GPU for 1440P?

[JabroniBaloney]

Right now, I have an R9 380 and game at 1080p. In the future, I'll be building my girlfriend and pc and giving her 1 of my 1080p monitors while getting a 1440p for myself. 

So, I'm already looking to upgrade my gpu. But would the best option be to pick up a used current gpu or spend the few extra buckaroos for a pascal/polaris card? I'mean eagerly awaiting benchmarks, but boredom is driving me to ponder this.

[GarnetDevil]

GTX 1080 if you have the $

Else GTX 1070

[don_svetlio]

4 minutes ago, JabroniBaloney said:

Right now, I have an R9 380 and game at 1080p. In the future, I'll be building my girlfriend and pc and giving her 1 of my 1080p monitors while getting a 1440p for myself. 

So, I'm already looking to upgrade my gpu. But would the best option be to pick up a used current gpu or spend the few extra buckaroos for a pascal/polaris card? I'mean eagerly awaiting benchmarks, but boredom is driving me to ponder this.

Currently, R9 390X is the minimum for 1440p.

[Simon771]

3 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Currently, R9 390X is the minimum for 1440p.

R9 390 nitro here and it works fine (ish) on 1440p  

[Lotus]

I'd wait and hope Polaris will not be mid-tier. I wouldn't touch Pascal yet because it looks to have the same DX12 problems as Maxwell. They just threw more cuda cores at it without really change the architecture. If DX12 doesn't become important, then Pascal would be great, but I seriously doubt the longevity of the cards. The problem is currently AMD has nothing to compare it to, so we're kinda up shit creek, which is why I'm hoping Polaris is not mid tier and can fill the void.

[JabroniBaloney]

3 minutes ago, Lotus said:

I'd wait and hope Polaris will not be mid-tier. I wouldn't touch Pascal yet because it looks to have the same DX12 problems as Maxwell. They just threw more cuda cores at it without really change the architecture. If DX12 doesn't become important, then Pascal would be great, but I seriously doubt the longevity of the cards. The problem is currently AMD has nothing to compare it to, so we're kinda up shit creek, which is why I'm hoping Polaris is not mid tier and can fill the void.

DX12'so possible performance on Polaris has me iffy on the nvidia cards. 

[ItsTurbo]

For 1440p AMD tends to do a little better with the extra VRAM, but now, NVIDIA seems to be succeeding with the 10 series GPUs and their software.

[Mohenjo]

11 minutes ago, Lotus said:

I'd wait and hope Polaris will not be mid-tier. I wouldn't touch Pascal yet because it looks to have the same DX12 problems as Maxwell. They just threw more cuda cores at it without really change the architecture. If DX12 doesn't become important, then Pascal would be great, but I seriously doubt the longevity of the cards. The problem is currently AMD has nothing to compare it to, so we're kinda up shit creek, which is why I'm hoping Polaris is not mid tier and can fill the void.

well, its a brand new node.... and the dx12 benchamrks actually looks like it outperforms the cards.... we will know fully by tomorrow.

[Praesi]

980Ti handle 1440p easy or you wait some more month for the first GTX1080 GPU´s.