Should I get a 390 or wait 3 months for Polaris?

[kieran_read]

Basically as the title says, I'm currently using a 7790, and I'm more than happy to hold out for 3 months. (I've waited this long)

From what I've read AMD demoed yesterday Polaris 10 running Hitman at 60FPS which is higher than what a 390 can do. (Assuming it had the same settings)

I'm only playing at 1080p quite frankly it will be several years until I can afford a 4k monitor on the wage I'm living on in London so this level of card will be quite a bit future proofed, however as even the 390 can't play all games maxed out at a solid 60fps I'm wondering if I should just wait 3 months for Polaris 10.

What would you guys do?

A 970 is an option I guess too.

 

[kieran_read]

Like I said I'm happy to wait, might do that, I guess even if Polaris flops (I doubt it will!) or isn't much different the 390 would drop in price and be even cheaper.

 

[kieran_read]

And if OP is concerned about hitting 1080p60 on a 390/970, that shouldn't be an issue. I run all my games 1080p60 just fine, with a few exceptions where the games are at DSR 1440p60. The 970 and 390 are currently the cards to get for being able to get that magic 1080p60. I hope OP wasn't judging things by Hitman DX12 benchmarks, because that's the odd one out.

Not so much judging on the Hitman Benchmanks, more as though I will be running at a lower resolution than those tests so if the "mid range" (as Vega will be high end in 2017) can perform on par with the current high end that's the 390 I was thinking it maybe worth the wait as it's potentionally a sign of things to come, like others have said I'm on 1080p so even a 390 will blitz everything, I was thinking of trying to be just that little more future proofed.

 

[kieran_read]

If you will be getting an upper midrange card, and definitely know you won't be interested in the more expensive high end cards later on, then i would wait since they are probably only a few months away.

I'll wait then.

I'm only playing at 1080p and I won't go to 4k for several years, and I guess these new mid range cards will be the new 1080p cards as the higher ones will be for 4k.