time to say goodbye to the r9 290s

[FireofDestruction]

great cards(they were amazing) but i'm switching to a 980Ti and then getting a higher res monitor(3 monitor set up) HYPE

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

@CoolaxGaming

[Sam Z Man]

I thought about selling my dual 290X's and buying a 980ti then I realized I would be getting performance that's about the same but having to spend a extra 200-250$ to make up the difference.

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Good, switch to the green team. You don't need those scumbag reds! Joking but shouldn't two r9 290s be similar to a 980ti performance wise? I mean if you sold both 290s then hell yeah I would have done it.

[blueballs]

I'd spend the 200-250$ to join the green team anyday.

[GoodN1ght]

That sounds like a pure waste of money. Gotta be honest. 

[Sam Z Man]

I'd spend the 200-250$ to join the green team anyday.

So sell two GPU's that cost 400$ each new for 300$ each(if I'm lucky enough to get that) then go spend another 250$ on top of that to get a card that literally performs on the exact same level as the two old ones did, I fail to see any logic in your suggestion.

[Misanthrope]

I gotta recommend to wait for Maxwell 2 or Pascal cards, or perhaps even a later Fiji card to really get the most of it. That being said if you do decide to upgrade I could be persuaded to buy one of them from you

[Gpikos123]

Well I've seen benchmarks where 980 sli setups were often met or closely followed by a overclocked 980 ti

[blueballs]

So sell two GPU's that cost 400$ each new for 300$ each(if I'm lucky enough to get that) then go spend another 250$ on top of that to get a card that literally performs on the exact same level as the two old ones did, I fail to see any logic in your suggestion.

sorry for that,

 

I am in the process of curing this hates by making a guest pc around amd so I can make up my mind.

[Megahurt]

I gotta recommend to wait for Maxwell 2 or Pascal cards, or perhaps even a later Fiji card to really get the most of it. That being said if you do decide to upgrade I could be persuaded to buy one of them from you

Isn't maxwell 2 anything that came after the 750(Ti) ?

[Sam Z Man]

sorry for that,

 

I am in the process of curing this hates by making a guest pc around amd so I can make up my mind.

Don't use there CPU's they are shit.

[Misanthrope]

Isn't maxwell 2 anything that came after the 750(Ti) ?

 

No technically it's maxwell 1 still, though if you wanna get technical the 980ti and titan x are maxwell 1.1 or 2. What I mean is that we probably will see an entire new line up of beefed up maxwell cards (not to say rebrands) that will push that architecture even further and then the Pascal cards. I'd personally wait with your current dual 290s set up you could easily dominate any and all games for one or two years without breaking a sweat. Only in late 2016 or early 2017 you might truly benefit from an upgrade.

[CoolaxGaming]

@CoolaxGaming

Your point?

AMD has no gpu for that horsepower right now, soooo?

I deem this upgrade unreasonable as fiji is around the corner...

[sgloux3470]

Well I've seen benchmarks where 980 sli setups were often met or closely followed by a overclocked 980 ti

At 4K this is the case. It's a memory bandwidth thing I suspect.

At 1440p 980SLI is a good 20FPS ahead of even an overclocked GM200.

[FireofDestruction]

Good, switch to the green team. You don't need those scumbag reds! Joking but shouldn't two r9 290s be similar to a 980ti performance wise? I mean if you sold both 290s then hell yeah I would have done it.

heat wise...nope

[FireofDestruction]

Your point?

AMD has no gpu for that horsepower right now, soooo?

I deem this upgrade unreasonable as fiji is around the corner...

 

That sounds like a pure waste of money. Gotta be honest. 

you are entitled to your opinion however heat is a major issue with them so ill switch to green AMD is great the original reason i went with amd was the excellent price-to-performance ratio but i didn't think the heat would bother me so its not a horsepower upgrade...(although ill need to start looking at some 4K monitors ) but reduction of heat expelled and less power consumed by only have 1 card not 2

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

AMD is a space heater hur dur! Need to spend $100 more for Nvidia!! AMD can cook me alive!!! 

 

Can't buy a $30 stand fan.  :rolleyes:

[FLUFFYJELLO]

Nice status update...

[TroubleKlef]

Not sure why people are harping on you. Although performance may be roughly the same, you get the benefits of single GPU optimization, less heat, power consumption, I'm going to assume 2 290s are a lot noisier than a single 980ti, and of course the option to SLI the 980ti later down the line.

[Nena Trinity]

Why not wait for Fury?

[Sam Z Man]

Not sure why people are harping on you. Although performance may be roughly the same, you get the benefits of single GPU optimization, less heat, power consumption, I'm going to assume 2 290s are a lot noisier than a single 980ti, and of course the option to SLI the 980ti later down the line.

Honestly a good cooler on a 290X makes them quiet and switching to silent mode makes it even better, also is 980sli nesisary what would you possibly want too do that would need that and frankly dual 290X's is still 100$ cheaper than a 980ti.