Graphical options differences in AMD GPUs?

[A_Skywalker]

I would not openly encourage supporting horrendous business practices of proprietary graphics tech that splits the gaming community on purpose to sell hardware and throwing marketing $$$ at developers to cripple the competition with proprietary DLLs, but in your case, your CPU is simply too slow to consider any modern high end AMD GPU.

Should You Upgrade From Core i5 2500K to i7 3770K?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZxZiksWtRQ&app=desktop

As such, you basically have to go NV for 1080p due to DX11 driver overhead on slower CPUs with AMD. Having said that, even for NV, anything above GTX980 will be bottlenecked by a stock i5 2400. Some games like GTA V, Fallout 4, Crysis 3, Etc. will be bottlenecked by an i5, period. As I already told you, you will need to start looking on a game by game basis and consider using DSR, higher AA modes to shift the load to the GPU. Generally speaking, most games are GPU limited but it also makes little sense to pair a $600+ modern 14nm card with a 5.5 year old stock bottom end i5.

i5 2500K @ 4.5Ghz is still a major bottleneck in GTA 5 at 1080:
http://m.pclab.pl/art65154-29.html

Here is more testing at 1080p between and overclocked i5 and 6700K. In some games, the i5 gets murdered, esp. In minimum frame rates.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=37684080&postcount=4726

If you have a 1440p monitor or plan to use DSR/VSR, or won't play some of those games, it's foing to shift the burden to the GPU. Otherwise, yes, your CPU will bottleneck even a 980/970 OC.

You think radeon will bottleneck the processor more than nvidia, interesting, is there someone else who supports this opinion?, just trying to understand what video card is better for me.

 

[RussianSensation]

You think radeon will bottleneck the processor more than nvidia, interesting, is there someone else who supports this opinion?, just trying to understand what video card is better for me.

100%. Your processor is slow: Intel i5 2400 stock. Also, you picked the worst time to buy a graphics card. In June both AMD/NV will launch new cards which means fire sale prices on outdated GTX970/980/980Ti, R9 380X/390/390X.

 

[Silverforce11]

RS, an i5 SB is not going to bottleneck a single GPU. Not when graphics settings are cranked up, even at 1080p. I still have spare i5 SB rig, even at stock, its capable of pushing more frames than most GPUs are capable of delivering.

We typically see SB vs Haswell/Skylake bottlenecks when the FPS becomes quite high, often way beyond 60 fps. We know most GPUs struggle to even hold 60 fps in modern games at HQ settings. And with the DX12 era here, it's a non issue.

I do agree now is a bad time to buy with next-gen so close.