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Slimebeast on 06 January 2014
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disolitude said:
Slimebeast said:
disolitude said:
Slimebeast said:
How many faster is really the Nvidia GTX 760 over the Radeon R9 270? To me they sound about equal, but then I'm also a huge AMD fan.


GTX 760 is a tier above R9 270.

270 = Radeon 7870 while GTX 760 = GTX 670 = Radeon 7950

Intel i3 however is several tiers above AMD A6 on the CPU side. They would be smarter to change the CPU to the Athlon X4 750k as its a quadcore and doesn't have a GPU built in which you won't need anyways since youre getting a R9 270 graphics card.

They are same price to boot.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113335

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113328

Well depends on how you define a "tier". AMD has no card between the Radeon 7870 and 7950 in performance. In fact I think they're within 15% of each other.

15% better performance out of a $200 price increase is not good system design in my world.


True but that CPU alone is going to bottleneck the R9 270 like crazy.

A6 is a dual core. AMD dual core ~= Intel single core 

Yeah, true. I'm not familiar with the A6 family of CPUs but it sounds weak.

Anyway, when is Steam box released? We've been hearing about this thing for years but never seen in real life.