R9 290 Crossfire vs R9 390x for future DX 12

MrPickles · Nov 7, 2015

Howdy, I currently have a r9 290 Crossfire configuration. With everything I'm reading, it appears the 290 will not be optimized "fully" for the supposedly new Direct X 12 games coming soon. However, the R9 390x will be? I'm considering selling both 290's to get 1 390x for future gaming. Will that be a good move?

By the way, the crossfire configuration is a little disappointing. Can I resolve that issue by just getting the 390 and use the whole 8GB vram without crossfire?

AMD 6300 3.5Gb
R9 290 Crossfire 4GB x 2
16GB 1600 RAM
Gigabyte 770
No overclocking.

Thanks

renz496 · Nov 7, 2015

Does it really matter? 390X is just an 'improve' version of 290X. Largely they are still the same. Just that 390X is clock higher and consume more power than 290X. If crossfire works your two 290s still faster than a single 390X

MrPickles · Nov 7, 2015

Ya I got that. But just thinking about down the road which card will be better configured for Direct X 12 and does it really matter?

MrPickles · Nov 7, 2015

Ya I got that. But just thinking about down the road which card will be better configured for Direct X 12 and does it really matter?

renz496 · Nov 7, 2015

You can say both actually are the same gpu since they based off the same chip. So any improvement done to 390X those 290/290X will also get the same benefit.

Baumy15 · Nov 7, 2015

MrPickles :

no card from AMD or Nvidia currently "fully" support DX12 yet.
the only main difference between the 290X and 390X is the 390X cost more, has 8GB VRAM and has a 25W lower TDP.

I would recommend you stay with your 290 Xfire setup as 2 290's will whoop a 390X ass any day

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