Sapphire R9 270X VS Gigabyte GTX 660

[szymonm2]

Sapphire Dual-X Radeon R9 270X OC 2GB GDDR5
VS
Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX660 2GB DDR5


What would be better for Windows And Hackintosh (Mavericks)
I Do Video Editing, Photo Editing and a bit of gaming.
I Will Do Gaming on windows and video, photo editing on mavericks.

What Card Would Be Most Compatible With Mavericks???
These Cards Are The Same Price where I live and the gtx 760 Much Expensive
Can't seem to find an answer to this
My Pc Specs
i5 4670k
500w Corsair PSU
8GB Corsair Vengeance
Z87X-D3H
1080P IPS MONITOR
Blu-Ray Drive
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB
Western Digital 1TB BLUE
Corsair 200R

P.S. I went out of my budget so Dont suggest me other cards, Thanks!!!

 

[alogoc]

I have the same dilemma as well.

Anybody that tried these cards should be able to help us. I am in the exact same situation like you, already beyond my budget and I came across between these two cards.

FYI I had a Palit GTX 460, which was performing great on Windows and OSX. I running DOTA 2 on OSX without any issues, until it just died for unknown reason

For the moment I can only share my opinion from the reviews and benchmarks that I read till now. To me R9 270x looks more superior than GTX 660 in regarding of specs. So, if I was not worried about the driver support/issues (if any) I would have gone for the ATI already.

Hope someone with hand on experience will help us both...

 

[szymonm2]

What Card Will You Chose? I'm buying the card today so I'll reply to this message in an hour or so
It's really a hard pick. Are you buying it from the uk?

 

[rohith]

I am using Asus R9 27X 2 gb, working smoothly. My system is GA-Z87-D3HP, I7 4770, 16GB ram Clover. FCP_X performance is grate

 

[emjay96]

I am using Asus R9 27X 2 gb, working smoothly. My system is GA-Z87-D3HP, I7 4770, 16GB ram Clover. FCP_X performance is grate

Can you post Bruce X benchmark? I'd be curious to see the result. TIA.

 

[Ninjakat]

i just replaced a 660TI with an R9-270X. 660TI was 88 seconds and the the R9-270X came in at 42 seconds for Bruce X.

 

[emjay96]

i just replaced a 660TI with an R9-270X. 660TI was 88 seconds and the the R9-270X came in at 42 seconds for Bruce X.

Thanks for the response on Bruce X. AMD cards are definitely much better for FCP X than Nvidia. If I wasn't dual booting I'd probably go with an R9 280X.

Does the 270X work out of the box?

Thanks

 

[Ninjakat]

Pretty much. Changed my installation to boot from the EFI partiion, swapped out the 660TI with the R9-270X, set internal graphics to initial and off, and it booted right up. I'm using an ASUS R9-270X.