$400- Which graphics card?

[ManOfGold93]

Hey, If you had a budget of $400 what graphics card would you buy?

(I have one PCI-E Lane)

R9 290x with watercooling?

Gtx 970?

Others?

 

[BarisERY]

R9 390

[iamdarkyoshi]

go for the 8gb 290x from sapphire if you manage to find it. its nearly as good as a 390x.

[iamdarkyoshi]

go for the 8gb 290x from sapphire if you manage to find it. its nearly as good as a 390x.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202144 oh look its in stock.

[Tech_Dreamer]

R9 390

i see what you did there..

 

in my opinion get a gtx 970 forget about the 3.5 gigs of ram , it will stilll deliver acceptable framerates..

[JMJenkins]

If I had a budget of $400, I would keep it, save for a month or two and buy a Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti G1, go strong or go home, RAWR

[BarisERY]

go for the 8gb 290x from sapphire if you manage to find it. its nearly as good as a 390x.

Thats the wierd thing i was planning on getting a 290x but after looking at benchmarks of all the credible sources i know 290x is really not as good as 390x in fact it cant even beat 390 on a single game sometimes it ties with it but 8/10 games even 390 beats it

[iamdarkyoshi]

Thats the wierd thing i was planning on getting a 290x but after looking at benchmarks of all the credible sources i know 290x is really not as good as 390x in fact it cant even beat 390 on a single game sometimes it ties with it but 8/10 games even 390 beats it

this one has 8gb of videoram though and it really helps.

[BarisERY]

this one has 8gb of videoram though and it really helps.

İt doesnt at all, if you said was true the 4gb 290x would of had 0fps in the benchmarks because when you run out of vram fps doesnt drop it dips to 0 and that is not the case since unless you are going 4K you cant fill 4gb of vram

[iamdarkyoshi]

İt doesnt at all, if you said was true the 4gb 290x would of had 0fps in the benchmarks because when you run out of vram fps doesnt drop it dips to 0 and that is not the case since unless you are going 4K you cant fill 4gb of vram

and with my ultrawide setup, it helps.

[Skyway]

I vote 970.  With a budget of $400, you would have some money left over to buy something else.  Also the 970 uses WAAAAY less power than the 290's and 390's.  Just my two cents though

[ManOfGold93]

İt doesnt at all, if you said was true the 4gb 290x would of had 0fps in the benchmarks because when you run out of vram fps doesnt drop it dips to 0 and that is not the case since unless you are going 4K you cant fill 4gb of vram

I have triple monitors and would be interested in trying to do 4k. I understand 400 isnt alot to ask for 4k but even if its something.

[Hman1250]

I have triple monitors and would be interested in trying to do 4k. I understand 400 isnt alot to ask for 4k but even if its something.

4k will be hard to run on with one GPU at this time

[ManOfGold93]

4k will be hard to run on with one GPU at this time

True but here to hoping over 30 fps

[BarisERY]

I have triple monitors and would be interested in trying to do 4k. I understand 400 isnt alot to ask for 4k but even if its something.

even than this doesnt change the fact that 390 beats 290X what i was explaining there was why 4gb vs 8gb doesnt make the diffrence between 390 and 290x s performance gap

[MMKing]

390 8GB for triple monitor. 3.5GB 970 is a bit to close for comfort in my opinion.

 

You can also look for 290x 8GB, they are a bit cheaper as they are going out of production. Or you can bump it up to 420-440USD for a 390x 8GB, though the benefits 390x yield over a 390 isn't that big, about 15% performance increase.

[MEC-777]

Save a few dollars, grab a 390 and overclock it a bit.