Post your brand, and your overall experience.
>>52193385
r9 290 here
it's perfect
Fury X is here this month :^]
>>52193385
Sapphire Nitro R9 390, rock solid, no problemos.
>>52193385
R9 290X
0 issues
Crimson installation was quick and pain free too.
I still like to post the house fire and driver meme though...
>>52193385
Should I get the gigabyte version or wait for the next gen GPU's?
>>52193385
Have been rocking an r9 290 Vapor-X for the past 1.5 years. I've only seen performance gains since I got it so I'm quite content.
>>52193491
Sapphire, sell it when the new thing hits the market and you want to upgrade.
>>52193491
390 Nitro/Sapphire is the way to go.
>>52193503
>>52193512
Doesn't fit, which is why I asked specifically for the Gigabyte version.
770 to 390 .
10% of games run faster on 770 .
Cities skylines in nearly unplayable on 390 .
>>52193385
>amd
it's shit
Sapphire R9 280 that I got on the cheap. I've had zero issues with it thus far. I have a Sapphire HD 7750 in my backup PC.
>>52193550
fuck off Pajeet
>>52193541
Your cities issue might be your cpu. Cities doesn't take much at all in terms of gpu power, but it is very cpu heavy.
>>52193572
Make shut the FUCKING up I am not of Pajeetm you son of thousand rodents, ok guy??
>>52193602
But it ran faster on the 770 with the exact same cpu
>>52193385
HD7950s (x2)
Been great, had 980 performance well before a 980 even existed. Used and enjoyed many of the new features AMD brought out including VSR, FRTC and missmatched eyefinity. Unlocked them to 7970s with a 1GHZ bios and nearly killed a meme brand PSU with them. Would bang again.
![IMG_20151228_002136[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vBvU6uX.jpg "IMG_20151228_002136[1].jpg")
Battlefield 4 at ultra 1440p. It works. Basically it's 980 performance for $100 less. What's not to love about it?
>>52193541
>290 and 390 destroy 770 and 780 in all benchmarks
niggah wut?
>>52193621
>buys a case with a shroud to hide ugly PSU wires
>leaves a bunch of front I/O just sitting there
>>52193607
You did a good impression
Got a 390 at Christmas, had some problems getting it working, had to upgrade my MOBO bios.
Anyone running crossfires 390's for 4k? found some 290x benchmarks that run close to 60 in most games so i'm assuming 2x OC 390's should be fine. Never done any SLI/Crossfire stuff before, how do diminishing returns affect performance nowawdays?
inb4 housefire, wait etc.
>>52193746
>owning a non x gpu
Just fucking suicide
>>52193385
xfx 390
crimson drivers
love it
>>52193614
That's called having less of a bottleneck you fucking idiot. Get like a quad core i5 and your fps will skyrocket
>>52193759
>being autistic
Just fucking suicide
I skipped out on Black Friday. Was going to get a 970 because of heat.
How much does a 380/390 dump heat into your room? I saw it was using a fucking shitload more wattage than a 970 at load.
I wanna drop Nvids but I never wanna get a card that will make my room hot again.
I had a fucking 470, using madvr back then made my Mid-Summer Florida room way too fucking hot.
>>52193624
I said only 10% of the games i played
I'm not some shill an actual 770 to 390 convert . I like the 390 a lot but its not better at everything
MSI 390x here.
I've been very happy with it. Work well, runs cool (about 28c idle and never seen it go above 63c while gaming), and doesn't draw insane power like everybody bitches about, even with dual monitors.
>>52193759
I didn't have the disposable income to pay 33% more for ~<10% performance. Now I do.
>>52193781
He is right, this game is faster with my 960m than with my 290...AMD don't give a shit about this game.
>>52193804
just get something with a reputable cooler. your room just gets as hot as your cooling solution
>>52193541
I play that game a lot on my Intel igpu (skylake) and it works pretty good, even through they say it won't. Was going to get a 390 but now you have me questioning it. Its hard to believe you, even if I trust what you are saying.
>>52193804
Not much heat at all.
My entire system with an overclocked 4790k and a 390x draws under 450 watts max during 1080p gaming.
>>52194106
Are you retarded
I love my MSI r9 390 I am very happy with the performance from it destroys my friends gtx 970 : ^ )
R9 290X and FX-8120
>Can play every game on high to verry high over 60fps in 1080p
>Can Play every game on low to medium settings over 60fps at 7040x1080 (Triple Monitor Setup).
Feels pretty good
>>52193804
Just remember that when Nvidia and Intel list tdp they say 100 watts and uses 150 amd when amd says 300 watts it uses 200. The difference isn't as big as it theoretically look.
Also I have a 2000w electric oven which takes forever to heat up my room. Don't worry.
Sapphire Fury X here. Works like a charm.
Gigabyte 390X
Love it, only max I've seen was around 71 C but it stays around 60-63 C
>>52193450
same here!
perfect
>>52193385
>XFX Double Dissipation 390
Great temperatures, pretty quiet aswell. Looks great, overall a great card for the moneys.
>>52193450
Me too, solid card. Although it is huge as fuck
sapphire r9 390 nitro. loving it. upgraded from 7790 1GB, finally i dont have to check if game is even playable on low settings, then maybe improve settings a bit. now i just set everything to ultra and it works.
>>52193415
>r9 290
>perfect
>>52196677
It's literally perfect. You never hear it, stays under 70°, can even run games like Witcher 3 at constant 60 FPS at ultra/high, dirt-cheap.
You must actually be an idiot to pay twice as much to have 6 FPS more. Or an average Nvidia kid.
>>52193385
R9 390 xfx bestbuy edition pretty good but over priced as fuck
Debating picking up an xfx 390 later today from Microcenter to replace my 6850, then pick up the next gen AMD card in summer or whenever they release it and put the 390 in a guest computer.
Thoughts?
>>52197228
GTX 950 or 960
That way you waste less money when it's time to update to Pascal
>>52197426
I could do that, but I'm looking to play games at over 60fps on 1080p, so that rules out both the 950 and 960.
>>52197426
>implying the 960 is ever more cost efficient than the 380 at 1080P
>implying anyone should ever buy the 950 ever
is 390 worth it for 1080p gaming?
>>52199396
>Is it a good card with good price performance ratio?
Yes
>do I need it for 1080p gaming?
Not really, it's kinda overkill, but also kinda futureproof I guess, lots of ram should keep you going for years of badly optimised games
>wouldn't it just be better to buy a 1440p/4k monitor with it?
Yes, it beats competition at 1080p but it blows Nvidia out of the water at high resolutions
290 tri-x crossfire here. Just wish I could OC like I could with one card without crashing everything.
Bought a Sapphire 390 two days ago, what am I in for /g/?
>>52196902
Literally how? I have the gigabyte 290 tri fan one (not G1) and even though I underclock it, it still goes up to 89C and loud as fuck when gaming.
Is it worth upgrading my R5 220 to an R9 390?
>>52193385
MSI R9 390, nothing but good things to say and Crimson software works great as well. Feels good mane.
two Quadro 6000's in SLi.
it shreds. runs crysis in ultra ultra, though i really just use it for CAD.
Sapphire Nitro 390, been working great. Even works fine on linux granted I have a windows partition for games and again I'm using the opensource drivers (xf86-video-ati) rather than Catalyst; I heard catalyst is better for gaming but a bitch to setup.
Otherwise gaming wise it's been great; GTA V at a mix between high-ultra with no drops below 50, witcher 2 between mid 50s and 90s (some areas give drops), CS GO at 200-300.
My only gripe is that I wish I had bought a FreeSync monitor, vsync is a piece of shit and I'm forced to use it since I hate tearing (the driver based GPU cap still causes tearing sadly), any ideas on a better alternative to vsync without an adaptive sync built-in monitor?
>>52200662
Sounds like your card is broken mate. My temps dont get that high even running +200 mv and +230 mhz oc.
>>52200698
nah wait for Volta.
>>52200989
What cooler do you have?
>>52200698
>R5 220
How the fuck are you even browsing an image board with that
Sapphire 390x here, its awesome. fast as hell, nice and quiet, runs cool.
>>52194036
Regardless of which one runs faster, are you able to get over 60? I have had literally no problems getting a good frame rate in that game and i'm running a 290x.
club 3D
No problem so far
Never seen 70> degrees C
I wish I had a better processor to see it full power
>>52201009
I have both a sapphire tri-x oc and the tri-x oc new edition. New edition cools better but even the hotter one can do about 75c at 30% fan on stock speed.
>>52193385
390x, Monster at raw compute. No problems.
Used to have the 970, but...
>3.5GB
750 ti sc because I hate myself
>>52201032
Command line web browser
>>52201124
ok. Maybe the Gigabyte one is just shit.
>MFW it was some "OC" edition that comes as 1040mhz
>Can't keep temps low enough while playing games
>5min in to a game it throttles to BELOW the stock 947mhz
FUCK
>>52201206
>This guy
>>52193528
Would the msi model fit? Those tend to get higher over clocks
Sapphire R9 290x
Worked well but had black screen issues. Sold it to some poor sucker and dropped gaming.
im hopefully getting a 380x soon, im on w7 wondering should i get the catalyst or crimson drivers for it??
Sapphire 390.
Works pretty well from tests so far, Witcher 3 all ultra with hairworks off/foliage distance at high stays at 60 with some small dips here and there.
Drivers are kind of shit and break ui in a couple other games, but you can't have everything, I guess. Also this card is absurdly huge, especially after moving up from the 750ti.
A classmate of mine got his dorm broken into during the holiday break.
They apparently took his MSi GTX 970 graphics card that he left on his desk, but left his still-boxed reference card R9 290X that was on the chair.
Even niggers know that AMD cards are fucking worthless
>>52201648
they cant do math so they don't know 4 > 3.5
Sold my gtx 670 for $190 and got myself a 260x for 90 dollars.
No regrets, drivers were so bad I'm actual happy with the reduced performance just because it's so much more stable. It's also plenty powerful for me, don't need to max everything out at 1080p.
On a side note, I'm never buying an Asus card again.
>>52193385
MSI and Gigabyte. Unusable. Back on nvidia now, much to my disappointment.
>>52201725
Talk about a downgrade holy shit. Why.
>>52193804
52193804
Fl bro here
I had/have a 390 nitro back in September and kept the a.c. at 77-78f. At idle it sits at 33c with fans at 25% and at load it doesn't go over 60 with fans never going over 50%. In my small apartment bed room I can feel a slight temp change after playing a couple of hours of fo4 than compared to the rest of the apartment but turning on the ceiling fan fixes that. I seriously that I was going to have to turn down the a.c. lower than 77f to fight the gpu but it dosent get to that point.
>>52201806
>the extra money was nice
>Nvidia drivers on w10 are shit
>260x is still powerful enough to play everything I own
Pick one or take them all.
It didn't even feel like a significant downgrade. In battlefield 4 i went down from ultra to high settings and in gta v my settings didn't change because my gtx 670 was being bottlenecked by 2gb vram, which my 260x also has.
390 died from the crimson fan bug, RMA'd it and bought a 970 instead
AMD, never again. fuck these refurb rebrands that they call new gpus
>>52193804
all cards are going to get your room hot.
>>52202227
crimson was a big leap there was sure to be some bugs in there, also you should had noticed something was wrong when your fans dont kick in.
>>52202227
>390 died
>crimson bug
>bullshit, the post.
When your gpu gets too hot it throttles back. When it's past the thermal threshold it shuts down.
It's your own fault if you disabled any safety features.
>DirectCU II, because it's the 280x I had
I'm amd fanboy but I get random dx11 crashes. And drivers do suck
>>52202491
>When your gpu gets too hot it throttles back. When it's past the thermal threshold it shuts down.
you seem to have forgotten the buggy crimson driver did not throttle the card when it got hot
>>52202690
The cards safety parameters are in the BIOS, not the drivers. If you fucked with the BIOS of your card, then its your own fault. It would have voided the warranty too, so you've essentially stolen from the vendor.
Just fuck off with your bullshit. Noone believes you.
MSI, just works. Installing the Gentoo kernel drivers took some more effort than with nvidia.
>>52202957
Which card are you using? I've got a 390 and the kernel drivers don't seem to be as fully featured for the r9 3xx series as they are for the HBM cards. I'm still just using the xf86-video-ati/radeon driver.
>>52203115
>nvidia's better because tech-illiterate niggers will instinctively steal their cards over AMD
AMdrones, everybody
Have a 290x got it when it firat came out
Plays everything fine at 1440p
Xfx 390 no problems
I got an ASUS R9 380 for black friday and am quite enjoying it
>>52196677
Damn you. I went and watch terminator genysis. Was quite pleasing.
Explain yourselves, AMD cucks
Explain yourselves, AMD neets
>>52193491
Wiat until the next gens come out then get a fury
>>52193415
Don't meme me now you faggots. Is the 290X as good as some anons ITT say? I'm doing my first serious build and don't want to fuck it up.
>>52200944
Firepro w9000. 3 4k monitors @60hz.
Then quad Crossfire.
380, 380x or 960?
>>52193415
I have one of these, it's my personal heater.
At least it plays games ok.
>>52204336
>people using custom bios, voiding warranty and killing any safety throttling or thermal shutdown protection
>AMDs fault
The fan not spinning should have just decreased framerates, nothing more.
Also didn't experience it with my r7 260x.
>>52204409
>not sure
Genuine kek.
>>52204692
380x 4gb.
Depends on where you are though.
I'm in aus and the 960 if cheaper, and uses less energy so it's even cheaper in the long run. In america the 380 is cheaper iirc.
380x holds the performance crown of the 3 though.
2x Crossfire XFX R9 390x's here.
Plan on moving up to 4k soon. Borrowed a buddy's 4k tv a while back, was able to put gta v on high settings with stable frames. It didn't drop below 40 fps. No ultra to be found here, but hell -- it still looked out-fucking-standing.
>>52193450
>>52196414
Cant agree more. Never crash. Played those optimized games really well, but there are some lags in FO4
>>52204692
http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Gaming-Graphics-GV-R938XG1-GAMING-4GD/dp/B017WMD1VI/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1451797966&sr=1-3&keywords=r9+380x
or
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013LDXPFO/ref=twister_B00W3IKGC4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
>>52204597
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/10068970?
I like my 290s ok, get pretty hot with two of them though.
>>52204752
>custom bios
You mean.. msi afterburner?
Nice damage control, laddy.
>The fan not spinning should have just decreased framerates, nothing more.
Holy fuck you're not very bright, are you? Well I'm not surprised because you buy AMD products.
>not amd's fault
Hello fanboy.
>>52204804
See this >>52204824 pls
I'm from Mexico, but a friend can import it
>>52204824
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00FONITA6/ref=dp_olp_refurbished?ie=UTF8&condition=refurbished
sapphire. no complaints really other than it sucks dick in FFXIV at 1440p.
>>52204859
>>52204807 here.
I... have trouble calling people out on being fanboys. Obviously, folks like what they're used to. And you have to give (ATI) credit - they've been around for a long time.
AMD Has pretty well drug their name through the mud, though.
Right now, there's a lot of debate, but it's pretty clear. AMD makes greater price:performance cards, but nVidia clearly makes the better cards.
>AMD Fanboys are mad because nVidia makes a better product (generally, that is -- [cough] wood screws [cough] 3.5gb [cough] lied about specs [cough]),
>nVidia Fanboys are mad because AMD puts out a comparable product for less money. ([cough] ATI is rolling in their graves [cough])
>Damn it's stuffy in here, anyone got a lozenge?
It's a mud-slinging contest, really. nVidia are supposed to be the innovators, but why did AMD drop HBM first? If ATI is so eperienced, why is nVidia pulling ahead?
Just take it from me -- I have an AMD build now, but it came from an SLI 680 build, and a 5970 build before that. Next, I'll see how badly Pascal can wreck my wallet.
Say fuck it, go with the flow, and accept that while your opponent has flaws, so do you. If nVidia dominates, they'll skyrocket their prices until someone else steps up to the plate with a low cost, high power card.
>>52204859
afterburner doesnt work worth a shit. Custom fan profiles still run locked at 20%.
>>52204960
>http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00FONITA6/ref=dp_olp_refurbished?ie=UTF8&condition=refurbished
I-I don't like refurbished electronics
>>52204983
You're not bad for an AMD dude
>>52204993
I think you're using it wrong kid
>>52193385
2x Sapphire Tri-X 390x, no complaints. Wish I could push some more airflow over the cards to help reduce how much hot air the 1st card is pulling off the back of the 2nd card but that's a case complaint, not a card complaint.
Finalized and locked my OC for the cards.
Twas hoping for a higher number but I can only meek out 1125/1650mhz when using both cards.
1170/1710 at 75mv+ when running the 1st card alone.
No grips or complaints. They push my 1440p/144hz perfectly, crushing anything it put in their way.
>>52205417
Note: Fans off until 70ºC then a gradiant curve till 90% where it ceilings at 100%.
>>52205417
i get a higher score with a single 980 ti lol
>>52204983
>AMD Has pretty well drug their name through the mud, though.
>drug their name through
>drug
Ugh. Sort your fucking life out, cunt. Nobody will take your opinion for it's worth if you don't represent it well enough.
>>52205467
No shit, nVidia cards always do better on Firestrike.
Use 3dmark to compare like setups or mark your own progress, not as dick waving tool.
>>52204815
Disable godrays
>>52194106
good cooling = more heat in room
bad cooling = more heat in case
390x = runs hot
>>52207125
Not as hot as the gtx 980
>>52207297
>be me
>toms hardware told me to buy 980ti
>ok.png
>mom drops 850$ ON THAT SHIT
>get it home
>install
>run real world benchmarks
>actually benchmark games that i play on my system
>most games are average 5 FPS faster than my old ass 290X
FUCK YOU MOM
>>52200662
I have a 290 tri-x, mine stays around 70 with fans at 25-35%, you can never hear it, but then again, my loud ass h80 probably covers up the sound.
>>52207125
>>52194106
Please stop.
Energy converted to heat in the same room is energy converted to heat in the same room.
>>52207430
>he fell for the meme
my sides
>>52207430
>FUCK YOU MOM
fuck you nvidia
Wow, a whole thread dedicated to a card that is worse than the competing brand's option.
Who else /devil13/ 390 Dual Core?
I'm currently a 380fag looking to upgrade
>>52193385
Xfx r9 390 nigga edition.
Only problems I had were because of windows 10, went back to 7 and it's been great.
>>52207876
die Patel
>>52207430
If you're going to upgrade every 2 years just buy a gtx x60/r9 x80 early after release.
They'll be able to max everything out for 2 years after they've been released easily.
That was with the assumption you're at 1080p 60fps.
>>52207884
>devil 13
I want one so bad but aus prices are too shit to justify spending that much money
>>52193415
Same here, feels good.
>>52208036
Ayy, I'm an ausfag.
I am on the verge of buying it off of Newegg AU
>>52208067
I just checked, it's actually cheaper than buying 2 390s for crossfire.
It should also btfo the 980 ti while being almost 200 dollars cheaper.
If you can afford it go for it.
MSI 390. Crimson drivers a shit, unstable framerate and corrupted compass in fallout 4, catalyst beta 15.11.1 works far better. I'll update when crimson does more then just look better.
>>52208204
Also comes with a free mouse, but I just bought a G602... Still, great deal but with extreme power requirements. Thinking of getting Fractal Design 1000W 80+ Platinum for $139 at CPL online...
R290x
the R is for time to rape
Got myself an Asus R9 390 Strix. It gets hotter than most 390s but that's thanks to the stock fan profile which puts noise above temps. I think I've got a bad chip however, it can't overclock at all.
7970 here.
Skipping the R9 series,
Waiting till there's something worth upgrading to.
sapphire r9 390 here, i regret nothing.
>>52208221
I have a fractal design integra m 750w semi modular 80+ bronze
Got it from msy for $119, it's an amazing psu.
Handled 2 gtx 670s in sli with an i7 870 at 4.1ghz.
$139 for that psu is a steal.
>>52205417
Your score is weird, looks like your mother-board's config is throttling the Vidya.
Also your RAM timing is surely misconfigured:
>10-14-14-36
Here is mine with a 2nd gen µ-pro before yours.
>>52205467
dubious, post proof with a 27.6k graphics score.
>>52205417
I'd like to push mine over 1050 but the noise is unbearable over like 40% fan with two cards.
i have a week off work and almost bought a new build just to play games. but decided to hold off for another year or so and only upgrade my gpu.
i went from 6870x1 to a gtx 980 ti... and holy shit. brb maxing out all my games and 60fps+
msi r9 390
nice as it is warm
warm as fuck
canadian dollar weak as it is warm
>>52193621
Nvidia GTX870M BF4 Ultra 1080p 80-100FPS.
BF4 is a bad benchmark, it runs good with any mediocre card.
>>52193804
Nvidia is the king of power consumption now.
So yes, I would buy the 970.
Even if you get a proper Split AC into your room, it will have to work harder due to the extra heat the AMD card will pump into your room.
Just stating facts, Nvidia had also made power hungry cards in the past (see Fermi). But now, AMD sucks (power) literally, when it comes to consumption. Both on CPU and GPU sides.
The Nano is the only exception.
But then again you have a full GPU with the 970, plus PhysX, plus Gameworks, plus drivers, plus CUDA, plus Lightboost.
Gigabyte g1 gaming 390
Underperforms compared to friends 970 by up to 20 frames
By the way what's this price shitposting all the time?
I just checked and the R9 290 and the 970 costs the same in my country.
Where do you guys live? Romania? China?
>>52208896
>gameworks
thanks for killing videogames Nvidia!
>physx
nooneusesware
Is it worth going for the 390x?
>>52208941
I really missed PhysX on my 7870.
Seriously when I bought that card, I was like, "who cares about PhysX"?
Then I bought it, and I immediately run into all the titles that used PhysX.
So yeah, when you have it, you don't think it's that useful.
> Killing videogames
By how? By letting developers add effects easier?
Fuck, do the same AMD.
Create a similar toolkit and make it opensauce, and you won the game.
Oh wait they never did that. They can only hiss at the other company and be jelly as fuck.
Only thing they ever did is TressFX, which looks like ass.
If I were a developer, I would use Gameworks. It makes life a lot easier.
And who cares about AMD users? Most of them have APUs only, so they won't be able to play a proper 3D game anyway.
>>52208941
this
>>52208944
depends on the amount of disposable income you have
>>52208977
http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/open-source/
>>52208982
I can buy either the 390 or 390x. But I dont want to waste 100 or so euro for just 1-3% extra peformance. So I'm wondering if the jump to a 390x can be justified for the costs.
>>52209011
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1594?vs=1559
>>52209001
I know AMD does all these... but there is still no library that would enable game developers to build games faster.
Or rather, add effects faster.
If there would be a physics library based on GCN for example, well, that's it.
Same for smoke and fluid, rag simulation. Blood too.
But then again, AMD sucks at open-source.
The Linux driver is just horrible, there is literally one main developer on it.
Poor guy never managed to implement any card 100%, and even the ones that 'kinda work', have quirks all over the driver.
If they were serious about all this shit, they could have open-sourced their Catalyst on Linux and call it a day.
BSD could have adapted that too, and there, we have a 1:1 solution to Nvidia, and it would be open.
But then again, none of that happened.
>>52209032
>http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1594?vs=1559
Thanks, I didn't know Anandtech had that feature!
So it doesn't seem too bad for the extra 100.
>>52209048
sauce for the open source shittyness: https://wiki.freedesktop.org/xorg/RadeonFeature/
>>52209011
>>52209053
you can just OC the 390 if you buy a proper cooled card.
but do make sure to read all the reviews, some aftermarket cooling solutions are damn loud/annoying.
>>52209048
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPUOpen
>>52209075
>>52209048
I am actually using the open AMD drivers and they have improved A LOT in the last year. it's not quite perfect but it's certainly better than it used to be.
>>52209077
I know. Again, it is an announcement.
AMD has made tons in the recent years, and never delivered.
Or sorta delivered.
Until there is something solid, everyone should treat such news with suspicion.
They made a big ado about the open-source specifications of their cards, and the open-source driver.
And not much happened.
tl;dr: Wait and see.
>>52209091
You gotta be lucky to have a "kinda supported" card that "mostly" works.
Even if you manage to pick one like that, features will be missing, suspend can fuck up, etc.
It's like a lottery.
I know that Nvidia's open-source driver sucks, but the prop one? It works on all platforms.
Even the goddamn SLI works on FreeBSD. CUDA? Check. Video accel/enc? Check.
See the feature matrix above. Not blaming Alex, he is doing everything.
But one main dev guy for an entire platform? Fucking AMD...
>>52209053
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/powercolor-devil-r9-390x,4344-3.html
After reading this I was pretty unimpressed given the 1.1ghz factory oc on it compared to the 390 nitro in there.
>>52208896
>plus drivers
You are so full of shit it's spewing out of your mouth
>>52209323
this is Nitro 390
>>52209307
>hour late shitpost
It's bad etiquette when the person probably isn't here anymore argue back.
>>52209323
The standard 3dmark benchmark is firestrike.
still running my 2x reference 6950's with the unlocked shaders, best purchases of my life.
thinking it's timing to buy a 390 though now that they've dropped driver support for the 6xxx cards and the rift is around the corner.
got a pretty sick oc on two 290x-es so far I'm in love with these as a long time Novidea user the switch made me question why I sticked to a scummy company like novidea for so far.
>>52209778
Its a big difference. I dropped a 6950 into my little brothers PC thinking it would handle the new call of duty max with AA off and damn was I wrong. Its not even playable on medium with everything as low as it will go. I feel bad cuz he cant play the game I bought him for christmas lol. He does still play it even though its laggy but i noticed hes been playing garrys mod for a few days straight now.
R9 290 here.
Got the memiest combo you can have.
Also, R9 290 and 2500k are insane. Like getting 60fps+ ultra everywhere. How can it be stopped?
>>52210142
I'll one up you.
390 here, runs without problems, even under linux
got memed into Nitro 390 here, thank you based /g/
xfx 390x 8gb
It's alright
Is the PowerColor 390 decent or is it cheaper for a reason?
>>52193385
Sapphire 290X Tri-X here.
the heatsink wasn't seated properly so i had to void my warranty(!) an re-seat it. now the temps are quite good but one of the fans gives off noise under certain circumstances. sapphire's warranty policy is bullshit.
pic related (custom painted)
>>52200662
>Niggabyte
mein 290 Tri-X have yet to reach anything above 71°C during load, 22°C room temp
I gotta say anything by Gigabyte/ASUS are complete shit when it comes to AyyMD cards
>>52213364
its high quality actually, cheaper prices seems to be them trying to get market penetration.
>>52213364
Powercolor is surprisingly good. My only complaint with them is that their air-cooled and Hybrid 390X is too fat for most multi-card builds.
>>52213479
I actually destroyed my tri-x cooler. I've got an aftermarket cooler on my 290x and wished to swap back for some temp testing shenanigans only to find the screw cyclinders (for want of a better term) that hold the heatsink to the core are made of the flimsiest metal ever and actually broke when I was trying to screw the spring screws down.
I'm only slightly annoyed as i've got the monstrous raijintek morpheus bolted to the card so my cooling is many times better, but still. I might be able to fix it if I had the skills but eh.
>>52214587
luckily i didn't experience that issue. but i have to say that i picked the tri-x when it came out because it was the absolute best at the time (shortly after the card's launch). i wouldn't have picked it if i waited a bit longer.
Im seeing a lot of GTX970s in this thread. What happened to the 3.5Gb problem? Why is /g/ happy to get such a gimped card/
>>52210087
i heard the game ran like dogshit with low amounts of ram
>>52214989
Buyer's remose. Why else would Nvidia users shit up an AMD thread when its know nthe 970 performs worse?
Even Kyle "imma tard rage, all hail Nvidia" Bennett has the 390 outperforming a 970 in all but one game.
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/12/22/asus_r9_390_strix_directcu_iii_video_card_review
>>52215076
I just wanted to make sure it wasn't just a meme and was real.
>>52215100
/g/ bought Nvidia's lies big time with the 970 and now has a very hardcore group of posters that refuse to see reality (namely that the so-called rebrandeon is faster).
>>52215162
TBF, I hate that AMD did just rebrand a number of cards. It's just asking for the hate.
But yeah, buyers remorse must be a bitch. That's what I'm being as careful as I can with getting my next card. My GTX285 lasted me years and I want the same.
sapphire 390 here
keeps crashing once a day with blue screen telling me that "thread stuck in device driver" or something
I'm considering returning it and getting a 970 cuckcard
>>52215209
>It's just asking for the hate.
Nvidia has done it plenty of times in the past as well. Most of /g/ is simply unaware of it because Nvidia has fantastic marketing.
>>52193385
MSI R9 390 here
Solid as fuck, great performance in anything I play. I did get affected by the fan speed bug in Crimson, because I had custom MSI Afterburner fan profiles, but since I keep the Afterburner monitors on, I spotted it and it didn't even go over 80ºC, so no biggie, it's fixed now.
Overall, pretty good experience. Haven't had a driver-related crash with it since I got it, prior to that, my 650TiBoost was crashing every other day.
Overall, pretty happy with it, would recommend.
>>52215251
DDU and reinstall.
>>52215254
All rebranding is a problem. Don't think I'm singling out AMD only for it. I know Nvidia has done it.
I thought AMD sorted out their naming convention, then they fucked it over and so the naming scheme wasn't any use in determining what the better card is.
>>52193385
But... I have a Fury X, not a 390. Why no love for me?
>>52215266
Did, multiple times.
Can someone explain where the Fury X and the Fury Nano came from?
Like nothing AMD was doing suggested it was in the wings and all of a sudden it was there. Why is the Nano so good?
>>52215279
Do you have that gaming evolved/raptr thingy installed?
>>52215312
The nano just shows off what is possible once you move the memory on package. Its performance is nothing special given its specs.
>>52215312
HBM made them possible. Notice how even the bigass cards of the Fury have a small PCB
>>52200622
It just werks / 10.
Only game that has given me problems is Fallout 4 (40 - 60 fps) while The Witcher 3 is going 60+ at ultra with hair works off. To be fair, Fallout is a fucking mess under the hood. I have a 4690k for reference.
>>52214989
>happy with anything NVIDIA
That's not /g/, it's probably the summer kids leftover or neo /g/ that comes from either plebbit or /v/
Got a 7950, been playing vidya at 1700mem and 1250core for the past year.
It's seen better days, been looking at msi 380x but honesty why? Unless you got some 4k setup there isnt much of a reason to upgrade
>>52215336
fallout 4 needs a mod for dynamic shadow distance. you should be able to find it by searching for just that.
>>52215335
Yes the Tri-X fans is what makes the card so long. If Pascal wasn't months away I would have bought one instead of an R9 290.
>>52215396
>7950
>"upgrading" to 380x
You're not upgrading AT ALL and just wasting money.
Fury X come to papa
>>52215408
>Yes the Tri-X fans is what makes the card so long
No, the radiator is what makes them long. They need proper cooling and PCI-e form factor is shit for cooling.
>>52215437
Would saving a bit longer and going for the 390fury be better?
>>52215487
For a 7950 a Fury is roughly double performance.
>>52215487
no, saving a bit longer and waiting for a new generation would be the move.
>>52215487
What do you mean by "a bit longer" ? Pascal is almost here and Arctic Islands not so much.
>>52193385
390x mostly pissed it doesn't have more than one display port. Got a splitter it's a piece of shit that doesn't work. Otherwise great.
>>52215590
>Pascal is almost here
Its really not.
>>52193415
sapphire tri-x masterrace desu senpai
380 poorfag here
us.msi.com/product/graphics-card/R9-380-GAMING-4G.htaml is p. good for what I could afford.
>>52215593
it's not like cards usually have more than one of those.
what i'm saying that your problem isn't really the 390X but your splitter.
I have the asus strix r9 390. Cooler performance is so-so. Unless you find it really cheap (like I did), go for the sapphire nitro.
>>52215610
OK, go on buying a flagship card (390X need not to apply) and see its value plummet by 40% when the first benchmarks arrive.
OF COURSE it's a non issue if you have money (to throw out)
>>52215674
>being this poor
>>52215633
You could have gotten a brand new/dead stock R9 290 for the same price.
>>52210480
JUST
>>52215674
>>52215700
>OF COURSE it's a non issue if you have money (to throw out)
I'm sure my computer in its current state (with an R9 290) costs more than yours but aren't we over that "mine is bigger than your" ?
>>52193621
>Basically it's 980 performance for $100 less.
>>52205507
Alright. I can expand on why I think AMD ruined ATI's name. Let's take a quick look back in time to 2009.
The cards of the day were the latter HD 5000-series for ATI before it was acquired by AMD and nVidia's GTX 200-series.
In all four of the major titles used for benchmarking that year, the 5970 absolutely dominated everything else. As a single card.
> F.E.A.R 2
ATI 5970, 255 fps
GTX 295, 181 fps
2x SLI GTX 285, 180 fps
>Fallout 3
HD 5870, 91 fps (not a typo -- the 5970 isn't even needed here)
GTX 285 AMP!, 90 fps
2x SLI GTX 280, 90 fps
>Far Cry 2
HD 5970, 129 fps
2x SLI GTX 285, 106 fps
GTX 295, 105 fps
>Left4Dead
HD 5970, 165 fps
2x SLI GTX 285, 161 fps
2x SLI GTX 275, 160 fps
Now here's the kicker. The HD 5970 competed with the GTX 295, whereas both had dual GPU boards. The 5970 sold for around $600 as I recall, the 295 sold for $500 for the air-cooled and $700 for the water cooled. The 285 Sold for around $350-450.
Think about that.
For the specs above, there were a lot of 2x SLI on that GTX 285, where it would have cost around $700-900 at least to get a setup that didn't even compare to a single card for $600. All of the framerates above listed only the water cooled 295, the air-cooled listing much further down, beaten out by SLI setups of the same class.
With the information here, and having built many professional PCs since 2006, it's simply my personal opinion looking at today's market, that AMD was the worst thing that ever happened to ATI's cards.
Don't get me wrong, AMD has held up their end -- it's still a big pile of money needed to go anywhere in the top end, and they have a hand in that.
They're just not the cards they used to be (relatively) and I can't see any big plays being made. Just a lot of hot air and mud. From both sides.
>>52193621
>Basically it's 980 performance for $100 less. What's not to love about it?
>>52215845
Who cares about single cards if you have two GPUs on them?
>>52215878
What card is it?
Also, when will cards come with full DX12 support? I know there are cards marketed as DX12, but they don't support all aspects of it natively yet.
>>52215845
m8 AMD acquired ATI in 2006.
the 5000 series was released in fucking 2009
>>52215843
>>52215878
Samefag.
>>52215312
>Why is the Nano so good?
More like
>Why is the Nano so overpriced and underwhelming?
A Nano based on a cut-down Fiji and priced like a 980 would have made the card an instant winner. But no, AMD got greedy and decided to bin their already low-volume full Fijis so that they can Jew the consumers with a $650 price tag while barely making a profit off of the cards.
>>52215929
>>52215922
5 months
>>52216005
Genuinely? Because I can wait
>>52193385
My 390 fucked my bitch
0/10 would not reccomend
>>52215950
The Nano runs incredibly hot and is pushing it to the max for that form factor. It's more like a proof of concept.
>>52215922
>I know there are cards marketed as DX12, but they don't support all aspects of it natively yet.
Basically no card wil lever support every DX12 feature due to the differences in approach AMD and Nvidia take. 12_1 for example exists almost solely so maxwell doesn't get bitch slapped by the base spec.
>>52215929
bore enough to reply
>>52201112
>club3d
that shits bummy dude
>>52216032
Citations/other reading so I can better understand this point?
>>52216022
>The Nano runs incredibly hot
It throttles at 75 degrees nigger
It doesn't run hot at all
>>52216022
>runs incredibly hot
AMD can't even make an efficient GPU anymore
They're done
>>52216060
>have to throttle card because of temperature
>not hot
>75 degrees
>not hot
>>52216111
>>52216060
As a non-shit poster who just wants the best for my bucks, yeah I have to agree with this guy.
>>52216111
The target temperature is 75 degrees. It's not allowed to produce more heat.
75 degrees for a card with a heatsink that tiny with only 1 fan.
