Hey guys, hope all is well! So I've been researching GPU's because I am thinking of purchasing a new one for Black Friday/Cyber Monday as my current card MSi 280x has stuttering and artifacting problems and I don't intend to RMA a second time (first time seemingly fixed these issues for a few days). I understand that cards don't go on sale for too much but they also tend to come with free games so any sort of value I can squeeze out of my GPU purchase I intend to do! But I am kind of torn with our selection as of late. I am looking in the $300 price range (primarily at the gtx 970 or r9 390) and I understand the 970s VRAM issue and I know that the r9 390 has 8GB of it but in all of the benchmarks and reviews I have seen, they seem to be neck and neck in their fps (quite often only 3-5 frames difference depending on the game). - Also I would like to note that Fallout 4 being nvidia optimized has me a little hesitant in potentially purchasing amd.
I'm curious to know what people think are important necessities in GPUs though because while the 8gb of VRAM is wonderful considering 2gb of VRAM is beginning to cause issues in some games, no games seem to actually utilize 8gb of VRAM currently and I am worried about running into the same situation amd has with their CPUs (8 cores for better performance when games start utilizing- but games still barely go to six cores so it was seemingly pointless and a [by my standards] failed experiment). Based on that I am finding it difficult to choose between the slightly lower price (390), or the better game optimization in general (970). Do you believe these cards are worth the purchase or could I find something better in a cheaper/old model like the gtx 960 or maybe r9 290(x?) depending upon price as they seem to perform very similarly with minor fps differences in the 390/970? All I know is that I want to get far away from this glitchy card!
Thanks if you've stuck with me, I just like to be detailed so you can better answer my question. Thank you!
I'm curious to know what people think are important necessities in GPUs though because while the 8gb of VRAM is wonderful considering 2gb of VRAM is beginning to cause issues in some games, no games seem to actually utilize 8gb of VRAM currently and I am worried about running into the same situation amd has with their CPUs (8 cores for better performance when games start utilizing- but games still barely go to six cores so it was seemingly pointless and a [by my standards] failed experiment). Based on that I am finding it difficult to choose between the slightly lower price (390), or the better game optimization in general (970). Do you believe these cards are worth the purchase or could I find something better in a cheaper/old model like the gtx 960 or maybe r9 290(x?) depending upon price as they seem to perform very similarly with minor fps differences in the 390/970? All I know is that I want to get far away from this glitchy card!
Thanks if you've stuck with me, I just like to be detailed so you can better answer my question. Thank you!
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