RX 480 or a R9 390

[JmessGaming]

What our your opinions on a r9 390 or a RX 480?

[dragoon20005]

the Powercolor RX 480 Devil will be the best RX 480 and coming in second will be the Sapphire Nitro

 

MSI is in the middle

 

And Asus is the worst of the lot

[HKZeroFive]

RX 480 = less power hungry R9 390 in my view.

[JmessGaming]

21 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

RX 480 = less power hungry R9 390 in my view.

true

 

21 minutes ago, dragoon20005 said:

the Powercolor RX 480 Devil will be the best RX 480 and coming in second will be the Sapphire Nitro

 

MSI is in the middle

 

And Asus is the worst of the lot

aibs are coming out in 2222.lol

[dragoon20005]

Just now, JmessGaming said:

aibs are coming out in 2222.lol

actually some independent review of the above GPU are on the net and youtube

 

Tech of Tommorow have the Devil's RX 480

 

We now have 2 confirmed RX 480 Devil review

 

and one Asus Strix review

 

and lots of Sapphire Nitro reviews

 

only missing now is MSI

[Misanthrope]

I am actually surprised AMD hasn't adjusted the price of the 390 given how they're doing a fairly crappy job at keeping Polaris in stock anyway. More over they haven't adjusted the pricing on the Fiji cards either and the 1070 basically has no competition at all from AMD and won't have any for a good 5 more months or so? Perhaps longer considering as I said they're not doing good at keeping up with demand (which is in fairness to their side, fairly significant, but still)

 

Back on topic: I wouldn't go for a 390 unless you can find a Sapphire Nitro or Sapphire Tri x for about 250 bucks. Anything over that is basically pointless vs the 480 even if it takes you considerably longer to get your hands on them. But I expect price drops (for AMD's own sake really) on the 390s and Furys any day now.

[JmessGaming]

2 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

I am actually surprised AMD hasn't adjusted the price of the 390 given how they're doing a fairly crappy job at keeping Polaris in stock anyway. More over they haven't adjusted the pricing on the Fiji cards either and the 1070 basically has no competition at all from AMD and won't have any for a good 5 more months or so? Perhaps longer considering as I said they're not doing good at keeping up with demand (which is in fairness to their side, fairly significant, but still)

 

Back on topic: I wouldn't go for a 390 unless you can find a Sapphire Nitro or Sapphire Tri x for about 250 bucks. Anything over that is basically pointless vs the 480 even if it takes you considerably longer to get your hands on them. But I expect price drops (for AMD's own sake really) on the 390s and Furys any day now.

thanks for being on topic...and how much do youthink it will drop because the only reason I'm making this thread Is because I found both at microcenter for ~250$

[Misanthrope]

5 minutes ago, JmessGaming said:

thanks for being on topic...and how much do youthink it will drop because the only reason I'm making this thread Is because I found both at microcenter for ~250$

Actually that's likely a limited offer but I expect the prices to drop to 250 for all of them everywhere (not just microcenter) and the Fury and Fury X to drop to 380ish and 450 bucks respectively to deal with the 1070 for now.

 

250 for a new 390, if it's a nice model (Any sapphire for example) I would definitively get specially if you have a decent PSU to deal with it already.

[Al Bundy]

1 hour ago, Misanthrope said:

I am actually surprised AMD hasn't adjusted the price of the 390 given how they're doing a fairly crappy job at keeping Polaris in stock anyway. More over they haven't adjusted the pricing on the Fiji cards either and the 1070 basically has no competition at all from AMD and won't have any for a good 5 more months or so?

Amen.  I really want a 1070.  However, should the 390s sell for like $200 a piece, I'd pick up 2 for CF and say no thanks to the 1070.

[nick5530]

2 hours ago, dragoon20005 said:

actually some independent review of the above GPU are on the net and youtube

 

Tech of Tommorow have the Devil's RX 480

 

We now have 2 confirmed RX 480 Devil review

 

and one Asus Strix review

 

and lots of Sapphire Nitro reviews

 

only missing now is MSI

There is a review of the MSI RX 480 Gaming X on guru3d.

[ivan134]

2 hours ago, dragoon20005 said:

the Powercolor RX 480 Devil will be the best RX 480 and coming in second will be the Sapphire Nitro

 

MSI is in the middle

 

And Asus is the worst of the lot

Nope. Nitro 480 is the worst 480 so far.

[ivan134]

I gave up waiting for a 480 and got a 390. They perform basically the same. The 480 is better at GameWorks games with obnoxious amounts of tessellation, but the 390 is better at 1440p which is useful if you want to use VSR. As long as you're not buying a Gigabyte or Asus 390, you should be fine. If you have more patience than I do, it's fine to wait for a PowerColor or XFX DD 480. Strix is better than the Nitro, but its price isn't justified.