Get a 980 or wait for the 390X?

[dovah-chan]

What else is there to be said. It's just time for me to upgrade from my 7970. I can't decide if I should wait for the supposed massive 4096 bit bus it may have. This is because the 390X may use HBM instead of GDDR5. Not to mention it's also going to be 20th and the reference cooler may be an AIO like the 295X2.

We won't see anything like this from the green team until possibly Pascal which I predict will not arrive until early 2016 or later. (gonna be a maxwell node shrink refresh for sure)

There have been rumors that the 390X will be arriving this upcoming January. Any thoughts or ideas? It feels like the Tahiti and Kepler launch all over again but this time it's Nvidia possibly being usurped by AMD. (unless a node shrinked 980 Ti pops up)

 

[TopLuca]

If the rumors are correct about the performance of the R9 390X then I think it should be worth the wait , along with amazing overclocking potential thanks to the rumored all in one liquid cooler .

 

[tsuneo6]

I would wait untill the r9 390x launches and compare the price/performance with the gtx 980 and perhaps wait for some reviews.
the r9 390x sounds liek it'll be better. but will the price compete, and how will nvidia respond?

 

[TopLuca]

I believe that AMD will have to respond hard to the GTX 970 , won't be surprised if the R9 390X launches at $400 and the R9 390 at $330 to get an edge over Nvidia.

 

[06yfz450ridr]

I am waiting as well my 7970s are still playing just fine.

 

[tsuneo6]

wellt he r9 2xx series dropped a whole lot in price. butthe r9 390x at just 400? that's more then getting an edge over nvidia. I guess all we can do is wait!

 

[dovah-chan]

Also for anyone purchasing a 980, you can get the XFX R9 295X2 for just [strike]$800[/strike] $680 That's around $200-$275 more for nearly 30%-80% more performance. All you'd have to give up if you were doing a high end build would be the 16GB kit to 8GB and a 4790K to a 4690K and you'd get so much more GPU horsepower.

But then again you'd need at least an 850W PSU at minimum so that would bump up the price by around $75 if you were planning to get a decent modular 650W gold certified unit.

 

[Denis Stoikovski]

I would get 980 cause ati cards never seem to prove themselves in games,probably cause most game companies are partners with nvidia,but i've heard that far cry 4 is unplayable on high end ati gpu's.So yeah i'd get a 980 just cause most of the companies does not optimize its games for ati users.

 

[dovah-chan]

AMD Partners: Sapphire, XFX, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, HIS, Diamond, Powercolor, VisionTek, Club3D

Nvidia Partners: EVGA, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Zotac, PNY, Gainward, Galaxy, Sparkle

As for major games licensed under the Never Settle for Less or The Way its Meant to be Played programs, each year game developers seem to alternate between AMD and Nvidia for close development relations. Far Cry 4 performance was fixed with the Catalyst Control Center update 14.11.2. Despite all these branding programs and such, it really doesn't matter since shortly after a major release, the company that didn't brand the game under their program releases performance fix drivers.

 

[renz496]

What else is there to be said. It's just time for me to upgrade from my 7970. I can't decide if I should wait for the supposed massive 4096 bit bus it may have. This is because the 390X may use HBM instead of GDDR5. Not to mention it's also going to be 20th and the reference cooler may be an AIO like the 295X2.

We won't see anything like this from the green team until possibly Pascal which I predict will not arrive until early 2016 or later. (gonna be a maxwell node shrink refresh for sure)

There have been rumors that the 390X will be arriving this upcoming January. Any thoughts or ideas? It feels like the Tahiti and Kepler launch all over again but this time it's Nvidia possibly being usurped by AMD. (unless a node shrinked 980 Ti pops up)

at this point no one really knows when 390X will come out. that january release this wild speculation at best. if they really launching something in january we should see leak benchmark in december or so. also to beat nvidia AMD going to need more than HBM to do it. first they need to work out their architecture efficiency. as it is nvidia doesn't need die shrink to keep up with AMD in performance per watt metric.

 

[Denis Stoikovski]

AMD Partners: Sapphire, XFX, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, HIS, Diamond, Powercolor, VisionTek, Club3D

Nvidia Partners: EVGA, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Zotac, PNY, Gainward, Galaxy, Sparkle

As for major games licensed under the Never Settle for Less or The Way its Meant to be Played programs, each year game developers seem to alternate between AMD and Nvidia for close development relations. Far Cry 4 performance was fixed with the Catalyst Control Center update 14.11.2. Despite all these branding programs and such, it really doesn't matter since shortly after a major release, the company that didn't brand the game under their program releases performance fix drivers.

I was talking about the game developer partners.