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what is up guys Jays two cents here coming at you with a refresher commentary about AMD vs nvidia and what you should pick and why how to choose and God forbid how to figure out this entire mess that is the market of graphics cards today now before we get into the topic this game we're looking at battlefield 4 of course and I'm flying around in a little bird showing you guys how to stay alive and no i'm not going to break out on john travolta start doing disco stay in lap no no no we're not going to do that we're gonna go ahead and keep this professional at least some light professional because this is me we're talking about anyway AMD vs nvidia it's a couple of things I want to put out there right now because I know this video is going to be out for a while and it's going to get quite a bit of use at the time of making this video mantle is only available on gcn architecture cards on the AMD side it is an open-source API that has until right now the time of this video has still not been utilized by nvidia chances are it may not be utilized for quite some time so want to put that out there if you're watching this video on twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen or twenty 198 because it was in some time capsule yeah we still use computers back here bro anyway it is one of those things that is not available I haven't been drinking I promise it is not available on nvidia yet now i just want to kind of put out there I think it'd be crazy for NVIDIA not to utilize the mantle API because it does perform a lot better than direct x when it comes to cpu utilization it allows you guys to use lower end pcs without bottlenecking your graphics card nearly as much but we're not going to talk a whole lot about mantle in this video because it's one of those things that's still too new and i'm still not as first-hand experience on mantle as i'd like to be so we're going to go ahead and save that topic for another video now when it comes to buying graphics card what you shoot what should you pick and what well of course there's the golden rule in the golden question you have to ask yourself before you even consider the answer and that is what are you going to be doing with your graphics card are you going to be playing 1080p gaming are you going to be playing high-end gaming at 1600 p or even 4k are you going to be doing any sort of video editing or photoshop or anything intensive that's going to be using the GPU acceleration and insisted rendering or god forbid are you gonna be doing cryptocurrency mining why do i say god forbid well guys you've sort of jacked up the market what do I mean by that well when I made my video back in 2012 nobody Bitcoin mining it was around but nobody was really paying much attention to it no one cared you guys were kind of just a little elite group that did your own thing then you guys realize that AMD graphics cards really kicked ass at doing your mining and so you guys started buying them up buying one two three four cards at a time eatin up the entire market creating a supply and demand situation where AMD just couldn't keep up in manufacturing companies were running out of stock and prices were going up so what has happened back in two thousand twelve I would have told you in a heartbeat AMD graphics cards are the better bang for the buck 2014 I would tell you that's not the case I would tell you they are overpriced based on their gaming performance because they've somehow turned into a cryptocurrency mining heart piece of hardware and gaming became secondary that's just really disappointing because with mantle launching and only being available on AMD cards at the time of filming this the world has just not really been able to experience it because the cards are too expensive and too hard to find now I know some of you are probably already yelling at your monitor going we'll wait a minute in my country the nvidia stuff is still more expensive than AMD by like a lot you know what guys I'm not a beware in the world of all one time I'm not God I can only tell you what things are here in the United States and in the United States right now the AMD cards have inflated by at least twenty percent on the price for example when the r9 290 launched in october of 2013 it was about three hundred and ninety-nine bucks a four-hundred-dollar graphics card that was competing with invidious six hundred and fifty dollar gtx 780 notice I didn't say ti we're talking about the base clock 780 you know the one that still has the locked cuda cores and it's not fully unlocked it's a slightly gimped Titan yeah well here we are today vidya gtx 780 costs four hundred and ninety nine dollars and the base r9 290 five hundred and eighty dollars eighty dollars more than the faster gtx 780 not depending on the games that you're playing now I own both of these cards I own a gtx 780 from EVGA and i own and r9 290 from msi the r9 has the gaming cooler on it which gives it better cooling and the EVGA was a stock cooler a reference cooler but it now currently sits on water now how did these two cards compare when they overclocked well they held each other hand in hand side by side on every test I threw it only minor differences in the benchmark scores in fact it really surprised me because if the card from our 9 or the 290 was still 400 bucks I would tell everyone in a heartbeat by the r9 the 290 don't get the 780 you get the same performance for a hundred bucks less put it somewhere else in your build and just get an amazing bang for your buck well today that card is eighty dollars more than the 780 and there's no reason to spend more to get a card that's hard to keep in stock hard to keep cool and has really just become appealing to cryptocurrency miners now with mantle being thrown into the mix again I can't talk too much about mantle you can tell you that the cards are going to get a little bit better than some of their AMD or Nvidia counterparts if the API is being utilized by the game developers which more and more are now when it comes to bang for the buck it's really difficult to suggest AMD for instance an AMD r9 290x is nearly seven hundred dollars at the time of filming this video and the 780 Ti is fifty dollars less than that and a lot more powerful with 290x when it comes to gaming in every aspect now if you're going to be doing rendering or assisted rendering like I'm doing right now i'm using my gtx 780 s accelerated or the graphics processing unit the GPU to do real-time playback absolutely lag free and flawless now AMD has opencl which I've used it I've plopped the 290 in this cut in this build just to kind of see how they compare and it's good but the rendering times suffer a little bit compared to the 280 but you know when you have slower rendering and you've got to keep rendering in mind like I do it didn't make sense to put the 290 in my build full time I had the choice I could have put a water block on either one I chose to do the 780 because i looked at the big picture and said i'm playing games obviously like you see in this video but i do a lot of rendering and stuff as well so it made sense to go with the cheaper card that had better performance for me now maybe you guys just really like AMD there's nothing wrong with that but keep in mind you are gonna be paying more for ultimately a little bit lesser performance in the end and to me that's just not a fair trade-off that might be considered fanboyism which is going to cost you a little bit of money just because you want to have three letters on your graphics card that say AMD now the vice versa kind of goes for NVIDIA because another topic is 780 ti vs. 780 I personally feel that the 780 as a better by its very close to TI performance if you overclock it without paying a hefty a hundred and fifty dollar extra price tag so guys tell me what are you using and why are you using it are you in a team nvidia or a team AMD if you're shopping for graphics cards and you're experiencing the same issue i'm talking about here with our nine cards being inflated go ahead and tell us what your experiences are and what it is you plan to buy i feel bad for gamers because the cryptocurrency miners have really taken something intended for one purpose repurposed it for another and has really really jacked up the market for everybody else guys has been Jays two cents i hope you enjoyed this video if you have you can follow me on twitter or facebook the information is down in the description and we can talk more about it I love interacting with you guys and I love helping you guys with your builds I'm just generally talking tech with all my fans as always guys and till my next video I will see you well in my next video are hopefully Twitter or Facebook yeah anyway I'm gonna get on out of here and go suck some more on battlefield 4 see you later guys