GTX 970 or R9 390?

[jascraft123]

I'm building a new gaming rig and I am wondering whether I should get the R9 390 or GTX 970. They are about the same price and I am planning to do 1080p gaming at max settings with the best framerates that I can get.

[mayu]

970 for drivers I guess

[sms1202]

R9 390 for the VRAM

It is important for future wise perspective

[theereal]

R9 390 for the VRAM

It is important for future wise perspective

Those 8gigs are kinda overkill though

[theereal]

390 is a stronger card, i went with the 970 though beacuse of the drivers and nvidia features

[JeffreyEagan]

390. Stomps 970 in theoretical benchmarks.

[Aytex]

970 for drivers I guess

 

 

390 is a stronger card, i went with the 970 though beacuse of the drivers and nvidia features

 i dont see anything wrong with AMD's drivers?

I actually see more problems with nvidia drivers on win 10 then AMD?

[Pool]

For 1080 GTX 970

[Runescapian]

I'm building a new gaming rig and I am wondering whether I should get the R9 390 or GTX 970. They are about the same price and I am planning to do 1080p gaming at max settings with the best framerates that I can get.

 

There are so many threads about this. Can you just use the search bar instead of making a shitpost?

[theereal]

 i dont see anything wrong with AMD's drivers?

I actually see more problems with nvidia drivers on win 10 then AMD?

Ive personally had ALOT of issues with AMD drivers in the past

[Aytex]

Ive personally had ALOT of issues with AMD drivers in the past

i've only has minor issues. b/c of win10

[Altaren]

970 for drivers I guess

Whats wrong with AMD drivers? Or is there something Nvidia drivers do better?

[mayu]

Whats wrong with AMD drivers? Or is there something Nvidia drivers do better?

 

 i dont see anything wrong with AMD's drivers?

I actually see more problems with nvidia drivers on win 10 then AMD?

 

Personally I have more driver crashes with NVidia than on AMD. But didn't some games had lower performance issues with AMD cards vs NVidia cards due to driver optimizations (talking about GameWorks games), or all those issues have been fixed and I am not aware of it.

 

I was facing issues (green color spread all over) with AMD drivers for some older games (only tried latest driver release), San Andreas, Vice City. But didn't face any issues with NVidia cards.

 

EDIT: I would have got 390 for myself, if it was released little earlier (2 weeks), cost difference wasn't high (~125$), and 2 games weren't free with 970.

I wish AMD to do well, just so that we can have good options, and intel/NVidia can do better in newer generations instead of just going for ~10% performance improvement at lower power consumption.

[Mephy04]

I went with 970 because it does well with less of a processor. My aging 2600K no OC likes nvidia better. Or i should say it puts less load on a processor, from my perspective and research. Also better with Linux. 

[winningsince1337]

390 is a stronger card, i went with the 970 though beacuse of the drivers and nvidia features

INB4 nvidia nerfs 900 series when pascal comes out like they did to the 700 series when maxwell came out

[theereal]

INB4 nvidia nerfs 900 series when pascal comes out like they did to the 700 series when maxwell came out

what? could you please be a little more clear in your sentence? i have no idea what you just wrote

[winningsince1337]

what? could you please be a little more clear in your sentence? i have no idea what you just wrote

Driver unpdates at one point (not sure if they still do) made the 780 ti be slower than a 960 

 

TLDR: nvidia hit 700 series cards with a nerf bat using drivers to boost 900 series cards sales

[gilang01]

Driver unpdates at one point (not sure if they still do) made the 780 ti be slower than a 960 

 

TLDR: nvidia hit 700 series cards with a nerf bat using drivers to boost 900 series cards sales

nah. the 780 Ti is still in the 970 level judging from recent benches

[theereal]

Driver unpdates at one point (not sure if they still do) made the 780 ti be slower than a 960 

 

TLDR: nvidia hit 700 series cards with a nerf bat using drivers to boost 900 series cards sales

oh didnt know that

[Humbug]

Both are good.

I would go for the 390; slightly faster.

I also have had a great experience with 290 vapor-x. Silky smooth high quality gaming, cool/quiet, good drivers.

[Humbug]

INB4 nvidia nerfs 900 series when pascal comes out like they did to the 700 series when maxwell came out

Nvidia doesn't nerf old cards. They just stop doing the game specific driver optimizations. That's why for example the 780 still performs well in older games but in most newer games loses to the AMD alternatives.

[winningsince1337]

Nvidia doesn't nerf old cards. They just stop doing the game specific driver optimizations. That's why for example the 780 still performs well in older games but in most newer games loses to the AMD alternatives.

And that's really shitty of them. you could buy a top of the line card and then 6 months later having it run like complete shit on a new game forcing you to upgrade. AMD actually supports their cards via drivers.