The best choice at 900p gaming

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I just sold my MSI GTX 960 and am looking to upgrade.
My interests are the GTX 970 gigabyte g1 gaming or the msi R9 390 from amd.
Now at 900p on high/ultra will the 3.5 vram thing affect me?
And what do you think is better for the resolution and for future proofing.?
Plus now that DirectX12 is around the corner, is Nvidia or AMD better?
 
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Alright just straight to your main question. Since you already sold your 960 just get 970/390. As for 970 VRAM issue it is hardly (or none at all) an issue at 1080p so 900p will be fine. 390 8GB VRAM might usefull in extremely high resolution WITH crossfire setup. As a single card the card don't even have the raw power to use all that available RAM. your frame rates will drop first before you can reach 8GB on 1080p (probably true as well at 1440p). So in short that much VRAM are not future proof. Look at the original Titan with it's 6GB VRAM. two games that use VRAM a lot (Showdow of Mordor/Assassin Creed Unity). Even at 4k res 970/980/290X still come out on top due to simple reason: those cards have more raw power than GTX Titan...
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The GTX 970 has 4GB of VRAM.

The issue to which you are referring is only 3.5GB of that 4GB is of the 'fast' variety. If you hit that extra .5GB it introduces substantial latency. This will not likely be an issue at 1080p --- only at higher resolutions, or games with very heavy textures.
If that is an issue for you, snag a new Radeon R9 390.
 
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on BF4? No not ALL the time but alot of the times yes, I couldnt play on certain maps because It just was hitting the 2GB way too much. Settings Were High/Ultra with x2 MSAA and SSAO.
Then switched to Medium Setting with High Textures and was never going below 90fps.

 
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no the 970 is good and 980 is really good 960 is no good it will deliver the same perf as 760
 
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Alright just straight to your main question. Since you already sold your 960 just get 970/390. As for 970 VRAM issue it is hardly (or none at all) an issue at 1080p so 900p will be fine. 390 8GB VRAM might usefull in extremely high resolution WITH crossfire setup. As a single card the card don't even have the raw power to use all that available RAM. your frame rates will drop first before you can reach 8GB on 1080p (probably true as well at 1440p). So in short that much VRAM are not future proof. Look at the original Titan with it's 6GB VRAM. two games that use VRAM a lot (Showdow of Mordor/Assassin Creed Unity). Even at 4k res 970/980/290X still come out on top due to simple reason: those cards have more raw power than GTX Titan despite only having 4GB VRAM.

as for DX12.....to be exact we will not know until actual games that take advantage of that API improvement hit the market. Both AMD and Nvidia claim that their hardware have the advantage. Software side nvidia is quite formidable. Their devrel is strong. And their influence was something not to be underestimated. The original Assassin Creed have been patch to take advantage of direct X 10.1. But since nvidia does not have the hardware compatible with the API (only AMD did with their HD4000 series) Ubisoft decides to remove the patch in favor of nvidia. AMD has more influence than they were in the past but their financial still probably the things that stopping them from going all out against nvidia. With all console were using their hardware they try to stir the advantage towards their direction on PC. Mantle is one of such effort. But I think in doing so they pissed of unnecessary party like MS.
 
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