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Up to £550 what gpu

:)My 280X (7970) is running BF4 2560x1440P (144Hz) on Ultra settings and getting 45 - 50 FPS. So it will do it.

It's very playable, but not the greatest. If I want it faster I usually drop down to High settings.

FYI it is a windforce 3 GFX card so is OC'ed and I am still running an i5 3570K on a Z77 mobo.
 
TheRealDeal said:
This is probably your best bet. There is to many unanswered questions to spend £550 on a card that might not fair well going forward. To save even more dropping to a 390 and doing a spot off overclocking should see you good for a while.
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+1

I would rather save the £80 - £100 as the difference in FPS isn't much at all.
 
zaxx said:
Concerned as i dont want to waste money as i will be getting a new screen to.
< £400 for a 1440 monitor

Worried about Gsync being obsolete in 2years
maybe even less depends how quickly the industry follows amd and intel into Freesync

So yes i am worried about wasting £900
especially as this will all be going to a new build
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I get that, but....

Gsync is going nowhere, unless Nvidia come out and say they are supporting their own version of Adaptive sync (which i cant see happening) I'm sure it will stay around for a while. It's also the best option.

Buy yourself a 980Ti and a nice Gsync monitor and enjoy gaming, dont worry what 'might be'.
 
30-50 notes extra to add an X to the name...
well thats what i got from the video

So hows the 390 at 1440p?
cant wait till we have 1 form of sync for all, They have made gpu choice even
more frustrating and limiting

Thanks gents certainly Even more to think about hah!
 
LambChop said:
I get that, but....

Gsync is going nowhere, unless Nvidia come out and say they are supporting their own version of Adaptive sync (which i cant see happening) I'm sure it will stay around for a while. It's also the best option.

Buy yourself a 980Ti and a nice Gsync monitor and enjoy gaming, dont worry what 'might be'.
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Thats what the little red devil sitting on my shoulder keeps saying :p

Its actually taken me awhile to stash the cash for this new build so im very cautious.

its not really what might be either 980ti cant do something on a hardware level, Amd can so it will always work better
Untill next gens anyhow.
 
I would have thought a 980ti class card would have been quite badly bottlenecked by a stock i7 860 (2.8GHz), I would suggest a 970 or 390 in the £240+ bracket, anything more will be horribly bottlenecked I expect.
 
Oh god someone asked what to buy and they have money. INCOMING NVIDIA SHILLS.

PS. to OP. If you really want to know what to buy, go and look over reviews yourself, don't trust random biased people on forums, look at the numbers and then decide what YOU want, not what someone else wants you to buy :)

However here is my personal recommendation in order from least to most demanding.
1080p: 970/390
1440p: 390/Fury
21:9 1440: 390/Fury/980Ti
Multimonitor: (3 1080p/1200p) 2x 390/1xFury/980Ti
4K: 2x390/Fury/980Ti

Cards not listed: 390X/980/Fury X as they are bad value for money given current card lineup and resolutions.
 
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Meladath said:
Oh god someone asked what to buy and they have money. INCOMING NVIDIA SHILLS.

PS. to OP. If you really want to know what to buy, go and look over reviews yourself, don't trust random biased people on forums, look at the numbers and then decide what YOU want, not what someone else wants you to buy :)

However here is my personal recommendation in order from least to most demanding.
1080p: 970/390
1440p: 390/Fury
21:9 1440: 390/Fury/980Ti
Multimonitor: (3 1080p/1200p) 2x 390/1xFury/980Ti
4K: 2x390/Fury/980Ti
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Having owned and used most of the cards on your list, I agree with some but disagree with others on your list and you tell him to ignore randoms but then recommend :D

The 980Ti (which is pretty much in-line with my TX) will be great for 1440P and the Fury X or 390 just won't cut it if (and a big if) the OP wants to have decent settings. I can comfortably run with max settings on my Titan X (which is in-line with a 980Ti) but couldn't do the same on my Fury X. The 980Ti is cheaper than a Fury X and gives far better performance at the res the OP wants to game at.
 
Gregster said:
Having owned and used most of the cards on your list, I agree with some but disagree with others on your list and you tell him to ignore randoms but then recommend :D
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Yeah, I wanted to just show that my opinion is just my opinion and really it doesn't mean ****, numbers do :P

Gregster said:
The 980Ti (which is pretty much in-line with my TX) will be great for 1440P and the Fury X or 390 just won't cut it if (and a big if) the OP wants to have decent settings. I can comfortably run with max settings on my Titan X (which is in-line with a 980Ti) but couldn't do the same on my Fury X. The 980Ti is cheaper than a Fury X and gives far better performance at the res the OP wants to game at.
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The fury X won't cut it at 1440P But the 980Ti is great for it? That doesn't sound right to me at all.
http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/visiontek-radeon-r9-fury-x-4gb-review/14/
http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/visiontek-radeon-r9-fury-x-4gb-review/18/

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-review/14
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-review/19

https://techreport.com/review/28513/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-graphics-card-reviewed/9
Especially considering the small difference between them at 1440p in very demanding, even nvidia titles.

390 I can totally see your point though, my suggestions are based on how much performance he expects for the price. Not everyone wants to max witcher 3 for example.

A 390 can handle 1440p just fine if you are prepared to turn down a setting or two or arent playing the witcher 3/crysis 3.

Didn't know what res OP wanted to play at so I listed the ones I could think of. Also I wasn't suggesting the Fury X, I was suggesting the Fury :)
 
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Your own links show the 980ti as 20-25% faster than a FuryX, so why wouldnt you recommend one over the other at the same price?

No one here is recommending he get a reference 980ti, so if that was the comparison you were making then why bother?

If he's going to go the saving money route, why get a 390 over a 290X?
 
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andybird123 said:
Your own links show the 980ti as 20-25% faster than a FuryX, so why would you recommend one over the other at the same price?

No one here is recommending he get a reference 980ti, so if that was the comparison you were making then why bother?
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You might want to actually read my post. I never suggested the Fury X, I suggested the Fury. Also where did you get "20-25%" from? The biggest difference is more like 15% with some of them being more like 5%. 5-15% is far more accurate than 20-25% Until you find me a review that shows the 980Ti being 25% faster than the Fury X in ANY game (other than project cars anyway, that hardly counts) then you might want to stop pulling numbers out of thin air to try to prove a point.

EDIT: Why go for a 390 over a 290X? Because not everyone can find and buy a 290X. If he can, then he should.
 
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Your first witcher 3 link, 72 vs 59. 22%
And so on... Looking at real 980ti's and not the reference one that no one buys in your other cherry picked links

Even Ashes of the Singularity, being held up as a key example of AMD's DX12 performance bonus, and what the OP mentions as a concern, the nvidia cards are 25% ahead of the overclocked FuryX's
 
andybird123 said:
Your first witcher 3 link, 72 vs 59. 22%
And so on... Looking at real 980ti's and not the reference one that no one buys in your other cherry picked links

Even Ashes of the Singularity, being held up as a key example of AMD's DX12 performance bonus, and what the OP mentions as a concern, the nvidia cards are 25% ahead of the overclocked FuryX's
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Nice to see you ignored the fact that I never recommended the fury X.

An overclocked (yes, its overclocked, just because you buy it overclocked, doesn't mean its not overclocked) 980Ti compared to a stock Fury X in an nvidia title is 22%. So... where is this 25% figure you were talking about?

Yes, the 980Ti CAN be faster than a Fury X by 25% in very VERY specific circumstances, but that HARDLY means that "the 980Ti is 20-25% faster". And yes, many people buy reference 980Ti's. Given they are at least £50 cheaper than any of the "real" 980Ti's.
 
There are loads of £550 and less 980ti's
I've already linked to at least one AMD sponsored title where the 980ti has at least a 25% lead and you only have to go through the benchmark threads on this forum to see it is generally true

I'm looking at the name of the forum and wondering why someone would want to ignore over clocking results, regardless of whether its manual or bought preset, unless they have an agenda.
 
Meladath said:
The fury X won't cut it at 1440P But the 980Ti is great for it? That doesn't sound right to me at all.
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I can only go by my own findings and having compared the 2 side by side on plenty of games, sadly the Fury X didn't quite cut it at 1440P. I recorded quite a few side by side comparisons to show how the 2 compared and it wasn't pretty for the FX really.

But no harm in giving your thoughts but I like to put stock into unpaid enthusiasts who take the time and pleasure in doing it for fun, more so than a reviewer who is getting paid to review.
 
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