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Stuck between these two, and both are at a pretty attractive price, but I can get a Tri-X 290 for $260.

Heat and Power headroom won't be a problem, my Dad's borrowing my 280 for CAD work and I just decided to order a new card anyways. 

 

Any thoughts or recommendations? 

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Stuck between these two, and both are at a pretty attractive price, but I can get a Tri-X 290 for $260.

Heat and Power headroom won't be a problem, my Dad's borrowing my 280 for CAD work and I just decided to order a new card anyways. 

 

Any thoughts or recommendations? 

The 970 is more powerful, and produces less heat, and requires less power.  Not to mention, it overclocks like a beast.

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Depends on your preferences. What's important, temperatures, power consumption, noise, price...

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I'd go for the 970 

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The 970 is more powerful, and produces less heat, and requires less power.  Not to mention, it overclocks like a beast.

the 290 is 100$ less

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Stuck between these two, and both are at a pretty attractive price, but I can get a Tri-X 290 for $260.

Heat and Power headroom won't be a problem, my Dad's borrowing my 280 for CAD work and I just decided to order a new card anyways. 

 

Any thoughts or recommendations? 

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well im cheap and if you cont care what the 970 is offering over the 290 then the 290 is the better option, you could crossfire another for so cheap and water cool for the price of a single 980

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the 290 is 100$ less

depends on where you live... Here, they're about equivalent.

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If you don't mind spending $100 more you definitely should go for the 970 but otherwise R9 290.

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Depends on a lot of factors :) If there's 50$+ difference, go with 290/x, since the performance gain (which is minimal) isn't worth it...

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depends on where you live... Here, they're about equivalent.

no really, never settle is worth considering. Also, I just looked up the 290 vs 970, it's like £40-60 cheaper on most websites . 

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no really, never settle is worth considering. Also, I just looked up the 290 vs 970, it's like £40-60 cheaper on most websites . 

well at my local canada computers, an R9 290 is $399.  A GTX 970 is between $379 and $450.

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theres a few things to take into consideration really, 

1.power consumption. could be a problem if you have a 500w PSU and you dont have spare cash to upgrade that.

2. features. i.e Nvidia has gamestream, if thats something you are/will potentially use then thats a + for the 970

3. heat output. ehh kinda sketchy on this one. if you have really bad airflow in your case (like really bad) the 970 would be better 

4. resolution. are you going to game at 1080p, 1440p or 4k? 

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well at my local canada computers, an R9 290 is $399.  A GTX 970 is between $379 and $450.

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The 290 has an extra half gig of workable VRAM and is significantly cheaper, the 970 is slightly more powerful at 1080p while the 290 probably pulls even at higher resolutions.

 

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Well the 290 is a very good chunk cheaper where I'm at, almost $100 less and performs around %80 as well as a 970 with 4 WHOLE Gb of Vram to boot :P 

So to be honest I'm leaning towards it over a 970

 

The 970 is more powerful, and produces less heat, and requires less power.  Not to mention, it overclocks like a beast.

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Well the 290 is a very good chunk cheaper where I'm at, almost $100 less and performs around %80 as well as a 970 with 4 WHOLE Gb of Vram to boot :P

So to be honest I'm leaning towards it over a 970

Actually it's around 90-96% ish at 1080p and ~2% at 4k.

The 290 is a significantly better value imo

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Well the 290 is a very good chunk cheaper where I'm at, almost $100 less and performs around %80 as well as a 970 with 4 WHOLE Gb of Vram to boot :P

So to be honest I'm leaning towards it over a 970

 

80% would be low-balling the performance difference, maybe if the 970 is overclocked as far as it can go, and the 290 is at stock clock speeds, and its an Nvidia Gamesometimesworks title. still, for the price its hard for anyone to argue against the 290.

 

*edit* http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1355?vs=1068 here you have a 970 that boosts above 1400Mhz out of the box pitted against a stock 947mhz 290.  the 290 is the better card in so many ways, except efficiency.

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Well i would hold on for now considering the latest discovery about 970 specs.

300 series from AMD is coming out in couple of months so hold on to your money ;)

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80% would be low-balling the performance difference, maybe if the 970 is overclocked as far as it can go, and the 290 is at stock clock speeds. still, for the price its hard for anyone to argue against the 290.

 

*edit* http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1355?vs=1068 here you have a 970 that boosts above 1400Mhz out of the box pitted against a stock 947mhz 290.  the 290 is the better card in so many ways, except efficiency.

 

 

Actually it's around 90-96% ish at 1080p and ~2% at 4k.

The 290 is a significantly better value imo

 

Well thank you both for your input, I know the 290 overclocks pretty well, especially with a good cooler like the Tri-X for a good performance bump. 

Most of the benchmarks id seen were pitting it around an upwards of 80%, but from what your saying it sounds even better

Just being clear here, this is the R9 290 NOT the R9 290x everyone :P 

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