If you were to buy a GPU now, even while Pascal and Polaris will possibly come this year, what would you buy?
>>53219788
I'd by a used 7870 GHz Edition, because my current 7850 is really nice but I could go for a little breathing room.
>>53219788
750 ti
>>53219829
This
R9 390
Geforce GTX 950.
>>53219788
Just got myself a 960 while thinking on that same question OP. Runs very well while not being too expensive, I was incredibly surprised how much of a step up it was from my 580
i wouldn't spend over $200 on a card, honestly i'd try and wait until the new cards dropped and get the an older gen card for cheaper
>>53220025
THIS
>>53220069
>spending money on consumer electronics
>>53220078
ok tyrone, you want to steal a 950ti or a 380
>>53220108
>desiring consumer electronics
>>53220025
>8GB of 384GB/s GDDR5
very good choice
>>53220067
>bought that when the 380 was better in every way
ahahahaha wha the fuck is with nvidiots
>>53220118
so you can sell them to some dork that does
>>53220118
Next your gonna question being human
>>53220150
I'm more human than you, plastiman. Because unlike all you fucking plasties out there, I actually derive self-worth from what I can do and what I contain, not what I own or can buy.
Plast more, jews.
ATI RADEON AMD R9 390 BABY
R9 390 obviously
A 960 or 970 for max perfs.
Sapphires r9 390
>>53219788
750 Ti.
It's probably the most efficient new consumer graphics cards on the market today, so even when you need to use it several years from now, you won't regret it when your power bill is impacted slightly.
>>53220025
Fuck off. Just go away.
>>53220184
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>>53220805
>3.5GB GDDR5
I can't believe that after a year since this farce people are still recommending this piece of shit.
Depends on your monitor. If you're on 1080p or 1440p still and not going to upgrade, then a 390 and you don't have to get Pascal or next generation of card at all. If you're looking to buy a higher hz 1440 or 4K panel then get a 2nd hand 780Ti or 290 for as cheap as you can for now, and then when you've bought your monitor assess based on benchmarks then.
>>53220814
lol, look at the nvidiacuck, he mad
>>53219849
>>53220814
You guys know the R7 360 exists right? With faster VRAM.
>>53220858
What?
No, the 390 is a legitimately good card. I have absolutely no problem with it for the price and performance you get, especially when both replacing and reselling it when next year's cards come along.
But that guy is such a fucking faggot, holy shit.
What do I pick, anons?
>>53220894
Oh so you're just triggered by a tripcode? You should add him to a filter list before you get ptsd.
>>53220887
Fuck that shit.
You still need a six-pin, and that's just not something that I have in my server.
>>53220938
I grabbed two EVGA hybrids for $660 a piece. Brettygewd man. They only hit 45c under full load and are pretty much silent since I threw some noctua fans on them.
>>53220944
I don't understand.
Why would I want to SJW somebody away when I can just tell them to go away?
Scared of a little interaction and intolerance with other people?
>>53220843
I got my 970 for free so Ill recommend it for another year.
l2 limit graphical settings, if needed, so you stay below 3.5gb
>>53219788
7870 or 750ti
>>53219788
Titan X
>>53221015
Oh I just thought you were one of those anons that goes on autistic ragefits because he saw a tripcode and spams the thread about the tripfag being a tripfag before he tells everyone he's going to filter him. Nevermind then, I misjudged you.
The r9 390. Why the FUCK would you pay the same or more and get less VRAM (slower too) with nvidia?
>>53219788
I just bought a 960.
Graphical innovations for PC games won't come for a long time. There is only butchered console ports and pixelshit.
A 960 is enough to run almost everything on high.
>>53220976
6GB VRAM is going to look like a limp, white cock a year from now, especially at 1440p. It's already barely enough for new games like RotTR (and indeed not enough for XCOM 2 maxed out above 1080p). Not to mention the 980 Ti's inevitable drop off in performance once Nvidia stop driver optimisations and move to Pascal.
I predict massive regret in your future, anon.
Daily reminder that the power consumption between the GTX 970 and R9 390 is fucking insignificant. ~80 watts less used on average will only save you like ~$5 a year.
>>53220976
does your 2i2 also sometimes after resuming from stand-by require reconnecting?
R9 390, like >>53221190 said the power consumption difference isn't that much and you get 8 gigs of uber fast gddr5.
>>53219788
980ti
>>53221071
I understand. It's okay.
A breath of fresh air, huh?
>>53221090
More power efficiency, people don't want to resell cards, benchmarks show better performance, not upgrading from 1080p.
>>53221190
>>53221286
It's actually around 76 dollars if you're a /v/-tier gaymer faggot playing 16 hours a day every day and your cost of electricity is 16 cents per kWh.
For people mining cryptocurrencies or who use theirs 24/7, though, it can be a real problem.
>>53221353
getting the 980 Ti is a 10-15 fps gain for $150~. not everyone agrees with you.
>>53221126
>A 960 is enough to run almost everything on high.
not even close
>>53220843
its still the best card for its price and what it offers, which is why goys let it slide. 3.5 is more than enough for 1080.
>>53221484
this
>>53221612
A 960 can run plenty of games on high, as long as you keep the res at 1080p. It just depends on the game. Street Fighter V runs perfectly, but Rise of the Tomb Raider will choke. It's definitely a mid tier/casual gamer card. If you want to play demanding games on high/ultra then a 970 won't even cut it, much less at 4K.
>>53221353
>spending $650 on a card that'll be obsolete in six months
Great plan, senpai! I bet all those 780 Ti owners would recommend this plan too. :^)
>>53221484
>It's actually around 76 dollars if you're a /v/-tier gaymer faggot playing 16 hours a day every day and your cost of electricity is 16 cents per kWh.
You're fucking insane. You're saying someone would be playing video games all fucking day with only bathroom breaks, microwave food, and some sleep for an entire year. That shit is too fucking unrealistic. All of this assuming the video game in question keeps the GPU under heavy load.
At worst someone will average 4 hours of video game time a day for a year. Even then the energy savings with the nvidia card will still be around $5. Most people go to school have a job, or do something else beside play crysis 3 all day.
>>53221612
>its still the best card for its price and what it offers, which is why goys let it slide. 3.5 is more than enough for 1080.
That's a horrible excuse. Cards this powerful are meant to be played on 1440p monitors. If you have ~$350 to blow on a graphics card then you are also likely to have $300 to blow on a 1440p monitor. A ton of games can exceed 3.5GB of vram in 1440p.
>>53221756
> You're fucking insane. You're saying someone would be playing video games all fucking day with only bathroom breaks, microwave food, and some sleep for an entire year. That shit is too fucking unrealistic. All of this assuming the video game in question keeps the GPU under heavy load.
So a /v/ tier gaymer faggot?
Being NEET is a prerequisite.
> At worst someone will average 4 hours of video game time a day for a year. Even then the energy savings with the nvidia card will still be around $5. Most people go to school have a job, or do something else beside play crysis 3 all day.
Of course.
This is /g/, not /v/, after all.
But if you would read my original post,
> For people mining cryptocurrencies or who use theirs 24/7, though, it can be a real problem.
>>53221834
>mining buttcoin
7/10 troll - made me rage for a couple of minutes
>>53221674
>almost everything on high.
>as long as its an ugly as sin cell-shaded fighter game
not even a 970 can run tomb raider on high at 60, or half the games released this year. not everyone judges a good card by how well it can play hl2.
>It's definitely a mid tier/casual gamer card
casuals only play AAA games with expensive graphics. the only thing the 960 has going for it is its dirt cheap.
>>53221794
i never said they couldn't. at 1440p you just can't play max settings. thats what the 980 is for. Still the best price per performance in its class unless you want to risk burning your house down. but with the next gen so close only an idiot would buy a card now. its impossible to resell these things at a decent price.
>>53221484
>It's actually around 76 dollars
I'd love to see your math here. I'm assuming this is going by peak power consumption.
A 4gb 960. My monitor is 1080p 60Hz and I don't get an austism aneurysm over muh fraymz.
>>53219788
950 Ti, R9 just consumes too much power
>>53221992
>950 Ti, R9 just consumes too much power
r9 390
>>53220806
probably this
>>53221952
>4GB
>128-bit
see pic related >>53222019
r9 390, I seriously don't understand why anyone would buy a video card with 3.5gb of vram.
Just picked up an R9 390x last night. Get one.
Will the r9 390 go down in price once the new generation comes out?
>>53222096
There's a $10 difference and I'm not poor as fuck.
>>53219788
Depends on monitor, type of gaming or work, CPU, upgrade plans. My current card is r9 280x.
If I were building for longevity, r9 390. If I were building from scratch for VR with plans to upgrade as need be, r9 390. If I were building for VR on a budget, I'd wait.
390x, Fury, Fury X, and 980Ti aren't worth it IMO. 980Ti will get gimped soon and Fury X doesn't have enough RAM.
If I'm building for 1080p, I'd choose something between 4GB r7 370 and r9 380x, depending on budget. Nvidia's offerings are ok, 4GB 950 or 960, particularly for overclocking.
>>53221935
Yep. Peak.
>>53222506
Are you even trying to hide your nvidia shilling anymore? God, the pay must be awful.
>>53222538
I do it for hot pockets.
>>53221864
Thanks.
>>53220137
It runs better in a lot of games, it's cooler, it's quieter, I got it new for $160 when it came out, 5 months before the R9 380 came out, and you get Nvidia features. Not saying that it's better, it's a matter of preference and the situation.
>>53222096
Just because it's 128 bit that doesn't mean anything, the HD 5870 was 256 bit but it performs less than half as well as it. Saying bus size matters is like saying 8 cores matter, even AMD fanboys that I'm friends with say that AMD having >4 cores is retarded, and they use Intel. I don't see what's the point of PC gamers arguing with each other when there are so many console peasants already.
I'd MAYBE sell my two 780's for a card that would be easier to sell for a pascal purchase.. so like a 980 or 980ti
>>53222506
And you understand that peak power consumption is not representative of load power consumption, right?
>got my 970 with a game and backplate for $280
Suck it amdfags
>>53222954
>3.5GB VRAM
>>53222949
There's a difference?
I'm just going by the 80 watt difference in >>53221190
>>53222973
It uses 4000mb, 60fps at 1080p, high-very high. Never goes above 65C with fans @ 40%.
Problem, amdfag?
>>53222954
>doesnt know amd cards come with gaymes too
>3.5
>>53221190
>$5 / yr
someone has never paid an electricity bill.
>>53220025
My friend always told me not to buy AMD, and so do majority of people, I also hated AMD because they were garbage at being competitive, at this point I just want another company to get into this GPU market.
>>53223013
I can resell my 970 for $250 if I want when the new cards come out. It's more reliable than a 390 because temps are lower and the thermal paste doesn't get raped. All while saving ~$20 a year on electricity.
>>53223013
once in a lifetime, and they are not even good games...
Could you get Witcher 3 by purchasing an AMD card? oh.
>>53222954
were? jet dot com? what brand?
I got a 750ti to tide me over since I don't play many games.
>>53223009
>lying on the internet
http://www.pcgamer.com/why-nvidias-gtx-970-slows-down-using-more-than-35gb-vram/
>>53222269
more than likely yeah
>>53222159
cuz nvidia even with how shit they are, are still better than amd.
>>53221794
>Cards this powerful are meant to be played on 1440p monitors
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>>53221918
>its impossible to resell these things at a decent price.
Gonna sell mines priot to 1 month of the GPU's going to sell, gonna see how much I end up getting.
>>53223063
>Jet
Nah it would be way cheaper from there. Newegg, EVGA ACX 2.0
>>53223023
>Someone can't into realistic usage scenarios and math
Also $5 is fucking nothing especially when divided into monthly bills (~$ 0.41)
>>53223088
I don't know why they're wrong but I get 60fps in GTAV and TW3 with 3800-4000mb vram usage. Plenty of users have reported over 3500 with no problems, don't let tech websites try to trick you into memeing.
here's the thing:
I buy expensive ass shit because when I buy a game and can't play it at the max settings, I feel like I'm wasting money playing an incomplete game and with a computer that can't handle it.
I can't even fucking play Rise of the Tomb Raider with two 980's on very high because the textures jump from ~3-4GB of vram utilized to, well, way above it. The game lags and chugs and putts like an old car on its last, dying breath.
this monday I'm buying two titan x's to remedy that, and sell my 980's for like nothing on ebay.
>>53223117
>what is kwh rates
you should know it's different depending on where you live. right down to the county/city. using your PC for 3 hours a day adds up to a much larger yearly difference than 5 bucks nigga.
>>53223137
and whats your point?
why not go for 980ti's they are better x money
>>53223003
Between peak and load? Holy fuck yeah. GCN is basically built to turbo and throttle enough to make the graph of the clock rate look like a rollercoaster on caffeine. It causes the peak power consumption to be absolutely ridiculous compared to load. The difference between AMD cards and NVidia cards is never quite as bad as advertised because of this, though there is still quite a difference. I probably shouldn't tell you that though, because going by your "full peak load sixteen hours straight 365 days a year" calculation you're an NVidia fanboy.
>>53223025
>My friend always told me not to buy AMD, and so do majority of people, I also hated AMD because they were garbage at being competitive, at this point I just want another company to get into this GPU market.
nigga what. Nvidia should be the one to be loathed due to their business practices.
>>53223053
>All while saving ~$20 a year on electricity.
Not going to do the math here, but you realize that gpus don't draw max power all the time? I have a virtualization workstation with three gpus and when running nothing intensive it draws only 60W. When gaming it draws around north of 200W (7950).
Thing is, if you have a good psu (and you should, as it's an one time purchase) all the power draw figures are really non issue as people dont game 24/7.
>>53223171
Because you can go on the internet and tell lies. I bet a small bowl of dog poo that basement dweller is not going to buy two titan x's.
>>53219788
>I just bought a 980 3 months ago
goddamn.
>>53220025
this
It's like the 970, but not garbage
>>53220025
meme resell value
>>53220184
>deriving self worth from shit posting on an anime message board
>>53225746
Your gpu is never running 80-100% then, you're playing some shitty games/settings. Run a benchmark and report back how much power is being drawn, because that is a more realistic scenario to how gamers utilize the power of a high end gpu.
>>53221190
Playing games on a 970 for 3hrs a day costs almost half as much as an r9 390
With a hypothetical kWh cost of 13.5 cents, your gpu costs per year would be:
>970
$22
>390
$38
Now with power draw spiking, utilization, and user graphical settings accounted for these figures can fluctuate in any direction.
