So let's just say in my city, it's quite difficult to order online. Not to mention, in my country (Philippines), most online stores often don't have good cards stocked anyways.
A little over a month ago, my Radeon HD 7870 died. I've since been using an old HD 5570 for gaming. It does the job, but I do miss playing at high resolutions.
Only one small store in my town sells decent parts, and they had stocked one (just one!) R9 380 a month ago, but when I finally got together my money, someone else already took it. They said they would stock it again, but it's been a month now and I'm losing my patience...
Now, they have an R7 370 stocked, which is kinda close in performance to my dead card, but I want an upgrade, not a replacement.
There's also the R9 285, which is more or less the same card as the 380, except that it costs 25% more in that store...
What they do have stocked that's decent is the Geforce GTX 960. 3 of them, actually. Roughly the same price as the 380, but I heard some bad things about Nvidia with their tendency to drop support for cards after only a short while. Plus, it performs slightly worse on average than the 380. I've also heard it has some bad DirectX12 performance compared to the 380, but DX12 is still quite a bit away from now. Though it runs at a lower TDP, which is very very nice, given my short running UPS and a 3 year old PSU.
Lastly, I do a lot of graphic design and video editing work (Adobe Ps, Ai, and Sony Vegas), and I've heard OpenCL is taking over CUDA in those fields. It's no big deal though since my work isn't too heavy.
Anyways, this post is getting long. Should I just grab the 960? Or should I extend my patience and see if they can still stock?
A little over a month ago, my Radeon HD 7870 died. I've since been using an old HD 5570 for gaming. It does the job, but I do miss playing at high resolutions.
Only one small store in my town sells decent parts, and they had stocked one (just one!) R9 380 a month ago, but when I finally got together my money, someone else already took it. They said they would stock it again, but it's been a month now and I'm losing my patience...
Now, they have an R7 370 stocked, which is kinda close in performance to my dead card, but I want an upgrade, not a replacement.
There's also the R9 285, which is more or less the same card as the 380, except that it costs 25% more in that store...
What they do have stocked that's decent is the Geforce GTX 960. 3 of them, actually. Roughly the same price as the 380, but I heard some bad things about Nvidia with their tendency to drop support for cards after only a short while. Plus, it performs slightly worse on average than the 380. I've also heard it has some bad DirectX12 performance compared to the 380, but DX12 is still quite a bit away from now. Though it runs at a lower TDP, which is very very nice, given my short running UPS and a 3 year old PSU.
Lastly, I do a lot of graphic design and video editing work (Adobe Ps, Ai, and Sony Vegas), and I've heard OpenCL is taking over CUDA in those fields. It's no big deal though since my work isn't too heavy.
Anyways, this post is getting long. Should I just grab the 960? Or should I extend my patience and see if they can still stock?
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