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GPU quandry

Jenkinio

Jenkinio

Jenkinio

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I was looking at getting a new gpu in the area of £400, then saw the fury x and decided to up my budget a bit. But now I'm wondering if I should up the budget a tad more and go for the 980 ti... any advice?

It seems that the ti generally pips the fury x in benchmarks, plus it's tried and tested....

cheers
 
You can get a good GTX 980Ti for around £520 nowadays, plus they're actually in stock now.

The Inno3D ones from OcUK are cheap, and good. There's various threads about the differences between AMD and NVidia, so I won't go too much into that, but the noisy pump on almost all Fury Xs, limited overclocking (if that's your thing) is a definite downside to me.
 
Jenkinio said:
I was looking at getting a new gpu in the area of £400, then saw the fury x and decided to up my budget a bit. But now I'm wondering if I should up the budget a tad more and go for the 980 ti... any advice?

It seems that the ti generally pips the fury x in benchmarks, plus it's tried and tested....

cheers
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If you play at 1080p or 1440p, go for the Ti.

If you play at 4K, its debatable. Ti is slightly faster on average with more VRAM, Fury X is quieter/cooler and pulls ahead in a couple of games.
 
I was in the same boat and looking at these new cards.

In the end I got a very good price on a MSI R9 390X so went with that over my 7870 Black Edition, and the bump has been worth it. Decided to go this route and wait for the die shrink 20/16nm in a year or so and then look at a faster card or wait for HBM to become a little more mature.

For 1080p gaming this is good enough for me right now. If you are gaming at 4k then I guess it's what your budget can stretch to. I assume that the ATi cards will get better with drivers over the year.
 
Grey M@a said:
I was in the same boat and looking at these new cards.

In the end I got a very good price on a MSI R9 390X so went with that over my 7870 Black Edition, and the bump has been worth it. Decided to go this route and wait for the die shrink 20/16nm in a year or so and then look at a faster card or wait for HBM to become a little more mature.
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Very sensible and probably exactly what I should do..... Problem is that I have no self control and want to buy something super spangly :D
 
Imo anything other than EVGA is a bad idea. Not only are the prices & performance similar/better, but you get absolutely stellar customer service and RMA if it's needed. The only other one I'd consider for UK is Gigabyte, but I'd still go EVGA without hesitation. It doesn't seem like a big deal but if anything ends up going wrong with it you won't be wnked about waiting weeks for your card to be received & then waiting for it to be sent back since N weeks ago, a lot of companies (even supposedly 'quality' ones like Asus) prolong the process a lot. EVGA on the other hand, stellar, fast & no hassle, nor do they look at you like a criminal for the card malfunctioning. They're one of the main reasons I can't fault people for sticking with Nvidia. There's no brand like that for AMD.
 
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