you wasted a college education with that response......?
was I right? I believe I was. OP said 1080p. hello? and he does use 1440p to make AMD cards look better. check most of his posts. OP will say 1080p, he pulls out 4k benchies mixed with 1440p. You think its a mistake? He does this all day long ,every day.
1080p is one of the most used resolutions by gamers.
You clearly do not understand the relationship of 1080P vs. 1440P.
1. Future games will become more demanding. If someone intends to keep their GPU for 2-3 years, the performance impact at 1440P helps us somewhat extrapolate how those next gen games will behave at 1080P. Superior performance at 1440P is what we have going since we don't have 2017-2018 games available to us.
Using this strategy, it was extremely easy to extrapolate that GTX580's performance advantage at 1080P over 6970, 780Ti's over 290X and 680's over 7970 would amount to almost nothing. Check the benchmarks and you will see that generally if a card can handle higher resolutions well, it's better to keep long-term.
2. At Computerbase, that tested 18 games at 1080P HQ, 390 beats 970 OC by 2%.
http://www.computerbase.de/2015-09/...t/4/#diagramm-rating-1920-1080-hohe-qualitaet
So your point is completely moot that 970 will smoke a 390 at 1080P.
3. While 8GB is overkill, you assigned 0 value to having true 4GB of fast GDDR5. What about mods for Skyrim, Fallout 4, GTA V, Doom?
4. Some 390 cards like XFX from BestBuy have lifetime warranty. You signed no value to that.
5. You have not thought long-term: if NV and AMD are selling 2 GPUs that perform very similar to each other and cost similarly but NV has the majority market share, what's better for us consumers to have more competition or LESS competition? Of course more competition. That means I feel when two cards are extremely close, it's more beneficial for us to have a healthy GPU market which means recommending AMD to try to get market share as close as possible to 50/50%. Otherwise, as consumers we'll continue to get mid-range chips priced at $550 from NV. Without AMD, that's exactly what we'd get. If you don't feel this point is important, sure disregard it but a lot of gamers do think long-term and this matters 'all things being equal'.
As I already mentioned, there are pros for the 970 as well:
- lower power usage
- TXAA
- PhysX
- better performance in games that favour NV like WOW, Project CARS, many MOBA games. If someone predominately plays those games, the 970 is a great choice.
EDIT:
Here is an
XFX R9 290X 8GB for $300, comes with lifetime warranty if registered within 30 days. That gives you the peace of mind of warranty, VRAM and performance (and DX12 since 290X has 8 ACE engines).
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