PowerColor Radeon R9 390 PCS+

[crossy]

Therefore I'm personally not at all moved by these numbers. It will have to take at least noticeable fps gain in almost EVERY game to get me to buy AMD again.

Sounds like you've had a previous "bad experience" with the AMD products and that's colouring your thinking - not saying that's bad, mainly because I said exactly the same thing in my original post, but for NVidia. Me, I tend to look at value for money - if AMD can match NVidia's performance but at a cheaper price point then I'm interested.

p.s. Those driver issues seem rather specific. Since for years now nvidia does not require restarts to update drivers. And there always has been custom install option to not install all crap, which I've been using and is working great. And as for nvidias new way of not updating drivers and only releasing once per quarter - I don't really care. I have tested it before, game ready drivers never have improved fps anyway and never did I require game ready driver in all my 10+ year gaming with nvidia. Installing last available WHQL driver is all that has been required.

Of course the driver issues are "specific" - I did say that I'd defected because of the dissatisfaction with drivers. Oh, and "for years now" no reboot? Colour me dubious, although I've not had the pleasure of desktop NVidia drivers since March 2013 - before which time pretty much every install of WHQL has needed that Windows-usual system restart.. Yes, I know about custom, (and used it) but I'm less than impressed that every install had to have all that unnecessary manure explicitly removed. To my simplistic way of thinking, if you're "upgrading" graphics drivers then you should just get that alone - not a couple of mega of extraneous bloat that some "expert" in NVidia's marketing department has decided I needed. Opt-in please guys!

I'll probably go back to NVidia in a year or two - mainly because NVidia's Linux drivers are better than their AMD compatriots and that's becoming more of an issue for me. As I've said in the past, I'm using AMD+AMD at the moment, but there's no intellectual objection in my mind to going Intel+NVidia for the next build.

[Tabbykatze]

Until I win the lottery, £/Performance is the only metric I care about and that puts me solidly in the Red territory which i've been happily in since my first ATI X800 and have been AMD/ATI ever since.

[Medallish]

The 390's are pretty sweet, built a system for someone using the Sapphire 390, and yeah, it was quiet, and did everything pretty great, the owner was certainly pleased with it's performance. Not entirely sure what's up with the giant looking coolers, I get that they don't want a repeat of the 290/X debacle, but 3 slot cooling seems like over compensatingas 2 slots are more than enough for even a 290X, but then of course it's nice having those incredibly low temperatures.