So as the thread suggests I'm considering retiring my 290X. It's done me well and still continues to do a pretty good job at everything I've thrown at it.
The heat wasn't a huge issue, as I had the Windforce cooler, so it got into the mid 80's at most. The power draw didn't bother me either, it was the first flagship that I'd ever been ahold of so in that sense it's a GPU I'm rather fond of.I guess as we all know pretty much every flagship from AMD has been a rebrand or a GPU with very similar horsepower to the 290X if not a rebrand of the 290X itself, albeit they run cooler, draw less power, and some have twice the VRAM (it should be noted I only play at 1080p) and each yield perhaps a 5% increase in performance with every generation prior.
I guess where I feel perplexed is that, the heat is really only an issue over summer in really long gaming session. Minus DOOM; nothing has maxed the VRAM out, and pretty much every decently optimized game runs at 50-70FPS on high/ultra settings. Some games don't though, and because of the VRAM I get cut out of a few features here and there in graphical options.
The other issue is,I don't wanna spend $700+ for a 1070 which seems like the logical jump, as it trounces the 290X. So... That leaves the $400 market (Australian), which consists of the RX 580, 480 or the GTX 1060. neither of which are huge improvements over the 290X in terms of graphical horsepower. Is there anything else I'm missing, should I stick with the 290X until vega drops? Any ideas or any kind of input would be appreciated.
P.S On a sidenote, I believe that Nvidia GPUs under DX12 don't run too well with Ryzen, I've just ordered a 1600X, any thoughts on that too? Thanks guys
The heat wasn't a huge issue, as I had the Windforce cooler, so it got into the mid 80's at most. The power draw didn't bother me either, it was the first flagship that I'd ever been ahold of so in that sense it's a GPU I'm rather fond of.I guess as we all know pretty much every flagship from AMD has been a rebrand or a GPU with very similar horsepower to the 290X if not a rebrand of the 290X itself, albeit they run cooler, draw less power, and some have twice the VRAM (it should be noted I only play at 1080p) and each yield perhaps a 5% increase in performance with every generation prior.
I guess where I feel perplexed is that, the heat is really only an issue over summer in really long gaming session. Minus DOOM; nothing has maxed the VRAM out, and pretty much every decently optimized game runs at 50-70FPS on high/ultra settings. Some games don't though, and because of the VRAM I get cut out of a few features here and there in graphical options.
The other issue is,I don't wanna spend $700+ for a 1070 which seems like the logical jump, as it trounces the 290X. So... That leaves the $400 market (Australian), which consists of the RX 580, 480 or the GTX 1060. neither of which are huge improvements over the 290X in terms of graphical horsepower. Is there anything else I'm missing, should I stick with the 290X until vega drops? Any ideas or any kind of input would be appreciated.
P.S On a sidenote, I believe that Nvidia GPUs under DX12 don't run too well with Ryzen, I've just ordered a 1600X, any thoughts on that too? Thanks guys
Consoles are now good enough to display their games smoothly at 1080p, and they look quite nice displaying on a large TV.
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