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Should I get a 960?

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I am looking to buy a new graphics card, and I was looking at the 380, but then I noticed that the 960 is currently on sale now, and going for 225€, meanwhile the 380 is selling for 255€. Both 4GB cards. Should I just go with the 960? I know the 380 is the better card, but is it really worth paying that more for something that's just as good?

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Absolutely go with the 960. The 380 is outdated an will most likely end up breaking down faster. That and the new features that come with being 9xx card. Geforce Experience, G-Sync, and my personal favorite, Dynamic Super Resolution. 

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At such a minimum difference in price, I would definitely say get the 380!

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I would pick up the 380, it's only 30€ more and the performace should make up for it.

Absolutely go with the 960. The 380 is outdated an will most likely end up breaking down faster. That and the new features that come with being 9xx card. Geforce Experience, G-Sync, and my personal favorite, Dynamic Super Resolution. 

What are you talking about? the 960 is way more outdated than the 380 and all of those feature are available on AMD cards. This has got to be one of the most brainless comments I have ever seen on LTT.

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Absolutely go with the 960. The 380 is outdated an will most likely end up breaking down faster. That and the new features that come with being 9xx card. Geforce Experience, G-Sync, and my personal favorite, Dynamic Super Resolution. 

 

Whaaaaaa?

 

"Will end up breaking down faster"... Tell that to my Radeon 9600 Pro and GeForce 8600, which are still alive and kickin'. Both over 10 years old. 

 

And if it breaks down - that's what RMA's for. 

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Absolutely go with the 960. The 380 is outdated an will most likely end up breaking down faster. That and the new features that come with being 9xx card. Geforce Experience, G-Sync, and my personal favorite, Dynamic Super Resolution. 

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And their support now sucks too, no Dx12 for pre-CGN cards and dropped drivers support hd 6000 series. :(

Who expects very old cards to support the newest DX12??? It just doesn't work that way.

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Absolutely go with the 960. The 380 is outdated an will most likely end up breaking down faster. That and the new features that come with being 9xx card. Geforce Experience, G-Sync, and my personal favorite, Dynamic Super Resolution. 

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And their support now sucks too, no Dx12 for pre-CGN cards and dropped drivers support hd 6000 series. :(

pre-GCN card only support DirectX11 with feature level 10_1, DirectX12 requires card that support at least DX11 with feature level 11_0.

Wut? Driver support for HD6000 is still there as legacy driver.

 

Guys, so can anyone still tell me if it's worth getting the 960 becuase it's 30€ cheaper?

Worth it imo but i'm sure you'll find similar or better deal for 380 if you look harder.  :ph34r:

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Well I could always save, besides that I wan't to have an SSD

 

Believe me, you will want the 380 over the 960. It is way better. You can always get the SSD later but once you buy the 960, you will regret it.

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Well I could always save, besides that I wan't to have an SSD

 

Having an SSD is really overrated, don't cheap on gpu just to fit a tiny ssd into your system. It's nice booting in about half the time, programs launch quickly, and it cuts maybe 30%-40% off most of my load times in games, but it makes no difference whatsoever for what framerate I can get in a game or what settings I can run. While choice of gpu is about the most important thing in a gaming system. I don't understand people who say once you go SSD you could never go back to an HDD, it just doesn't feel like that big of an upgrade to me using my 850 EVO as the system, programs, and gaming drive vs using my 7200 RPM Seagate or my 7200 RPM WD Black. I always feel like those multitude of articles that say an SSD is the biggest upgrade you can give your computer are targeted at people with crappy laptops or crappy prebuilt desktops using 5400 RPM hard drives. In that case I can see it since a 5400 RPM hard drive is really slow. But I think an SSD is an unnecessary luxury and spending extra on the gpu should give you a lot better gaming experience if you're trying to play AAA games with complex graphics. If you're just trying to play CS:GO or LOL then your gpu doesn't matter much, but for bigname releases like Witcher 3, GTA V, Assassins Creed, Phantom Pain, Just Cause 3, etc your gpu and cpu are what matters above all. Wait on the SSD, focus on making the core of your system (gpu, cpu, power supply, motherboard, ram) as powerful as possible. Besides, with SSD prices falling so quickly (the 500 GB 850 EVO was $270 this time last year, now it's $160) you may find you can get a nicer SSD in a few months. I don't think SSDs are the gamechanger thy're always hyped up to be. It just felt like an incremental upgrade to me.

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Absolutely go with the 960. The 380 is outdated an will most likely end up breaking down faster. That and the new features that come with being 9xx card. Geforce Experience, G-Sync, and my personal favorite, Dynamic Super Resolution. 

Excuse me? The R9 380 runs DX12 better, most modern games better, 1080p better.. Everything better. Geforce Experience sucks (I USED IT) G-Sync sucks (it costs so much, a monitor with it would be more than a 960) and AMD already has an equivalent to DSR.

 

The 380 is even a newer GPU than the 960.

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I would pick up the 380, it's only 30€ more and the performace should make up for it.

What are you talking about? the 960 is way more outdated than the 380 and all of those feature are available on AMD cards. This has got to be one of the most brainless comments I have ever seen on LTT.

 

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Disregard my last comment, I was thinking about the GTX 380, so I got confused. Had no idea OP was talking about Radeon 380. 

 

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pre-GCN card only support DirectX11 with feature level 10_1, DirectX12 requires card that support at least DX11 with feature level 11_0.

Wut? Driver support for HD6000 is still there as legacy driver.

 

Worth it imo but i'm sure you'll find similar or better deal for 380 if you look harder.  :ph34r:

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