which is most future proof card ?

[00Titan00]

Hello friends,

I'm on a budget $200to220 max for gpu , i'm still waiting for any price drop or any new gpu in this price range ,but i don't know which gpu will be in this range polaris, pascal 1060 i don't know their approx. price , i;m planing for r9 380 or gtx 960 or 380x will it play all games on 1440p monitor on which i'll be upgrading in future ,so reply me your suggestions .
thanks

[HPWebcamAble]

I wouldn't call a 380 or 380x 'futureproof'

 

You might be able to score a cheap, used 970 or 390 soon, since the 1080 released

[00Titan00]

Just now, HPWebcamAble said:

I wouldn't call a 380 or 380x 'futureproof'

 

You might be able to score a cheap, used 970 or 390 soon, since the 1080 released

so i should wait more?

[aisle9]

"Future proof". Funny term. It refers to a state that does not exist, especially at that price point.

 

Your best bet in that price range would be an R9 380X, which can be had for around $230-240, or a 380, which can be had for less. Neither one is really a 1440p card, nor is the 960. They're great 1080p cards, but asking them to play modern games at decent settings at 60fps in 1440p is asking too much.

 

You're probably best off holding out for another few weeks, at which point used 970s will start to pop up in that price range.

[alphaproject]

Used 970 is your best best at that price. No other better solutions really.

 

I suppose if someone dumped their 390X for $200 that's also a possibility but I'd still take the 970 because I use Shadowplay a lot.

[00Titan00]

Just now, aisle9 said:

"Future proof". Funny term. It refers to a state that does not exist, especially at that price point.

 

Your best bet in that price range would be an R9 380X, which can be had for around $230-240, or a 380, which can be had for less. Neither one is really a 1440p card, nor is the 960. They're great 1080p cards, but asking them to play modern games at decent settings at 60fps in 1440p is asking too much.

 

You're probably best off holding out for another few weeks, at which point used 970s will start to pop up in that price range.

i just want 25-30 fps on med settings i don't play games like crysis on high ,so do you expect this much fps from this card (380x)on 1440p , if yes then i'll be proceding on this card

[Simon771]

4 minutes ago, 00Titan00 said:

i just want 25-30 fps on med settings i don't play games like crysis on high ,so do you expect this much fps from this card (380x)on 1440p , if yes then i'll be proceding on this card

R9 380X can get you even more than 30 fps on 1440p with medium settings.

[Qwerty2323]

My oced 960 does run 1440p games :-D 

So it s not impossible

But it is far from future proof more like 2 year option for me... till we get even better cards then polaris in sub 400 euro market

 

[ivan134]

Don't buy anything now. Wait for Polaris to drop. 

[alphaproject]

Yea, I forgot about Polaris. Wait for that. $300 cards will give you supposedly 980 performance with low wattage. Don't splurge just yet...  380X is old news man.

 

"Although the R9 380X is based on the latest Graphics Core Next architecture, at its roots you will find a graphics card that is almost four years old now, the venerable Radeon HD 7970. Debuting back in January 2012, the 7970 ran for a cool $550 and was at the time AMD’s flagship part."

 

"That all looks great for the R9 380X until you look at its memory subsystem, which sees the 384-bit memory bus severely downgraded to 256-bit"  So I guess it's not even as good as the 7970 in some aspects, ROTFL"

[00Titan00]

thanks to all
@Simon771 @alphaproject @ivan134 

[Mrhappyjolly]

depends how long you want to keep if for. Nothing is future proof. It'll last 2 years I would expect at the res your are running, will you be ready to upgrade again by that point? 

 

I look at future proofing along the lines of will Hardware A last long enough in my mind before I'm ready to upgrade again to hardware B. it's a tough decision as sadly, I can't see into the future.