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hey tech of tomorrow fans or as you shall now be known tater tots my name is Paul I usually do videos over on my youtube channel youtube.com slash Paul's hardware but Elric hit me up because as you probably are aware he's been having some medical issues lately involving unfortunately the amputation of part of his foot guess that means I'll need to rethink my Christmas gift for him but anyway today's video is going to be about some technology since I know that's what you guys are into we're gonna be going over the top 5 GPUs or graphics cards of 2014 coming in at number 5 we have AMD r9 270x this is the reference design right here this card okay technically came out late in 2013 but it's still one of AMD's top cards and that's why I wanted to include it actually what AMD has done with this card is they've drastically reduced the price over time which means this is a much better bang for your buck than it used to be it comes in at less than $200 features 1280 stream processors you get two gigs of gddr5 memory which is going to be great for those of you gaming at 1080 and if you want something that's probably a little bit better than the reference design of this card I'd say go with MSI gaming version of the r9 270x that when we get you overclocked out of the box of 1120 megahertz it's like a 78 70 on the crack coming in at number 4 we have AMD's r9 280x and the version of that that I have right here is an excellent one this is sapphires toxic version with the triple x cooler on it basically what you're getting with the 280 X which yes was also released in 2013 but it's still a great card is all of the benefits of last year's AMD flagship for less than 300 bucks this thing has been as little as 275 right around the holidays at least so keep your eye out for it still an excellent card especially for those of you gaming at 1080p we're coming in at number 3 we have the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 now I don't have a specific recommendation for which of these cards you might be interested in let's talk about what's good about the 970 in general it's gonna run you about 330 to 380 dollars for a graphics card based on this GPU but the benefits are it's based on videos new Maxwell architecture which is extremely power efficient and with the 9 seventy you basically get about eighty-five to ninety percent of the performance of the 984 much less dollars so that's fantastic I've been working with the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 I've also heard good things from Ulrich about ZOTAC GeForce GTX 970 this is the like Omega version here that's super overbuilt also heard good things about the asus strix version of the GTX 970 so I'm sure any of these graphics cards would be an excellent choice for you guys especially if you're considering going beyond 1080 gaming number two on this list we're moving back to AMD for this I don't have a visual aid so let's see if we can do some quick post-production effects the AMD r9 295x2 when the 295x2 was $1,500 it was a cool top-end card that not very many people were able to afford when they made it $1,000 people like wow that's actually a pretty good deal it was beating Nvidia's version of that card which was the gtx titan z when they made it like 650 or 700 bucks like it was right around Black Friday I was like that is amazing a fantastic deal sure you got a deal with a little bit of extra power requirements and you might need to upgrade your power supply but the amount of simple graph graphics horsepower that you get with r9 295x2 especially if you can get it for around 700 to 750 bucks like it is right now fantastic deal and an amazing bang for the buck and the number one GPU of 2014 big surprise the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 this is EVGA Zwerg that I have right here if you've been living under a rock this year let me explain what makes the GTX 980 such an awesome GPU first off it's in videos new Maxwell architecture even though I'm video wasn't able to actually shrink down their process size they were still able with this new architecture to make this GPU more powerful to last last generation while consuming much less actual wattage from the wall that means the cards are going to run quieter they're not going to generate as much heat that will dissipate into the rest of your system and it also means these things for overclocking are absolutely amazing that goes for the 970 as well which is based on essentially the same GPU it's also got 4 gigabytes of gddr5 memory which is great if you're looking at high resolution gaming like 1440 or 4k and also have you heard of sinc well it's a method of frame rate control between the graphics card and the monitor and it makes things buttery smooth if you haven't tried it yet you should try it as soon as you can and once you have tried it it's really difficult to go back in fact I think 2015 is going to be the year of g-sync as well as well as free sync which is AMD side but if you want that technology right now you've got to go with NVIDIA and I think the GTX 980 is the best graphics card for your money if you want to do jisuk if you want a specific recommendation for a GTX 980 I've been working with EVGA geforce gtx 980 which i think does a fantastic job we also have a so tax version of the GTX 980 right here just as with the 970 the Strix is also a great option if you're looking at Asus although that's not one that I've tried personally if you want one that I've tried personally that's a really high-end 9 80 gigabytes version of this card is insanely over built it feels like a block of copper and like you could take it and just just slug someone the side of the head with it not that I've ever tried them and that's all those are our top 5 graphics cards for 2014 let us know in the comments what you guys think of our picks let us know which graphics cards you think were the best choice this year did we make the right call I don't have no idea I'm really good but don't forget guys I'm filling in for Elric's because he's dealing with some 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