R9 390x vs 980ti

[kyomagi]

I know the 1080 is coming out but it's a bit out of my price range. I have the r9 390x and a 4K monitor. I'm wondering if I should go get the GTX 980ti for dirt cheap I found. Looking at some benchmarks I see in most cases the 980ti performance in 4K is minor Is it worth the upgrade ?

 

[RCFProd]

For 4K there is not a big difference. Keeping the R9 390X is by far the smartest move.

 

[kyomagi]

Thanks I'm just gonna get the 1070 then

 

[RCFProd]

Thanks I'm just gonna get the 1070 then

Wait to see what the 4K benchmarks of the GTX 1070 are like. Might be better off waiting for the AMD Polaris GPU's instead if the performance isn't significantly better.

 

[Coup77]

You could also get a 2nd R9 390x if your motherboard supports crossfire, although I have had a lot of issues getting things running ok in 4k using crossfire on some machines, AMD drivers ares still a bit lack luster at times. (and the reason I've stuck with nVidia cards for quite a few years now)

 

[renz496]

For crossfire i'll be honest. I have hard time recommending people go CF compared to SLI. true they scale better than SLI but they also have more stabilitiy issues in many more games compared to SLI. in one of hardocp test last year they compare Fury in CF vs 980 SLI because the two cost about the same. When CF works Fury in CF definitely perform better than SLI but in hardocp test the CF setup have problem in 3 out of six game tested while 980 SLI have no problem in all 6 games. And AMD have the tendecies to be late with CF profiles even for triple A ones. Maybe it is fine if they were one or two week behind the launch providing the profiles. But in some case it takes months for them to provide proper profiles for CF. the much recent example probably fallout 4 which i think took amd 3 months plus to get cf profiles out. And even that have it's own set of issue (the missing testure everywhere with CF enabled).

@OP

maybe you should wait a bit before deciding which card to take? You might want to see how polaris fares as well though i advice don't expect "miracle" from it.