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Hi Guys,

Been without a PC for a while hence not being on TnB for just over a year now. :(
Withdrawal kicking in D:

Finally got some money coming in soon and looking at quick PC so I can back into PC gaming rather than PS4.

So I am looking at this "Gigabyte R9 390 G1 GAMING 8GB GDDR5 DVI-D HDMI 3x DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card"
However there is the "Gigabyte R9 390x G1 GAMING 8GB GDDR5 DVI-D HDMI 3x DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card"

There isn't much different between them from what I can see.
If someone know more than I've read please feel free to correct me.

Which one should I choose?

THANK YOU!!!!!
 
just get the one you want bub.

one just sounds fancier.

/thread

edit: wait a fucking second they're the same thing, fuck you
 
The_filthiest_communist said:
just get the one you want bub.

one just sounds fancier.

/thread

edit: wait a fucking second they're the same thing, fuck you
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Seriously there is a £100 difference between them!
The 390x is more expensive than the standard 390

WTF!!!?!!?! HALP
 
Killarag said:
Seriously there is a £100 difference between them!
The 390x is more expensive than the standard 390

WTF!!!?!!?! HALP
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they link to the same thing.
 
Literally the same graphics card. The specs are exactly the same. Even the URLs (unless you linked to the wrong one)
 
one of them his six phase, one has 8 phases.

fuck if i know what that means, but it doesnt sound like it's worth the extra 100 euros
 
Its how power is supplied to your GPU, its done in "phases" and aparently more phases means cleaner supply which means potentially faster processing. I wouldn't say the jump from 6 to 8 is worth £100, not sure if the benefit befits the price tag increase. You can get cards with an entire extra gig of memory for £100 extra and that'll probably have more of a benefit than 2 extra "phases"
 
Midas22 said:
Its how power is supplied to your GPU, its done in "phases" and aparently more phases means cleaner supply which means potentially faster processing. I wouldn't say the jump from 6 to 8 is worth £100, not sure if the benefit befits the price tag increase. You can get cards with an entire extra gig of memory for £100 extra and that'll probably have more of a benefit than 2 extra "phases"
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Ahhhh, I appreciate the feedback Midas, I'll probably go for the 390 then rather than the 390x.
Thanks again peeps!
 
The 390x is clocked slightly higher. I was wondering how much better it actually was also, and the benchmarks I could find show that the 390x gets an average 3-5FPS advantage over the 390. If 3-5FPS justifies 100 dollars for you. Get the 390x, otherwise. It is a waste of money.
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Damn that 270 pricetag makes my soul hurt for my 3.5 GB VRAM 970 purchase half a year ago...

still a v nice card ofc but we still got kind of ripped off compared to the radeon cards
 
nvidia's latest stuff is a shitshow and i'm moving back to AMD as soon as possible tbh
 
get the first one its cheaper and will run gmod like a champ and newer games pretty well
 
If you're not buying the MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G then you're gaming completely incorrectly.

My laptop came with an AMD Radeon HD 7650M and everytime I run a game it feels like I can cook eggs on my it. Get nVidia, don't get anything else unless it's an incredibly high-end Intel card.

(The NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 TI is alright too, especially for high-performance demanding games, but the price isn't always worth it.)
 
With either of those cards you'll be able to play fallout maxed at 1080p no problem. So long as your RAM and CPU are fast, too.
 
Nat Attack said:
If you're not buying the MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G then you're gaming completely incorrectly.

My laptop came with an AMD Radeon HD 7650M and everytime I run a game it feels like I can cook eggs on my it. Get nVidia, don't get anything else unless it's an incredibly high-end Intel card.

(The NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 TI is alright too, especially for high-performance demanding games, but the price isn't always worth it.)
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you aren't aware of nvidias poor driver performance as of late and how unreliable they are when you could get an AMD card for cheaper, without all the unstable shit. you're probably getting bad frames because its a 7650M which is not only a laptop card but also really old and shit.

a 980Ti is like £400-£500 and is really not worth it unless you're making an enthusiasts build.

intel also don't make dedicated video cards specifically for gaming, just integrated graphics chipsets in CPUs.
 
The one downside I've found with AMD is that their drivers tend to take awhile to get out for new releases, and they run kinda hot, but so far, I've found the 390 to be more worth it compared to nvidia cards

get it if you have the money

(I have a 390x in my tower currently)
 
well yeah amd are inherently tdp/watt whores but id be willing to take that risk, AMD GPU/Intel CPU seems like a good balance atm and especially so with their new HBM cards
 
I too was once an Nvidia/Intel fanboy, until I learned how hard they've been stifling competition in the CPU/GPU industry.

This one has more to do with Intel vs. Amd
https://np.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3s5r4d/is_nvidia_sabotaging_performance_for_no_visual/cwukpuc

I've always been one to argue in favor of anything but AMD, but times are changing. Next year AMD Zen CPU architecture, from all current indications, will be able to compete with Intel CPU's. AMD has failed at architecture in previous years, but hopefully this will change next year Q2-Q3. From Wikipedia "In August 2012, Jim Keller returned to AMD, where his primary task was to design a new generation microarchitecture called Zen.[14] After years of being unable to compete with Intel in the high-end CPU market, the new generation of Zen processors is hoped to restore AMD's position in the high-end x86-64 processor market."

Finally, and more on topic with the thread, AMD video cards are cost effective. Why get a 970 that has "defective" vram, when you can get a card that has 8gb of vram, and performs as good or better than a 970. AMD 390
 
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