Best R9 380X for performance and money

delee_123 · Jun 15, 2016

I'm planning to build a new PC. I'll plan to do crossfire with the R9 380X in the future.

Mr Kagouris · Jun 15, 2016

Don't buy a 380X, the Rx 480 is coming to the market early July and will offer more than 50% better performance for a lower price.

maurelie · Jun 15, 2016

Me, as a current user of R9 380X, i strongly advise you not to buy R9 380X. Not because it is not good, but because there is the new RX 400 series arriving next month, with much better performance, efficiency and price.
The new RX 470 will surpass the R9 380X in performance and price. Offering R9 380X-390 performance for 149$. And the RX 480 for the price of R9 380X will be even better, beating the GTX 980 and R9 390X.
You should wait one more month and see what will suite you best.
Cheers.

delee_123 · Jun 20, 2016

maurelie :

Which one should i get the RX470 or 480. I'm on a $650 budget.

maurelie · Jun 22, 2016

delee_123 :

With that budget, you can get even GTX 1080, which will obliterate both RX 470 and RX 480 combined. But you will have to wait , since the demand of GTX 1080 is high and there is very little left in stock, and the prices now are 800$ and above for GTX 1080.
Wait just a little bit more and see what is your best choice.
As always, you can find help here on Tom's Hardware.
Cheers

pete_101 · Jun 22, 2016

maurelie :

delee_123 :

With that budget, you can get even GTX 1080, which will obliterate both RX 470 and RX 480 combined. But you will have to wait , since the demand of GTX 1080 is high and there is very little left in stock, and the prices now are 800$ and above for GTX 1080.
Wait just a little bit more and see what is your best choice.
As always, you can find help here on Tom's Hardware.
Cheers

I think that's the budget for the whole PC.

pete_101 · Jun 22, 2016

delee_123 :

Ask again in about 10 days time and we all should have a much better idea on performance and pricing. My pick would be the 480.

delee_123 · Jul 24, 2016

pete_101 :

What about the upcoming GTX 1060?

Mr Kagouris · Jul 24, 2016

It's good but recent benchmarks from aftermarket Rx 480s have shown overclocked Rx 480 Nitro matching or beating an overclocked GTX 1060 in DX11, and getting massively better performance with Asynchronous Compute (DX12 and Vulkan) which seems to be getting implemented in more and more triple-A titles. Overall both cards are equally good for the most part at the moment, but the AMD cards offer much better future-proofing due to the performance gains they're getting from newer APIs.

delee_123 · Jul 25, 2016

Mr Kagouris :

Should I get a referenced version or a custom design?

Mr Kagouris · Jul 25, 2016

Whichever card you go for, aftermarket (non-reference) is ALWAYS better, in the Rx 480's case much more so.

Embra · Jul 25, 2016

Sapphire nitro RX 480. Should be out end of week, or beginning of next week.

Edit: August 6th

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