R9 380 vs 280 ?

[IBIubbleTea]

They seem to be price similarly and I plan on going out tomorrow to purchase either of the two and I was wondering which one I should get for 1080p gaming. The 380 is 2GB and the 280 is 3GB. Suggestions?  

[Oshino Shinobu]

380. 

[Curufinwe_wins]

They seem to be price similarly and I plan on going out tomorrow to purchase either of the two and I was wondering which one I should get for 1080p gaming. The 380 is 2GB and the 280 is 3GB. Suggestions?  

The 380 is a 285 not a 280 so i would recommend the 380 at all times personally.

[SkilledRebuilds]

The 380 comes in 2GB?

[IBIubbleTea]

The 380 is a 285 not a 280 so i would recommend the 380 at all times personally.

 

 

380. 

Yes but the 380 I'm looking at is only 2gb of vram. 1080p gaming is just fine with 2gb right? 

[IBIubbleTea]

The 380 comes in 2GB?

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX57936

[SkilledRebuilds]

Yes but the 380 I'm looking at is only 2gb of vram. 1080p gaming is just fine with 2gb right? 

Get the 3GB Vram card, forget 2GB vram completely.

The 280 is a 1080p powerhouse, esp OC'd.

The higher Vram is a must for modern games (even at 1080p, 2GB is NOT enough be keep you 100% happy)

 

 

 

Wow,.. 3GB HD7950>3GB 280>2GB 380

What a fucking joke...

[Curufinwe_wins]

Yes but the 380 I'm looking at is only 2gb of vram. 1080p gaming is just fine with 2gb right? 

2 gb is plenty for 1080p. not really awesome for anything more though, but that isn't relevant.

[Dietrichw]

If I remember correctly the 380 with 4GB of VRAM is only $50 more. I would suggest you wait and save for a 380 with 4GB of VRAM

[Curufinwe_wins]

Get the 3GB Vram card, forget 2GB vram completely.

The 280 is a 1080p powerhouse, esp OC'd.

The higher Vram is a must for modern games (even at 1080p, 2GB is NOT enough)

 

 

 

Wow,.. 3GB HD7950>3GB 280>2GB 380

What a fucking joke...

not really. Vram compresses extremely well where a faster card at a lower vram still outpreforms the opposite until the resolution is so high the vram cannot compress low enough for it to function at all. 2gb is plenty for 1080p.

 

But yes if ever looking to upgrade to anything about 1080p (although honestly that card will probably not function well above 1080p anyways) you really want the 4GB version.

 

Look honestly 4 GB is plenty for 4k (note that 4k is 4x the pixels of 1080p, duh) as seen by 980 sli builds and the fact that the 390x wasn't even overtaking reference 980 until 5k (because like I said there is a point where it just becomes in-compressible)

[thekeemo]

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX57936

theres a 280x on sale for $150 there right now http://www.memoryexpress.com/Clearance/Item/361c0070-6124-407a-afdd-1c790cb788af

you can expect the same fps from it

[Curufinwe_wins]

theres a 280x on sale for $150 there right now http://www.memoryexpress.com/Clearance/Item/361c0070-6124-407a-afdd-1c790cb788af

Just note the 280x is not the 380(x). the 380 is the 285.

[IBIubbleTea]

theres a 280x on sale for $150 there right now http://www.memoryexpress.com/Clearance/Item/361c0070-6124-407a-afdd-1c790cb788af

errr Might need to have that shipped to me. Live in Vancouver.

[thekeemo]

errr Might need to have that shipped to me. Live in Vancouver.

with shipping its still a much better deal

if you canscrounge $20 you can get a 380 4gb http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#c=148,152,146,169,310,311,312&sort=d8&page=1&X=0,31035&r=4096,3072

[Curufinwe_wins]

errr Might need to have that shipped to me. Live in Vancouver.

Not that that isn't a good deal, but the 285 does offer about a 10% compute performance boost over the 280 and as such you can expect at least as much of a boost from the 380 to the 280.

[SteveGrabowski0]

They seem to be price similarly and I plan on going out tomorrow to purchase either of the two and I was wondering which one I should get for 1080p gaming. The 380 is 2GB and the 280 is 3GB. Suggestions?  

 

I'd go GTX 960 personally, since you can find them for $185 or so and Arkham Knight looks more interesting than Dirt Rally for the free included game. Shockingly the HIS IceQ X2 R9 380 seems to outperform the GTX 960 in Witcher 3. You used to get Witcher 3 free with the 960.  :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: http://www.techspot.com/review/1019-radeon-r9-390x-390-380/

[SteveGrabowski0]

Wow, in the Tom's Hardware benchmark the MSI Gaming R9 380 beats the Gigabyte Gaming GTX 960 pretty consistently, maybe the 380 is the better card?

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-r9-390x-r9-380-r7-370,4178-6.html

[osbios]

Note that the 280x actually comes in two different chips. Tahiti XT2 and Tahiti XTL. The later on is a bit better.
Also it is GCN 1.0 and for that reason does not come with trueaudio, slower tesselation, limited to OpenCL 1.2, no dynamic freesync, no delta compression(helps with bandwidth) and eats a bit more power.

On the other hand it has the best(!) double precision performance of all single-chip cards in the 200 and 300 series and has more bandwidth then the 380 (288 vs 182.4 GB/s).

Some of this factors won't affect you and you can just ignore them. E.g. just for gaming the double precision performance is not really a factor.

 

I still wait for the fury nano and then will decide if I go build a machine for VR (with a fury nano or 290) or non VR, then the 280x is my personal favorite.

[Curufinwe_wins]

Wow, in the Tom's Hardware benchmark the MSI Gaming R9 380 beats the Gigabyte Gaming GTX 960 pretty consistently, maybe the 380 is the better card?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-r9-390x-r9-380-r7-370,4178-6.html

That depends on the overclocking headroom, but I would not be too surprised if the 285 is as good if not better than the 960. Remember Maxwell cards have amazing oc headroom compared to even the 200 series let alone the 300 series (which basically takes the 200 series and higher stock clocks it.)

[IBIubbleTea]

That depends on the overclocking headroom, but I would not be too surprised if the 285 is as good if not better than the 960. Remember Maxwell cards have amazing oc headroom compared to even the 200 series let alone the 300 series (which basically takes the 200 series and higher stock clocks it.)

Then what card would you get? 285, 960, 280 or 380 2GB

[Curufinwe_wins]

Then what card would you get? 285, 960, 280 or 380 2GB

Honestly I'd choose a 290 (240 from sapphire over all of the others) but that's just me.