Moving up from a 7850

[neil_g]

Hooray another upgrade thread!

Currently I'm running a Sapphire 7850 2Gb and it's starting to show it's age a little. Running something like Cities: Skylines the GPU is always north of 80% load and I'd like the option to try some of the newer FPS like TC: Division.

Looking at the Sapphire R9 Nitro 380 4096MB GDDR5 which is within budget:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapp...rd-with-backplate-11242-13-20g-gx-374-sp.html

Any thoughts if that would be a worthwhile upgrade? Google suggests the R9 380 should be about 80% faster?

Rest of my system:

i7-2600k @ 4.4
16Gb DDR3-1600
P8P67-M Pro (PCIe 2.0)
Samsung 830 SSD
OCZ ZT 750W

Running 2 displays @ 1920x1200

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Cheers

 

[Darujhistan]

It's a cracking card, especially at £150 as it was when I bought one, I also came from a Sapphire 7850 2GB. Not sure it's what I'd buy with your set up though, I 'd probably save a little more and buy a 390.

 

[Begbie]

Up your budget slightly and get a 2nd hand 970/390.

 

[neil_g]

okay two votes for a 390, I'll take a look

 

[Mauller]

I would wait a teeny tiny bit longer and see how Polaris fares. it should not be long now.

 

[MonkeyBasher]

If it helps I have a 7850oc 2gb and I played all weekend in the division beta.
1080 , some bells and whistles disabled and it played fine.