Seven section 2000 yuan video card comparison evaluation

Although the price in the 1000-2000 yuan price segment of the graphics products are favored by the players, however, considering the number of graphics cards in this price range, not only includes AMD, nvidia two new products R9 285, GTX 960, and some in the graphics market for many years in the "Old guy" , such as R9 280X, R9 280, R9 270X, GTX 770, and GTX 760. Although these graphics cards are in the same price range, but the performance of these graphics cards in the game is different, the price is also a certain difference. So it's not easy for everyone to pick out the video card that best suits them, and it's easy for some players to get a headache when buying a video card.

In order to help players in the 1000-2000-dollar price segment to select the most suitable for their own graphics products, the death of some brain cells, today we have been assembled in this review of the seven protagonists-from AMD R9 280X, R9 280, R9 285, R9 270X, and nvidiai aspects of GTX 960, GTX 770 and GTX 760, in the performance of these products to the readers, we will be the corresponding analysis of seven graphics cards, to give you readers in the purchase of video cards to provide some reference.

To choose from these products the most suitable for their products, first of all, we have to the specifications of these products to a certain degree of understanding, below is the evaluation of the seven parametric graphics R9 280X, R9 280, R9 285, R9 270X, GTX 960, GTX 770 and GTX 760 Specification Comparison table:

From the specifications alone, the seven graphics card from AMD's R9 280X, R9 280 and Nvidia GTX 770 in the specifications of the performance is relatively good, this is due to R9 280X, R9 280 predecessor of the AMD HD7000 series flagship/secondary flagship graphics card- HD7970 and HD7950, while the GTX 770 is the GTX600 series of flagship products GTX 680 to become the body. The R9 285, R9 280 and GTX 760 's own specifications also seem to be in line with their current position in the market. In January this year, the new NV main graphics card GTX 960 of the specification is not satisfactory, especially its 128bit video memory bit wide look really a bit awkward.

Although this evaluation of the seven graphics card in the specifications of the high and low, but the size of their own specifications can not completely determine the actual performance of the graphics card, simply because these graphics cards in the GPU architecture, the corresponding driver and the game aspects of the optimization are also different, So our own specifications so we still need to pass the actual test to investigate the seven price in 1000-2000 yuan price segment of the graphics products in the performance of the game.

In this test we built a high-end platform with Intel Core i7-4770k, Z97 Extreme 6 motherboard, 16GB ddr3-1600 (8GB x 2) memory, and the table below is the test platform configuration form:

To participate in the graphics card, in this test we use the R9 280X, R9 280, R9 285, R9 270X, GTX 960, GTX 770 and GTX 760 of these seven graphics cards are used in the public version of the frequency set of products, matching the driver are the latest version, where a card driver for AMD Catalyst 15.4 Beta,n Card drive for Nvidia R350.12 WHQL.

As the parameters of this test are for the main players of the product, so in this test, we will only for the parametric graphics in the 1080P resolution performance test, and in each game project, we will be the highest quality + appropriate anti-aliasing to test. In addition to the benchmark performance test 3DMark 11 and 3DMark Fire Strike, we also selected a variety of popular games for the test project. In these games, both the "Subway 2033", "Island Crisis 3", such as the old "graphics Killer", but also the "island of Fright 4", "Grand Theft Auto 5," such a new novel.

The testing link in this article is divided into three parts, the first part is that you netizens "enjoy" the "Run Score Test", where we chose the most commonly used two benchmark performance test software--3dmark 11 and the new 3DMark, and are now the latest version, The following is the performance of the seven graphics cards in these two benchmark performance tests.

Benchmark results show: 3DMark Extreme

Benchmark results show: 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme

Although on the previous page we have seen the seven prices at 1000-2000 yuan in the price section of the graphics card in the benchmark performance, but these results do not necessarily reflect these parameters in the game when the actual level of play, but also rely on the actual game test. Next, let's take a look at the performance of these seven parametric graphics in the second performance test-game performance test.

"Subway 2033" performance Test results show:

"Island Crisis 3" performance Test results show:

"Tomb Raider 9" Performance Test results show:

"4" Performance Test results show:

Assassin's Creed: The Great Revolution Performance Test results show:

"Middle-earth: Shadow Mordor" Performance Test results show:

"Grand Theft Auto 5" performance Test results show:

After testing the seven games above, we can roughly see the R9 280X in the game performance test in the performance of the best, followed by the Nvidia GTX 770, in the third place is AMD's R9 280, as for the following, We'll show you the next page of the performance test summary.

It should be noted that in the Middle Earth: Shadow Mordor in this test, in addition to R9 280X and R9 280 other 5 products in the actual performance seems to be a bit of a problem, the results appear to be not normal, which is the reason for the 1080P + "very high" quality settings, in addition to R9 280X and R9 280 of the five products memory are only 2GB GDDR5, has not met the game on the video memory needs.

In order to make it easier for readers to understand the performance of these seven parametric graphics in benchmark performance and game performance testing, we summarized their results in the test.

Note: Table ranking does not calculate benchmark test scores

Through the performance test results in the table above, you can see that the R9 280X from AMD can pass the best game performance in the graphics card, Nvidia GTX 770 followed, and R9 280 ranked third. As for GTX 960, R9 285, GTX 760 and R9 270X are ranked 4, 5, 6, 7 digits.

Benchmark/game performance test Results although placed here, but today players in the purchase of graphics card is not only the value of their own game performance, graphics card power can be controlled very well also is very important. The following is the performance of these seven parametric graphics cards in the Fumark video card machine Power test.

Although the performance of R9 280 in the performance of the game can be said to be the best of the seven products, but it is the highest power consumption of these graphics cards, and the other two in the game performance test is also very good performance of GTX 770 and R9 280 of the power consumption is also relatively high. In the game performance test in the back ranked GTX 960 has the best performance, especially the platform loaded with its full power consumption of only about 210W, compared with the other six products to a lot lower.

According to the video card specifications at the beginning of the article and the previous benchmark/game performance test results, this review of the seven currently in the 1000-2000-yuan video card in the end which who is the most suitable for the player to buy the problem seems to have been resolved out. But a lot of people may feel that the answer is not quite clear, after all, the specifications and performance is only a player to buy video cards to consider the part, in fact, the "price" of these products is the most interested readers. Therefore, in the end of the article, we will combine the specifications of these seven graphics cards, performance and their current in the graphics market price status for everyone to conduct the final analysis.

In the current market situation, in this article seven "1000-2000 Yuan" graphics card from the AMD aspects of the R9 270X in the price of the seven graphics card in the cheapest, the price is in 999-1399, one of the first-line a card brand products are basically more than 1199 yuan. The R9 280 is slightly more expensive in the graphics market than R9 270X, only in 1249-1399 of this relatively small price range.

And as AMD in the second half of last year launched the new high-end graphics card, since the R9 285 listing has been less than 1 years, its price has not changed much, and currently it is in the 1599-1799 price range. As for the R9 280X this guy, it should be in the text of the four card in the price of the relatively most expensive, is currently in between 1699-1999 Yuan.

Go to NVIDIA, GTX 960 this "new buddy" naturally do not need the author here to speak, because from its listing has only just three months, its market price is certainly fairly stable. While the GTX 770 and GTX 760 are veterans who have struggled for years in the graphics market, after many price adjustments, the price of GTX 770 has come to 1499-1999, and GTX 760 is because of "certain factors", The sale price is probably within the 1299-1799 range.

Combined with such market conditions, I can say without a doubt that, now priced at 1299-1399 yuan AMD Radeon R9 280 Naturally become the most worth the purchase of 1000-2000 yuan in the graphics products. This is of course because R9 280 can provide a relatively good game performance in the 1000-2000-yuan video card product, and the cheaper price is also very easy for the player to accept. After all, for the majority of players, their own installed budget is limited.

If you think that the performance of R9 280 is still a little enough, and do not care about spending a 300-400 yuan, then buy a price of around 1699 R9 280X seems to be a very wise choice, how to say R9 280X performance is the most outstanding performance in the 7-section 1000-2000-yuan video card.

See here Some people may ask, why in these seven 1000-2000 yuan in the graphics card GTX 960 and GTX 770 is not the relative most worthy player to buy the graphics card? The answer is this, because GTX 770 in performance and R9 280X difference is not much, but limited by 2GB video memory, It may feel powerless to cope with a future game with a higher demand for video memory. Although the GTX 770 now has a 4GB version in the market, but the price is still more than 2000 yuan, which for most players may not be easy to accept. As for GTX 960, although its performance in power control is quite excellent, but the face of R9 280 and R9 280X, the performance of the two outperform themselves, the specification is stronger and the price advantage of the opponents seem to have some power.

Written at the end: although we can confirm that the AMD Radeon R9 280 is the most worth to buy in the 1000-2000 Yuan card product at present, but whether it is the most suitable product in the reader's mind, we can not confirm it completely. As we mentioned in the article home page, "The size of the graphics card itself does not completely determine the actual performance of the graphics card, because these graphics are different in GPU architecture, the corresponding drivers and game optimization are also different", coupled with each individual economic power has some real "emotional factors", Readers in the mind of the most suitable for their own products may still be different from the author's ideas. However, I still hope that this article can give you readers in the purchase of video cards to provide some reference.