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yeah... but that Red Giant branch before hand is pretty rough if you're too close.

I dunno... Polaris is a huge bright death ball... but Pascal DIED almost 400 years ago... he might reek a bit.

Turnip VS Potato Which is the BEST! Won't know until they're BOTH done GROWING.

none of this is worth it in terms of price... a fury is better than a 290x, its better than a 980 trading for either would be a downgrade... but if he wants above all other things a smooth experience with as little microstutter as possible then a 980 may be the way to go.

Exactly! Poor frametime = microstutter finkle = einhorn

He can get by with a Fury as well, which should perform better than a 290x for microstutter... both are based off of GCN only fury is more powerful has even greater memory bandwith for the same memory capactiy.

You're right... Microstutter absolutely, Gsync/Freesync will you're right also so long as you're pushing proper frame rates You know your gsync... i love it... i wish i had it... but there is one area(specifically in fallout 4 recently It won't help some CPU induced lag however that would bottleneck and drop the framerate below the gsync minimum)

poor frametime = microstutter microstutter = poor frametime finkle = einhorn

I like that idea!

That article was to Explain what microstutter is and give examples of what you say you DON'T WANT AMD still has microstutter issues that are worse than Nvidia but have improved greatly compared to 5 years ago. You want less microstutter You won't get rid of it completely, ever if you want to reduce the amount of microstutter that you are experiencing: get the most powerful Single Nvidia card that you can afford play games that are more than 6 months old so the drivers are highly optimized use a monitor that is an easy to drive resolution (1080p)

And you want the best card to eliminate microstutter... so AMD is likely NOT the best choice.

It's not fanboying... Nvidia cards are in many cases less powerful for the money than AMD cards. AMD cards tend to be a better value. BUT AMD has historically had more problems with microstutter and the still do.

THE 290 series does stutter. In most cases WORSE than Nvidia cards, it showed stuttering in the video that app4that posted!

Noirgheos... Go look at reviews for the cards that you're interested in. you'll see FACTS there, not feelings about how one person feels about a specific card. BUT...What you're saying you want for your gaming experience is: the SMOOTHEST gameplay Stay away from: crossfire and sli Get the most powerful card you can Nvidia cards are shown to have less Microstuttering: Here's an entire REVIEW on what microstuttering is In general: MLGman is pretty on point in this post:

If you want: Smooth Quick/Regular driver support (usually) Good Overclocking Lower power consumption The card for you is: The Most powerful SINGLE graphics card you can get from Nvidia. If you want a great card for a great price with slightly worse performance in the above areas get a R9 300 series card

Check out this Review from Jayztwocents: Here He's had experience with Multiple R9 200's and Multiple R9 300's and... His R9 200 was a dog... while the R9 300's did better.

I'm sorry but... you're One example of a 290x compared to your One example or a 390 does not mean that the whole of the R9 300 series is a downgrade. Just the fact that the R9 290x performs very similar to the lower spec'ed R9 390 and behind the R9 390x(the updated R9 290x) means that the 200 series is worse than the 300 series? I'm not following the logic.

With the upgrade from 200 to 300 series, AMD managed to do some refining on the 200 series. the 300's tend to clock higher in many cases and perform noticeably better than their similarly numbered counterparts. the R9 390 performs on par with the R9 290x while the R9 390x falls between the 390 and the GTX 980. AMD was notorious for frame stuttering issues a few years ago but has since nearly come on par with Nvidia on that issue... However, with Crossfire and SLI Frame stuttering/timing issues tend to become worse and can in some cases be noticeable.

Can you show any proof in numbers that the amd drivers have made any meaningful increase in performance? Any firestrike score examples? Data that would show their drivers improving the 290x to meaningfully above the 970. Also 200 series cards are pretty terrible overclockers while the 970s seem to be very good at it.

970 is basically equal to 290x... unless your mining

Well check out anandtech... here... without overclocking

And 970's tend to overclock VERY well

290x is in a dead heat with the 970 in games.

Forget any "gpu horsepower" concerns, a r9 390 will work great for a 1440p monitor, I know first hand as i ran my monitor with a gtx 970 with no problems at maxed or nearly maxed settings. 1440p is a great choice for monitors right now as 4k is still in its early phase and has some teething pains. I have and can highly recommend this Acer monitor Here. Its a 25 inch monitor which is slightly smaller than normal for 1440p but the IPS display is beautiful, no dead pixels, mine overclocked to 85hz easy, the lack of bezel on 3 sides looks sexy and the price is really appealing.

Witcher 3 if you Love a great story, melee fighting and a pretty decent challenge. COD if you want multiplayer