worth changing from my present 7970 to a 290x or similar ?
worth changing from my present 7970 to a 290x or similar ?
As Johnny Five would say "Need more input!" - What resolution will you be playing at 1080p, 1440p or above & what CPU are you using?
Here's Anandtech's comparison of the 7970 Ghz Edition vs the stock 290X - there's quite a difference in benchmarks. It does depend on the resolution you're gaming at though. The 290X has 4Gb of VRAM of course, & is FreeSync & Mantle compatible, if those features are important to you...
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1031?vs=1056
Sorry forgot I have no signiture on here, 1080p (atm) i7 4770k @4GHz
My usual advice is to stick with your existing card, as long as it's capable of playing your games at the resolution & image quality you want. If it starts to struggle, then maybe think about upgrading. Of course AMD are supposed to be releasing their 300 series cards fairly soon, so the pricing of their range may change quite a bit after that...
It is a good upgrade but I would ask is your 7970 struggling on any titles? Have you tried overclocking it? I comfortably reached 1.1Ghz with default voltage on my 7950.
Arh! Overposted Mr Jim. I agree. It seems like a lot to pay i.e. Around £250 when you will be hitting the limits of your monitor (Assuming 60Hz)
Cheers chaps I will hang on a bit, thanks all.
ok thank you.
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Thats marketing for you, 1080p/1440p stays standard for quite a while then suddenly you hear 4k and it sounds really impressive. Ofcourse when you actually check what resolution 4k is and discover its just double 1080p its not quite so impressive, the wonderful world of marketing.
No.
MrJim has already suggested waiting to see what the 300 series cards have to offer, I'll second that and say go for a 390X. Hopefully AMD will take a leaf out of the nVidia book and bring the 3xx series cards out at a lower price than the launch price for the 2xx series cards.
Millennium (24-03-2015)
No we didn't. The fashion of referring to just height is a recent trend borrowed from the TV world and not all that sensible in a gaming context. 1080p could be 1920x1080 or 2560x1080 and while they're equivalent for video content there's a noticeable difference in performance when it comes to gaming.
Before that we either gave both figures (1600x1200, 1920x1200) or we used names that referred to specific resolutions (UXGA, WUXGA, FHD etc.).
The p is particularly silly, I don't know if there's ever been a game designed to be played with an interlaced output.
It's four times the resolution usually referred to as '1080p', four 1920x1080 panels resulting from a doubling in both height and width.
Unless you were referring to 2560x1080, in which case it's three times the pixel count![]()
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