390x or wait for Polaris?

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CMcGuire96

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Hey guys, I'm between a rock and a hard place, should I buy a 390x for my new build, or wait until "back to school season; mid-2016" for the new Polaris cards? I currently have a i7 3770k with a GTX 660, I want to switch to AMD because my last PC had a 6650m (please no hate for mobile I was a broke 15 y/o) and I liked it a bit better than the 660, except for Shadowplay of course. Also, the more I read up on nVidia, the less I like them, it seems like they're the spoiled brat of the PC world, while AMD is the red-headed step child. Another thing is after hearing about the Dx12 results (and yes I took the news with a grain of salt) it looks like AMD is really gearing up to take back the market and is not pulling any punches. Any advice/tips is appreciated!

Current build:
CPU: Intel i5 6600k
MB: MSI Z170-A
Ram: Avexir Core Series 16GB DDR4-2400
Storage: Samsung 250GB SSD, 2TB Hitachi DeskStar 7200rpm
GPU: TBD
Case: CoolerMaster HAF XB EVO
PSU: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze
 
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Anonymouselite5

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Well although Polaris OR Pascal. Both sound amazing it is impossible to know exactly what they will release.
Based from rumors AMD is trying to go a more power efficient way, however they still may release a top end card.

So personally I would wait, see what's available at the price. Then drop on the best card you can afford.
If you're gaming at 1080p a GTX 660 is still a good card ;) A 390x would be an upgrade but again, who's to say for more GPU's soon.

Although there will always be 'new' GPU's released soon.

-good luck
 
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Don't get me wrong, the 390x is a great card and AMD going for more power efficiency is great (especially when comparing wattage between the 390x and 970~980), but I really hope AMD isn't keeping the 390x, Fury, Fury X and Fury Nano as their flagship cards with the Polaris designs as only economy cards, sure, one to help them take back the basic consumer market would be great, especially if they actually push them this time and stop getting beaten out by nVidia. But they did say there will be a Polaris 10 and 11, whatever that means, hopefully not an economy mobile and desktop only version. I am not holding my breathe for Pascal cards, I am not at all a fan of nVidia, especially after this 660, every time I update drivers or GeForce Experience, it seems like it runs a little bit slower and not as well as before. It has been shown that nVidia will purposely do this so you will have to upgrade sooner rather than later, I also don't like their monopoly and charging sky high prices for technology that only works against the PC Gaming community as a whole. Also, I will probably be staying at 1080p for a little while longer, once I get everything ironed out with transferring schools and finding a new apartment maybe I'll jump up to 4K. :bounce:
 
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Most likely AMD will jump to just meet or Nvidia will just jump their GPU performance to just meet each other. As per usual.
At the moment AMD's main mid range cards are still older GPU's with little tweaks. So for AMD, to cripple the older cards would be a bad idea as their current 'newer' cards are still the same GPU core. The exception being higher end cards.

Whereas Nvidia do create new cores, however they always meet the same tiers of cards, with a significant performance boost. With a kind of Titan being at the top for a 'special' price. At the same time, yes crippling older generations.

At the moment I'm thinking of going 4k as well, with 2x r9 290's and DX12 it'll be interesting to see how DX12 affects my hardware ;) hopefully developers will actually include DX12 features of multiple cards, such as split frame rendering.

Personally for the next generation, Im expecting the same trend. New cards, new technologies (HBM), but the performance will not be a ground breaking results. Both AMD and Nvidia again neck and neck at performance. most likely each company's top tier cards making big gains, meaning a heap of money for either. Their budget cards with better comsumption and performance, but not as a leap of the top cards.
I mean you can't make a massive jump on all your tiers in performance, and still call it the same tier at the same price ;)

-good luck
 
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