GTX 295 or 2x4890's

[KMS]

yea, it's pretty clear to me now that GTX 295 is my best option
and has more advantages for me so i'm gonna go with it

thank you all for your opinions and i really appreciate the help guys

 

[grunt_408]

You can always use the 295 for a physx/cuda card If you ever go the red team lol.

 

[DOM]

you can get the GTX295 and give me 2x4890's

 

[wolf]

enjoy the GTX295, i loved mine

i had 2x4870 before that which didnt compare, 4890's seem to do well, but 295's oc Very well.

ive had mine running at 756/1620/2266 on both cores.... but everyday oc's were just GTX275 clocks, which i am willing to bet any GTX295 will do and then youre at par with the 4890's, with less space, less heat, and more green

 

[Binge]

I'm up for anything green until ATi makes a card that will play the games correctly without any BS driver crashes, the heat, and the noise. Paying near to the same price as an NV card and then buying after market cooling, matching/passing the NV card's price, to get the noise and heat down is also unacceptible.

 

[Drizzt5]

i'm planning on folding either way
i know ATI sucks at folding
but that shouldn't be the reason not to get 4890's if they were the best choice and perform faster

The 4890's in crossfire are OBVIOUSLY the best performance (faster). I mean... You can't argue with user results and reviews and be taken seriously.

What people in the thread are trying to tell you is that you should go with the gtx 295 because of the little things

Physx
Cuda
Folding (it stomps the 4890's)
1 card

But the 4890's and the gtx295 are so close together in performance and trade blows with each other in different games... that the gtx295 should be your choice.

What I would do though:
I would go with 4890's myself though... Because if I go dual GPU at all, I want them on 2 PCB's that are not connected in 2 different PCI-E slots. Physx is not important to me, Cuda is not very important to me. Folding is alright... but I don't care about how much I personally put out. And I don't care about extra work for more performance. But that is me. You decide what you want.

 

[TooFast]

go with 2 4890's clocked @1ghz it will eat the gtx295

 

[wolf]

go with 2 4890's clocked @1ghz it will eat the gtx295

take a nibble maybe, but eat one? not at all.

not to mention most wont actually clock stably to 1ghz, not to mentioned the added heat and noise over an already bulky, hot and noisy setup compared to a GTX295.

And hes already made his choice, so 2x4890 may well best the 295 on a technicality, but as you can see here, that hardly counts when 1xGTX295 is better in every way for this user.

my money is on an OC GTX295 besting 48XX anyway.

 

[eidairaman1]

now i see why there isnt anything really for the Dual GPU solutions, their cooling designs are too proprietary.

 

[Studabaker]

Single-PCB 295!

 

[eidairaman1]

you look at that card that is on the site now, the dual GPU cards are too proprietary for any 3rd party cooling designs, meaning companies would have to produce 2 separate products to fit the cards properly.

 

[tzitzibp]

take a nibble maybe, but eat one? not at all.

not to mention most wont actually clock stably to 1ghz, not to mentioned the added heat and noise over an already bulky, hot and noisy setup compared to a GTX295.

And hes already made his choice, so 2x4890 may well best the 295 on a technicality, but as you can see here, that hardly counts when 1xGTX295 is better in every way for this user.

my money is on an OC GTX295 besting 48XX anyway.

you love your OC GTX295 .......

and I agree with you, for this user. unless, he decides to WC them...then he can get both stable OC and keep temps low...

but if he can wait, then maybe he can get a 4890 x2, if one is released! If not, then GTX295 is your best bet...

 

[Drizzt5]

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not to mention most wont actually clock stably to 1ghz, not to mentioned the added heat and noise over an already bulky, hot and noisy setup compared to a GTX295.

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1ghz on stock voltages, if not, you can use the software voltage mods.

 

[wolf]

1ghz on stock voltages, if not, you can use the software voltage mods.

ill believe it when i see them all hit it, so far from reviews Ive noticed a lot top out between 950 and 1ghz, still whippingly fast tho

if they could promise 1ghz binning then its a shoe in, but it seems only premium models can hit that so far.

 

[yogurt_21]

ill believe it when i see them all hit it, so far from reviews Ive noticed a lot top out between 950 and 1ghz, still whippingly fast tho

if they could promise 1ghz binning then its a shoe in, but it seems only premium models can hit that so far.

and those that did come at 1GHZ stock th atomics flew off the shelves in less than 30 minutes.

but you're missing the fact that 2x4890 at stock vs a gtx295 has already been reviewed here and 4890 crossfire wins
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/HD_4890_CrossFire/25.html

overclocking each to 1GHZ on the core would only extend that lead. (or being lucky enough to score 2 atomics)

the 295 makes sense as it's a single card solution but it certaintly is not faster stock to stock. and overclocking as always goes both ways.

 

[twicksisted]

295... simple install of card and drivers.. no fiddling to get crossfire working and thinking it is but its not etc...

though having said that if you like me and like messing around with your pc, then two 4890's in crossfire will look awesome and give you more performance as long as you got a motherboard with 2X pci-e 16X slots

If you can get the 1ghz core clock versions as my XFX only go's to 975mhz

 

[wolf]

and those that did come at 1GHZ stock th atomics flew off the shelves in less than 30 minutes.

but you're missing the fact that 2x4890 at stock vs a gtx295 has already been reviewed here and 4890 crossfire wins
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/HD_4890_CrossFire/25.html

overclocking each to 1GHZ on the core would only extend that lead. (or being lucky enough to score 2 atomics)

the 295 makes sense as it's a single card solution but it certaintly is not faster stock to stock. and overclocking as always goes both ways.

i agree on all points, and i do realize that stock for stock the 4890's do tend to come ahead overall.

but as established, the 295 is already decided on and is the best solution for this user/setup.

having had 2x4870 in CF i found the GTX295 to be a much more preferable solution physically, it blows out less heat, takes up less space, and needs less pci-e power cables to run.

bottom line is what you want/need/prerequisites, i sold my GTX295 about a week ago and used the money to buy 2xGTX260 1792mb, so ill see how that goes. I can go that route as i have an SLi board, but i could use the GTX295 on anything with a PCI-E slot, thats alluring all in itself.

 

[WOOKZ]

THIS MIGHT HELP YOUR DECISION ON GRAPHIC CARD CHOICE



http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Haha. If you go to videocardbenchmark.net and check the first chart which is high-end graphics cards my current card is third from the bottom, and my card thats on the way is 3rd from the top. Oh the irony. If my 4890 ever gets here from ewiz....its "departed" San Pablo since the 21st and has't "arrived anywhere yet and its scheduled to be here tomorrow....

 

[WOOKZ]

ill pray 4 u

 

[PlanetCyborg]

go with a GTX 285 it will max out pretty much everything and is cheaper

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Thanks wookz.

 

[ShadowFold]

go with a GTX 285 it will max out pretty much everything and is cheaper

Or a 275, since it's the same thing but with less memory and bus. But you can make up for that with some OC'in

 

[PlanetCyborg]

Or a 275, since it's the same thing but with less memory and bus. But you can make up for that with some OC'in

thats true

 

[Scrizz]

ppl seem to forget that the 295 is running sli