Soldato
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You were warned what a noisy pile they are.
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Tried undervolting the 290? You should be able to get at least -25mv. It has made a huge difference on my MSI 290 GE with -37mv
Personally I wouldn't put up with a worse performing card and by quite a bit in new titles now, it is only going to get worse with future games, especially DX 12 and even more so when nvidia's new GPUs come out Not to mention 4GB vram is a big bonus now.
Depends what game but in some of the newer titles there is a decent enough difference, you can see a decent comparison in various titles here:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/R9_390_Nitro/1.html
And then the new tomb raider game:
http://www.techspot.com/review/1128-rise-of-the-tomb-raider-benchmarks/page2.html
In highly tessellated games, the 780 should perform better though since it has much better tess. performance.
I was looking at the 780 back in June 2014 and it was ahead "overall" compared to the 290 and back then I was having second thoughts with the 290 purchase but with the VRAM hungry games nowadays plus dx 12 around the corner, I'm glad I didn't go with the 780 now
Not sure if you answered it before but honestly, you would be far better of just selling both and getting a 970.
Ah I see, fair enough
I think nvidia have fixed the issue with the 3.5GB + 0.5GB and stutters in certain games now, not 100% sure though.... and yup, I rather go with the 390 too although iirc, the 970 still runs cooler and quieter.
Oh well, it sounds like the 780 OC is working out nicely for you anyway
Selling both to get a gtx 970 is more than I can afford. I am already in minus on my bank account because I won both cards instead of just one of them (betting on two horses etc). Also selling both wouldn't even cover the cost of a gtx 970. Also the gtx 970 is also 3.5gb + 0.5gb and we have seen Witcher 3 causing hiccups due to that. I would have gone with a r9 390 4gb if I could.
I think I'll sell the r9 290 and go with the gtx 780 untill I can afford a better card down the line.
I have the 780 installed now and overclocked it from 941@1120mhz core and Vram from 6ghz to 6.5ghz, and it runs cool and quiet enough and performance wise it's running a bit faster than the r9 290 due to the OC (I didn't dare oc the r9 290 since it ran so hot).