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Should I buy a GTX 970 or an R9 380 for my GPU for playing games like GTA 5 at max settings and others? Thank you for the help. (My build is below) 

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1st. Please use PcPartPicker

2nd. 390 trades blows with 970 not 380

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Both perform within 5% of each other for the same price.

 

I would get 970 because game works features and lower power consumption if you're paying electric bills.

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Should I buy a GTX 970 or an R9 380 for my GPU for playing games like GTA 5 at max settings and others? Thank you for the help. (My build is below) 

Component   Selection Base Promo Shipping Tax Price Where       CPU 2759ebdd0aef9e65d9b1e846359b2ab9.med.256 $327.99       $327.99 SuperBiiz   Buy  
 
CPU Cooler b738b4164a4a92c9b4a9d6605ee4b7a3.256p.jp $29.99 -$15.00 FREE   $14.99 Newegg   Buy  
 
$15.00 mail-in rebate
  Motherboard 3b5d3b551a37738d308806c341908807.med.256 $88.99       $88.99 SuperBiiz   Buy  
 
Memory b25f83905d815a40d3e6d9af557ceda6.med.256 $42.99       $42.99 SuperBiiz   Buy  
 
  Add Additional Memory   Storage cfae225dd3e43bf766ab1468189a4703.thumb.2 $49.89       $49.89 OutletPC   Buy  
 
  Add Additional Storage   Video Card 52e95dc1261d3a10d6dc7359a0a768d1.256p.jp $239.98       $239.98 SuperBiiz   Buy  
 
  Add Another Video Card For 2-Way CrossFire   Case aee137c1ce6bee463f731e748b556edf.256p.jp $84.99   FREE   $84.99 Amazon   Buy  
 
Power Supply e68b656ec5c08b976b071f66a765e619.med.256 $104.99 -$20.00     $84.99 NCIX US   Buy  
 
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  Optical Drive 1f8bc25aad38702339a15d52dc4242c0.med.256

 

can you please just put link to your pc part picker page instead of this

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Both perform within 5% of each other for the same price.

 

I would get 970 because game works features and lower power consumption if you're paying electric bills.

Getting the 970 would not sacrifice any speed or power correct? 

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970, has gameworks and free copy of MGS5

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R9 390. - more than double the VRAM, usually equal or better performance than the 970

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Getting the 970 would not sacrifice any speed or power correct? 

it does - you lose 5-10% depending on res and you lose 5.5GB of VRAM. Power consumption of the 390 is only 60W more. Your keyboard uses 10W. make the conclusion yourself.

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R9 390. - more than double the VRAM, usually equal or better performance than the 970

Love when people mention this.Know any games a 390 can utilise more then 4gbs and be actually usable?Its not powerful enough

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Love when people mention this.Know any games a 390 can utilise more then 4gbs and be actually usable?Its not powerful enough

Skyrim, GTA V, MGS V, Shadow of Mordor (uses 6.4 here :P), BF4, CoD Advanced Warfare. - I can keep going.

The 970 only has 3.5GB of VRAM and it will be an issue in future games considering the minimum is currently 2GB

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Skyrim, GTA V, MGS V, Shadow of Mordor (uses 6.4 here :P), BF4, CoD Advanced Warfare. - I can keep going.

The 970 only has 3.5GB of VRAM and it will be an issue in future games considering the minimum is currently 2GB

Loving the amd bias hahaha.

What average user is going to be playing skyrim modded at 4k?

Thats a very low bracket to be in so instead of rubbishing a very good product.Open your eyes for a minute.I run bf4 on my 4k dell at high with my 970 and not a single time have i had framerate drops or stuttering.

If a 390 is cheaper buy it if a 970 is cheaper buy it.

Theres a reason nvidia holds 80+% market share

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Loving the amd bias hahaha.

What average user is going to be playing skyrim modded at 4k?

Thats a very low bracket to be in so instead of rubbishing a very good product.Open your eyes for a minute.I run bf4 on my 4k dell at high with my 970 and not a single time have i had framerate drops or stuttering.

If a 390 is cheaper buy it if a 970 is cheaper buy it.

Theres a reason nvidia holds 80+% market share

Yep - it's called consumer ignorance. Every non-tech-savvy person thinks Nvidia is better thanks to their superior marketing. As for the Skyrim - everyone I know mods the crap out of it and complains about crashing and stuttering - surprisingly - they have 2-4GB of VRAM. Skyrim is capable of eating even the Titan X's 12Gb of VRAM for breakfast.

BF4 Ultra uses about 3.5 GB of VRAM with the non-essential stuff in system RAM. You are probably getting a decent experience with occasional stutters/frame drops.

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Yep - it's called consumer ignorance. Every non-tech-savvy person thinks Nvidia is better thanks to their superior marketing. As for the Skyrim - everyone I know mods the crap out of it and complains about crashing and stuttering - surprisingly - they have 2-4GB of VRAM. Skyrim is capable of eating even the Titan X's 12Gb of VRAM for breakfast.

BF4 Ultra uses about 3.5 GB of VRAM with the non-essential stuff in system RAM. You are probably getting a decent experience with occasional stutters/frame drops.

Or the fact that the vast majority of users havent had problems on nvidia.That is skyrim and that isnt optimised.Nvidia have done really well improving their drivers to make the 4gb vram not an issue anymore.

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Or the fact that the vast majority of users havent had problems on nvidia.That is skyrim and that isnt optimised.Nvidia have done really well improving their drivers to make the 4gb vram not an issue anymore.

Another nvidia vs amd topic ? NICE !!

Nvidia- better optimisation and features like shadow play,game sharing, auto streamign without any programs 

amd - more vram which means you can mod even more in Skyrim!! yahooo :D, and more vram means u still be able to play future games which I think will be using more than 3.5 gb ram

conclusion: Nvidia good ,amd good ,choos what you want ,nvidia with features but low vram or amd without features but longer term of use ( I mean time u will use it)

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Or the fact that the vast majority of users havent had problems on nvidia.That is skyrim and that isnt optimised.Nvidia have done really well improving their drivers to make the 4gb vram not an issue anymore.

I don't know - the fact that a GTX 770 4G model has stuttering for a friend? When we looked at the VRAM usage it was 3.972MB

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