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How much improvement from 290 to 970?

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How much better would an Asus Strix 970 perform over a Sapphire R9 290 (not X) Tri-X Vapor-X?

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Not much, and in higher resolutions, even worse. It also depends on the kinds of overclocks you can get on each card. As I said, not much.

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Not much, and in higher resolutions, even worse. It also depends on the kinds of overclocks you can get on each card. As I said, not much.

So would they trade blows?

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How much better would an Asus Strix 970 perform over a Sapphire R9 290 (not X) Tri-X Vapor-X?

Probably a moderate amount at 1080p and 1440p considering it generally beats the 290x at those resolutions. If you're considering upgrading though, it's probably not worth it. 

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i say keep the 290 and add another 290 for CrossFire instead

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No, the GTX 970 will win in 1080p. Just not by much.

 

 

Probably a moderate amount at 1080p and 1440p considering it generally beats the 290x at those resolutions. If you're considering upgrading though, it's probably not worth it. 

 

 

i say keep the 290 and add another 290 for CrossFire instead

 

 

Compared to a strix it's a downgrade.

Compared to a real 970 it's a sidegrade.

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If you got to the GTX 970 you get Nvidia GAMEWORKS features that AMD can't offer.  if that matters to you then fine but I would just trade the 290 you have to get a GTX 970 if you wanted one.

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I doubt it'd do too much, if I were you, I'd get another 290 for the mega-twin powers to activate

 

Went to your profile, to double check if a second card would work, um, god couldn't find your build......

And the build on the PCPartpicker link is completely incompatible, you should probably fix that....

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I doubt it'd do too much, if I were you, I'd get another 290 for the mega-twin powers to activate

 

Went to your profile, to double check if a second card would work, um, god couldn't find your build......

And the build on the PCPartpicker link is completely incompatible, you should probably fix that....

the build is in my signature lmao.. and the 290 isn't going in my main rig.

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