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Do you recommend the r9 390 over the gtx 970?

It's my first time building a pc and I'm not sure which graphics card to go with between the r9 390 the gtx 970? Please help and try explain your answer! :)

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It's my first time building a pc and I'm not sure which graphics card to go with between the r9 390 the gtx 970? Please help and try explain your answer! :)

if you dont need to pay for the electricity or its cheap ,then yes the 390. i like the compute performance of the 390 when i need it. and generally dont like closed/proprietary approach.

vram is very useful for editing 4k

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It's my first time building a pc and I'm not sure which graphics card to go with between the r9 390 the gtx 970? Please help and try explain your answer! :)

If you want more vram go for the 390, the 970 is a very potent card though. It also depends on how much you are willing to pay.
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If it's significantly cheaper yes. If you want to play on 4K, yes.

 

Otherwise no.

who cares...

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I'll recommend whichever is cheaper...

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Both are great, the R9 390 has VRAM advantage and cheaper (not sure about temperature, I don't have this GPU) if your PSU can handle it then you can go for it.

But if your PSU can't handle the GPU, you can go with GTX 970, it's still a good GPU.

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They are both great cards. the 380 has slightly better performance out of the box, but the 970 is a much better overclocker so performance wise they are pretty similiar. The 970 consumes less power, but the 380 has more than double vram (3.5gb on the 970...). 3.5gb of  Vram shouldnt be an issue at 1080p resolution though. To be honest they are both great GPUs, go with the cheaper one..

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They are about the same, expect the 970 to overclock a 5-7% better, but the 390 has over double the amount of Vram. It's hard to say how important Vram will be in 2-4 years, but if it's the same price i would go for the larger frame buffer.

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My vote would go for the R9 390, it performs generally equal or better for more Vram.

Recommend what is best, not what you preffer.

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They are about the same, expect the 970 to overclock a 5-7% better, but the 390 has over double the amount of Vram. It's hard to say how important Vram will be in 2-4 years, but if it's the same price i would go for the larger frame buffer.

 

8GB will be standard next year with HBM V2

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If you want to play in 1080p, the 3.5 Gb on the 970 is MORE THAN fine.

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this video is the biggest lie and missadvice ive ever seen on youtube.

A to the edge overclocked MSI r9 390 4G against a reference clocked EVGA GTX 970 (1050MHz, Boost: 1178MHz)

And ofc the AMD card also wins the Benchmark in GTAV hahahahaha... ofc they denied that they had done this...

 

thats just ridiculous, the guys that made that video are just fanboys extreme or got money from AMD to do this....

If they would compare the MSI GTX970 4G with the MSI r9 390 4G... it would be acceptable 

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The 390 is the slightly better card but personally I still prefer the 970 for its efficiency. Here's a better comparison, keeping in mind prices vary in different markets

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The 390 is the slightly better card but personally I still prefer the 970 for its efficiency. Here's a better comparison, keeping in mind prices vary in different markets

This is a comparison of a 390x vs a gtx970. These both cant compete either.

390x can be compared to a GTX980 not to a GTX970.

 

The truth is, its hard to find any fair comparison of a R9 390 to the GTX 970. Most Benchmarks ive seen so far posted here are manipulated to either favor the one or the other Card.  

 

The only thing i can say for sure. The new AMD cards doesnt overclock very well and eat alot of power

And a decent overclocked GTX970 is slightly faster then a reference GTX980. And still eats less power then a GTX980 or R9 390

 

Its easier to find Benches with reference GTX980's in it and compare them with a atleast factory overclocked R 390's (these cards cant go much higher accept for golden samples). And Nvidia clearly wins this battle. But you might say this isnt fair either (especially on 4k). But you will have an idea of what the cards would look like performance wise when overclocked.

 

Also if you are planing to play on a 4k resolution i would recommend to neither buy one of them. For 4k get a GTX980ti/FuryX/TitanX

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