r9 390 upgrade

[Cappuccino]

at £350 there is only one choice...the gtx 1070 which gives you mega more fps at 1080p then your r9 390...polaris should be about on par with what you already have perhaps at lower price?!...certainly at lower power consumption.

you could wait for vega, but big pascal is going to release at the same frametime aswell and i got a slight feeling it would be way faster...

I guess I wait for all the cards first and go from there. Any ideas when all the cards be released?

 

[Qwertilot]

If you're after quiet, very definitely best to wait until ~September anyway. The 1070 is due soon but it takes a little time for best custom cards to come out/pricing and availability to sort itself out!

Its mostly guesswork for some of it:
1070 - very soon indeed but as above best to wait if not desperate. 150 TDP so there will be some very, very quiet models from some of the after market people.

Definitely faster than a 290, but won't destroy it performance wise. 50 per cent maybe?! £350 ish(? guess work, they've given a dollar value but that conversion is very random at times 🙂)

Polaris 10 - availability unknown, but definitely meant to be 'soon'. If they aren't there by September something will have gone horribly wrong at Global Foundries. May get a few cards up to 1070 performance/power draw, the bulk likely to be lower speed but also lower power draw, price etc.

So you could maybe get +20% performance and a really low power draw that way for around 200ish. Similar deal with NV's roughly similar 'smaller than 1070' cards which should be coming out round Autumn.

The case for waiting a full year?

There will be top cards faster than the 1080 out there from both sides (absolutely certain), but they'll be pricey and power hungry. Most likely effect would be the 1070/80 (and/or AMD equiv) dropping in price. So good chances of either saving ~£100 or getting 20-30% more performance at current 1070 prices.

Projecting from NV's very consistent historic trends, we're due mid range Volta in 2-2.5 years which may well be ~70% above the current 1070/80 at the same kind of power draw.

Those (and any AMD response) should be the cards the truly meet your first post, but plenty of good options in the mean time too 🙂 Just depends what you want to do.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

For reference, Cappuccino's card is the R9 390 GAMING 8G, and it is bigger than most cards as it takes up 2.5 slots:

Not quite as big as the Devil 13, but not much smaller either.

 

[Majcric]

As others have stated I would wait for other cards to release. I'm thinking 1070 as well.

However, If need a card now Look for a good deal on a 980ti.

 

[nenforcer]

You've owned that card for less than a year and it has an 8GB GDDR5 framebuffer - there is no upgrade currently available on the market. You have to absolutely wait for either the GTX 1080 / 1070 and the AMD Polaris 10 next month.

 

[Insomniator]

As a side note, I can't believe that card is $340 on Newegg right now. I paid $290 for the same card at Newegg 6 months ago. Then there was a $20 MSI rebate bringing it down to $270.

So a 390, which is really just a 290 with some more memory, has risen $70 in the past 6 months. The 290 released for $399 in October 2013.

Sad state of affairs for GPU's these days.

 

[jabroni619]

His CPU

Unless his CPU is running at default speeds, this is absolutely not an issue.

 

[Thinker_145]

As a side note, I can't believe that card is $340 on Newegg right now. I paid $290 for the same card at Newegg 6 months ago. Then there was a $20 MSI rebate bringing it down to $270.

So a 390, which is really just a 290 with some more memory, has risen $70 in the past 6 months. The 290 released for $399 in October 2013.

Sad state of affairs for GPU's these days.

Because it's held up in performance remarkably well, it's been the high end price performance king for a long time.

The GTX 1070 will surely take that spot and you can then expect the price to drop on the 390.

 

[SPBHM]

checking amazon UK, the price you specified should be enough for a 980 and not to far from a Fury Nano... well those would lower power draw and board size, not sure about the noise with Nano, also there is the problem that you will be actually downgrading the memory amount to half...

it might be better to just wait for the 1070 and Polaris if you can...

or... even a 970 would probably suffice... perf is close enough and power draw is a lot lower with a simpler/smaller board