thinking about an upgrade

[lukey.cayzer]

wanted to upgrade from my r9 280 to either a rx 580 or go all the way up to a vega 56. my moniter is at 2560 x 1080 ( want an AMD card as my monitor has free sync) and i wanted to play AAA games at at least high settings at 60fps. would these cards be powerful enough and/or would they bottle neck my i5 4460 3.2 ghz

 

[parani]

Rx vega 56 will be fine but can you get it for nomal msrp ? If you need to pay higher than msrp , buy the Rx 580 . You can upgrade next gen amd cards by next year

 

[lukey.cayzer]

id want the card to last longer than a year, would the 580 be powerful enough

 

[lukey.cayzer]

Rx vega 56 will be fine but can you get it for nomal msrp ? If you need to pay higher than msrp , buy the Rx 580 . You can upgrade next gen amd cards by next year

id want the card to last longer than a year, would the 580 be powerful enough

 

[ohenryy]

Yes, should be fine. A 580 special edition like a Red Devil Golden sample would actually carry 6-8% more performance compared to a normal which could make a difference in the end of the day.

But if you can afford, the Vegas are dropping prices lately, try waiting couple more weeks, if you can get on bellow 450$ its a really good card.

 

[lukey.cayzer]

Yes, should be fine. A 580 special edition like a Red Devil Golden sample would actually carry 6-8% more performance compared to a normal which could make a difference in the end of the day.

But if you can afford, the Vegas are dropping prices lately, try waiting couple more weeks, if you can get on bellow 450$ its a really good card.

would this card bottle neck my cpu?

 

[Greeko85]

Depending on the types of games you play, you may face some performance issues. The more CPU heavy games (or sections of games) will probably max out your cpu resulting in what is referred to as bottleneck. I used to have an i5 4690 before upgrading to a Ryzen 1600 and for example The Witcher 3 would generally be fine but going into Novigrad would send my cpu usage close to 100% usage and my r9 Fury would drop down a bit.

 

[lukey.cayzer]

Depending on the types of games you play, you may face some performance issues. The more CPU heavy games (or sections of games) will probably max out your cpu resulting in what is referred to as bottleneck. I used to have an i5 4690 before upgrading to a Ryzen 1600 and for example The Witcher 3 would generally be fine but going into Novigrad would send my cpu usage close to 100% usage and my r9 Fury would drop down a bit.

what would be a good processor to pair with the vega or 580?

 

[RobCrezz]

Depending on the types of games you play, you may face some performance issues. The more CPU heavy games (or sections of games) will probably max out your cpu resulting in what is referred to as bottleneck. I used to have an i5 4690 before upgrading to a Ryzen 1600 and for example The Witcher 3 would generally be fine but going into Novigrad would send my cpu usage close to 100% usage and my r9 Fury would drop down a bit.

what would be a good processor to pair with the vega or 580?

I would just get a i7 4770 or 4790, which can drop in your existing motherboard, saves having to change the whole platform and ram.

 

[NightAntilli]

Considering your Ultrawide monitor, I don't think you really need to upgrade your CPU. I'm running an R9 Fury on an FX 8320 with a 2560x1080 screen, and it works fine in most games.

 

[lukey.cayzer]

Depending on the types of games you play, you may face some performance issues. The more CPU heavy games (or sections of games) will probably max out your cpu resulting in what is referred to as bottleneck. I used to have an i5 4690 before upgrading to a Ryzen 1600 and for example The Witcher 3 would generally be fine but going into Novigrad would send my cpu usage close to 100% usage and my r9 Fury would drop down a bit.

what would be a good processor to pair with the vega or 580?

I would just get a i7 4770 or 4790, which can drop in your existing motherboard, saves having to change the whole platform and ram.

ok thanks