Like the title says, I have a 2560x1440 144hz freesync monitor. Im leaning towards the 980ti but if I get the fury x i can take advantage of freesync. I can get a 980ti classified for $600 at the moment so I wanted to know, will I be missing out on a lot by forgoing freesync if I get the gtx 980ti? If freesync is truly amazing im sure ill be happy with a fury x but I want your honest opinions.
You can always get an nVidia G-Sync panel to substitute a Freesync one. The 980ti is faster because can be overclocked quite a lot. Comparing side by side a reference 980ti and a Fury X they're pretty neck at neck. I would go for the 980ti because drivers are more solid and it's not based on an experimental technology like HBM.
Thanks to your reply. As far as replacing the monitor I wont be able to because i just bought it last week for $418. Its the Asus mg279q ips monitor and im in love with it, especially for the price I got it for. Seeing as replacing the panel is out of the question for the next few years I just want to know if being able to use freesync is worth going amd over team green.
Didn't know that. If you already have a Freesync monitor you'll get a better overall experience if you can use it to it's fullest potential. How much is a Fury X? If you can snag it fo 500$ it's a better bang for the buck than a 980ti, especially if you already have a Freesync monitor.
Cheapest fury x is also $600, man this is tough but ill take your advice, ill go for the fury x then. I wanted to wait for pascal and polaris but circumstances wont allow for it unfortunately. So close yet so far.
What's the range of your Freesync monitor? Beware that a Fury X has little to no room for overclocking if you're into that.
P.S. sorry for not reading carefully the OP before.
No need to apologize. My freesync range is 35-90hz, which wont be a problem since the fury x wont be running many of the games I play over 90fps at 1440p, it will surely stay right in the sweet-spot. I just wish I could see what freesync looks and feels like in person so I could make the best decision possible as I'm stuck in choosing over nvidias more powerful gpu with tons of overcloking headroom, better drivers and better software or using the freesync on my monitor. Either I take advantage of more of my 144hz range with freesync disabled if I go team green, or go team red and stay at a nice range with freesync enabled capped out at a still very respectable 90hz. First world problems though, I guess I shouldn't complain too much.
Well even though you chose I'll say it anyways. FuryX over all is cheaper and just as good. At that I think they should similarly priced and they aren't. Looking at the history of bullshit nvidia pulls, with the current drivers, or at least a little while ago, the titan got nuked to be less than a 960. Thats going to be 860 bucks down the drain when pascal launches. At least the fury is as good of a card as it is.
At that I'm not sure why anyone would favor one over the other. Nvidia has good marketing and amd is setting standards for monitors and technology. I see it like buying apple over windows machines or building a linux machine. You don't learn anything, its fun for 6-9 months if not less, then a driver update kills it and all nvidia has to say for them selves is "Awwww, well, too bad :( buy our new card!". Its like going to the genius bar; I don't know why people put up with that shit
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Well I haven't bought the card yet but you do make and extremely valid point. Nvidia has been gimping their last generation gpus to the point where amd cards that were outperformed by the 780 by 30-40% now perform the same as the 780 they got crushed by a few years ago. I'm very glad you brought this up as I had completely forgotten what could possibly happen to the 980ti i was maybe going to buy. 3 years down the road.....BOOM! 390 performs the same as the 980ti. Well this has certainly cemented the fury x as the card I will purchase. I like giving money to amd when I can anyways as they innovate and have a deeper respect for the gaming community and still support and improve drivers for cards that are half a decade old while nvidia does not. Thanks for the input guys :)
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How about non of them? 1080 comes out in friday, 400 series gets revealed at the end of the month... How about not getting any of those now and get a new gpu in about a month?
Anyway, having Freesync monitor and not having AMD card - you are not serious... Get yourself a freesync card and stop caring if the framerate moves 30 to 144 or is stable 144...
No problem. If I can give a hand and I know what I'm talking about I do it (:
i got the monitor because even without freesync its a damn good 1440p 144hz monitor and i got it on a great sale. you dont find an ips panel of that caliber at $400 very often. but yeah everyone seems to agree i should just get a freesync capable card and you make very good points. Thanks for the advice :)
Based on what we've seen in the past, I would not be surprised if by the end of the product cycle, the fiji cards end up faster than the 980Ti. To my knowledge it has happened with every AMD flagship since the 7970. Not to mention that because Maxwell has to support Asynchronous Compute through software rather than hardware, lest Nvidia face a class-action lawsuit, and with DX12 and Vulkan only a little ways off from wide support, the Fiji cards will dea crushing blows to the Maxwell flagship. Also, if you believe in such things, Nvidia may slash the performance of its Maxwell cards to market Pascal.
So if you're not waiting for Polaris and Pascal (I don't blame you - I didn't wait) then I would say grab a Fury X. But not just any Fury X - get the Nano. That card at the very least is an impressive piece of engineering, because this little card sitting in my machine is smaller than a Sapphire 7770, consumes 2/3 the power of my 7970 and is twice as powerful. Yet with a custom fan curve it stays under 70°C at full load, even when overclocked. And because the chips are binned to run at such low temps on such a small cooler, with adjustments to the voltage and power limit, it WILL overclock very nicely to the stock speeds of the Fury X.
Im almost positive by the end of the product cycle that the fiji cards will outperform the 980ti. Thanks for the suggestion, Ill take a good hard look at the nano. I wasn't even considering the nano but nowadays you can find them on newegg for $450 sometimes. Great bang for your buck indeed but I wasn't aware it was a good overclocker seeing as it has a hard power limit. What clocks were you able to get out of yours?
Just looking at performance, I would go 980ti.
But I have to look at everything. Currently the FuryX is a bit slower, on par or a bit faster depending on the game with a slight edge the higher the resolution. Just looking at the only true DX12 game Ashes of the Singularity and what the FuryX does to the TitanX, I can not recommend any Maxwell-GPU for gaming systems. Vulkan is to be determined but I expect it to perform better on AMD than Nvidia GPUs.
Another point that is more a long-term thought: AMD will supply the Nintendo NX, "PS4k" and new XBox with chips. The console market is bigger than PC, developers will develop on AMD (ProDuo) for AMD (semi-custom).
Freesync is amazing, so go FuryX. If you like to tinker a bit, get a Nano and one of Arctics GPU-AIOs to boost it to FuryX (or more) performance for ~30 bucks less.
Everyone seems to be recommending the fiji cards over the gtx 980ti for the long haul. You bring up yet another great point to add to the list as to why the fury seems to be the way to go. AMD will have a huge part in the console world. Well seems to me like my mind is made at this point. Fiji it is.
Pretty sure the 1080 is only a paper launch Friday, but I could be mistaken
Yeah it's only gonna be a paper launch from what I've been reading with the actual gpus selling early June.
Are they realy gimping their cards?
That video misses the point. It is not drivers decreasing the performance but the gameworks titles not fully utilizing older cards.
BTW: Why exactly do you bring that up? The question was 980ti or Fiji. Not is Nvidia the bad guy.