About XFX 390X

[Ruwan969]

Hi guys please tell me about   XFX 390X   is this card any good? I don't know any think about XFX 

 

is radeon rx 480 8gb better then Gtx 980Ti or 390x? What is the best GPU?

 

Thank you....

Edited July 12, 2016 by Ruwan969

[thekeemo]

2 year warranty

[Ruwan969]

are they any good

 

[spartaman64]

you shouldnt be looking at the older cards now the rx 480 is out

[Ruwan969]

4 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

you shouldnt be looking at the older cards now the rx 480 is out

 

is radeon rx 480 8gb better then Gtx 980Ti?

[ManOfGold93]

I have the xfx 390x dd and I have absolutely no issues with the card besides the fact that the new version of the card has new inductors and the 290x waterblock that I had wont fit on it. Besides that I have a triple monitor setup and it runs it like a champ!

[spartaman64]

4 minutes ago, Ruwan969 said:

 

is radeon rx 480 8gb better then Gtx 980Ti?

no its currently about as good as a 390 and 970 but as drivers mature it should become better and will have longer support in the future. 

[Ruwan969]

4 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

no its currently about as good as a 390 and 970 but as drivers mature it should become better and will have longer support in the future. 

So what should  i buy  390x, rx 480 or 980TI

[spartaman64]

3 minutes ago, Ruwan969 said:

So what should  i buy  390x, rx 480 or 980TI

rx 480 unless you have enough money for the 980 ti then the 1070 and whats the rest of your specs?

[Ruwan969]

2 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

rx 480 unless you have enough money for the 980 ti then the 1070 and whats the rest of your specs?

Gigabyte G1 LGA 1151 Intel Z170 2-Way SLI ATX Motherboard GA-Z170X-GAMING 7
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB 
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD
Western Digital Blue 3TB 
intel Core i5-6600K 6M Skylake Quad-Core 3.5 GHz cpu 
 

 

i already brought all of this from ebay. now i only  have money for rx 480/ Gtx 980Ti or 390x may be for a 1070 if cont get 1070 should i buy  rx 480 8gb?

[spartaman64]

4 minutes ago, Ruwan969 said:

Gigabyte G1 LGA 1151 Intel Z170 2-Way SLI ATX Motherboard GA-Z170X-GAMING 7
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB 
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD
Western Digital Blue 3TB 
intel Core i5-6600K 6M Skylake Quad-Core 3.5 GHz cpu 
 

 

i already brought all of this from ebay. now i only  have money for rx 480/ Gtx 980Ti or 390x may be for a 1070 if cont get 1070 should i buy  rx 480 8gb?

your choice but i would limit it to the 1070 and rx 480. if you feel like you need more power than the 1070 if you want to save some money then 480

[don_svetlio]

6 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

your choice but i would limit it to the 1070 and rx 480. if you feel like you need more power than the 1070 if you want to save some money then 480

His CPU will bottleneck the 1070.

[don_svetlio]

8 minutes ago, Ruwan969 said:

Gigabyte G1 LGA 1151 Intel Z170 2-Way SLI ATX Motherboard GA-Z170X-GAMING 7
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB 
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD
Western Digital Blue 3TB 
intel Core i5-6600K 6M Skylake Quad-Core 3.5 GHz cpu 
 

 

i already brought all of this from ebay. now i only  have money for rx 480/ Gtx 980Ti or 390x may be for a 1070 if cont get 1070 should i buy  rx 480 8gb?

Your CPU will be a bottleneck for the 980 Ti or 1070.

[spartaman64]

3 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Your CPU will be a bottleneck for the 980 Ti or 1070.

i actually dont think so. if his cpu bottlenecks then there are pretty much no cpus that will work

[ivan134]

3 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Your CPU will be a bottleneck for the 980 Ti or 1070.

How the hell would a 6600k bottleneck a 1070?

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, spartaman64 said:

i actually dont think so. if his cpu bottlenecks then there are pretty much no cpus that will work

Yes there are. i7s are 20-40% more powerful than i5s. You can easily see that when you use high-end GPUs
1070 is basically like a Titan X

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, ivan134 said:

How the hell would a 6600k bottleneck a 1070?

Easy - i5s are not universally potent. They have their limits and shouldn't be as overhyped as they are.

[spartaman64]

5 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Yes there are. i7s are 20-40% more powerful than i5s. You can easily see that when you use high-end GPUs
1070 is basically like a Titan X

but in games are single threaded and doesnt take advantage of all the cores so if the i5 and i7 are the same clock speed they should have similar performance. also its not considered a bottleneck until the gpu cant run at near 100% utilization 

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, spartaman64 said:

but in games are single threaded and doesnt take advantage of all the cores so if the i5 and i7 are the same clock speed they should have similar performance

That is bullshit and you know it. That was the case in 2012. Now games are using 16 threads or more. Just take a look at the recent port reports on TB's channel - he has Afterburner open in some of them. All 16 threads on his 5960X have load on them. IPC is meaningless nowadays.

[Tieox]

I have an XFX R9 390 8GB, best card I have owned.

 

 

[spartaman64]

5 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

That is bullshit and you know it. That was the case in 2012. Now games are using 16 threads or more. Just take a look at the recent port reports on TB's channel - he has Afterburner open in some of them. All 16 threads on his 5960X have load on them. IPC is meaningless nowadays.

they use it but not particularly well if you disable 4 of the threads on the i7 there will be virtually no difference. also once again this has nothing to do with bottlenecks

[ivan134]

4 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Yes there are. i7s are 20-40% more powerful than i5s. You can easily see that when you use high-end GPUs
1070 is basically like a Titan X

There are only 2 games on this list where it's a significant bottleneck. To tell someone not to get a 1070 with a 6600k because of 2 games is asinine. @Ruwan969get a 1070.

[don_svetlio]

2 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

they use it but not particularly well if you disable 4 of the threads on the i7 there will be virtually no difference

Yes there will be. HT results in each core working 20-40% more efficiently and thus feeding the card better.

 

1 minute ago, ivan134 said:

There are only 2 games on this list where it's a significant bottleneck. To tell someone not to get a 1070 with a 6600k because of 2 games is asinine. @Ruwan969get a 1070.

Those are just 2 out of 6. There are dozens more like that. TW: Warhammer, Ashes, The Division and many more .The future is multi-core. Single-core games belong to the past. With DX12 even more so.

[spartaman64]

4 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

There are only 2 games on this list where it's a significant bottleneck. To tell someone not to get a 1070 with a 6600k because of 2 games is asinine. @Ruwan969get a 1070.

and plus i dont think its because the gpu is being bottlenecked its just that the cpu can perform better on the cpu side of the games

[don_svetlio]

2 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

and plus i dont think its because the gpu is being bottlenecked its just that the cpu can perform better on the cpu side of the games

That is the very definition of bottleneck....