GTX960, how much better/worse than R9 380>

pleb · Jul 28, 2015

I'm troubling myself over that this R9 380 : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150730 has 4gb, 256bit and will use both 6pin. Sounds great but it has no reviews, and I don't know much of the chipset numbers (if having more streams with less clock is better)

It's the same price as this GTX 960 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133590&leaderboard=1 but the R9 280 looks so much better of a choice.

Whats the catch?

StarChief · Jul 28, 2015

The catch is Nvidia can charge whatever the hell they want because they are financially stable, meanwhile AMD is in shambles. The 4g GTX 960 and 380 trade blows in tests, the r9 380 is slightly better, but GTX 960 will have better future support.

jerdle · Jul 28, 2015

The 380 is a slightly better card.

There is no catch.

And don't bet on that starchief. NVIDIA kills older architectures with driver updates. If anything, the 380 will be better positions in the future than it is now.

StarChief · Jul 28, 2015

jerdle :

It has nothing to do with hardware or drivers, AMD hasn't been doing real well lately. Nvidia being the better established company will have better support in the future, unless AMD manages to create and sell some groundbreaking technology. Like they tried with the Fury X and failed. They need another Fury X, one that'll actually do what they said it would do.

jerdle · Jul 28, 2015

That support is called drivers. And since AMD doesn't have any major debt due until after the 380 will have been replaced by the user, there is no argument that AMD wont be able to support it during its lifetime.

Also, Fury was groundbreaking - it was the introduction of the new memory all enthusiast cards will use, regardless of whether the initial release was more powerful than the best GDDR 5 card ever made. Considering its sold out status, it wouldn't matter if it had those extra couple % in performance anyway - they already sell out the same day they get restocked.

pleb · Jul 28, 2015

Thanks guys, off your answers I did some research and though people are claiming AMD has bad support and cards run slower on the games I want to play, I may still get the R9 380. Remaining issue is that card in particular has no reviews so im not sure what the deal with it is.

jerdle · Jul 28, 2015

If it had issues it would be filled with reviews crying about the problem

Newegg likely just hasn't sold many of them.

pleb · Jul 28, 2015

jerdle :

I guess the 30 day replacement is still there aswell, im sold.

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