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Advise/opinions please GTX 980 > 390X

Andy321

Andy321

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Hi all, as the title says I'm a little unsure and are after some advise. I currently have a GTX 980, I recently bought the ASUS MG279Q monitor(yes I know it's a Freesync monitor but I wanted it for the 1440p/IPS/144hz all for £460, so that's another story).

Moving over to a AMD GFX is a option and then being able to take advantage of Freesync would be a plus as well. Someone has just offered to buy my GTX 980 for £350, what are your opinions on selling my 980 and picking up a 390x? Or should I save some money and pick up a 390? Or wait for the Fury/Fury X and spend some more, or just stick with my 980? How does the 980 compare to the 390/390x @ 1440p? Anyone got one of the new AMD cards yet?

Lot's of questions sorry. All feedback is appreciated. :)
 
Wait until just before the Fury launch as your card is unlikely to lose much resale value before that. The launch is set at July 14th so do nothing until like 1 week before.

Switching to 390X is a lateral jump at best and by no means worth it for Freesync support alone, not with Fury and Nano coming up shortly.
 
Andy321 said:
Hi all, as the title says I'm a little unsure and are after some advise. I currently have a GTX 980, I recently bought the ASUS MG279Q monitor(yes I know it's a Freesync monitor but I wanted it for the 1440p/IPS/144hz all for £460, so that's another story).

Moving over to a AMD GFX is a option and then being able to take advantage of Freesync would be a plus as well. Someone has just offered to buy my GTX 980 for £350, what are your opinions on selling my 980 and picking up a 390x? Or should I save some money and pick up a 390? Or wait for the Fury/Fury X and spend some more, or just stick with my 980? How does the 980 compare to the 390/390x @ 1440p? Anyone got one of the new AMD cards yet?

Lot's of questions sorry. All feedback is appreciated. :)
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New card amd?? Where prove it?

Stick with the 980 its more powerful. I went from 980 to cf 290x.
 
you should wait couple weeks to see fury review, if you have some extra money for the performance boost from furyX/fury.
otherwise yea 390 and 980 are same perf, and you probably wont lose any money switching between them.
 
Andy321 said:
Hi all, as the title says I'm a little unsure and are after some advise. I currently have a GTX 980, I recently bought the ASUS MG279Q monitor(yes I know it's a Freesync monitor but I wanted it for the 1440p/IPS/144hz all for £460, so that's another story).

Moving over to a AMD GFX is a option and then being able to take advantage of Freesync would be a plus as well. Someone has just offered to buy my GTX 980 for £350, what are your opinions on selling my 980 and picking up a 390x? Or should I save some money and pick up a 390? Or wait for the Fury/Fury X and spend some more, or just stick with my 980? How does the 980 compare to the 390/390x @ 1440p? Anyone got one of the new AMD cards yet?

Lot's of questions sorry. All feedback is appreciated. :)
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Why would you do this? You will just have a hotter, more power hungry card that performs a little worse. Go read some benchmarks. On the Guru 3d review a factory overclocked 390x only beats a reference clocked 980 3 out of 9 times at 1440p...

The only thing you should consider upgrading to is a 980Ti or a Fury/Fury X.

I have a 980 and personally I am waiting for proper next gen/die shrunk cards. Although in fairness I game at 1080p and an overclocked 980 can handle pretty much handle everything fine at that resolution at the moment and keep at or close to 60fps.
 
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If you wait for the furyX theres a good chance it will allow you to run most stuff on that monitor at max settings for a good while and once stuff starts to really demand on the card you will drop into the freesync range, win win tbh :)

Thats exactly what i was / am planning on doing, pending reviews and price on the x2 version :)
 
And this is where AMD's redrand under a different series with same model number will bite many.

There are many, many people out there who aren't tech wise, don't know how to research these things, that will see 390 - must be better than the 290! Buy!

AMD are no better than Nvidia when it comes to pulling a fast one.
 
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And this is where AMD's redrand under a different series with same model number will bite many.

There are many, many people out there who aren't tech wise, don't know how to research these things, that will see 390 - must be better than the 290! Buy!

AMD are no better than Nvidia when it comes to pulling a fast one.
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Maybe they're not better in there current actions but I think we know this is probably more out of necessity, doubt they enjoy this sort of stuff but needed a lineup to compete (even if not as strongly) against Nvidia offerings due to having less money to spend than Nvidia because they are the smaller company. When Nvidia does it you can bet it's largely because they are just lazy or not willing to spend the resources but the smaller company has no reason to give itself a bad rep on purpose.
 
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From what i have seen the 390x and gtx980 are pretty much on par. Gaining Freesync should in theory make the 390x the better card. I would take the £350 now and run as i doubt you will be receiving that much for it too much longer. The Fury and Nano will be along soon which may impact the second hand pricing and NV might drop prices as well.
 
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