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Sapphire Radeon R9 Nitro 390X for 1440p gaming

elrasho

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Just see the deal for the Sapphire Radeon R9 Nitro 390X at £284.99 and wow what a price for a GTX980 killer.

I've been wanting to game at 1440p for some time now and I've been waiting for the price of 980Ti's to come down so I can play my games with max settings at 1440p and the FPS doesn't drop below 60.

But now I've seen this 390X for a ridiculously cheap price. What do I do!? My setup was going to be this:

Dell S2716DG £430
Zotac AMP GTX980Ti £500
TOTAL: £930

But after seeing the 390X I'm thinking of going for this:

Sapphire Radeon R9 Nitro 390X £285
Ilyama Prolite B2783QSU-B1 £260

TOTAL: £545

That's half the price but will I get half the performance? Is FREESYNC as good as GSYNC?
 
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honestly I'd go for that and then wait to see what's released next year :)

That's a big price difference and 390X handles 1440p well :) some will say free-sync isn't as good as g-sync as the range isn't quite as good......but where you'll be running will be in the sweet spot.....

Both work as well as each other......

and the money you save can be put towards next upgrade :)
 
Freesync and gsync is almost the same thing


Trust me no matter what you NEED freesync monitor!
Especially I am sure you want to keep your setting as high as possible and even when you fall below 60fps so you still get this super smooth experience.

Driver wise I think both sides are very similar now, not much differences.
 
I have a 390 at 1100 and it benches faster than a 980 so you'll do well, not sure the X is worth it but each to their own.
 
elrasho said:
Has anyone on here used freesync? I heard it only works if the game supports it?
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wrong; the card and monitor have to support it........that card does and the monitor he's looking at does....he'll need to run dp cable for it to work.

its not game dependent.
 
elrasho said:
Just see the deal for the Sapphire Radeon R9 Nitro 390X at £284.99 and wow what a price for a GTX980 killer.

I've been wanting to game at 1440p for some time now and I've been waiting for the price of 980Ti's to come down so I can play my games with max settings at 1440p and the FPS doesn't drop below 60.

But now I've seen this 390X for a ridiculously cheap price. What do I do!? My setup was going to be this:

Dell S2716DG £530
Zotac AMP GTX980Ti £500
TOTAL: £1030

But after seeing the 390X I'm thinking of going for this:

Sapphire Radeon R9 Nitro 390X £285
Ilyama Prolite B2783QSU-B1 £260

TOTAL: £545

That's half the price but will I get half the performance? Is FREESYNC as good as GSYNC?
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S2716G is £429 at OcUK, not £530 !!! :)
 
meldarthx said:
wrong; the card and monitor have to support it........that card does and the monitor he's looking at does....he'll need to run dp cable for it to work.

its not game dependent.
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So I just setup the refresh rate I want through Control Panel in Windows 7 and the card/monitor do the rest?

Gibbo said:
S2716G is £429 at OcUK, not £530 !!! :)
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Fixed thanks
 
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elrasho said:
So I just setup the refresh rate I want through Control Panel in Windows 7 and the card/monitor do the rest?

Fixed thanks
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you need to turn it on and make sure you're using displayport 1.2a cable. turn it on in the monitor and in the drivers and boom their you go :D
 
Just read this article about FreeSync and I'm almost sold in getting this setup:

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Looking at crossfire reviews now, when Pascal comes out I'm hoping the 390Xs will go down even further and I'll crossfire them. Look at the performance in BF4 when crossfiring!

I had crossfire 5850s back in the day and they never game me problems. How does crossfiring work with FreeSync?
 
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elrasho said:
Just read this article about FreeSync and I'm almost sold in getting this setup:

xWI39k1.png


Looking at crossfire reviews now, when Pascal comes out I'm hoping the 390Xs will go down even further and I'll crossfire them. Look at the performance in BF4 when crossfiring!

I had crossfire 5850s back in the day and they never game me problems. How does crossfiring work with FreeSync?
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That iiyama money is absolutely superb and such a great price for the specification. :)
 
elrasho said:
Just read this article about FreeSync and I'm almost sold in getting this setup:

http://i.imgur.com/xWI39k1.png?1

Looking at crossfire reviews now, when Pascal comes out I'm hoping the 390Xs will go down even further and I'll crossfire them. Look at the performance in BF4 when crossfiring!

I had crossfire 5850s back in the day and they never game me problems. How does crossfiring work with FreeSync?
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Looks like a nice setup to me. The 390X is a good deal at that price (and really around what it should have launched at). Normally it's far too much more than the 390 for the extra performance it offers.
 
Yep, FreeSyncs a doddle, just turn it on in the drivers, and off you go, i just turn v-sync off in games, and use Afterburner to cap my frames, so i don't go over the 144, and outside of the FreeSync range, where tearing will occur. :)
 
elrasho said:
Just read this article about FreeSync and I'm almost sold in getting this setup:

xWI39k1.png


Looking at crossfire reviews now, when Pascal comes out I'm hoping the 390Xs will go down even further and I'll crossfire them. Look at the performance in BF4 when crossfiring!

I had crossfire 5850s back in the day and they never game me problems. How does crossfiring work with FreeSync?
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How much more is it for an IPS screen?

As for crossfire No, No and No.
 
I went for this card today as well, couldn't resist at the price! It'll tide me over nicely until the true successors come out from both manufacturers! Thanks for doing a great price Gibbo - Merry Christmas!
 
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Spent all afternoon looking at reviews of the various R9 390X cards and I feel a little underwhelmed. Looking at benchmark scores for Battlefield 4 its only on average 9 FPS faster than my current 970 at 1440p.

I know it has 8GB of VRAM but the only game I have that would need it is Rainbow 6 Seige when using the Ultra HD texture pack. Last night I tried it and the game crashed, afterburner showed all my VRAM was in use so it must have been that.

I was hoping the 390X would be significantly faster than the 970 at 1440p.
 
I mean, the 390X is what it is - a competitor for the 980, which itself is an incredibly underwhelming step up from the 970 considering the price gap. You'd have to step up to the silly money cards to get what I'd call "significantly" better performance than a 970. Although frankly an extra 9fps on average sounds pretty nice to me.
 
elrasho said:
Spent all afternoon looking at reviews of the various R9 390X cards and I feel a little underwhelmed. Looking at benchmark scores for Battlefield 4 its only on average 9 FPS faster than my current 970 at 1440p.

I know it has 8GB of VRAM but the only game I have that would need it is Rainbow 6 Seige when using the Ultra HD texture pack. Last night I tried it and the game crashed, afterburner showed all my VRAM was in use so it must have been that.

I was hoping the 390X would be significantly faster than the 970 at 1440p.
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At Techpower they have the 390x at 22% faster than the gtx970 at 1440p in there game sweet. It is slightly ahead of the gtx980 here as well..

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/R9_380X_Strix/23.html
 
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