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Devices => Video Cards, Monitors, Televisions, and Projectors => Topic started by: pubare on July 12, 2014, 06:23:11 pm

Title: AMD R7 250 vs nVidia GTX 750 - madVR
Post by: pubare on July 12, 2014, 06:23:11 pm

Title says it pretty well...  I am looking for a replacement card for madVR performance ONLY (no gaming) and am not willing to use anything that uses greater than 65W of power (thermal / noise / space considerations).  Which pretty much means the R7 250 or GTX 750 series.  Which one typically does better with madVR performance?  Primary use is 720P DVD / 1080P BluRay rips (handbrake CQ = 18) to mkv.  CPU is Intel i5-4570 with HM-87 motherboard, 8GB low-latency RAM.  MC19 latest (as of today anyway) on Win7 x64.

Title: Re: AMD R7 250 vs nVidia GTX 750 - madVR
Post by: Awesome Donkey on July 12, 2014, 09:27:59 pm

Even though I own an AMD card (290X) my vote goes for the Nvidia 750 as the Maxwell architecture is quite impressive with its lower power usage and thermal output.

Title: Re: AMD R7 250 vs nVidia GTX 750 - madVR
Post by: pubare on July 14, 2014, 06:15:15 am

Sorry about making you move it Jim, wasn't paying attention when I posted.

According to renethex at the AVS forums, the 250X and the 750 are pretty equivalent in madVR.  So a 750 / 750ti will do much better than a "plain" 250.

Answered  :)

Title: Re: AMD R7 250 vs nVidia GTX 750 - madVR
Post by: 6233638 on July 14, 2014, 01:35:21 pm

Nvidia have much better hardware acceleration support than AMD.
AMD seem to have better performance when using the DirectCompute options in madVR (NNEDI3/Error Diffusion) but I don't know that it's significant with this level of GPU.
 
I'd probably go with the 750.