Best Card of my setup and world of warcraft

[Zielstone]

I currently have a FX-6300 with 8gbs of DDR3 1866 ram, GTX 750, and a 600 watt psu. I will probably upgrade to cpu when AMD release ZEN, this year or early next year, with the probably required upgraded MB and switch to ddr4. What is the best card for online gaming such as wow. I'm waiting for stats from the new RX 470 and 460 that are coming soon, but also looking at GTX 960s and 970s that are listed around or under 200. I have read that the new RXs are worthless and junk, and read that they should be better than or equal to the GTX 9 series. Does anyone know the true facts from the information that has been released?

 

[Karadjgne]

The rx480 is actually a very good card, now. Early releases had issues with overdrawn wattage on the pcie x16 slot which has since been remedied.

As far as performance goes, its a tie. Depends entirely on the game. Some games are optimized for nvidia cards so the 970 beats the 390 and the 480,some games are more equal where differences between the 480,390x and 980 are a less than 3-4fps either way and some are optimized more for the 480 which tops the 390x and 980 by a decent margin. Generally though, the Rx series has done exactly what the Maxwell cards did. Cut power requirements and consequently the heat involved vrs the prior series cards. The 970 for instance is @3% stronger on most games than a 780ti, so kinda negligible performance upgrade, yet has much lower actual power requirements and heat output. Most games my 970 fans don't even kick on because the card hasn't reached 65°C. The 480 roughly sits right in between the 390 and 390x in performance, so no biggie there either, but that's in a card that's @$100 cheaper than a 390x, has significantly lower actual power requirements and significantly lower heat output. All in all that's a serious step up for amd. All they need now is a 490 to give the Gtx1070 a run for its money. There's a sizable performance difference between a $200 4Gb gtx960 and a $235 8Gb Rx480.

 

[logainofhades]

Your cpu is going to bottleneck anything above a GTX 960. WoW is very unfriendly to AMD rigs also. Since you plan to upgrade your cpu, in the fairly near future though, get the best that you can afford. GTX 970 would be a solid choice. GTX 1060 would be even better, once the prices stabilize.