FX-6300 gpu Reccomendations

[twgamerbuilder]

I'm just looking for some recomendations for a new gpu, as I currently have a r7 260x and i am experiencing bottlenecking. I would like to stay around the $200 range. Thanks!

 

[clutchc]

My FX 6350 @ 4.2 GHz was just barely able to keep up with my GTX 960 FTW+ @ 1480 MHz w/o CPU bottleneck. On the other hand, I stuck my GTX 970 in and it gamed better, but with some CPU bottleneck. So, go figure. From my experience, I would say the GTX 970 is max. (or an R7-380x maybe)

 

[twgamerbuilder]

My FX 6350 @ 4.2 GHz was just barely able to keep up with my GTX 960 FTW+ @ 1480 MHz w/o CPU bottleneck. On the other hand, I stuck my GTX 970 in and it gamed better, but with some CPU bottleneck. So, go figure. From my experience, I would say the GTX 970 is max. (or an R7-380x maybe)

The gtx 970 is a bit more expensive right now at about the $300 range and an r7 380x looks good too, but I just found a r9 380 for about $200. www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Gaming-Graphics-GV-R938G1-GAMING-4GD/dp/B00ZGF3TUC?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_4&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

 

[photonboy]

Bottlenecking completely depends on the game. There's always a bottleneck.

Learning to TWEAK your games properly is very important.

*I would suggest waiting and see what AMD's Polaris 11 part offers.

 

[Petar Raickovic]

I suggest you to wait for new Gpu lines AMD/Polaris or Nvidia Pascal.... Anyway No bottleneck in Dx12 ... and you 6 Cores gonna do nice job... not like in Dx11 when 2 or 3 cores are on 100% others are on party drinking bear.... If u must buy i suggest 380 it's 180$ or 380x 220$ sinc 900 series are Crap in dx12

 

[photonboy]

I suggest you to wait for new Gpu lines AMD/Polaris or Nvidia Pascal.... Anyway No bottleneck in Dx12 ... and you 6 Cores gonna do nice job... not like in Dx11 when 2 or 3 cores are on 100% others are on party drinking bear.... If u must buy i suggest 380 it's 180$ or 380x 220$ sinc 900 series are Crap in dx12

Theoretically no bottleneck in DX12. They still have to do optimize the coding. Also, no indication of how many titles will be well optimized within the next two years.

But even if the FPS is lower than it could be with a faster CPU you can still have a great experience if you tweak properly.

*For reference, a stock GTX750Ti is about 20% faster than an R9-260X.
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/R9_380X_Strix/23.html

Do note that games VARY a lot in how much the CPU is a bottleneck. Thus, your FPS will be lower than average than above, but some games will be close (like Tomb Raider which tends to have lower CPU requirement than most modern titles).

**Here's a good card for $180 (R9-380): http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-100384nt4goc2l

(approx 2X R9-260X and also 4GB video memory to future proof)

NVidia has better DX11 drivers so I wanted to recommend them, but on the other hand they aren't as competitive at this price point. And while there's other things I prefer about NVidia, they don't have hardware ASync Compute which may be a big deal for DX12 games.

Unfortunately we don't have enough information on ASync Compute yet in terms of most games (the AoS game for example is a worst-case scenario likely.)

Also, as I said we have new GPU's coming. The ONLY one that's likely in your price range is Polaris 11. It should be a little better value than the R9-380. Possibly slightly cheaper while being slightly faster.

Summary:
The R9-380 is about the only card I can recommend for the reasons above. Pros and Cons to NVidia vs AMD.

Performance should average about 2X that of the R9-260X depending on the game (mainly depending on CPU load). That's based on the average of 20 games at Techpowerup.

 

[photonboy]

In case it's not clear my two top choices are:

1) R9-380 4GB
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-100384nt4goc2l

2) Wait for Polaris 11

I should also note there are likely other hardware improvements worth considering in Polaris. NVidia for example can optimize the new 1000 series to do up to 60% higher FPS for VR programs.

There's also the heat/noise if that's a concern.

 

[twgamerbuilder]

In case it's not clear my two top choices are:

1) R9-380 4GB
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-100384nt4goc2l

2) Wait for Polaris 11

I should also note there are likely other hardware improvements worth considering in Polaris. NVidia for example can optimize the new 1000 series to do up to 60% higher FPS for VR programs.

There's also the heat/noise if that's a concern.

thank you for your help. I think it would be wise of me to just be patient and wait for the polaris gpu.