Upgrade now or just wait and see?

[Tasuma]

Hey all! I Am thinking about upgrading to an r9 390 from my r9 380 and was curious if you folks think I should just wait and see what comes out?

[Najuno]

Depends on you if you plan to stick with 1080p longer then you can keep the R9 380 and wait for the new GPUs to come this year.

[Tasuma]

Depends on you if you plan to stick with 1080p longer then you can keep the R9 380 and wait for the new GPUs to come this year.

 

Yea I am on 1080p for the foreseeable future. I did just get 144hz display so being able to get close to that number without having to put everything on low would be nice.

[Najuno]

Yea I am on 1080p for the foreseeable future. I did just get 144hz display so being able to get close to that number without having to put everything on low would be nice.

Well with 144Hz the R9 390 would make sense of course. You´d be getting way better FPS.

[SeanAngelo]

Hey all! I Am thinking about upgrading to an r9 390 from my r9 380 and was curious if you folks think I should just wait and see what comes out?

If you're sticking to 1080p, no. Don't upgrade.

[Tasuma]

Well with 144Hz the R9 390 would make sense of course. You´d be getting way better FPS.

 

But I think I can wait. For the main games I play (League of legends and Rainbow 6) I get 144 fps no problem. Granted in R6 I have to put everything on low, which doesn't bother me in shooting games because I'm not there for the pretty environment.

[aLemonNation]

Hey all! I Am thinking about upgrading to an r9 390 from my r9 380 and was curious if you folks think I should just wait and see what comes out?

Wait until new graphics cards come out this year.

[Najuno]

But I think I can wait. For the main games I play (League of legends and Rainbow 6) I get 144 fps no problem. Granted in R6 I have to put everything on low, which doesn't bother me in shooting games because I'm not there for the pretty environment.

Well I guess then there you have your answer .

[Pandora]

Hey all! I Am thinking about upgrading to an r9 390 from my r9 380 and was curious if you folks think I should just wait and see what comes out?

i would deff wait. nvidia should be comming out with some nice stuff soon. hopefully they will stop trying to break pc gaming. 

 

as for amd i doubt they will come out with anything this year.

if you already have a 380 and a beefy psu then you might want to consider crossfire.

whats ur cpu? im suppressed you arent able to plat at max settings in most games.

[don_svetlio]

Polaris coming this summer (AMD)
Pascal coming this fall (Nvidia)

wait

[VagabondWraith]

i would deff wait. nvidia should be comming out with some nice stuff soon. hopefully they will stop trying to break pc gaming.

as for amd i doubt they will come out with anything this year.

if you already have a 380 and a beefy psu then you might want to consider crossfire.

whats ur cpu? im suppressed you arent able to plat at max settings in most games.

AMD will come out with Polaris this year (summer). Whether that's high end or not we don't know.

[Najuno]

i would deff wait. nvidia should be comming out with some nice stuff soon. hopefully they will stop trying to break pc gaming. 

 

as for amd i doubt they will come out with anything this year.

if you already have a 380 and a beefy psu then you might want to consider crossfire.

whats ur cpu? im suppressed you arent able to plat at max settings in most games.

Do you have any reliable sources to back up all those statements of yours here, is that just your assumption? How can you even suggest a CF of such a mid range chip? If he/she was to upgrade now the R9 390 would be a much wiser choice to go with. As always a higher end single GPU should be preferred over 2 weaker chips.

[Paralectic]

[Tasuma]

i would deff wait. nvidia should be comming out with some nice stuff soon. hopefully they will stop trying to break pc gaming. 

 

as for amd i doubt they will come out with anything this year.

if you already have a 380 and a beefy psu then you might want to consider crossfire.

whats ur cpu? im suppressed you arent able to plat at max settings in most games.

 

Oh I can play at max just for FPS I prefer higher frame rates over pretty stuff. In Witcher 3 I can run on high at get a solid 60fps no problem. I have an i5-3570k with a small OC to 4.2ghz. My psu is the dreaded cx750m and I can't CF because I have a z75 motherboard. So the other card would run at 2.0 x4. I

[Philcat101]

AMD will come out with Polaris this year (summer). Whether that's high end or not we don't know.

It is a lower power architecture, so we can expect to see it in notebooks and lower end GPU's.

[chicksoup]

You can always wait...if you want bang for your buck waiting might make sense as current cards become cheaper and if you have no real issue there is no need to spend any money

[VagabondWraith]

It is a lower power architecture, so we can expect to see it in notebooks and lower end GPU's.

Yeah, from what I understand AMD will use 14nm FinFet for low end, low power GPU and 16nnm for high end GPU.

So that makes sense.

[Najuno]

Yeah, from what I understand AMD will use 14nm FinFet for low end, low power GPU and 16nnm for high end GPU.

So that makes sense.

No one knows right now what will be and when that will be released. The mobile Polaris doesn´t even support HBM, so this can´t be chip all the highend users are waiting for. It is nonsense to speculate on stuff that isn´t real right now. Same counts for Pascal. When I read that people (the usual spammer, and I don´t mean you) give dates when what is going to be released it makes me laugh, because they act like they know something. This happened last year already when people claimed 4GB HBM act like they were 6GB DDR5 and the Fury X would wipe the floor with the Titan X and GTX980Ti, because 40% faster... must have felt akward for those people to wake up in reality.

You are probalby right here, that this Polaris iteration is meant for mobile and/or low end due to the GDDR5 support.

[Pandora]

Do you have any reliable sources to back up all those statements of yours here, is that just your assumption? How can you even suggest a CF of such a mid range chip? If he/she was to upgrade now the R9 390 would be a much wiser choice to go with. As always a higher end single GPU should be preferred over 2 weaker chips.

i can suggest it because selling mid range cards is hard. 

and again i always say this.

 

cross fire is a decent solution only if X,Y and Z specifications are met. for me sli was a better solution at the time of purchase then one stronger gpu.

 

about the statements about amd comming to the table with new gpus. it most likley will be a little while before they release anything with a new architecture since the fury x2 isnt even released yet. yes im assuming but its a pretty fair assumtion that amd wont release anything ground breaking for the next 6 months or so involving a new architecture.

 

as it turns out he does not have a high enough quality psu to really support xfire so the qualifications arent met.

 

again. its not about the hard ware you use but the games you play. if xfire could yeild better results for him in the games he played and noise, heat and power were managed it would have been a fine solution. 

[angrymoose]

 This happened last year already when people claimed 4GB HBM act like they were 6GB DDR5 and the Fury X would wipe the floor with the Titan X and GTX980Ti, because 40% faster... must have felt akward for those people to wake up in reality.

Very true. One of the most exciting things for me this year is to see what happens when HBM2 is paired with a superior architecture. I strongly suspect we will see an nvidia 980 w/ HBM2 and an AMD 490 w/ HBM2 this year, probably Q3 or the beginning of Q4 at the latest. nvidia's architecture was so superior last generation that they won the performance war between the 980 Ti and Fury X w/ GDDR5 AND less transistors. What will happen when new superior architecture is available with HBM2 is going to be interesting to see.

[Najuno]

Very true. One of the most exciting things for me this year is to see what happens when HBM2 is paired with a superior architecture. I strongly suspect we will see an nvidia 980 w/ HBM2 and an AMD 490 w/ HBM2 this year, probably Q3 or the beginning of Q4 at the latest. nvidia's architecture was so superior last generation that they won the performance war between the 980 Ti and Fury X w/ GDDR5 AND less transistors. What will happen when new superior architecture is available with HBM2 is going to be interesting to see.

Well honestly I hold back a bit with my enthusiasm for these cards a little bit, because of 3 reasons.

First of all they probably release a card like you pointed out already that´s the successor to the GTX980 and will therefore just be a performance chip, that is maybe faster than the GM200 but not by a crazy margin.

Secondly if they bring the new architecture with die shrink and HBM2 it remains to be seen how stable the cards and the drivers are, and if those cards can really live up with their potential to the expectations. I can already see lots of people crying over not seeing hundreds of percents more performance, but again first chip is probably only performance iteration.

And thirdly, what is going to happen with the OCing potential? Might not mean too much too other people, but for me it has a lot of value, because it is my hobby. I would be upset if all there´s left is only CPU and RAM OCing. I´ve just read an article about this, where it was stated that it is the goal to narrow down the manufacturing more exactly, so the good side of that will be not many bad chips, the bad side is that there won´t be as many good chips either anymore, and OCing potential could be gone.

[angrymoose]

And thirdly, what is going to happen with the OCing potential? Might not mean too much too other people, but for me it has a lot of value, because it is my hobby. I would be upset if all there´s left is only CPU and RAM OCing. I´ve just read an article about this, where it was stated that it is the goal to narrow down the manufacturing more exactly, so the good side of that will be not many bad chips, the bad side is that there won´t be as many good chips either anymore, and OCing potential could be gone.

 

Straight up, if a GTX 1080 overclocked is slower than a 980 Ti overclocked, I think you're going to see a LOT of disappointment. I'd definitely be on that list.