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Not another which GPU thread!!!

thebennyboy said:
This is what you could buy for just over £450 OP - This will be able to max out most games:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 390 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (AXR9 390 8GBD5-PPDHE) £249.95
1 x AOC G2460PF 24" FREESYNC 144Hz 1ms Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red £199.99
Total : £459.54 (includes shipping : £8.00 Ex.VAT).

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Why buy a monitor that is still 1080p regardless of freesync. I would hazard a guess that a 980ti on a 1080p 60hz monitor vs a 390 on a 144hz freesync monitor would look and play pretty similar, As would a 390 on a 60hz monitor, depending on the persons vision.
 
Ian Evey said:
Why buy a monitor that is still 1080p regardless of freesync. I would hazard a guess that a 980ti on a 1080p 60hz monitor vs a 390 on a 144hz freesync monitor would look and play pretty similar, As would a 390 on a 60hz monitor, depending on the persons vision.
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Because 1080p is what the OP wants and it fits with OP budget perfectly. A great card with a good monitor for £450.
 
thebennyboy said:
Because 1080p is what the OP wants and it fits with OP budget perfectly. A great card with a good monitor for £450.
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Presumably his 1080p monitor is already capable of 60hz so why bother buying a 144hz monitor when a 390 won't be able to put out those sort of frame rates in the majority of modern games, freensync or not?

If he wants something that will last him 2 years that £450 would be better off spent on a more powerful card ,focusing on 60fps at 1080p.
 
Jono8 said:
Presumably his 1080p monitor is already capable of 60hz so why bother buying a 144hz monitor when a 390 won't be able to put out those sort of frame rates in the majority of modern games, freensync or not?

If he wants something that will last him 2 years that £450 would be better off spent on a more powerful card ,focusing on 60fps at 1080p.
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Strongly disagree, a 980Ti will not last any longer than a 390 will. Both card will be obsolete when the next die shrink comes in ~12 months time. Should the OP then decide to upgrade when the die shrink comes next year he'll already have a very capable freesync monitor.
 
Evilmethod666 said:
More money more problems it was much simpler when I could only afford sub £200 cards and had to make do with a gtx660!

I brought my 7970 in Oct 2013 so maybe 2 years is a unrealistic expectation

Are we likely to see a Nvidia Pascal GPU in 12 months time?
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OP grab a GTX 980 Ti in the long run it will save you money as you won't have to worry about upgrading for a while.

You should be good for at least 2 years with a single 980 Ti @1080p and then you will still have the option to get another cheap for SLI which will keep you going for yet another 2 years. SLI in a couple of years time with the 980 Ti is a viable option as the card comes with 6gb of VRAM allowing you to run future games with the settings turned up.
 
I'd be tempted to get a 380 or 970 then tide it over to the next gen of cards, which will offer considerbly better DX12 performance. I personally agree that a 980ti is a bit of an overkill for 1080p.
 
Ian Evey said:
But he stated he wants it to last a few years so the die shrink he will bypass and the 980ti will still be a faster card than the 390.
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The die shrink to start with won't make a huge impact on performance as NVidia are likely to launch small Pascal first which will only be a small step faster than the GM200 cards. Big Pascal will come later after NVidia have sold all the small Pascal they can.

Klo said:
I'd be tempted to get a 380 or 970 then tide it over to the next gen of cards, which will offer considerbly better DX12 performance. I personally agree that a 980ti is a bit of an overkill for 1080p.
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I don't find even an overclocked TitanX is overkill @1080p.:):D:)

Klo said:
I'd be tempted to get a 380 or 970 then tide it over to the next gen of cards, which will offer considerbly better DX12 performance. I personally agree that a 980ti is a bit of an overkill for 1080p.
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DX12 performance on the only available bench AOTS is actually best on the NVidia GM200 cards (980 Ti and TitanX).:)
 
Your choice is basically between double your current performance, and save some money: 390. Double the performance of the 390 but costs more money: 980 ti. Personally I'd say that selling your current monitor and going for Freesync 144hz + 390 will have a bigger impact than just a 980ti.
 
Poneros said:
Your choice is basically between double your current performance, and save some money: 390. Double the performance of the 390 but costs more money: 980 ti. Personally I'd say that selling your current monitor and going for Freesync 144hz + 390 will have a bigger impact than just a 980ti.
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Agree with this 100%.

390 is the best bet. It has 8GB VRAM and fantastic DX12 performance.
 
Another vote for a 980Ti if you are after something to last a couple of years. The Ti will still be going strong whilst the 390 will be struggling. I don't much see the point in going from a 1080P monitor to a 1080P monitor with Freesync personally but if you was going 1440P, then yes but then you wouldn't have the grunt to last a good while.
 
Gregster said:
Another vote for a 980Ti if you are after something to last a couple of years. The Ti will still be going strong whilst the 390 will be struggling. I don't much see the point in going from a 1080P monitor to a 1080P monitor with Freesync personally but if you was going 1440P, then yes but then you wouldn't have the grunt to last a good while.
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I suggested a freesync monitor as i know that the 390 would not be able to max out absolutely everything whilst maintaining 60FPS, a freesync monitor would greatly improve the experience should the FPS ever go below 60. I believe a 390 and a freesync monitor would deliver the best experience for the OP.
 
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The 980Ti may or may not last 2-3 years if you look into all the Async shader controversy and the Nvidia support for Kepler, etc. It's an uncertainty but the Nvidia fanboys will not make you aware of that side.

In 4-6 months time we will know where the new die shrink AMD and Nvidia gpu's stand. Best bet right now is to get a cheaper card in the £200-£300 range and then upgrade to the next gen cards. AMD at the moment support DX12 Async Shaders in hardware but Nvidia Maxwell cores do some of the functions in software.

If the op wants to spend upto £450 then the Fury Pro is the card that is faster than the 390X/980 but slower than the 980ti. Having said that the 390 is currently the best bang for buck card since it comes close in performance to the 390X/gtx980 at a much lower price. In fact if you can get 2x390's crossfire for the same price as a 980TI you would get around 25% faster performance than a TitanX/980ti.
 
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