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GTX 980 or R9 390

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First you should be comparing the r9 390x with the GTX 980.

 

The GTX 980 cuda cores will help with video editing, but the r9 390x 8GB of vRam might help with some workflows but I'm not entirely sure if it will help you.

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980 is straight up better in every way.

 

Is it worth the 170 dollar price premium? Probably not unless you have the money sitting around.

 

And DO NOT GET THE 390X IT MAKES NO SENSE, and everyone that recommends it needs to get their head out of their asses and stop.

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For me, the 8gb of vram is pretty useless. So, if it isn't useless for you, go for the 390x

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980 is straight up better in every way.

 

Is it worth the 170 dollar price premium? Probably not unless you have the money sitting around.

 

And DO NOT GET THE 390X IT MAKES NO SENSE, and everyone that recommends it needs to get their head out of their asses and stop.

So, since you own a non R9 390x, you think you are superior than everyone else and can insult anyone suggestion a 390x? Wow.

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What is better for gaming, 3D modeling and some video editing, GTX 980 or R9 390?

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So, since you own a non R9 390x, you think you are superior than everyone else and can insult anyone suggestion a 390x? Wow.

No.

 

390 is to 390x as 980ti is to titan x. No one objects when someone tells you that buying a titan x is idiotic.

 

The 390 loses to the 980 and beats the 970. The 390x loses to the 980 and beats the 970. The 3-5 fps difference doesn't allow anything different from a setting perspective or resolution. 

 

And that's not even considering that 390s, furys, and 380s have been successfully (and in a repeatable fashion as easy to the end consumer as a bios flash) unlocked to their full counterparts.

 

(AMD doesn't hardware disable their gpus, probably because that costs money.) 

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The 980 is a really bad deal at the moment. Either get a 390 or go for something higher end than the 980. Maybe try looking at the Fury?

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No.

 

390 is to 390x as 980ti is to titan x. No one objects when someone tells you that buying a titan x is idiotic.

 

The 390 loses to the 980 and beats the 970. The 390x loses to the 980 and beats the 970. The 3-5 fps difference doesn't allow anything different from a setting perspective or resolution. 

 

And that's not even considering that 390s, furys, and 380s have been successfully (and in a repeatable fashion as easy to the end consumer as a bios flash) unlocked to their full counterparts.

 

(AMD doesn't hardware disable their gpus, probably because that costs money.)

You have no idea what you're saying do you? The 390X costs $140 less than the 980 here(G1 Gaming 980), and either beats it, equals it, or slightly loses to it.

Also, hardware disabling does happen on AMD. The 390 is cut-down, and can't be unlocked. The Fury(non-X) can be unlocked to a full Fury X though.

The 970 to a 980 is a 390 to a 390X. Both very minimal increases, but they are worth it depending on the price difference.

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GTX980 is around 13% faster than R9 390 so id go with that if price is not an issue for you OP:

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-980-vs-AMD-R9-390/2576vs3481

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You have no idea what you're saying do you? The 390X costs $140 less than the 980 here(G1 Gaming 980), and either beats it, equals it, or slightly loses to it.

Also, hardware disabling does happen on AMD. The 390 is cut-down, and can't be unlocked. The Fury(non-X) can be unlocked to a full Fury X though.

The 970 to a 980 is a 390 to a 390X. Both very minimal increases, but they are worth it depending on the price difference.

Congratulations that the 980 is so poorly priced there. The difference in the US is sub 70 dollars and the 390 is 100 less than the 390x (making buying it completely idiotic.)

The 980 is a good 20% better than the 970 at demanding titles. The 390x is at max a 5-10% increase over the 390 and NEVER BEATS CUSTOM 980S let alone even coming close in many cases. (980s can snuff the shit out of furys because Fiji is so terrible.)

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390 due to cost for performance.

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(980s can snuff the shit out of furys because Fiji is so terrible.)

i was agreeing until this line...cause this never happened, the Fury beat the GTX980 consistently in every tests out there.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1522?vs=1442

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-R9-Fury-vs-Nvidia-GTX-980/3509vs2576

 

EDIT: well...lol...looking at the graphs you will say that some games do seem to run better on the GTX980 then they do on Fury... :D

Sorry! ..the Fury packs more punch overall though and his a better GPU still...

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Congratulations that the 980 is so poorly priced there. The difference in the US is sub 70 dollars and the 390 is 100 less than the 390x (making buying it completely idiotic.)

The 980 is a good 20% better than the 970 at demanding titles. The 390x is at max a 5-10% increase over the 390 and NEVER BEATS CUSTOM 980S let alone even coming close in many cases. (980s can snuff the shit out of furys because Fiji is so terrible.)

Could you please calm down? go to deep web for your snuff stuff... seriously, you giving my eyes cancer.

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If you grab a custom GTX 980 ( non reference ) will be way better than a 390x and trade blows with the Fury, hell it even beats the Fury X in GTA V at 1080p. 

 

Fury vs 980

 

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i was agreeing until this line...cause this never happened, the Fury beat the GTX980 consistently in every tests out there.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1522?vs=1442

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-R9-Fury-vs-Nvidia-GTX-980/3509vs2576

EDIT: well...lol...looking at the graphs you will say that some games do seem to run better on the GTX980 then they do on Fury... :D

Sorry! ..the Fury packs more punch overall though and his a better GPU still...

Some games... You missed the part of custom....

You are comparing reference to custom again.

Userbenchmark means nothing considering there are a total of 17! (Compared to almost 3k for the 980s and 800 for the 980 ti) Benchmarks for the fury (in a completely random sampling 17 samples indicates an uncertainty of up to 24% [sqrt(n)/n], obviously the results are not likely to vary by that much, but the 2% difference at stock on user benchmark is way way inside the massive margin of error.)

Here is an example of a custom to custom comparison (even if it's a premium custom, which doesn't really make much of a difference at all.)

Benchmarks start at 4min:

https://youtu.be/miMaW894kjw

1440p and 4k (outside of battlefield if I remember correct, which admittedly all the fiji cards obliterate at 4k) they go trade blows stock to stock and oc to oc.

1080p the 980 basically thrashes the whole field (although I would generally say that unless doing 144hz setups, it doesn't really make sense to use these cards at 1080p.)

Obviously then CF Fiji > sli gm204

As to the other poster commenting on me to calm down. Really? I can't tell people the 390x is an idiotic product and no one should buy it (for the current price premium)? Because it is.

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Is 4 fps at 1080p and 3-4 fps at 1440p (and god forbid 2-3 fps at 4k) really worth 100 dollars (30% more)?

It isn't like the 390 hits any walls the 390x doesn't, or has any limitation that isn't shared whatsoever.

The fps change doesn't make 4k gaming acceptable on one gpu and it doesn't change the requirement to slightly lower settings for the most demanding 1440p games.

It is literally the direct equivalent argument to 980ti and titan x except one can argue the titan x actually does have something the 980 ti doesn't have (12 GB vram even if I'd argue that for the usable lifespan of both products neither 6 nor 12 will be a bottleneck. )

Don't get me wrong. I think for the price the 390 is a great performing card and I basically never recommend 970s, but the 390x and all Fiji cards [outside of ssfc pc] don't make sense to buy. Just like the 960.

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