Sorry if this is slightly off topic but it is definitely about AMD cards; I am a total Noob!
I wanted a Mac Pro purely for Video Editing using FCPX but the spec I want is over £5k and that's not going to happen; so I've been buying one part a week and I'm nearly there, I've got to the graphics card!
I was always going to buy Nvidia, but Ieezee at the very start of this thread has thrown me totally by saying that he went down this route only to find a cheaper HD7950 was ballistic in FCPX compared to his brand new GTX 980??
Being a Noob I need a total OOB solution with no messing for running FCPX. It seems to me Florians solution would be R9 280 to achieve this; but Ieezee is editing 4K video but yet the max resolution on the 280 is quoted as 2580 x 1600 so how does that work? As a noob this is hard for me to understand?
I have both a 1920 x 1070 monitor and a 4K monitor and they both ONLY have HDMI which is also an issue as the AMDs seem to only have 1 x HDMI out whereas the new GTX have 2 x HDMI?
Also, could I crossfire 2 x 280's and would this also allow me to use both HDMIs?
I still can't work out why the graphics card is doing anything else but process the image on a monitor and had previously thought that the CPU/mem/Hard disk was doing all the hard work in processing an FCPX edit - only from reading here have I sussed out this may not be the case!
All these issues over buying a graphics card, so sorry for asking, any help appreciated.