Strix 390x vs. EVGA SSC 980

[MacAlisterL]

What would you choose? Strix 390x or EVGA GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0

 

[manikyath]

as a 970 strix owner... strix 390x sounds like a disaster, however i'm not sure how the triple fan strix does.

 

EDIT: ps, i'd choose the 980 for reasons very personal to me, theres specific nvidia features i want, theres others i need.

[Amazingasian]

What would you choose? Strix 390x or EVGA GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0

GTX 980 is better.  A word for later though, ASUS and Gigabyte AMD cards are not good.

[Numbafieve]

dont go with the strix if you plan to overclock.  the strix cards especially on the AMD side suck at cooling beyond what the factory overclock is.  

[Morgan MLGman]

as a 970 strix owner... strix 390x sounds like a disaster, however i'm not sure how the triple fan strix does.

 

EDIT: ps, i'd choose the 980 for reasons very personal to me, theres specific nvidia features i want, theres others i need.

ASUS AMD GPUs are utter shit, and the STRIX cooler on the 300 series is garbage despite being huge, so basically it's crap.

980 should be faster than a 390X by a little, it has 4 GB of memory less though and it loses to a 390X in higher resolutions most of the time

EVGA ACX 2.0 cooler is great so if both are of the same price, the 980 no doubt

[itsmyjobtoknow]

R9 390x for a cheaper price, near close performance of the 980, and more vRAM if you want that. But do not get Asus, go for something like Sapphire.

 

Otherwise, if price is not a factor, GTX 980 performs somewhere between 5-10% better. 

[byalexandr]

as a 970 strix owner... strix 390x sounds like a disaster, however i'm not sure how the triple fan strix does.

 

EDIT: ps, i'd choose the 980 for reasons very personal to me, theres specific nvidia features i want, theres others i need.

It sucks.

 

OP if you want a 390X (the 980 performs a bit better but there is still a lot of room to improve on the 390X) then I highly recommend the Nitro version from Sapphire, or perhaps something from MSI or XFX.

[manikyath]

ASUS AMD GPUs are utter shit, and the STRIX cooler on the 300 series is garbage despite being huge, so basically it's crap.

980 should be faster than a 390X by a little, it has 4 GB of memory less though and it loses to a 390X in higher resolutions most of the time

EVGA ACX 2.0 cooler is great so if both are of the same price, the 980 no doubt

i woudltn say that they're utter shit, but you're probably right in there being much, much better options.

 

also vram and resolution are less related than you think:

and no, bad coding isnt an excuse for getting more vram

[theereal]

980, Its better, so If you can afford It, go for It.

[r1Ns3]

GTX 980 is better.  A word for later though, ASUS and Gigabyte AMD cards are not good.

Excuse me? I have an Asus STRIX 980 and it works perfectly fine, I have a overclocked core clock of +160 Mhz without adding any voltage and it's rock stable, runs very quiet as long as you keep the fans under 70%. I get to 30° on idle at 20% fan speed and 65° Max with 65% Fan speed at 100% load

 

This is getting ridiculous, everyone just assumes that Asus doesn't make good GPU's just because they do not do it very often.

 

EDIT: oh crap, didnt see the amd after asus and gigabyte.... sorry.... anyway my point still stays for Nvidia asus cards

[angrymoose]

Once you've overclocked both cards, the 980 is more than a little bit faster.

[Dackzy]

Well if you can afford the 980 then you should be able to afford the fury and that card is 100% better than the 980 in higher res, in 1080p they are kinda the same.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

What would you choose? Strix 390x or EVGA GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0

 

The 980 is the better card there. Not much of a choice. 

[EdInk]

What would you choose? Strix 390x or EVGA GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0

There's also the Powercolor 390x hybrid edition that's factory liquid cooled

[MEC-777]

As one who has owned 2x 290's and now owns a 980; get the 980.

 

Strix 980 OC running +204 (1508 boost) on the core and +301 (7604) on the memory @ stock voltage, daily, 100% stable and still doesn't kick off much heat.

[VagabondWraith]

Get the 980. Runs cooler, quieter, more efficiently, much much more OCing, more stable, day 1 drivers. Last but not least, it's faster.

[Morgan MLGman]

i woudltn say that they're utter shit, but you're probably right in there being much, much better options.

 

also vram and resolution are less related than you think:

and no, bad coding isnt an excuse for getting more vram

I didn't say they're related, I mean they are kind of related but that's not the main reason behind why I said that the 390X tends to perform better in higher resolutions, it just does, I just said that Radeon GPUs tend to perform better in higher resolutions (I mean relatively better than Nvidia), a GTX 780 is perfectly capable of 1440p with its 3GB of VRAM for example so

[X99stattrak]

Hardware Canucks did a review of the strix 390x and it was one of the best overclockers there

[manikyath]

I didn't say they're related, I mean they are kind of related but that's not the main reason behind why I said that the 390X tends to perform better in higher resolutions, it just does, I just said that Radeon GPUs tend to perform better in higher resolutions (I mean relatively better than Nvidia), a GTX 780 is perfectly capable of 1440p with its 3GB of VRAM for example so

well, between 1080p, and the resolution mentioned before i saw little to no change in gpu usage / fps.

make of that what you will.

[ivryk]

The 980 is better, even more so if you OC it, hell it trade blows with the Fury ( when OC'ed )

[angrymoose]

The 980 is better, even more so if you OC it, hell it trade blows with the Fury ( when OC'ed )

I think you mean it'll outperform the Fury when you OC it.

[X99stattrak]

The 980 is superior.

[Nena Trinity]

1. Pick Sapphire over ASUS

2. Just Cause 3 or Ashes of the Singularity?

[angrymoose]

2. Just Cause 3 or Ashes of the Singularity?

 

Was this meant to be JC3 for nvidia and Ashes for AMD?

 

Because the 980 is faster in both: http://www.techspot.com/review/1081-dx11-vs-dx12-ashes/page3.html

[DarkBlade2117]

If you can afford a 980 you can probably afford an R9 Nano or R9 Fury which are better