Looking For a New Video Card

[aakopa]

Nvidia cards don't support Mantle, but you have graphs where it supposedly would? Also in your own graphs you see SLI scaling is not perfect and you are not getting 100% scaling. And in BF4 290x performs really well and costs 100 dollars less. And you seem to really like to point that it's ready to future with that DX12 support. But I don't think that support is that cool, as current games can take well over 2GB video memory when running 1080p (GTA5 for example).

Oh yeah, that is true. They will use more then 2 GB but this doesn't matter you got 4 GB when you SLI 2x GTX 960 as 2 + 2 = 4 or do you want to prove me being wrong? In SLI they share this memory like when they work 50/50 on both. so 2 + 2 = 4.

And about the prices, they are most likely the same;

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R9 290X costs around 400 €
A single GTX 960 costs around 210 € , SLI = 420 €

Also the above benchmarks were showing off a GTX 960 SLI versus single-GPU card setup, just to make this clear. The game itself does support the Mantle-API

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...Because FRAPS does not support Mantle we have to use BF4's built in frametime capture tool to capture the frame times. .. @http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/01/22/msi_geforce_gtx_960_gaming_video_card_review/5#.VTZsqyHtmko

@http://www.amazon.de/SAPPHIRE-4096MB-GDDR5-PCI-E-DVI-D/dp/B00HFA45FY/ref=sr_1_1/275-1928662-0707262?ie=UTF8&qid=1429629419&sr=8-1&keywords=r9+290x+sapphire
@http://www.amazon.de/Gainward-GTX960-NVIDIA-Phantom-Grafikkarte/dp/B00SL2TF7I/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1429629431&sr=8-3&keywords=gtx+960

SLI or Crossfire don't share memory between cards, the textures have to be copied on both, so if you have 2GB card it doesn't matter if you and 2 or 4 of them, you will have 2GB always.
Also, I know that Battlefield 4 supports Mantle as I have played it while using it with my 7970. But Mantle is an AMD technology and Nvidia has shown no interest in implementing it into their driver.
And here is proof that you can get 290x for 300$: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6814150696

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