As we all know far too well, it's very easy to get caught in up the new product syndrome.
I have an Asus R9 Fury (Non-X) on hand that I bought on impulse because I caught it in stock and had the cash at that moment.
After doing some more research on it, maybe an R9 390 would have been a better price/performance buy on the AMD side......
I will be putting together my new Xeon 1231 v3 build, and it will be used for general productivity, streaming, and gaming.
As far as gaming goes, I know with some of the newer cards we are getting close to 4K, but I think for the time being 1440P would be a good place to be at (even if on a 4K monitor).
So if you take 4K out of the picture, then how much GPU do we really need? This is not as much a matter of price as it is what does your money get you in real life playing games.
So should I just rock the 390, or return it?
If I return it then what? SLI 960/970's, single 980, Crossfire 290(x), single 390, etc, etc......
Just wanted to see what others thoughts were on this.......
I'm personally probably keep it (I'm a huge supporter of HBM, pretty sure it is the future, just needs to be funded), but if you don't really want it you could sell/return it and grab the 390 or a 980/970. I think the performance will be about the same at 1440p. The Fury has so little information to really scavenge through to make a good guess.
That is a tough call. If you could return it and get all the money back I probably would since I dont like to purchase on speculation and the price to performance of the 390 at 1440 is hard to argue against... but if the card matures like many suspect it will then you might regret sending it back.
That's the exact review I was going over last night. You don't really see many in depth reviews of the ASUS Fury so it was an interesting read for sure. Was kind of depressing though to see the performance of the newer card with "HBM" in comparison to the older model card.
While the benefits of a 980 Ti are easily evident, in my opinion it's still not an Ultra 4K card, and for 1440P there are less expensive options that are still extremely playable on high settings. And with it being known that HBM is the future, how smart would it really be to fork out so much cash on a 980 Ti? There's folks with SLI 7990's and 780 Ti's playing whatever they want at high frame rates and those setups cost a lot less......
And the cost of SLI 980 ti's, lol forget that......
Depends on how much of your investment you can get back and how much you have to do to return it.
The fury is weird because it has half the ram of the 390/390x so it has the potential to fall behind if you use up the vram.(not sure how often this might happen if at all)
As far as overkill games will always have increasing requirement so it would age better.
for me it would have been easy if the fury had 8gb vram.
I agree 100% with everything you have said, hence my concerns now......
I have not even opened the box so returning it, especially for credit to get something else would be a non issue. At the very least I am sure I could recover my cost selling for what I paid (MSRP) on ebay.
The low amount of vram and memory bandwidth would be a concern otherwise for 1080 my single 960 works very well.(didn't like what i seen this release cycle so got a mid range to hold me over)
As far a sli/crossfire I see too many times where games have poor multi gpu support. I generally prefer single more powerful cards and sli/crossfire only for when a single high end tier gpu isn't enough.(Unless the price is insane)
For 1440p I'd personally go for an overclocked 980, the price on them has dropped so much in the last few months, and in my opinion 4k isn't viable for gaming just yet.