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Graphics card died. Need help choosing a replacement.

mushrooms287

mushrooms287

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Hey, so my GTX 580 died yesterday with artifacts all over the screen. I need help choosing a replacement card, my budget is £350.

It seems like it's a choice between the GTX 970 or the R9 390X. Never been keen on ATI in the past, but the 390X seems better spec wise. I could also push to £400 if the basic 980 is worth it. I'll only be gaming at 1080p.

Anyway, just some advice would be helpful, thanks.
 
mushrooms287 said:
Hey, so my GTX 580 died yesterday with artifacts all over the screen. I need help choosing a replacement card, my budget is £350.

It seems like it's a choice between the GTX 970 or the R9 390X. Never been keen on ATI in the past, but the 390X seems better spec wise. I could also push to £400 if the basic 980 is worth it. I'll only be gaming at 1080p.

Anyway, just some advice would be helpful, thanks.
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Either the 970 or 390 will be decent 1080p cards. I'd go for spending as little as possible at the moment as we may have new cards in a month or two but if you don't really care for that and just want the best option todayin your price range then the 390x is the faster choice or for a bit less it's a toss up between the 390 and 970. If you don't want AMD go 970 obviously, I'd go EVGA so if you have this card long term you have the best warranty support.
 
I would get a 390. The 980 and 390x are a waste of money and the 970 only has 4gb of VRAM which is starting to become a little squeezed with newer titles. It's under your budget so you can use the remainder on another part of your system or just save it. 390 also has the edge over the 970 in DX12.

With regards to your worry about AMD, their drivers have improved greatly and are now typically releasing game ready drivers within a couple of days of game releases, most being released the same day.
 
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mushrooms287 said:
Hey, so my GTX 580 died yesterday with artifacts all over the screen. I need help choosing a replacement card, my budget is £350.

It seems like it's a choice between the GTX 970 or the R9 390X. Never been keen on ATI in the past, but the 390X seems better spec wise. I could also push to £400 if the basic 980 is worth it. I'll only be gaming at 1080p.

Anyway, just some advice would be helpful, thanks.
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R9 390/390X are your best bets. Fast cards with plenty of vram, and fully dx12 compatibles
 
The 300 series (8GB) or the Fury Nano (4GB HBM) are the best choice imo. I've had AMD cards for 4 generations and never had any major problems with a single card. Crossfire can be hit and miss sometimes but great scaling when it works.

Some of the newer games such as Hitman and The Division give the performance edge to AMD so it's a no brainer.

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390 or gtx 970 which ever you want or prefer.

4gb is plenty for 1080p at the minute especially with a single card. If you want to push the budget then either a GTX 980 or r9 nano.
 
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I agree with the others that either a gtx 970 or r9 390 will both be equally as good for 1080p gaming,i personally prefer NVidia but the 390 is still a good card,you will benefit from the NVidia gameworks in a lot of games if go with a gtx of some sort.

choose whichever is best for you :)
 
Panos said:
and fully dx12 compatibles
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I don't think this counts for much really, As we've seen there's DX12 tech on both sides that is not supported by the other and as we've seen with news regarding soon to appear DX12 patches for games, what the game uses depends on which vendor supports development, Look at the Just Cause 3 DX12 patch. Nvidia are behind that so it ignores A-sync and goes with the raster side of things.

it's gonna be the same old story with currently available chips regardless of DX12. Both sides have weaknesses the others are guaranteed to exploit and seeing as Nvidia are the ones who are more active in the games support arena it'll negate any advantage AMD had by more titles not using the tech they support and instead using what they don't.

I wouldn't go expecting great things from DX12.
The politics got in the way :(

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I would still go 390 though :)
 
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I'm sure you will be happy with your new card :) I wouldn't say amd will be much better than NVidia with dx12 though,infact in some games coming and some already out(gears of war) amd will be at a disadvantage,its swings and roundabouts really,some games will favour NVidia big time due to the implementation of gameworks and some may favour amd,either card is good and like I said I'm sure you will enjoy the 390 :)
 
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