GTX 980ti/980/970 vs R9 390x/380x

The gtx 980 ti.

hard to say with cards that are not released yet. Right now the 980 seems to be the card to be the fastest single card solution, if they are to make a 980ti it clearly will be faster but I would have no idea where the 390x would fall if that is even a card that is in the works.

Is there a reason you needs answers urgently? The cards are not out yet, what's the rush?

haha , do you come from the future ?

Contact a clairvoyant as we can't see the future. We can't tell you which card is better till they have been benchmarked. So far only 2 of those cards have been released and benchmarked.

My sincere advise is to just keep saving. Then wait for those products to be release and then reviewed by experts. Then you may buy the best one after researching which is a better buy. Nothing in technology is future proof. Every Month/Year they release something better.

You are welcome.

Configuration with HD 6770 that mean this PC was in a middle class... few years ago. This PC will totally make bottlenecking, with every top model graphic card in this moment and even more with a future models. Solution is: New PC when cards which you wish come on the maket.

like I said earlier. just wait till you are ready. You said you are going to build this gaming computer in a few months, So just wait till you ready. Everybody here can help you put together a killer system in less than 1 week, with all suggestions. Im saying wait because you don't know if something new is going to be release in coming months.

1. No need of other cooling. The box already for all that you need. Also don't need of this 'fast' memory.

2. Change your choise to other cheeper kit of 8GB.

3. With the money saved from these actions(pt 1+2 or 1+2a) add to your configuration modern SSD device with a volume of 120-240 / 256GB depending on what budget you can afford.

2a) Other variant will be at this moment to bay 8GB single stick od DDR3 and in the closest future to add more one of 8GB to collect 16GB
More and more computer games require a large amount of RAM and your chosen initially 8GB kit would not be sufficient to make your current configuration for the desired period of time.

Look, you know nvidia's got to be working on a 980 Ti. The thing runs less than 80°C under full load from the factory. It's got room to go. I would wait for it to come out. Could take a year, but might only take 6 months. Graphics card turnaround is getting pretty fast these days.

Yea, we need of solution today or soon. The near future also be good time. But we are living creatures. We don't wish spend all our life for wait for something better.

For GTX 970, 8GB is nonsense. Bandwidth to video memory is too narrow. For the GTX 980, I think that this card can utilize more than 4GB... This is the right choice, but if you can not wait until the release of the R9 390X market, or simply do not want to have a video of AMD.

Hey man. Justin Millard here. Came across this thread and wanted to help out.

VRAM doesn't stack so if you want to SLI with 8GB you actually need to buy two 8GB graphics cards. At the moment I'd recommend at least waiting for the R9 380X. AMD are launching a couple of new technologies 20nm graphics cards and HBM (High Bandwidth Memory. Everyone who has looked into it expects it to perform better than the GTX 970 and be cheaper than it to boot.
However I can't yet say for certain that it will beat the GTX 980 (speaking of which if you are going to spend that much money on a card, you may as well wait for the 8GB GTX 980 for more future proofing).

Also if you are considering using SLI or Crossfire then I would recommend at minimum a 700W power supply. You won't have enough power to run two graphics cards under load on a 650W PSU.

If you are planning to overclock everything and use SLI/Crossfire (which your CPU cooler suggests) then I would highly recommend a 750W PSU.

If you want MAXIMUM POWER you can wait until around April for the R9 390X, but you better be prepared to use water cooling.
Also if you go that way remember to test the water cooling before you run it through your PC. I've heard a couple of stories of people overfilling it and getting water in their systems because they didn't test it first.

Now I've got some comments about the rest of your rig. If you want to get a few more boosts out of your games, less lags, pop up textures, and faster loading times. I would highly recommend getting an SSD and 16GB of RAM.

With RAM low CL is usually better than high speed. I honestly wouldn't expect to see any noticeable difference in anything going for the faster RAM speed. If you want to feel like you are getting beast RAM then low CL 1866 RAM is probably a bit cheaper.
The equation for guessing RAM speed is something like advertised MHZ divided by CL. EG: 1866/9=207 2400/12= 200.
In that equation you can actually see you would expect the 1866MHZ RAM to be faster for most tasks.

Btw you'll also need to open up eXtreme Memory Profile in the BIOS to get the RAM sticks to overclock up to those speeds.
Meaning more hassle and heat on the sticks.
As far as amount of RAM 16GB is the most you will ever need, as an SSD will pick up the slack for any intensive task like video editing that used to benefit from 32GB of RAM.

As far as SSDs they are crashing in price so you should be able to find them cheaper every three months you wait. 500GB is a good sweet spot for price/performance/reliability at the moment. Should be enough space for all your most demanding games and your OS while you sit the rest on your hard drive. As far as brands Intel SSDs are expensive, but highly reliable and have the best warranty deals (sometimes 10 years) while Samsung will give you much better price/performance without the same massive warranty deal (although three years ain't bad).
The Samsung 840 or 850 EVO should offer reasonable prices, especially if you see it on sale later on.

Anyway tried to give you as much info as I can. Good luck!

It's very simple to determine which is the best, but I would need you to post some specs on 980ti, 380x and 390x. Do include prices too. I'll be hover boarding and watching jaws XV while waiting for your answer.

After checking several websites I've come to the conclusion that.

the r9 390x will compete with the 980ti

the r9 380x will be roughly the same price as a GTX 970, and outperform/compete with the GTX 980.

the r9 370x will be cheaper than a GTX 970 and outperform/compete with the GTX 970.

Although the information I found may not be legitimate, it only makes sense that AMD would set up the cards to compete like this.

amd 390 x will have apparntly ultra fast memory which can reach 700gb/s which is extremly imprrtant in 4k or above gaming.for reference gtx 980 has 240 gb/s speed. if you are a physx fan, physx can be run on your cpu instead of gpu if you will run that graphics card and also not many games support physx anyway.

I'm really wanting a GTX 980Ti ! I replaced my Asus Direct II CU GTX 780Ti with an Asus STRIX GTX 980 with absolutely no regrets, but I'm dying to see what a GTX 980Ti (or even 970Ti) version will do. Perhaps I'll be disappointed with the specs and reviews finally come out, assuming a Ti version is actually released, but I don't think so.

As far as what to buy, were to do it over, I would have bought an Asus STRIX GTX 970 (even though it would most likely be slower than my 780Ti) as I believe that card is the best bang-for-the-buck , at least for nVidia products. I have never used a Radeon/AMD GPU so I know nothing about them.

Its a bit to early to tell what the Nvidia 980Ti will be or what it will do.
It will probably be something that offers another small boost in power compared to the GTX 980. However I expect they'll start releasing some info in January.

However we do know Nvidia are planning to do a die shrink for their Maxwell range, before bringing out Pascal with 16nm HBM and NV Link SLI. For me those are the cards actually worth waiting for if you own a 780Ti or Nvidia 980.

My guess is they will skip 20nm and release 16nm Maxwell early in 2016. Afterwards the Nvidia Pascal series should be out in late 2016.

My honest opinion is if you have a GTX 980 you've got all the power you need for 1440P gaming and DirectX 12. Hold on to it and wait for the 2016 cards when smooth frame rate 4K gaming becomes available to you.
You sound like a person who really just wants a card that can monster 4K gaming. You're going to get a bit jaded if you lay down another big wad of cash for another small performance increase.

Does the 380x come out in February? I have not heard any solid details, I am tempted to get a 970 but if the 380x cost the same and might outperform the 980 I might as well wait a couple weeks....