To upgrade of not?

[Dkozak]

So at the moment I have an Sapphire 7950 Boost 3G edition running all the games I play run decent enough.

But I'm looking for a new GPU to fit in my build.

 

I'm looking at the MSI 390 Gaming and the GTX 970 Strix

The thing is that I have a shitty 500W PSU (unrated)

 

the 970 Strix uses way less Power but the 390 Gaming has 8GB Ram

The 970 strix has a higher memory clock but the 390 Gaming has a wider Memory bus and a higher memory bandwidth.

 

I got the info from here

 

Which card would you guys suggest? I'm not going to upgrade my PSU

[Sir Asvald]

So at the moment I have an Sapphire 7950 Boost 3G edition running all the games I play run decent enough.

But I'm looking for a new GPU to fit in my build.

 

I'm looking at the MSI 390 Gaming and the GTX 970 Strix

The thing is that I have a shitty 500W PSU (unrated)

 

the 970 Strix uses way less Power but the 390 Gaming has 8GB Ram

The 970 strix has a higher memory clock but the 390 Gaming has a wider Memory bus and a higher memory bandwidth.

 

I got the info from here

 

Which card would you guys suggest? I'm not going to upgrade my PSU

390 would be a good upgrade. But change the PSU first. 

[manikyath]

generally, 390 is slightly faster than 970, but 970 is much less power hungry (meaning also less heat)

 

but please, 2 pieces of advice:

- stay away from game debate (and passmark for that matter)

- replace that psu asap by a seasonic unit or similar.

[Trey222]

The 390 is faster but if you are willing to spend a bit more you can usually pick up a GTX 980 second hand on Ebay for around 400.

[Dkozak]

Well it's a sharkoon 500w but which is more important? 8gb vs 3.5gb or the clock and mem speeds?

[Coaxialgamer]

Well it's a sharkoon 500w but which is more important? 8gb vs 3.5gb or the clock and mem speeds?

the 390 is faster than the 970 and the vram will healp for higher resolutions and anti aliasing , just replace your psu , regardless of the gpu you get

[Dkozak]

Well seeing the fact that my psu isn't good I might go for a 380x nitro from sapphire and a new psu. Is there a big difference between the 390 and the 380x?