ok heres the deal. im building a VR box. choice seems to be between nvidia 980ti or amd r9 290. but if there is a better card im listening
look the answer is in this thread but honestly im pulling the trigger tomorrow.. so..
edumacate me please i dont care if eth tanks as i get a VR card out of it heh
Here is a relevant link for how games
might run using DX12 in the future on various cards. Emphasis on might because this is the only game so far to be implemented properly in DX12.
http://anandtech.com/show/10067/ashes-of-the-singularity-revisited-beta/5Here is a list of current and upcoming games that will implement DX12:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_12_supportHere is a chart with some data on hash rates of various cards when mining Ethereum:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s5SaThZ5eOSAiVMpmuIjz-_YjIlcxttAzKuWKAbczds/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0These lists are by no means exhaustive and should all be taken with a grain of salt, but hopefully this helps you with your decision.
Basically the 980ti is much much better at gaming in DX11. The cards could be more closely matched when it comes to DX12 games. The AMD cards are better at mining. The DX12 and mining performance has to do with the superior asynchronous compute performance inherent in the architecture. The AMD cards are also less expensive.
The upcoming nVidia Pascal and AMD Polaris graphics cards could change this but if you're buying tomorrow I guess that doesn't factor in.
EDIT: Definitely take those hash rates with a grain of salt. My 290 gets roughly 29 MH/s and my 270 gets 16 MH/s.
