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So I'm thinking about upgrade GTX 970 with its actual 3.5GB Full-Speed VRAM to something like a TRI-X Cooled R9 Fury 4GB with High Bandwidth Memory that I see for a pretty nice deal. I know the power consumption of both and I'm just here to talk about performance.

 

My question is how much better is R9 Fury than GTX 970.

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Really depends on the resolution. At 1080p? ~30%. At 1440p? ~40%. At 4k? ~50%.

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The GTX 970 from my testing see here has the 970 barely edging out a 570.  The Fury was a bit ahead of the 480/580 as well.

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1 hour ago, AYDANN6ix9ine said:

So I'm thinking about upgrade GTX 970 with its actual 3.5GB Full-Speed VRAM to something like a TRI-X Cooled R9 Fury 4GB with High Bandwidth Memory that I see for a pretty nice deal. I know the power consumption of both and I'm just here to talk about performance.

 

My question is how much better is R9 Fury than GTX 970.

I've owned a 970 as well as my current Fury. I can say this much: the Fury is no less than 30% faster in any game/benchmark. Hell, even the 980 gets killed by a Fury these days, and they were competing cards back in the day.

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The Fury was competing with the 980Ti, so you can guess where the performance lands.

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I would not get any AMD that isn't RX400~500 series or Vega at this point in time.

 

 

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On any card, if you need more VRAM than you have you will have a lot of performance issues because it won't have enough memory to load everything. On the games you play , you'll likely never notice, they are all not demanding at all.

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Where can I got to swap hardware, specifically things like graphics cards?

 

Got a 970 and might want to get rid of it for a better full speed VRAM card. 

 

But mom will not allow me to upgrade.

 

Well anyway, any sites or specific places to swap PC hardware?

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7 minutes ago, AYDANN6ix9ine said:

full speed VRAM

Full speed? The only thing that's missing is a lower bit memory bus, and still, you just said in your last post that it's literally fine because you're not even close to using the 3.5GB of good ram available. 

 

If you please, try not to clog the feed, I can see both of the topics you just made when they could easily be one and the same.

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Who would swap their higher performing card for a lower performing one?

 

Reddit has a community for hardware swapping. https://www.reddit.com/r/hardwareswap/

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7 minutes ago, AYDANN6ix9ine said:

But mom (I'm not even 14 yet) will not allow me to upgrade.

Then I would advise not upgrading. A 970 is a great card for 1080p gaming.

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The 970 is fine for 1080p.

 

r/hardwareswap might get you some results but I feel like your mom might have some trust issues with sending the card out and getting money or other things back.

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in those games at 1080p, you won't surpass 3.5GB of vram. try setting supersampling to 2x (so its renderered in 4k), and see besides, its better than a card with 3.5gb, as if the card goes over, it goes over the pcie to use system ram which is much slower that the 500MB.

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Oh. I took it out from my savings account so from my life savings money. Not hers. But yeah. Likely will have to keep with 970.

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23 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Full speed? The only thing that's missing is a lower bit memory bus, and still, you just said in your last post that it's literally fine because you're not even close to using the 3.5GB of good ram available. 

 

If you please, try not to clog the feed, I can see both of the topics you just made when they could easily be one and the same.

Hey congrats on almost 8500 posts and if u reply to this it will be 8500 :)

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please for love of all things good, do not create multiple threads on same subject topics.

this type of SPAM will easily be ignored from the community, against posting policies and and is not necessary.

threads merged here

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1 hour ago, AYDANN6ix9ine said:

Is the 3.5GB of VRAM issue of the GPU noticeable to those who don't really play.

 

I have been playing PC games for like less than 6 months (?) but never go over 2.5GB of VRAM.

you answered yourself

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