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R9 390 to 980Ti

Is Maxwell's lack of hardware A-sync compute an issue if one were to buy an 980Ti to last last for the next couple of years?
 
doodah said:
Is Maxwell's lack of hardware A-sync compute an issue if one were to buy an 980Ti to last last for the next couple of years?
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Difficult to predict but from here on out most AAA titles will be DX12 or Vulkan.
 
980ti can brute force it at moment but it will fall behind more, later on against 1070 and what ever vega is as more dx12 games come out.

But it is still a fast card.
 
For 1440p, yea, I'd say it's worth it.

Though you have a Freesync screen that can mitigate framedrops in many cases, I'm not sure which one you have. If you have one that doesn't even work below 48hz, I'd say you should still go for the 980Ti, as you are likely going to run into situations where games drop below 48fps on your 390 at 1440p and thus get no benefit from the tech.

However, if your monitor has a Freesync implementation goes down to 40hz or below, I'd say your 390 might still be fine so long as you aren't a stickler for high framerates. Freesync will smooth out an inconsistent framerate, but higher is still better and smoother and if performance is erratic enough, it will still feel bad.
 
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doodah said:
Is Maxwell's lack of hardware A-sync compute an issue if one were to buy an 980Ti to last last for the next couple of years?
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A valid concern, but from what benchmarks i've looked up an OC'd 980ti vs an OC'd GTX 1070 (which supposedly benefits from async) is only 5~ FPS behind in titles that make use of async. Whether or not that gap will widen with driver updates (i'm thinking it won't, even if so probably a negligable amount) remains to be seen.

Only other option is to wait for AMD's Vega but that's far away, and we have no tangible info on their performance yet.
 
Hurlbag said:
A valid concern, but from what benchmarks i've looked up an OC'd 980ti vs an OC'd GTX 1070 (which supposedly benefits from async) is only 5~ FPS behind in titles that make use of async. Whether or not that gap will widen with driver updates (i'm thinking it won't, even if so probably a negligable amount) remains to be seen.

Only other option is to wait for AMD's Vega but that's far away, and we have no tangible info on their performance yet.
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Async will only boost performance by 10%-15%, it's not the killer feature that finally unlocks the huge performance gains found on GNC. DX12 and Vulkan can spread it's driver overhead over multiple threads which seems to reduce bottlenecking and this is where the gains are coming from.

A 980Ti is worth it as there huge gains to be had in DX11 titles such as Witcher 3 and GTA (if you play those games) however if you planning on keeping this card a long time the 390 has shown to be pretty future proof ( just look at the current DX12 titles).

The whole a 980ti performs well all round not matter what API is being used, I would personally make the leap depending on how much the upgrade cost.
 
My dads asked me to get him a 1060 I managed to convince him to spend £60 more and go for the evga sc 980ti, hes coming from an amd 280x so a nice upgrade at 1200p.
 
Seanspeed said:
For 1440p, yea, I'd say it's worth it.

Though you have a Freesync screen that can mitigate framedrops in many cases, I'm not sure which one you have. If you have one that doesn't even work below 48hz, I'd say you should still go for the 980Ti, as you are likely going to run into situations where games drop below 48fps on your 390 at 1440p and thus get no benefit from the tech.

However, if your monitor has a Freesync implementation goes down to 40hz or below, I'd say your 390 might still be fine so long as you aren't a stickler for high framerates. Freesync will smooth out an inconsistent framerate, but higher is still better and smoother and if performance is erratic enough, it will still feel bad.
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Ive got this monitor

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/iiya...g-widescreen-led-monitor-black-mo-124-iy.html
 
After getting a 1070, which is more or less a 980Ti, I'd say stick with the 390 unless you can get one cheap enough and don't mind losing Freesync.

The 1070 is quiet, cool and brilliantly efficient but it's still fairly easy to hammer it at 1440p in certain games like The Division or RoTR if you don't tone down some settings. Obviously, the 980Ti won't fare much better. It performs great for the most part but maxing stuff will be a fairly rare scenario.

I wouldn't have upgraded from the 970 if it wasn't losing so much value.
 
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