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R9 390 X2 16384MB The best card ATM for 4K?

It is a very expensive card with some fancy features, but you'd be best spending far less on another card.
It is an absolute beast, but £600+ on a video card is only for the most hardcore PC hardware enthusiasts.

Others will be along to recommend exactly what.
 
Thanks for that. I want the best bang for buck card and i usually follow toms best cards for the money when getting a new card, but their last one was june. I suspect a Q4 review coming up shortly, but in the meantime i'm a bit in the dark.

It's for use on a single LG 4k tv
 
That card is probably a mess (temps, noise).

980Ti will give you better performance (better lowest frames, no dual card hiccups).
That card is essentially a 295x2, so it's pointless compared to the 980Ti or even Fury X.

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That extra 7% is easily matched with an overclock (while still keeping all the benefits of a single card).


P.S. For 60fps and all games maxed out you'll need dual FuryX or Ti/TitanX SLI.

ANONANON said:
Thanks for that. I want the best bang for buck card and i usually follow toms best cards for the money when getting a new card, but their last one was june. I suspect a Q4 review coming up shortly, but in the meantime i'm a bit in the dark.

It's for use on a single LG 4k tv
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The 980ti has the best price/performance ratio an high end card has had in along time.
 
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ANONANON said:
Thanks for that. I want the best bang for buck card and i usually follow toms best cards for the money when getting a new card, but their last one was june. I suspect a Q4 review coming up shortly, but in the meantime i'm a bit in the dark.

It's for use on a single LG 4k tv
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Does the tv have display port?

If not amd cant do 60fps over hdmi.
 
Weren't the last lot of unofficial dual cards from powercolour a bit crap compared to the real deal (when it arrived)?
I'm thinking of their 7990 specifically.
 
Uncle Petey said:
Weren't the last lot of unofficial dual cards from powercolour a bit crap compared to the real deal (when it arrived)?
I'm thinking of their 7990 specifically.
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I don't remember it being crap, but bulky and homemade looking and expensive, Certainly made Amd get their act together. I do remember Tahiti CF had severe frame pacing issues back then.
 
razorpakk said:
That card is probably a mess (temps, noise).

980Ti will give you better performance (better lowest frames, no dual card hiccups).
That card is essentially a 295x2, so it's pointless compared to the 980Ti or even Fury X.

perfrel_3840.gif


That extra 7% is easily matched with an overclock (while still keeping all the benefits of a single card).


P.S. For 60fps and all games maxed out you'll need dual FuryX or Ti/TitanX SLI.



The 980ti has the best price/performance ratio an high end card has had in along time.
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That 980 is already overclocked a lot so no way its getting another 7%. The 295x2 can overclock too mind and isn't as good as 2x390s.

A highly overclocked 980ti will be easily 20% behind overclocked 390x's.
 
The Asus 980Ti Strix boosts to 1410MHz out of the box (at least mine does), no way you are getting much higher (7% at least) performance out of the average one.

I'd much rather get a 980Ti - It's a single card so it's much more likely to work, and in the future you can easily add a second for SLI, whereas going 295x2 x2 will be a lot less efficient.
 
Yeah get a 980Ti, minimum and add another later for SLI if you can afford it.

Otherwise you will be stuck with 4k@30hz on your TV, because AMD doesn't support HDMI 2.0

30hz limits you to 30fps, which is crap.
 
Definitely would pick up a 980Ti in your situation. Maybe get one from the members market, can be had for around £400 there now.
 
Read the OP 4K TV No display port.

STOP recommending AMD cards OP will be stuck at 30fps.
Might as well get a 370X if your going AMD.

Nvidia your only cards really are

980ti or Titan X.
 
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