Card Dilemma to Drive 3440x1440

[weaslefluff]

Having read most of the 980 thread, it seems that the 256 bus may limit properly driving 3440x1440. I'm about to start a new build based on Haswell-E and I do some gaming but not extensive - some Diablo III and Civ 5. Quiet is also important.

With a budget of about $500 for a card, should I wait for the 980, get a reduced price 780TI, or something from AMD (not wanting to run multiple GPUs yet).

Further, I've already ordered the monitor and my current card GTX670 can't drive that resolution. So I can either 1) get a long term card now (ruling out 980) so I can use it while I wait to get the rest of the build, 2) get the cheapest thing I can to drive it while waiting for 980, or next best thing, or 3) leave the monitor in a box tempting me to build before everything I want is available (mostly bootable PCIe SSD with 4X3.0 lanes and NVMe).

Thoughts? Ideas?

 

[Lyfer]

Wait for the 980 IMO to see where prices settle to.

 

[weaslefluff]

I found that the GTX670 can drive the new monitor using DisplayPort so I ordered a cable and I'll wait to see what happens and where prices shake out.

Nothing to see here - move along.

 

[BrightCandle]

Until we have real benchmarks we have no idea. It might not perform well at higher resolutions or the new cache architecture might compensate well. We don't know what we don't know because its not a released product yet. Bit early to call it a dud!

 

[lavaheadache]

just get a used 290... there is no better bang for the buck

 

[Skott]

A 290x should do the job but like lava said you can get a 290 and overclock it and you would be fine. Later on you could get a second 290 and CF if your rig is set up for it. Or wait for a single card even more powerful than a 290 and preferably a 290x. When you get up to 3440x1440 you need to start thinking about CF and SLI for maxing out games.

 

[iiiankiii]

For anything above 1080p, you can't go wrong with AMD. Its larger memory bus and 4gb of RAM will go along well with high res. displays. I wouldn't expect a 980 to do well at your resolution when compared to a 780/ti or 290/x.

 

[x3sphere]

I'm using 290s in CF to drive 3440x1440 right now. One card won't cut with many of the newer games, if you want to maintain 60 FPS that is.

I had a GTX780 SLI setup previously. For what it's worth the 290s in CF seem to run smoother overall, and I switched for a fraction of the cost, picked them up for around $300 each used. Probably can find them cheaper now.