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I'm completely bemused why anyone thinks these are good prices. The 980 is around the same price, but performs better, consumes less power and probably Overclocks better.
 
Spacedeck said:
So is the 390X not a worthwhile upgrade over a 980 G1 Gaming at 1440p?
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The difference isn't enough to warrant the change, they are level pegging on a lot of games so personally I wouldn't switch.

If you were going for an upgrade it would have to be 980ti/titanX or the new AMD fury cards next week.
 
infernox said:
I'm completely bemused why anyone thinks these are good prices. The 980 is around the same price, but performs better, consumes less power and probably Overclocks better.
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Yup!

The only real contender would be the FuryX but little is still known at this point.
 
MichaelAwkward said:
Are there even any reviews available yet to back up these claims?
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Several, go find them. :)

8GB of course is better support for 4k compared to 4GB, obvious really.

390 8GB competes very well with 970 for same money, but double the VRAM, pretty good card.

380 from the reviews I read show it matching and beating 960 often.


Of course with reviews it depends on games tested, there are always games where NVIDIA/AMD are stronger, vice versa etc.
 
infernox said:
I'm completely bemused why anyone thinks these are good prices. The 980 is around the same price, but performs better, consumes less power and probably Overclocks better.
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They are NOT great price, however I think AMD actually played their hand well on targeting a weakspot of the 970/980 with 3.5/4GB vram- gaming on 2560 res.

The usual people would no doubt be shouting the usual "you'd run out of grunt before running out of vram", but it has been shown that you CAN actually run out of vram before run out of grunt with just 3.5/4GB, even on a single 290/970 level card...nevermind dual-card setups with the extra grunt.

Though Nvidia could easily just release 7/8GB Edition GTX970/GTX980, but the question is...would they do it?
 
Marine-RX179 said:
They are NOT great price, however I think AMD actually played their hand well on targeting a weakspot of the 970/980 with 3.5/4GB vram- gaming on 2560 res.

The usual people would no doubt be shouting the usual "you'd run out of grunt before running out of vram", but it has been shown that you CAN actually run out of vram before run out of grunt with just 3.5/4GB, even on a single 290/970 level card...nevermind dual-card setups with the extra grunt.

Though Nvidia could easily just release 7/8GB Edition GTX970/GTX980, but the question is...would they do it?
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This has never made any sense. The people who say it often don't have a clue what they're talking about, or are lying to themselves. There isn't this intrinsic link between GPU power available, and VRAM usage.

I do think the 390 and 390X is a bit stupid, with how they fit in to the line up with the Fury and Fury X, they're gonna be at odds with each other unless HBM really is doing something special with regards to VRAM quantity.
 
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Are you willing to pay +£100 for extra 4GB vram? If not buy 2xx series cards before stock extinct! Don't be fooled. Bad launch price tbh.
 
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This will hopefully make Nvidia drop their prices, I could do with an upgrade as Witcher 3 is too demanding for my old 7950 even after heavy'ish OC... :/

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Time for Nvidia, I switch between brands every upgrade :p
 
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spoffle said:
They're rebrands of the 290 and 290X. The Nano, Fury, and Fury X will be upgrades over a 290.
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I thought they were refresh models, well the msi 390x beefier heatsink new thicker pcb different caps and vrm modules and better heat transfer.
 
Dont be fooled by the 8gb folks everything in here is yet another rebrand and an over priced one at that, where is the next gen stuff from AMD?
 
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