{"id":70976,"date":"2014-12-26T07:17:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T05:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=70976"},"modified":"2014-12-26T07:18:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T05:18:32","slug":"great-graphics-cards-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/70976-great-graphics-cards-of-2014","title":{"rendered":"Great graphics cards of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

2014 was a good year for PC gamers, with many top graphics cards released. While most of them cost more than a Russian bride, the performance from the high-end AMD and Nvidia cards are worth it. (Or so I have been told.)<\/p>\n

In celebration of these high-priced circuit boards, let’s take a look back at some of the best cards released this year.<\/p>\n

If you feel we have left any out, or you rate your card higher, please feel free to give us your thoughts in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n

Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970<\/h3>\n

\"Nvidia<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
Card<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steam processors\/Cuda Cores<\/td>\n2048<\/td>\n1664<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Texture Units<\/td>\n128<\/td>\n104<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Core Clock<\/td>\n1126MHz<\/td>\n1050MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boost Clock<\/td>\n1216MHz<\/td>\n1178MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory Clock<\/td>\n7GHz DDR5<\/td>\n7GHz DDR5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory Bus Width<\/td>\n256 bit<\/td>\n256 bit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VRAM<\/td>\n4GB<\/td>\n4GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Max Digital Resolution<\/td>\n4096×2160<\/td>\n4096×2160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Max VGA Resolution<\/td>\n2048×1536<\/td>\n2048×1536<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Power Consumption<\/td>\n165W<\/td>\n145W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

AMD Radeon R9 295X2<\/h3>\n
\"AMD<\/a>

AMD R9 295X2<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
AMD Radeon R9 295X2<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stream Processors<\/td>\n2 x 2816<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Texture Units<\/td>\n2 x 176<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ROPs<\/td>\n2 x 64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory Clock<\/td>\n5GHz GDDR5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory Bus Width<\/td>\n2 x 512 bit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VRAM<\/td>\n2 x 4GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Typical Board Power<\/td>\n500w<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Z<\/h3>\n
\"Nvidia<\/a>

Nvidia GTX Titan Z<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Z<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CUDA Cores<\/td>\n5760<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Base Clock<\/td>\n705MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boost Clock<\/td>\n876MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory<\/td>\n12GB DDR5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory Width<\/td>\n768 Bit (384 per GPU)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bus Support<\/td>\nPCI Express 3.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maximum Digital Resolution (via HDMI)<\/td>\n4096 x 2160 (4K)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maximum VGA Resolution<\/td>\n2048 x 1536<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Power Consumption<\/td>\n375W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minimum System Power<\/td>\n700W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

MSI R9 290X 8GB<\/h3>\n
\"MSI<\/a>

MSI Radeon R9 290X Gaming Edition 512bit 8GB<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
MSI R9 290X 8GB<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Core Clock<\/td>\n1,030MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boost Clock<\/td>\n1,040MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory Clock<\/td>\n5,000MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory Bus Width<\/td>\n512 bit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VRAM<\/td>\n8GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Max VGA Resolution<\/td>\n2,560×1,600<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2014 saw many sweet video cards released – here are some of the better ones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":69057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1051,2420,1771,21,45],"class_list":["post-70976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-amd","tag-geforce","tag-graphics-cards","tag-headline","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71080,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70976\/revisions\/71080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}