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August 26, 2013 8:18:15 AM

Hey all, ive got a new korean 2560x1440p monitor, and my 6970 just aint kickin it any more. Im between one of the 7990s a used 690 or perhaps a 780 (prob wont sli any time soon though). I know the new radeons are supposed to come out in october but im hoping to pick something up next month. My budget is around 700=800 or so (a used 690 is like 700 something used). I know that AMD cards have better stats but I really dont like stuttering, unless those new drivers fixed it all.

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August 26, 2013 8:36:23 AM

titan, or gtx 780 or sli gtx770, or sli gtx780, or sli titan...

i did not say it would be cheap!...
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August 26, 2013 8:39:13 AM

It fixed most of the problems of microstutter regarding the recent patch of AMD. I would go for the 780 GTX with 3-4 Gigs of Ram for you 1440p monitor
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August 26, 2013 9:00:34 AM

No, while the new 13.8 beta driver made progress, there's still a long way to go. Here's a review of the 7990 w/ new driver:

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/1804/pg1/amd-cata...

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So what do we make of that lot? Well overall it's hard not to be a little underwhelmed. There are aspects where initially it looks like progress has been made, Battlefield 3 for example where the 13.8 driver ends its run better than the 13.6 but the new version is a little worse to begin with. We must bear in mind though that Battlefield 3 has a pretty low latency anyway so it's not a huge issue. Where we would have liked to see an improvement is Metro: Last Light but sadly framerates decreased and we saw larger spikes in frametimes on 13.8 which was disappointing. Really though one of the key titles which needs frametime improvements is Crysis 3 (on NVIDIA and AMD hardware) but that remains pretty much the same on the new 13.8 driver which is a shame as in this game the micro stutters are very noticable to the naked eye.

Overall we have to say this release doesn't deliver what we would have expected and to be honest we are not sure why AMD has rushed to deliver it in a state where there are no significant real world improvements in key titles... or why they felt waiting until all resolutions and DX9/OpenGL were ready wasnt worthwhile. It could be that there is an improvement in tests which use FCAT technology to record driver improvements but until the gains are replicated in real world use for games such as Crysis 3 we see no reason to change our conclusions from recent reviews.
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August 26, 2013 11:14:45 AM

the 780 new is about the same price as the 690 used, is it really that much better?
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August 26, 2013 12:47:38 PM

btw how is that korean monitor there was soo many bad reviews on it i was very hesitant
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August 26, 2013 12:54:00 PM

andrew66655321 said:
Hey all, ive got a new korean 2560x1440p monitor, and my 6970 just aint kickin it any more. Im between one of the 7990s a used 690 or perhaps a 780 (prob wont sli any time soon though). I know the new radeons are supposed to come out in october but im hoping to pick something up next month. My budget is around 700=800 or so (a used 690 is like 700 something used). I know that AMD cards have better stats but I really dont like stuttering, unless those new drivers fixed it all.


Most def and with the 8970/8990 sure they prob will be faster but amd has a bad history with fixing drivers "correctly" and their crossfire to me has always been iffy as others has said you would be better off going gtx 780 and then sli in the future if you need mour power.. To me i would rather have a working drivers with a fast card then to have half done drivers with a faster card
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August 26, 2013 1:09:24 PM

sparkz89 said:
btw how is that korean monitor there was soo many bad reviews on it i was very hesitant


pretty rad! the time i get to play games its been outstanding!
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