AMD Radeon™ Discussion V13, Radeon Software 16.5.3, God Speed
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 Jul 30 2015, 10:17 AM
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Guys, I've used sapphire 6870 for a long time already and I'm thinking about to upgrade my gfx card. I'm thinking about r9 380x or equivalent card. Any noticeable change for this card from my previous? My PC use mainly as htpc and occasionally use for gaming at 1080p as well. My cpu is i5 4690 and 8gb of ram. Any card from green camp that good for my purpose at 380x price range? Tia
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Jul 30 2015, 10:39 AM
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QUOTE(chocobo7779 @ Jul 30 2015, 10:26 AM) GTX970? Though bear in mind the 3.5GB VRAM... Don't worry of vram cause I don't gaming over than 1080p. How much of it and what contra than amd? Never owned a nvidia before  |
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Jul 30 2015, 12:27 PM
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QUOTE(JohnLai @ Jul 30 2015, 11:43 AM) Hmm....it is either Nvidia GTX970 3.5GB or AMD R9 390. Thanks for the input. Which is the lowest idle power? I don't oc my PC unfortunately as my glory days has passed. BTW does nvidia card support for audio output via hdmi because I'm using home theatre system for audio? I'm bit noob when it come to green team.Dont get AMD 380. It is an old design without any support for better Powertune/ZeroCore and Variable Refresh Rate support. R9 390 = Better idle power management than 380 (use more power than gtx970), 8gb of VRAM (sure can put a lot of gta V and battlefield texture cache), support for Freesync. GTX 970 = overclocking beast with 3.5gb vram, support for Gsync. 8bit HEVC support in hybrid DXVA. In case if you plan to purchase monitor with variable refresh rate in future, you need to make the choice for either freesync or gsync video card now. I can see you are the type that purchase an expensive goods for long term usage. So, choose which variable refresh rate(VRR) video card to match with your future VRR capable monitor. |
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