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The GTX 970 - Why would you NOT buy this card?

Certain R9 290 gives free ram with it, that's 1 reason :P Also overclocked 290 performs really close to 970, though with increased power consumption.

And mantle and trueaudio!!1111 (Don't kill me for this, but these seem pretty pointless at the moment).
 
Jono8 said:
Well i'm not sure why you would buy a 290 for the same money that is for sure.
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Mismatched monitor support in Eyefinity for triple screen gaming.

So you could run 1920-2560-1920, 1680-1920-1680, or 1280-1920-1280 ( which is my setup atm )

This is why I went from a 780 to a 290 a few months ago for playing racing sims, and so I could use bezel corrected resolutions.

A fairly niche market I know but it's still one thing, or the only thing, that the 290's have over NVidia atm.

Although I will say that the minute NVidia add mismatched monitor support in Surround ( if they ever add it... ) I'll switch straight back to Green as most of the games I play over 3 screens run better on NV cards.
 
Ayahuasca said:
You checked the latest firestrike leaderboards lol? Look where Lockys 970 is. The only 290 above it is Matt's which is mainly due to the better CPU he used.
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I'm only slightly behind on the GPU score and I have a weaker CPU, I'm not running the best drivers for Fire strike scores either.

So no, it's not that impressive.

And Matts GPU score is higher so it's nothing to do with his GPU.. GPU is just stronger.
 
almighty15 said:
I'm only slightly behind on the GPU score and I have a weaker CPU, I'm not running the best drivers for Fire strike scores either.

So no, it's not that impressive.
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Didn't say it was impressive but don't try to make out an overclocked 290 is faster than an overclocked 970. Someone will break the 14k graphics score on a 970 soon.

almighty15 said:
And Matts GPU score is higher so it's nothing to do with his GPU.. GPU is just stronger.
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lol check my graphics score against Matt's, it's quite clear the CPU is helping his score.

I know fine well if Locky used his same card on a near 5ghz 3970x he would beat it.
 
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It's what we enthusiasts do...just look at the MM...peppered with 780 and 290 gfx cards...

Hardware is an addiction and it's one I have finally beat....in fact I get more fun out of still beating the latest hardware with 5 year old tech....I mean my xeon 6 core beats all your latest i7 and it cost me after selling my 920 , 25 quid


The least I can do is pair the old girl with a sleek sexy lean 970 :p
 
easyrider said:
Hardware is an addiction and it's one I have finally beat....in fact I get more fun out of still beating the latest hardware with 5 year old tech....I mean my xeon 6 core beats all your latest i7 and it cost me after selling my 920 , 25 quid

The least I can do is pair the old girl with a sleek sexy lean 970 :p
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:D I'm going to grab one soon as well.
 
Moonchild said:
Seriously though, if your budget was around the £250 to £280 mark, why wouldn't you? :confused:
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I don't really see the 970 as good value for money. Nvidia are selling a mid range card with a 256 bit bus at the same price a 290 was a year ago. Yes it has less power consumption but still similar in performance to a card launched last year.

All the people buying these cards upgrading from older cards like 7970, 680 will see a good performance increase but it could have been much better. Nvidia should have been coming out with a full fat 970 at around the £300 mark like Amd did with the 290. Sadly as people are buying their mid range bus gimped cards when the full fat versions come out they know they can charge £500+ and get away with it. When Nvidia give us full fat cards at launch in line with Amd's full fat card prices at launch then I will consider their products good value but I can't see that happening any time soon as a good number of people are lapping their mid range cards up at the price they should have been charging for their real top end cards coming out later.
 
970 looks very good value to me, however, as a 290 owner I'm keenly watching the price of 290's with a view to xfire, no point in going 970 for me and that 256bit bus has to bite at some point soon. :)
 
Agreed. 970 is an epic card for £250. Unless your budget won't stretch to it there's no reason to go for anything else IMO. Paying another £200 for a 980 seems like pure indulgence unless you really have the cash to burn. Even then 2 970's in SLI is more powerful and not much more expensive than a single 980!
 
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Ayahuasca said:
Didn't say it was impressive but don't try to make out an overclocked 290 is faster than an overclocked 970. Someone will break the 14k graphics score on a 970 soon.
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Stop trying to make out that a 970 is faster then a 290... because it aint...

And in all seriousness... who gives a flying fart about Fire Strike... I took my copy of 3DMark back as the controls were broken and the story line was none existent.
 
almighty15 said:
Stop trying to make out that a 970 is faster then a 290... because it aint...

And in all seriousness... who gives a flying fart about Fire Strike... I took my copy of 3DMark back as the controls were broken and the story line was none existent.
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Not trying to make out it's faster am I? I'm saying they'll be around the same if you use a similar CPU, the 970 a tiny bit faster maybe.

You're the one who originally claimed the 290 was faster overclocked when it clearly isn't. You seem to have taken issue with the 970 because it can compete with your 290.

I used firestrike because other benches like heaven seem to favour nvidia. I'm sure games would show similar results.

I couldn't care less which one edges each other out but I don't like people spouting rubbish when results are clearly there to prove otherwise.
 
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