Card for 1440P

[Bozzy]

Ok, quick background to this.

I had a GTX 780 ref which I sold to fund a 980TI.. i got close to the funds needed before the Mrs got wind of what I was doing and showed me the space in the kitchen drawer where my nether regions would reside if I spent that much as we have a impending baby and still need a 4 door car.

So the money has gone towards said car and i need to find a card that isn't quite the £560 I was going to spend but can still give me 60fps at 1440.

my region is now around £350 .. i keep looking at the 390x but am still unsure..


Any suggestions?

 

[Tolemac]

The 390X should be ample for 1440 mate

 

[JR23]

Yeah a 290X/780Ti/390X/980, I suppose you might be a hair away from 60fps or max settings in a few titles but it should be enough for a good experience. A nice 390X like a Tri-X or Gaming seems like the way. Maybe there are some good deals on a Strix out there.

Just saw this browsing quickly... http://www.ebuyer.com/714725-msi-radeon-r9-390x-gaming-8gb-gddr5-dual-link-dvi-d-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-r9-390x-gaming-8g

JR

 

[NeverBackDown]

390x is probably your best option. While you won't max the 8GB VRAM right now it will give a lot of headroom in the future for games that require an obscene amount.

 

[The_Mard]

Heyyo,

The AMD R9 390X will do fine, but it won't max out your graphical settings and achieve 60fps in all titles for 2560x1440.

Besides, if you buy an AMD R9 390X meow and then down the road? You could always buy a second one for a lower price by then and run crossfire. 8GB VRAM is boatloads for crossfire anyways.

I still think AMD should have gone with 6GB VRAM with fewer memory chips and drive the price down a little... 8GB VRAM is a ludicrous amount of VRAM for a 390X.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Heyyo,

The AMD R9 390X will do fine, but it won't max out your graphical settings and achieve 60fps in all titles for 2560x1440.

Besides, if you buy an AMD R9 390X meow and then down the road? You could always buy a second one for a lower price by then and run crossfire. 8GB VRAM is boatloads for crossfire anyways.

I still think AMD should have gone with 6GB VRAM with fewer memory chips and drive the price down a little... 8GB VRAM is a ludicrous amount of VRAM for a 390X.

Yeah, that would have made sense, but I remember reading about how the architecture works only in doubles. As in, the 780 couldn't have been released with a 4GB or 8GB version; it had to be 6GB, double 3GB. The same with the 390/390X. They needed to have double the VRAM for the bandwidth to work properly, or something like that. I don't even know if it's true, but I can't actually find a card that adds an uneven amount of VRAM. Even the GTX 580 3GB version had to be a double of the 1.5GB it came stock with normally.

 

[mod_ex]

i was looking at this very dilemma this morning and agree 390x is the way i will be going

 

[Nhirlathothep]

i prefer nvidia, would go for a 980ti, but if u plan to buy amd i would take:

- or a cheap used 290x 4gb (in my country 240$) <---- best solution
- or a new 390x 8gb (in my country 390$)

remember they re the same gpu (GCN 1.1) and they have the same problems (no hardware Conservative Rasterization) with dx 12 feature level 12.0. (only maxwell 2 has 12.1)

 

[Dicehunter]

i prefer nvidia, would go for a 980ti, but if u plan to buy amd i would take:

- or a cheap used 290x 4gb (in my country 240$) <---- best solution
- or a new 390x 8gb (in my country 390$)

remember they re the same gpu and they have the same problems (no Conservative Rasterization in harware) with dx 12 feature level 11.1. (only maxwell 2 has 12.1)

Maxwell doesn't have full DX12 support hence the huge stink that was made about the Oxide benchmark and by the time we get full DX12 games out new cards will be out anyway, Best thing to do for now is get whatever you can afford.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Maxwell doesn't have full DX12 support hence the huge stink that was made about the Oxide benchmark and by the time we get full DX12 games out new cards will be out anyway, Best thing to do for now is get whatever you can afford.

This.

Unless you don't intend on upgrading with Pascal or AMD's next generation of cards, don't worry about this whole DX12 support thing. DX12 games are still months away from being released, and that's only realistically a few. By the time the main gamut of DX12 games are released, Pascal will be out and AMD's Arctic Islands (if they call it that) will be on the horizon.

 

[NeverBackDown]

i prefer nvidia, would go for a 980ti, but if u plan to buy amd i would take:

- or a cheap used 290x 4gb (in my country 240$) <---- best solution
- or a new 390x 8gb (in my country 390$)

remember they re the same gpu (GCN 1.1) and they have the same problems (no hardware Conservative Rasterization) with dx 12 feature level 12.0. (only maxwell 2 has 12.1)

Only Fiji afaik supports all dx12. Maxwell supports some features on a driver level whereas Fiji is hardware level. Either way a 390x or 980 would be the minimum for 1440p imp for a great experience

 

[cooperman]

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...what-amd-intel-and-nvidia-do-and-dont-deliver

 

[Kushiro]

i prefer nvidia, would go for a 980ti, but if u plan to buy amd i would take:

- or a cheap used 290x 4gb (in my country 240$) <---- best solution
- or a new 390x 8gb (in my country 390$)

remember they re the same gpu (GCN 1.1) and they have the same problems (no hardware Conservative Rasterization) with dx 12 feature level 12.0. (only maxwell 2 has 12.1)

Was that something you cooked up yourself? Or was it from a reputable source?

 

[barnsley]

Only Fiji afaik supports all dx12.

Sorry to be pedantic but nothing supports 'all' of DX12. AMD said that themselves.

Was that something you cooked up yourself? Or was it from a reputable source?

I've read it elsewhere too. AMD's response to it:

“Raster Ordered Views and Conservative Raster. Thankfully, the techniques that these enable (like global illumination) can already be done in other ways at high framerates (see: DiRT Showdown).”

 

[Kaapstad]

Sorry to be pedantic but nothing supports 'all' of DX12. AMD said that themselves.



I've read it elsewhere too. AMD's response to it:

I think people are getting too bogged down with DX12, it is going to take several years before there are enough games for it to be a must have feature on a graphics card. On top of that most modern GPUs from both AMD and NVidia will make a reasonable job of running DX12 even if they don't have every last feature that goes with the API.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I think people are getting too bogged down with DX12, it is going to take several years before there are enough games for it to be a must have feature on a graphics card. On top of that most modern GPUs from both AMD and NVidia will make a reasonable job of running DX12 even if they don't have every last feature that goes with the API.

This. By the time DX12 games are commonplace and fully integrated into the economy and consumers mindset, we'll all have replaced our graphics cards again.

 

[marco]

I see mentions of 780ti and 390, look at my sig, my 290 (stock) rips through every game I throw at it, even packman. No but seriously I hope I don't have to look at getting a new one when failout/battlefont cometh.