler.
That seems like what I will end up doing then. Thanks for all of your help here flayne.
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