Video card for battlfield 1 AMD around $400

[MagickMan]

XFX Fury X was going for $399 on Newegg yesterday, maybe they'll drop another soon.

 

[SPBHM]

if you are set on AMD you are going to be limited to cards from 1 year ago at best and slower (or the 480 which is a lot slower) also with 4GB of vram.
the 1070 is the only logical choice for a new card around $400.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Man I would wait until bf1 comes out before making this decision. Both vendors may have new cards out by then which could shake up pricing big time.

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[Arachnotronic]

Man I would wait until bf1 comes out before making this decision. Both vendors may have new cards out by then which could shake up pricing big time.

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There's nothing coming out at the $400 price point by October. NVIDIA's high end is all out and AMD says Vega is 2017.

 

[spinejam]

$30 MIR & 10% off promo drops this to an interesting option:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487144

 

[guskline]

TheZombieKing: May I ask what monitor you are using?

The reason I ask is from everything I see the RX 480 may be the best bang per buck card for strictly 1080 monitors. As you increase resolution, a faster card starts to out weigh this factor.

Since you set your budget at @$400, all things considered the GTX 1070 looks possible.

I agree with BlueWizard above.

 

[Midwayman]

Well you have a couple options. First I'd say wait unless you really need it now. Prices will only drop on the new cards and who knows AMD might announce the RX 490 before the end of the year. There was some official stuff that suggests it will be out before the end of the year.

If you want to spend $400 a fury X is selling around there and there a normal fury cards popping up around $300. Buy these quick if you're interested. Who knows how long the deals will stick around. Doom benches suggest the fury X could be kinda insane under dx12/vulcan. Just keep an eye out for those deals.

On the Nvidia side the 1070 is the obvious choice, but there is no real reason not to wait until closer to release if you want one.

Cheaper there are the RX 480 AIB cards, but its completely different market than the $400 range.

 

[Headfoot]

The only other option is 2x RX480 which ends up being as fast or faster than the 1080... when dual card works. Which is not nearly as often as it once was. I wouldn't suggest going dual cards unless you have a very specific set of games and you dont plan on branching out. DICE has supported dual cards extremely well out of the box so far, so I'd expect BF1 to be the same. But other games, not so much. More often than not a single faster card is just going to be better.

 

[RussianSensation]

I was just wondering what my best option for an AMD Radeon Video card around $400 I'm buying it to prep for battlefield 1. Thank you -TheZombieKing

The best option is to wait until the game is released.

1) By the time it's out, we may either have price drops or rebates on new gen videocards (i.e., GTX1070, 480, etc.) or we could have even faster videocards released (GTX1080Ti, etc.)

2) We could see newer cards come bundles with games, and some of those bundles could even be a BF1 bundle

3) It may be possible to enjoy BF1 on a $200-240 videocard thus negating the need to spend $400. Right now GTX970/RX 480/R9 390/980 are performing very well at 1080p in BF1. This shouldn't be surprising since StarWars Battlefront was one of the best optimized shooters of last year.

4) There could be even larger discounts on outdated but still fast last gen GPUs (980Ti/Fury X)

If you want to play any game not out for at least 3-6 months, I would never buy a videocard that far in advance for it. Games get delayed and many launch games have issues/bugs that take months to be fixed.