Graphics card decision help?

[Naieros]

Hey guys, I'm a first time PC builder, I've been involved with tech my entire life, I'm a computer science major, you get the idea, I have all the other parts for my system already picked out and purchased, but I'm having a hard time deciding between a new R9 390 or 390x or a used Titan X. The 390 or 390x would cost me around 300-340, the used Titan X would cost me 630. I love the Titan X, it'd be a dream to own one even though the 1080 is coming out soon,  but it'd pretty much clean me out to buy save for around 200 dollars. The 390 would leave me about 400 after all is said and done. I'm going to buy whichever card will give me the best performance, what would you suggest?

[laminutederire]

Then wait a few months, or take nvidia's top tier cards and take the huge risk of seeing better cards come up

Maybe wait as well for DX12 and Vulkan to show off what they can do, to see if AMD cards will benefit from these API like they're supposed to 

[Sors]

The gtx 1070 is also supposed to be faster than the titan x, for less than the 1080.  You could wait a few weeks for that.

[craftymind3003]

The R9390x is better than R9390, but  if the titan is in good condition (and not more than 2 years old) it will be way better, but I cannot say which is better value for money, if you are willing to spend so much also consider SLI or crossfire

[Matias_Chambers]

Get the GTX 1080 or 1070. The 1080 will be released tomorrow and the 1070 on June 10th.

[Ethan9750]

43 minutes ago, Naieros said:

Hey guys, I'm a first time PC builder, I've been involved with tech my entire life, I'm a computer science major, you get the idea, I have all the other parts for my system already picked out and purchased, but I'm having a hard time deciding between a new R9 390 or 390x or a used Titan X. The 390 or 390x would cost me around 300-340, the used Titan X would cost me 630. I love the Titan X, it'd be a dream to own one even though the 1080 is coming out soon,  but it'd pretty much clean me out to buy save for around 200 dollars. The 390 would leave me about 400 after all is said and done. I'm going to buy whichever card will give me the best performance, what would you suggest?

The GTX 1080s coming out tomorrow (Assuming you live in the USA) and the founder's edition costs 699 and gives excellent performance for the price which is around 60 dollars more than the used titan X you mentioned and is apt for gaming at 1440p and even 4k to a certain extent. Correct me if I'm wrong but I've heard that framerates above a certain monitors refreshrate can cause tearing and artifacts so if thats true you're better off buying the 1070 when it comes out if you're gaming at 1080p and still want an amazing card.

Alternatively 1080p on a high refresh rate monitor or one that supports g-sync is a great combination with the 1080 card..

[LooneyJuice]

Honestly, a few months back, sure, maybe it'd make sense to debate this. And sure, new stuff is always around the corner yada yada, but this time... seriously, wait! Not necessarily gonna do the whole 1070/1080 spiel, but wait for both Polaris and Pascal.

 

Also, if you're considering the new NV stuff, don't even look at the Founder's Editions, as is the case with reference boards/coolers, you'll be throwing your money away at gimped versions of the hardware. So basically wait for 1080/1070 AIB cards (3rd party vendors Gigabyte, Asus, EVGA, and so on), wait for some proper polaris results, and then make your informed bang for buck decision. 

[Molten]

Wait for pascal to launch, even if you don't buy the 1080 or 1070 used titan x's will become way cheaper as you can get better than titan x performance on the 1070 for less then $400

[Naieros]

Thanks guys, I was looking at the 1080 and I love the card, it wasn't the performance revolution over the Titan that Nvidia was promising but it's faster and cheaper which I appreciate. But I'm seeing in a lot of benchmarks all 8 gigs of its V ram are getting maxed out, but the Titan still has 3 to 4 gigs to spare so there's no loss of performance. Also I know this'll sound like such a noob thing to say but it's a bit worrying that only 2 and a half, almost 3 years into a new console generation Doom is already using 6 out of 8 gigs of memory on the 390, 390x, 980 TI and 1080 on its ultra nightmare setting, makes me wonder how far off it'll be before all 8 gigs are used. 

 

[Cristina]

19 hours ago, Naieros said:

Hey guys, I'm a first time PC builder, I've been involved with tech my entire life, I'm a computer science major, you get the idea, I have all the other parts for my system already picked out and purchased, but I'm having a hard time deciding between a new R9 390 or 390x or a used Titan X. The 390 or 390x would cost me around 300-340, the used Titan X would cost me 630. I love the Titan X, it'd be a dream to own one even though the 1080 is coming out soon,  but it'd pretty much clean me out to buy save for around 200 dollars. The 390 would leave me about 400 after all is said and done. I'm going to buy whichever card will give me the best performance, what would you suggest?

Wait for pascal to launch.