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Nvidia 970 vs 980 for 1080p

KHolmes

KHolmes

KHolmes

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Hello all,

Have been saving my pennies for a new graphics card in anticipation of a couple of games that are releasing this year and VR (Oculus rift). I had settled on buying the GTX970 until I heard about the memory issue which has thrown me off course a little.

All I want is a card that can play most modern games at high quality settings on my fairly ordinary 1080p display at 60 fps and still be relatively decent in a couple of years time. I would also like something that will work with the VR sets that are releasing this year as I'm looking to buy one :). I had settled on the GTX970 like I mentioned previously but I'm now a little worried as to how the memory issue might affect performance in the future. I could afford to spend a bit extra and buy the GTX980 (non ti) but would rather not throw money away if it's pointless to do so!

The rest of my system is as follows:
Windows 10, i5 4670k @ 4.2GHz, 16GB of RAM.

Would the 980 be a legitimate choice here or is it wasting money for what I want to do?

Regards
K.
 
A 970 will cope just fine but ideally you would want the fastest card possible. VR uses a res of 2160x1200 which is quite demanding for a Titan X, so if you don't mind notching the odd setting down, a 970 will be fine.
 
Honestly with Polaris around the corner and Pascal later this year. 970 is a good card; but 390 is better for the same price......

980 is terribly priced; not a bad card; but you can get 390X for less that equals performance of the 980 and Nano which is the same price is faster.....

With what's coming out with DX 12 - AMD is faster with AC - choice; I'd say wait until Polaris lands and possibly pascal.....but if you have to buy; get the cheapest 390 and enjoy......no memory issues; no driver issues specially on DX 10 compared to nvidia; along with AMD's cards get faster as time go on and not neglected like Nvidia does with their older cards.
 
Thanks for the replies.

I must admit I hadn't looked at AMD really. Had some bad experiences with them back in the ATi days with driver issues. I'm assuming they're much better these days then? never realized the new GPU architectures were soon to be released so waiting is certainly an option!
 
There's no difference between the AMD and the Nvidia drivers quality at the moment.

As for your question, I too think the 390 is the best choice.
 
Nvidia don't make good sense atm in most brackets and looking at the small portion of dx12 results around AMD make more sense going forward. What is your current card?
 
TheRealDeal said:
Nvidia don't make good sense atm in most brackets and looking at the small portion of dx12 results around AMD make more sense going forward. What is your current card?
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Currently have a stock clocked GTX760. Looking at the AMD 390 offerings one problem I can see is it may be a little too long (I'm using a mATX system, will whip the tape measure out later!) however, the Radeon R9 nano will fit in there perfectly as it's nice compact card. It's within my budget as well! :D Just trying to mentally absorb benchmarks for the 390, 390X and R9 nano before I make a decision.

Will moving from Nvidia to AMD require a clean windows 10 install or can you get away with it these days?

Cheers,
K
 
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