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Also been offered a XFX Radeon R9 390X (8GB) Graphics Card PCI Express 3.0 DisplayPort/HDMI/Dual-Link DVI-D Double Dissipation (Core Edition) for £240.
 
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How on earth are you getting such great prices on the cards you mention? are they new or used?

I wouldn't even waste time asking for advice here when you can get a 390X for less than 390 prices. A no brainer. If you don't want the 390X I'll take it.
 
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passey89 said:
And who cares about performance per watt? Performance per £ maybe.
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Exactly.

Ridiculous all this emphasis on 'per watt'

If you game up to a few hours a day under realistic load (You cant play furmark), the actual difference in power is tiny. so many people on this forum are running heavily over clocked CPUs which probably don't hit 30% usage most of the time but like to compare GPU peak power usage in stress tests as if that is the 24/7 power usage in a daily every day task.

Performance per watt would matter... if we had a cap on electricity per household.

For OP, if you plan to up resolution, play mods or do anything Vram intensive then the choice is easy. There is no review even cherry picked that can justify the spending on a 970 due to power efficiency if it requires to change the card early because it doesn't meet the Vram requirements you need to run a game at a certain resolution in the future.

If no one told you the power consumption of the 390 or the 970, you wouldn't notice the difference.
 
To the OP it all boils down to this for £200.

To save the earth: GTX 970
If you don't give a monkey's: R9 390.

I would be more inclined to go for the R9 390 though due to the 8GB video RAM. Just ensure you have a beefy PSU incase you'll opt for crossfire in future.

Cheers
 
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Tute said:
To summarise:

GTX970 for performance/watt
R9 390 for extra frame buffer

Just pick one, they're both great cards and will serve you well. I went for the 970 because I tinker with Linux gaming (AMD's Linux drivers are poor) but in Windows, there's really nothing much between them.
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Wow Tute I remember you from years ago on here, I see you're still arguing about Nvidia vs AMD/ATI.
From my experience Nvidia is the way to go, you have better drivers, more updates and better driver support, better performance per watts, and in my opinion for some reason and its still the case Nvidia cards look better in games, so all that offsets the few quid you save on the AMD cards, I recently had 970 in SLi and over 3 monitors at 120Hz, no issues whatsoever at any point, now with that rehashed 290x its just a living nightmare, my old 290x actually melted last year for some weird reason, I say get the 970 and be hassle free and enjoy, more to life than defending the underdog AMD.
 
Please can someone tell me which one is better out of these 2 as ive been offered them both for the same price £240:

XFX Radeon R9 390X (8GB) Graphics Card PCI Express 3.0 DisplayPort/HDMI/Dual-Link DVI-D Double Dissipation (Core Edition)

or

XFX R9 390X BLACK EDITION 8GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card
 
drenco said:
Please can someone tell me which one is better out of these 2 as ive been offered them both for the same price £240:

XFX Radeon R9 390X (8GB) Graphics Card PCI Express 3.0 DisplayPort/HDMI/Dual-Link DVI-D Double Dissipation (Core Edition)

or

XFX R9 390X BLACK EDITION 8GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card
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The Black Edition has a slightly faster factory clockspeed of 1090MHz. Everything else including the cooler is same as Core Edition which is 1050MHz. The Black Edition is therefore the better one.

As you said previously if you can get the 390X for £240 then don't waste time, buy it....or tell me where you are getting it from.
 
Well based on Pro's & Cons it seems to me that the R9 390/X come out on top so its either between the XFX 390X for £240 or a MSI AMD R9 390 Gaming Graphics Card for £193.
 
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