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Very wise choice, my friend. Good luck and happy gaming!

I'm reposting this from another thread I replied to a few minutes ago where the same question was asked: I have two R9 290s in Crossfire and I'm getting ready to replace them with 980s for a few reasons: 1. Heat 2. Power draw 3. TERRIBLE drivers This is the first time I've had AMD in years and I can honestly say that their drivers are total garbage. I've been troubleshooting for the past couple of months and swapped out every piece of hardware in my PC because I was having BSODs and freezing issues. When I swapped the Radeons with an old 660ti I had, all of the problems went away. The last three driver releases, beta or otherwise, cause BSOD boot loops and all of them cause random freezes in games. I'm happy to get away from AMD at this point. The only reason I haven't pulled the trigger on three 980s in tri sli yet is because I'm waiting on the 8GB versions to come out this month. So to answer your question, a single 980 will not outperform 2 R9 290s in crossfire but you will be more than able to play any game at 1080p with ultra settings. But I would steer clear of AMD right now simply for a stability perspective.

I have two R9 290s in Crossfire and I'm getting ready to replace them with 980s for a few reason: 1. Heat 2. Power draw 3. TERRIBLE drivers This is the first time I've had AMD in years and I can honestly say that their drivers are total garbage. I've been troubleshooting for the past couple of months and swapped out every piece of hardware in my PC because I was having BSODs and freezing issues. When I swapped the Radeons with an old 660ti I had, all of the problems went away. The last three driver releases, beta or otherwise, cause BSOD boot loops and all of them cause random freezes in games. I'm happy to get away from AMD at this point. The only reason I haven't pulled the trigger on three 980s in tri sli yet is because I'm waiting on the 8GB versions to come out this month. So to answer your question, a single 980 will not outperform 2 R9 290s in crossfire but you will be more than able to play any game at 1080p with ultra settings. But I would steer clear of AMD right now simply for a stability perspective.