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hey guys what's up J here with Jays to sentient I don't know about you but I sure as heck like a good knockout I'm not talking about you have seen them not even talking about our fists I'm talking about put two graphics cards head-to-head in the same price point insane who comes out the winner now today I'm going to go ahead and do a comparison video these are actually pretty rare on my channel I don't do very many of these but considering the fact that AMD cards have really come down in price like weirdo I mean it just was like it was just a mew swears that they've got the pricing under control after the whole bitcoin mining craze just fo barred everything up and so graphics cards on the AMD side have really come down in price and let's made it difficult for you guys as buyers to determine which brand gets your money so what we're going to do today is we're going to go ahead and take the tried true and tested gtx 760 and we're going to go ahead and pit it against this XFX r9 280 now you guys also know i don't really like to talk about pricing pricing as dynamic it's always changing and i can't update what i say in this video after i upload it pricing changes like it did with the bitcoin mining craze i'm not going to be able to come back and edit this and keep up to date on the pricing so it's going to be up to you guys to make sure that if you're checking this video out way into the future or in the past you're going to want to make sure that you check out the links down below that will take you to the current pricing of these cards because anything could have changed now there's a couple of things i want to talk about first when it comes to these cards now the 760 the EVGA 760 right here this is not an overclocked version and it's also there ACX cooler with one fan which is very similar to the reference cooling it's got a little bit beefier heatsink in there but it's only got one fan so i'm going to kind of take the temperature tests of these two cards i'm going to sort of throw them out the window i don't think it's very fair especially since the r9 280 here this is not annex just a 280 it's featuring their dual fan design dual 90 millimeter fans but if you want to get really technical this card is typically a lot hotter than this card so you're just going to have to kind of I mean I'll put what the temperatures are in there with the max temps were and the minimum temps but I don't think it's going to be extremely fair now I'm sure you guys have already said multiple time and some of you may have even already typed it in the comments Jay why the heck are you taking a 760 and putting against a 280 we remember guys the point of this video is what can you get for your money today and at the time of filming the GTX 760 right here is actually 20 dollars more expensive than the 280 I mean that's just kind of like mind-blowing now when it comes to their predecessors these 760 is pretty much equal to the previous 670 and the 280 is pretty much just a rebranded 7950 on the AMD side now one of the things to note is the 280 card here does not only feature the you know big 200 or the big 90 millimeter fans you know two of them has their double dissipation for maximum airflow cooling and it has unlocked voltage so overclocking on this guy is going to probably be pretty cool now this is again as I mentioned the SC or this is not an ST this is a base model but we'll see it's probably still going to overclock pretty decently now when it comes to just overall out-of-the-box specs I do think the 280 is going to have a little bit of an advantage so let's go ahead and start this competition off by taking a look at styling and let's see which card wins the visual arena now when it comes to the GTX 760 it is pretty boring looking I mean this is just their basic ACX cooler and yes and well the wear guys that there are other versions of the 760 available I do know that there is the 760 from MSI the twin frozer that has you know the multiple fan design on there they do even have the dual fan AC X style now I didn't get to choose the card so don't hold that one against me but we're going to go ahead and see how well this one performs it's pretty much stock base model look if you will it's kind of plain kind of boring for the most part this is what you're going to see when you look at your card the side right there and the top it's got a gloss PCB on there it looks very nice you got a nice rubber connector there that covers up the bridge so I do think the styling on here looks nice it's very basic though if you're going for a blingy build it's probably not going to make you super happy now when it comes to the Department of looks I have to give this one to you the 280 because look at that that is just a sexy sexy looking card it's got chrome accents everywhere the dual 90 millimeter fans I see I count one two three four five six copper heat pipes in there that's going to tame all the heat that this card is guaranteed to generate the PCB on the back is matte finish so you can see right there that's got very little shine to it at all and the cooler actually extends above the top of the card so it makes the card actually look shorter than it is because it's so fat but you have to be mindful of that because if you're going with a case that has very low profile a very low clearance you need to look at or see that you have about an inch extra of height right there so when it comes to looks I've got to give this to the 280 I mean you can see the heat sink extends the entire length of the card it just looks really really freaking cool I specifically requested the XFX model I did get a choice of the 280 that I wanted to review because I chose the F XFX because you guys are always asking me how I feel about this brand and I hadn't used the XFX since like the 8800 series was around with Nvidia so we're talking like five years six years somewhere around there so I decided to go with the XFX and I am not disappointed whatsoever so round one looks goes ahead and it is given to the XFX 280 that is just hot and this looks better to me than the win 4 so the twin froze or any of those I just really really like the looks of that all right so enough talking about the physical properties of the card let's go ahead and throw them in my test rig back there let's check temperatures to check overclocking frames per second on battlefield 4 I've got some other games in there I don't remember what I installed I installed a few games in there so guys let's go ahead and throw these things in the machine not literally I don't don't throw them in the machine I did that once and ended up very badly well there you have it guys before we talk about some of the highlights of these cards why don't we go ahead and throw some benchmarks up on the screen and put some graphs and stuff up there for you guys to go ahead and geek out over pause the video on the graphs that you want to take a look at and then we'll come back with some final thoughts on these cards and see which one is the winner now as with all head-to-head comparisons you have to have a winner and if I had to choose a winner today well that winner would by far be my GTX 780 all right all right I know guys I'm a PC snob I can't help it it's just who I am but I will say this I have to give credit where credit is due and considering the fact that five years ago six years ago two hundred and fifty dollars or less for a graphics card would not have gotten you anywhere near the performance that you can get today for less than two hundred and fifty dollars both of these cards were able to handle any game I threw at it maximum settings on a 1080p resolution and basically just play it without me thinking to myself all these frames per second kind of suck no they were over 60 frames per second in every single game and test I threw at it that's a huge plus if you guys are using 60 Hertz panels in 1080p either one of these cards are amazing at that at that price point and that performance number now both of these cards clearly are very different let's go and talk about temperatures now to try and make things fair I ran the 760 at a hundred percent fan speed because it was reaching its Boost 2.0 speed of temperature of 81 degrees Celsius between 80 and 81 which is where Boost 2.0 was set up when I set the fan to 100% it capped out at 67 degrees Celsius but if you were to ditch the blower style cooler you probably sitting be sitting right around that 67 degrees Celsius mark at all times now the two lady without touching the fan profile at all just out of the box it capped out at 70 degrees Celsius in a closed with an overclock now speaking of overclocks the 760 has a factory setting of 1,100 and I could look at my notes here 24 megahertz 1124 and I've got a stable overclock of 1300 and 33 megahertz it's a pretty decent overclock more than 200 megahertz overclock and I got a plus 300 on the memory so as a 600 megahertz overclock on the memory on this bad boy and that's 67 degrees Celsius 100% fan speed with those overclock numbers now the 280 much lower base clock now granted they're not directly comparable GPUs they're different technologies altogether this was exactly 1,000 megahertz or basically a gigahertz card and I was able to get an eleven hundred and seventy five max overclock stable clock speed so one hundred and seventy-five megahertz or seventeen percent overclock when it comes to 3d mark both these cards we're sitting like right on top of each other on their base clocks but once I overclocked the 280 even though it was a lesser megahertz it just pulled out way ahead of the 760 in valley benchmark and 3dmark in fact 3dmark score almost matches what my 680 was doing last year so when it comes to gaming like I said ultra settings on all the games I was able to push everything to the right when it comes to the performance sliders and the the quality sliders and it stayed above 60 frames per second in all the games I played it with now for the three games that I use for the benchmarks battlefield 4 Tomb Raider and dirt 3 granted they're all three pretty much AMD titles we all know battlefield 4 does not discriminate when it comes to taking a on a GPU the 760 was getting a 61 frames per second average on Ultra preset and the 280 was getting a 62 frames per second on ultra preset so like I said very very narrow margin 1 frames per second as well within the margin of error so both these cards pretty much perform neck-and-neck now for Tomb Raider 4 frames per second higher average on the 280 but also you get tress effects which is something done available on the cuda card technically is but it's just not as good as it is on the AMD card and then dirt3 119 frames per second for the 280 versus 110 on the Nvidia card now both of these cards although the performance is very similar they're very different cards entirely now even though the 760 has a blower style cooler on it the performance is pretty much the same with the speed turned up like I mentioned is if we had aftermarket cooling so we have to throw that aside because the overclock on that was fantastic the memory overclocked and so going with something like a SC or a for the win Edition we pretty much were already matching those types of speeds and beyond anyway so when it comes to both of these cards the fact that at the time of recording this 280 is 20 dollars cheaper than the 760 which it's on top of and I really hope it doesn't fall over that'd be very embarrassing you know if I bump the table that things going over I just better go ahead and grab that the fact that this card is getting higher frames per second higher synthetic benchmarks better cooling lower noise granted we can't compare the cooling I know I just said that it's really a no-brainer that you would have to consider the 280 if you have room for the card it's a longer card than the 760 obviously so what do you think do you guys have these cards if you have this 280 or this 760 speak up down in the comments and tell everyone how your gaming performance has been kind of performance are you getting what game titles are you playing help people who are looking at this video trying to make an educated decision of which card to buy make their choices so sound off in the comments which card are you with and why guys has been js2 since taking a look at the XFX 280 and the EVGA 760 here on the channel hope you guys got some information out of this share it with somebody think it would help follow on Twitter if you just want to tweet me and say hey J you're an asshole and as always I will see you guys in my next video