Is this gnu Adequate?

[Chewique]

So i was thinking of buying a Zotac GTX 970 AMP! extreme core edition! I play GTA V minecraft and fallout 4! Would this be a decent card for those games?

[Stardar1]

yes, but the R9 390 is better

[Presmo]

So i was thinking of buying a Zotac GTX 970 AMP! extreme core edition! I play GTA V minecraft and fallout 4! Would this be a decent card for those games?

as everyone says, get the r9 390

[Guest]

"gpu" thought you were saying something about free software ffs

[Mohenjo]

"gpu" thought you were saying something about free software ffs

he lives on the moon so english isnt his first language. be more considerate of others  

[Decon]

So i was thinking of buying a Zotac GTX 970 AMP! extreme core edition! I play GTA V minecraft and fallout 4! Would this be a decent card for those games?

 

while the R9 390 IS better... I would have to recommend the GTX 970 if you intend on playing Fallout 4. 

[Zackfoo]

wait. actually 970 is good too since the price has come down and for both gtav and also fallout 4 970 have better frame rates even at 1440p. both cant drive at 4k so we ignore that. So yeah 970 is good and 390 lose slightly here for the games that you want to play.+

[dewman45]

I actually say, get the 970. I personally own a 390, and I have seen 970s perform better because games just aren't that optimized for the 390. I know the 970 handles GTA V better than the R9 390. You may have a chance of better frames with a 390, but it isn't exactly stable.

[App4that]

while the R9 390 IS better... I would have to recommend the GTX 970 if you intend on playing Fallout 4. 

Hogwash, I run a Nitro and have over 50hrs in Fallout 4. Ram speed means more than who made your GPU with Fallout 4. Hell, even my Vapor-x 290 had no issues at ultra settings. The dips in FPS happen to those using a 970 and the best way to help them is running the fastest ram you can.

[Decon]

Hogwash, I run a Nitro and have over 50hrs in Fallout 4. Ram speed means more than who made your GPU with Fallout 4. Hell, even my Vapor-x 290 had no issues at ultra settings. The dips in FPS happen to those using a 970 and the best way to help them is running the fastest ram you can.

did they fix the day one driver issues?  cause at release 390 was scoring around a GTX 960... If they fixe the driver issues then OP should go 390 for sure

[App4that]

did they fix the day one driver issues?  cause at release 390 was scoring around a GTX 960... If they fixe the driver issues then OP should go 390 for sure

AMD did release a driver but that's not the issue. RAM speed is the issue. All the benchmarks were in Lexington, I know the game inside and out. In Lexington with the shadow distance on ultra you need 2200 or 2400MHz RAM not to have massive dips, same with Boston. No GPU is safe, there are those with 980ti's having fps dips because of the RAM bottleneck. If I drop my ram speed down to 1600MHz I can sit in a spot outside the super mart in Lexington and have 60% GPU usage, 30% CPU usage and 32fps. If I ramp up the RAM to 2200MHz then I'm at 45fps and my usages increase, still not 100% but better.

 

So you can drop the shadow distance to medium and never have a fps drop (all other setting can remain at ultra), or increase your RAM speed as much as you can to greatly minimize the impact of the FPS dips. This is for both those using Nvidia and AMD.