Is it true that games crash alot with AMD GPUs?

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Hi guys im looking to maybe get a r9 390 at christmas but i am scared i will get ot and have games crashing. I hear that games crash alot on amd graohics cards is that true?
 
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It might be true if you work in NVidia's marketing department but in the real world no!

I've used both AMD and NVidia cards and I would say the AMD cards on the whole have been better for the money, the big advantage of NVidia is the software is much better. See GeForce experience V's craptr.
The big daddy AMD's get hot though, so make sure you have good case ventilation but they are still good value for money.
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It might be true if you work in NVidia's marketing department but in the real world no!

I've used both AMD and NVidia cards and I would say the AMD cards on the whole have been better for the money, the big advantage of NVidia is the software is much better. See GeForce experience V's craptr.
The big daddy AMD's get hot though, so make sure you have good case ventilation but they are still good value for money.
 
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lol no.

I heard 970s have 4GB. But you can't believe everything you hear.

get the r9 390
 
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No.

I used AMD for 10+ years. In that time I've only had issues with 2 driver releases and 2 games that were not rock solid stable, even with 3 generations of Crossfire.

And as much as I LOVE my custom BIOS modded GTX 970, the most stable display driver I have gotten from NVidia so far will still crash 1-2x per month, except for Fallout 4 which has driver crashes every 2 hours on average, even with their latest 'Fallout 4 ready' driver. But that is more the newness of the game than the GPU so I'm not counting that against NVidia or Bethesda, it's just the nature of new releases like this. It'll be fine in a month or two.
 
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I have an Asus Strix R9 390 in my new W10 build, works great. (Had an R7 260X in my old build, again worked great) You will probably have no issues with the AMD card.

The 970 is a good card as well. The reason that it the 970 has such a loud set of detractors is:
When it was originally launched, on paper and on retail sites, it had the same physical specs (all of them, not just the memory) except for speed as the 980, but for cheaper. When the card got to people and every aspect of the card was off from the spec sheet, there was an uproar.

NVidia claimed, and was probably true that this was a mix up in marketing, and retail sites and packaging of new shipments were corrected, though it still listed 4GB memory ... which is correct, even though .5GB is slower.

Does it affect gameplay? In theory, it should, but in real life any affect is not measurable. (If there was a 970 with full, fast, 4GB, then it could be tested.)
was such
 
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LOL, everything can do 4k, though only a few things can do 4k adequately. I don't have a 4k monitor, and I only really care about perceived slowness (judders, lags, etc) on my 2560x1440 (Acer XG270HU)

Skyrim maxed with many mods is so very, very nice. Other games I play casually are World of Warships and, well, the *Guild* of Dungeonering. WoWS cause the fans to spin up, but it's still very nice.

My 260X did Skyrim on the 1440p monitor but at less than maxed settings (all at about 80%) at about 50-60 FPS average. I'm assuming that the 390 could go 4k with slightly reduced settings and still be enjoyable.
 
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No. Change it.

Technically it's enough to power the 390, but it's a downright terrible power supply. If it's still eligible for return, return it and get a Seasonic or Antec power supply. A M12II Evo 750W from Seasonic would be a good replacement. Or a Antec EDG750.
 
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