960 or 970?

[Carbar66]

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Late July/August

BUDGET RANGE: $250-$350

USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Gaming - BF4, GTA, COD, Most AAA Titles, Video editing/rendering.

CURRENT GPU AND POWER SUPPLY: EVGA Geforce GTX 650TI and Corsair CX600W PSU

OTHER RELEVANT SYSTEM SPECS: Intel 4790k, Asus z97 Deluxe, 16GB Corsair Vengeance, Rosewill Thor V2

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: Amazon and Microcenter

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States

PARTS PREFERENCES: Nvidia, Evga (Open to try other makers)

OVERCLOCKING: Maybe

SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Maybe

MONITOR RESOLUTION: 3 1920x1080

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Must be able to drive 3 1080p screens, and play games with a high frame rate and good resolution. Usually only game on one screen though.

I am currently looking at these two cards: 960 or 970

 

[tachybana]

970 will struggle a bit on gaming on 3 monitors (980 is your card very low power consumption) or an R9 290 if you can get it at a bargain (but need a better PSU)

 

[SBMfromLA]

970 will struggle a bit on gaming on 3 monitors (980 is your card very low power consumption) or an R9 290 if you can get it at a bargain (but need a better PSU)

But he did say he would "game" on a single monitor... and a 980 is out of his quoted budget.

 

[endeavour37a]

The 970 is pretty much a no brainier, if that is your budget then spend it. The 290 is a option but not where you want to be with 600W, the 390 will be out in 8 days with 8GB anyway. July is a GREAT time to buy, the dust should have settled and you may be able to get it even cheaper.

 

[mrmez]

Ask us again late July/August, there might be better options.

A 970 would be an absolute minimum. No chance a 960 would drive 3x1080.

 

[tachybana]

I guess he did

970 will struggle a bit on gaming on 3 monitors (980 is your card very low power consumption) or an R9 290 if you can get it at a bargain (but need a better PSU)

But he did say he would "game" on a single monitor... and a 980 is out of his quoted budget.

 

[endeavour37a]

A 970 would not drive 3 screens, he said he will game on 1 screen, right?

 

[tachybana]

A 970 would not drive 3 screens, he said he will game on 1 screen, right?

Yep

 

[endeavour37a]

Just for a grin and a giggle here is what looks like the new AMD line up less Fury.

Radeon R9 390X TRI-X OC 8GB GDDR5 (11241-00-20G)
The full Hawaii-based Radeon R9 390X comes with 8GB of memory and new Tri-X cooling solution. The listing revealed that this card will be factory-overclocked, so you should expect clocks slightly higher than reference 1050/1500 MHz (core, memory). Listed outputs: DVI-D, HDMI


Radeon R9 390 NITRO (TRI-X OC) 8GB GDDR5 (11244-00-20G)
Sapphire’s Hawaii-PRO Radeon R9 390 will be part of new NITRO series. This card will also come with 8GB GDDR5 memory and it will also feature TRI-X cooling solution. It is unknown how NITRO’s coolers will differentiate from ‘normal’ TRI-X series. Listed outputs: DVI-D, HDMI, 3x DP

Radeon R9 380 NITRO (DUAL-X OC) 4GB GDDR5 (11242-07-20G)
Another NITRO part is Radeon R9 380 based on Tonga GPU. This card has 4GB memory so we can’t simply call it R9 285 rebrand (there were no Tonga cards with 4GB memory before). Listed outputs: DL-DVI-I, DL-DVI-D, HDMI

Radeon R9 380 ITX 2GB GDDR5 (11242-02-20G)
Now this is the actual, refreshed R9 285. It has the same memory configuration, and it will also be available in ITX form factor. Listed outputs: DVI-I, HDMI, 2X MINI-DP

Radeon R7 370 NITRO (DUAL-X OC) 4GB GDDR5 (11240-04-20G)
Curacao/Pitcairn based Radeon R7 370 is the fastest R7 300 part. It is unknown if AMD is planning R7 370X model at later date, but if 370X would also be based on Curacao, then I would strongly advice against such decision. In fact it already happened with R9 270/270X, both featuring the same GPU configuration (oh boy, that was confusing). Listed outputs: DVI-D, DVI-I, HDMI

Radeon R7 370 (DUAL-X OC) 2GB GDDR5 (11240-06-20G)
Another Curacao card from Sappahire, only this one has 2GB memory, thus it should be cheaper. Listed outputs: DVI-D, DVI-I, HDMI, DP

Radeon R7 360 2GB GDDR5 (11243-00-20G)
The last listed card is Radeon R7 360. This model is based on Bonaire GPU (HD 7790), so it should be considered entry-level at this point.

 

[Jomari Gonzales]

970 definitely, best price/performance card you can get right now