Which AMD graphics card would be good for my setup?

[Ryan6700]

Basically I was wondering which graphics card to upgrade to when I have the money. I'm currently using the Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Tri-X OC. Here in the next couple days I'll be getting the Ryzen 5 2600X with 8GB of DDR4 3000MHz RAM (getting another 8GB next month), and the MSI X470 Gaming Pro motherboard. My display is 1920x1080@144Hz (current setup can barely even hit 100FPS). Next month is when I'll be ordering it (tight budget) and I was looking at the RX 580 and Vega 56 but, I was wondering.. which would be better for 144Hz? Would the 580 do okay or would I be better off with a Vega 56? Thanks!

 

[sizzling]

Ideally the Vega 56, you want the extra performance to push the higher FPS for your 144Hz monitor.

Don’t buy 8gb RAM now with a plan to add 8gb later. Only RAM bought as a matched kit (2x8gb) is guaranteed to work together without issues and Ryzen is a little more fussy from what I read.

 

[jaslion]

Basically I was wondering which graphics card to upgrade to when I have the money. I'm currently using the Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Tri-X OC. Here in the next couple days I'll be getting the Ryzen 5 2600X with 8GB of DDR4 3000MHz RAM (getting another 8GB next month), and the MSI X470 Gaming Pro motherboard. My display is 1920x1080@144Hz (current setup can barely even hit 100FPS). Next month is when I'll be ordering it (tight budget) and I was looking at the RX 580 and Vega 56 but, I was wondering.. which would be better for 144Hz? Would the 580 do okay or would I be better off with a Vega 56? Thanks!

A vega 56 or gtx 1070 would be good for 1080p at 144hz. Just get whichever is cheaper. However what games do you play?

 

[Ryan6700]

Ideally the Vega 56, you want the extra performance to push the higher FPS for your 144Hz monitor.

Don’t buy 8gb RAM now with a plan to add 8gb later. Only RAM bought as a matched kit (2x8gb) is guaranteed to work together without issues and Ryzen is a little more fussy from what I read.

Hmm. I'm not really sure what I can do about RAM then.. I don't have the money for 16GB (2x8GB) at the speed I'd like and I can't use the RAM I currently have, because it's DDR3. I was going to get 2 4's for now and get 2 4's later but I understand if that isn't a great idea.

 

[Ryan6700]

Basically I was wondering which graphics card to upgrade to when I have the money. I'm currently using the Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Tri-X OC. Here in the next couple days I'll be getting the Ryzen 5 2600X with 8GB of DDR4 3000MHz RAM (getting another 8GB next month), and the MSI X470 Gaming Pro motherboard. My display is 1920x1080@144Hz (current setup can barely even hit 100FPS). Next month is when I'll be ordering it (tight budget) and I was looking at the RX 580 and Vega 56 but, I was wondering.. which would be better for 144Hz? Would the 580 do okay or would I be better off with a Vega 56? Thanks!

A vega 56 or gtx 1070 would be good for 1080p at 144hz. Just get whichever is cheaper. However what games do you play?

Overwatch, TF2, Batlefield 1, No Man's Sky, GTA V, Rocket League, the new Tomb Raider games. Lots of others really.

 

[jaslion]

Basically I was wondering which graphics card to upgrade to when I have the money. I'm currently using the Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Tri-X OC. Here in the next couple days I'll be getting the Ryzen 5 2600X with 8GB of DDR4 3000MHz RAM (getting another 8GB next month), and the MSI X470 Gaming Pro motherboard. My display is 1920x1080@144Hz (current setup can barely even hit 100FPS). Next month is when I'll be ordering it (tight budget) and I was looking at the RX 580 and Vega 56 but, I was wondering.. which would be better for 144Hz? Would the 580 do okay or would I be better off with a Vega 56? Thanks!

A vega 56 or gtx 1070 would be good for 1080p at 144hz. Just get whichever is cheaper. However what games do you play?

Overwatch, TF2, Batlefield 1, No Man's Sky, GTA V, Rocket League, the new Tomb Raider games. Lots of others really.

What's your current cpu?

 

[Ryan6700]

Basically I was wondering which graphics card to upgrade to when I have the money. I'm currently using the Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Tri-X OC. Here in the next couple days I'll be getting the Ryzen 5 2600X with 8GB of DDR4 3000MHz RAM (getting another 8GB next month), and the MSI X470 Gaming Pro motherboard. My display is 1920x1080@144Hz (current setup can barely even hit 100FPS). Next month is when I'll be ordering it (tight budget) and I was looking at the RX 580 and Vega 56 but, I was wondering.. which would be better for 144Hz? Would the 580 do okay or would I be better off with a Vega 56? Thanks!

A vega 56 or gtx 1070 would be good for 1080p at 144hz. Just get whichever is cheaper. However what games do you play?

Overwatch, TF2, Batlefield 1, No Man's Sky, GTA V, Rocket League, the new Tomb Raider games. Lots of others really.

What's your current cpu?

FX-8350 Black Edition

 

[jaslion]

Basically I was wondering which graphics card to upgrade to when I have the money. I'm currently using the Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Tri-X OC. Here in the next couple days I'll be getting the Ryzen 5 2600X with 8GB of DDR4 3000MHz RAM (getting another 8GB next month), and the MSI X470 Gaming Pro motherboard. My display is 1920x1080@144Hz (current setup can barely even hit 100FPS). Next month is when I'll be ordering it (tight budget) and I was looking at the RX 580 and Vega 56 but, I was wondering.. which would be better for 144Hz? Would the 580 do okay or would I be better off with a Vega 56? Thanks!

A vega 56 or gtx 1070 would be good for 1080p at 144hz. Just get whichever is cheaper. However what games do you play?

Overwatch, TF2, Batlefield 1, No Man's Sky, GTA V, Rocket League, the new Tomb Raider games. Lots of others really.

What's your current cpu?

FX-8350 Black Edition

You are having a cpu bottleneck. In every game but the new tombraider the R9 should easily get 144fps on high settings (gta V and no mans maybe a couple things on medium).

 

[Ryan6700]

Basically I was wondering which graphics card to upgrade to when I have the money. I'm currently using the Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Tri-X OC. Here in the next couple days I'll be getting the Ryzen 5 2600X with 8GB of DDR4 3000MHz RAM (getting another 8GB next month), and the MSI X470 Gaming Pro motherboard. My display is 1920x1080@144Hz (current setup can barely even hit 100FPS). Next month is when I'll be ordering it (tight budget) and I was looking at the RX 580 and Vega 56 but, I was wondering.. which would be better for 144Hz? Would the 580 do okay or would I be better off with a Vega 56? Thanks!

A vega 56 or gtx 1070 would be good for 1080p at 144hz. Just get whichever is cheaper. However what games do you play?

Overwatch, TF2, Batlefield 1, No Man's Sky, GTA V, Rocket League, the new Tomb Raider games. Lots of others really.

What's your current cpu?

FX-8350 Black Edition

You are having a cpu bottleneck. In every game but the new tombraider the R9 should easily get 144fps on high settings (gta V and no mans maybe a couple things on medium).

So I've been told. Would the 2600X paired up with a Vega 56 be a decent combo? I mean I was looking to get something newer anyway, I just wasn't sure which direction to go. My monitor uses FreeSync so I decided to go with AMD to keep the functionality, I'm just trying to decide if I should go with the 580 or Vega. From what I've been told though the Vega seems like a better option. Only thing is.. which variant? I've read some things about the Sapphire Nitro+ and the Red Dragon ones. Any thoughts there?

 

[Vic 40]

Think what jaslion means is to try the R9 290X with the new cpu and see how it goes since likely bottlenencked by the 8350.Leaves money to spend on more ram as well.