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gtx 970 or r9 290x 8gb

cairns84

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so im looking to get a full setup and im jumping between the gtx 970 and r9 290x 8gb.

il be doing oop, general programming, web dev, imaging work and light gaming.

so i was wondering what people would say is the better choice?
 
Have you read about the gtx 970 memory issue? I would not recommend it after experiencing the stutter I got in many games. The AMD card will be better imho.
 
This is from my own experience, having owned and returned two 970s.

At 1080p as a single card the 970 is still very good for that price, if your looking to game at a higher resolution or want more then one card then I can't recommend them.

I have zero experience in the past 8 years with AMD cards, but by all accounts it looks the obvious choice, similar performance and plenty of vram that isn't setup is a moronic way.
 
Randall8686 said:
no Complaints from my 970 here but i only game at 1080p, Given that it out performs a 290x. I wont be changing mine back tbh.
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are you sure about the gtx 970 outperforming the 290X?

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1355?vs=1056

The higher bandwidth memory of the 290x will beat the 970 at higher detail settings or resolutions. The 8GB will make games smoother too. In most games they are pretty close given the higher clock speed of the 970.
 
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fs123 said:
are you sure about the gtx 970 outperforming the 290X?

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1355?vs=1056

The higher bandwidth memory of the 290x will beat the 970 at higher detail settings or resolutions. The 8GB will make games smoother too. In most games they are pretty close given the higher clock speed of the 970.
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So yes @ 1080p the 970 is winning the majority of that lot. but at 2160 agree that the 290x is winning, However im along way off buying anything above 1440p atm tbh. Both are good card but of course with the whole memory thing going down everyone is going to be slating what they where praising last week.
 
Randall8686 said:
So yes @ 1080p the 970 is winning the majority of that lot. but at 2160 agree that the 290x is winning, However im along way off buying anything above 1440p atm tbh. Both are good card but of course with the whole memory thing going down everyone is going to be slating what they where praising last week.
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I personally had stutter problems since I bought the card back in November 2014 but everyone assumed it was drivers so was waiting for a fix. Now the memory issue info came out I returned it because I think that was probably the cause. The stutter mainly happened in newer high detail games such as FC4, Dying Light, Watchdogs, COD:AW.

Here's a link to another one of my posts showing the frame timings for my gtx 970 and the old 7950. Maybe that would be of use to somebody.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=27568981&postcount=142

My old 7950 doesn't have that problem so I guess it's not my system at least. :p
 
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main games il be playing is WOW sometimes, minecraft but nothing overly taxing really usually use my ps4 or Xone for that the now but that may change. so i dono if thay cards might be overkill or if i will eventually use its potential lol
 
Naturally XFire will beat a single 970 or 980, but how does one of the £300 MSI 8GB 290X cards on it's own stack up against the 970? Is there much in it, and is that 8GB pretty pointless on a single card?
 
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