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People still buy them?
>>53142601
Not everybody likes games
>Coolest running high-end gpu of the current gen.
>On fire.
Stay mad AyyMuhDicks
>>53143122
You do know you can use cards for things other than games if you dont want to drop $2000 on an M/firepro
>>53143280
Name a program the requires more than 3.5Gb to use
Bought mine, before the whole 3.5 fiasco... :^(
>>53143223
>high end
>>53143335
>not knowing gtx gpus are considered high-end by nvidia themselves
>>53143314
I bought mine after that when I returned my 390x because the proprietary linux drivers were old and required me to downgrade xorg ,gave me alot of shit with vaapi and were constantly outperformed by nvidia cards of much lower tiers in benchmarks.
meh, got a new evga one for $230 on black friday so i aint mad
>>53143293
Your mom.
>>53143424
Haha great post :)
>>53143430
Thank you my friend, now let's cuddle and rub our dicks together.
>>53143293
Literally any 3d modeling program with scene rendering or cycles.
>>53143405
No you didnt, lol. Maybe 280, not 230
>>53143385
Yeah, no. The high-end consumer cards are:
390X<980<Fury<FuryX=980ti
and the Titan X and 295X2, I guess, that will be replaced by FuryX2 soon.
The 970 is a budget 980, focusing on price/performance and is in the high mid-end.
Why people still buy 970s over 390s though is a bit baffling. I guess NVidia has better marketing.
>>53143637
I guess their gpus perform better, run cooler and have more compatibility.
It's on the VR minimum requirements so I imagine they will continue to sell extremely well.
>>53142601
because it's still better especailly when oced than the crap amd offers
>>53142601
I have two in sli goy :^) it's gr8
Because it's literally a meme
>>53143293
Gofuckyourself.exe
It randomly selects one of over 1000 dick pics and sends it to you every time I nut in your mom. Runs entirely in vram and logs webms of your reaction every time it happens
>>53143658
Depends on the GPU, friend. In some matchups NVidia is better, some AMD is better.
For example, in the penultimate tier of cards, the Fury-air shits on the 980, even when both are OC'd. However, in the next tier up, the Fury-X sweats buckets keeping up with an OC'd 980-ti.
>>53143607
So you think people buy 970s for 3D modeling though? I feel like that isn't going to be a problem for 99% of people who are buying the meme70
>>53143698
>amd clearly winning except when against overclocked
>doesn't show a similar OC for the 390
Kek, you do know that AMD high end cards overclock like fucking crazy, right? With proper cooling you can get a stable 15-20%
I have an old ATI Radeon with 512MB from like 2003, it's such a piece of shit. It doesn't even compare to my GTX970; that's why I bought one.
I didn't know about the 3.5gb thing until after, though. I was kinda fanny frustrated about that.
>>53143731
>Fury shits on 980
[Non-cherrypicked in-game benchmarks needed]
The Fury isn't even supposed to compete with the 980, the Fury X was supposed to beat the titan x and the fury the 980ti and the 390x the 980.
>>53143760
>>AMD high end cards overclock like fucking crazy
>heat skyrockets even with as little as +20MHz OC
>can't even OC the vram on the furies
>>53143698
I don't like that they use intel cpus for benchs, I bet if they had an 8350 it would run way better for the 390
>>53143842
>>53143698
Don't worry, 2 drivers later the numbers will be the exact reverse.
>>53143842
>gameworks
>>53143851
>grasping at straws
>>53143867
>2 drivers later
so like, 10 years later?
>>53143867
>the old cards are performing too well
Nvidia, the way it's meant to be gimped.
>>53143293
Any game with appropriate modding and lots of graphical improvement mods.
>>53143389
>buying high end video cards for Linux
rofl
>>53143875
The only gameworks feature in RotTB is HBAO+, and performance impact of it is pretty similar on AMD and nvidia
>>53143888
>Fallout 4 release: November 10, 2015
>Fallout 4 patch 1.3: February 1, 2016
>so like, 10 years later?
American education.
>>53143950
>bethesda's patch to their game = amd optimized driver
???
>>53143731
True, except that this continues down the line for AMD cards destroying Nvidia equivalents at each price point
290x BTFO 970
380x BTFO 960
280X/380 BTFO 950
>>53143842
My 1200mz OC 290x stays comfy at 70c bitch
>>53143780
>[Non-cherrypicked in-game benchmarks needed]
See: every benchmark in this entire review: http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/90086-sapphire-radeon-r9-fury-nitro/
>>53143842
>can't even OC the vram on the furies
>Opens Sapphire Trixx
>Set memory clock on Fury
>Hit apply
>Check GPU z
>Memory clock went up
Stop lying on the internet, it's not nice.
>>53143780
>muh suppose to
Look at the pricing
390x is $400, fury and nano are $500
>>53144214
I have to downclock my R9 290 to 875 MHz
>>53144228
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29045102&postcount=6977
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/45e6xn/hbm_only_supports_50000545456000066666mhz_and/
>>53143842
R9 285 MSI 45'c load at 1100mhz
>>53144066
https://youtu.be/frNjT5R5XI4?t=8m10s
>>53143780
>GTX 980 is £430
>R9 FURY is £400
>980 isn't meant to compete with the fury
>>53144270
So what if it goes up in steps?
And I'm 85% sure it depends on the AIB as I've seen a modded Fury Strix with VMEM pumped up pass bandwidth tests at higher frequencies than listed there.
>>53144228
>can't even OC the vram on the furies
Halve a TB/second isn't enough for you? Name one card with more bandwidth (You cant)
>>53144397
you get instability just with the first next step
>>53144340
>Price: GTX 970 > R9 390
>Performance: R9 390 >/= GTX 970
>Sales: GTX 970 >>> R9 390
>Price: GTX 980 > R9 Fury
>Performance: R9 Fury > GTX 980
>Sales: GTX 980 >>> R9 Fury
AMD could sell a much faster and a cooler card with a lower process size than NVidia, and gamer kiddies will still buy the NVidia one.
Oh wait, that's Pascal vs Polaris, so we'll actually get to test this hypothesis! What a time to be alive!
>>53144496
>970>390
only with the shitty zotac cards with reference style coolers
and yeah, le way it's meant to be shilled has memed its way to the top
>>53144572
one price for the first bit
>>53143851
oh is this the meme. this is the meme isn't it. whatever you have to meme yourself.
>>53142601
I bought one in October 2015 for $270 with R6. Pretty good deal to be quite frankly honest. I hate myself for buying the cuck card even though it performs well. Then I went full autism and switched to Linux. See how great blogging is?
>>53144258
Put a new cooler on it. Arctic accelero xtreme III is basically magic water cooling with fans
>>53143939
>being a cuck on only one os
amd shills be shilling today
>>53144496
>Price: GTX 970 > R9 390
both cost 340€
>Performance: R9 390 >/= GTX 970
when OCed 970 usually has 10-40% more fps
>Price: GTX 980 > R9 Fury
cheapest 980 = 525€, cheapest fury = 595€
>Performance: R9 Fury > GTX 980
same as above
>>53144340
I'm talking in tiers, amd's top tier is the fury x, nvidia's top tier is titan x ...
>>53143752
$300 cards are fine for modeling. Not when they sre gimped though
>>53144496
390 is $10 cheaper.....
>>53144782
>cheapest 980 = 525€, cheapest fury = 595€
My Fury cost me 419.99 GBP which is 534.43 EUR? So not a lot in it.
>>Performance: R9 Fury > GTX 980
>same as above [when OCed ... usually has 10-40% more fps]
Let's overthink this. My OC'd Fury gets 10-15% extra performance than stock depending on the game (voltage unlocked, which plenty of reviewers didn't wait for).
I'm guessing a 980 gets about 20% more than stock when OC'd? But since the Fury is about 10-15% faster than the 980 at stock, I'd wager there would be very little difference and it would depend on the individual silicon which one ultimately got the lead.
If you want to talk real advantages of the 980, it does indeed consume less power than the Fury.
>>53142601
I don't know why anyone has bought anything instead of waiting for the first die shrink in what feels like 20 years.
I mean unless you're rich I just don't get it.
>>53144466
>you get instability just with the first next step
Okay, I'll bite. 117 hours not stable enough for you?
>>53145475
>PCI-E 3.0 x 16 @ x8
>>53145658
Second NVidia GPU for Linux is also in use for playing with CUDA (GPU passthrough setup, windows is in a VM) so PCIe slots run at x8 + x8.
It's not like it really matters.
>>53145658
>mfw cards dont max out PCI-E 2.0 at all
>let alone 3.0
>>53143637
>I guess NVidia has better marketing.
And drivers, desu.
I just bought gtx 970 SSC EVGA
>>53143637
I bought a 390x on a whim one day. Boy what a mistake. Bad drivers. Flashing textures. Hot as fuck. Took that shit back the following weekend.. I Dodged a fucking bullet.
>>53143851
Kek.... Bull shit. What is sli properly run with 40 pcie lanes. 2 way 3 way 4 way
>>53143950
So aMd users had to wait 3 months and Nvidia users had a driver on launch.
>go on the forum of a game I play a lot
>there's a guy asking if his build is good or not
>1700€budget
>pick a GTX 970
>unknown PSU brand
>expensive case
>500GB SSD for no good reason
>32 GB of RAM
>tell him 32GB of ram is too much
>8 is enough and he can upgrade to 16 if he feel in needs more
>tell him to take a 250GB SSD but not more
>nice case for half the price
>modify CPU to have a better price/quality for his uses (muuh game core i7 at 350€)
>tell him to take a better GPU like the fury X or the 980 ti instead with all the money he can save on the build
>All he modify on his build is the PSU and the case
Actually this story made me asked a question since many guys told that on the forum
>i5 is for gaming
>i7 is for video editing and other stuff like that
How true is that ? Is it also a question of price/performances ?
>>53148251
Everyone getting a consumer i7 is an idiot. If you really need hyperthreading or more cores, then get a 5820k or whatever the Broadwell-E equivalent is when it comes out. You could argue that they OC better, but I don't think a few hundred MHz is worth an almost $100 premium.
>>53146625
Literally how? I have had 3 amd cards in the last 4 years, never had problems like this
And the drivers have been excellent for the last 2 of those years
>>53142601
>people
It's debatable that they still qualify
>>53142601
It's not like there's any competition.
>>53148251
Literally nothing wrong with having a 500gb SSD
>>53148251
>500GB SSD for no good reason
>>53143936
Or even vanilla games
Far Cry 4 uses about 3800-3900 mb of VRAM on ultra
