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R9 390, preferably from Sapphire or MSI

They are just more powerful

There is not much difference between the two. The R9 390 performs slightly better at some games than the GTX 970 but also uses more power. Put that aside, I would still go for the R9 390

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Hi, I am looking to buy a Graphic Card for gaming and video rendering but unsure which to pick. AMD or Nvidia. 
 
More specifically, either a gtx 970 4gb or a r9 390 8gb

 

r9 390, just make sure you have an adequate power supply.

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Hi, I am looking to buy a Graphic Card for gaming and video rendering but unsure which to pick. AMD or Nvidia. 
 
More specifically, either a gtx 970 4gb or a r9 390 8gb

 

the 970 gets outperformed in most games by the 390...except witchter 3

dont know about the rendering performance of both

i am a team green member but ...more power is more power so i'd suggest the same pricing team red card if you dont need CUDA

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Hi, I am looking to buy a Graphic Card for gaming and video rendering but unsure which to pick. AMD or Nvidia. 
 
More specifically, either a gtx 970 4gb or a r9 390 8gb

 

R9 390 does perform better but Nvidia has CUDA which depending on the app, can be useful or not.

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Hi, I am looking to buy a Graphic Card for gaming and video rendering but unsure which to pick. AMD or Nvidia. 
 
More specifically, either a gtx 970 4gb or a r9 390 8gb

 

Why wouldn't you get a R9-390X?  They are in the price range of a GTX970 (if you are willing to wait a few weeks to get a deal) and perform better. 

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The 390 is a tad more powerful, and you won't have to deal with the 3.5GB Vram issue with the 970. 

 

But if you have a bit more cash ,or look at used cards, then go for a 980 :)

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390 is performing better than 970. 390x is performing real close to 980 and beat it in recent games(like starwars battlefront) for some reason, drivers maybe i don't know. So either a 390 or 390x. 

 

and ya amd card just go with sapphire and powercolour. i myself using msi but i don't know should i recommends it because msi is a beast when it comes to oc mostly because of the binning process by msi i think. but without oc it tends to run a little louder and a little more power to drive compare to powercolour and sapphire. Asus and gigabyte is shit fuck in amd card just dont get them. Asus r9 fury is good however.

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Hi, I am looking to buy a Graphic Card for gaming and video rendering but unsure which to pick. AMD or Nvidia. 
 
More specifically, either a gtx 970 4gb or a r9 390 8gb

 

R9 390 would be the way to go, just make sure your power supply is adequate. An EVGA 650 GS/G2 would be a good pick.

The AMD cards (GCN architecture) have much more compute power than Nvidia Maxwell cards, which seems to have a positive impact on performance in DX12, which appears to benefit from greater compute performance. This is (probably) the reason Nvidia will focus on improve compute performance with the Pascal architecture (that's what they're claiming anyway). For this reason, I'd go R9 390. :)

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