380x or 290

SoCalMX70 said:
Ok, so the engine is a dog and the game just came out. I'm sure a patch and more driver optimizations are coming. When you mention FPS dropping, are we talking to unplayable levels? If it stays above 30 at high settings, does it matter? This is a single player RPG, not a competitive online shooter.

Also, unless the buyer is making his purchase to exclusively play Fallout 4 for the foreseeable future, it's moot point.
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yep, might get better. but atm i've yet to hear of an AMD card with any cpu ram setup get over 35 fps in scenes like that atm, even with i7 4ghz+ cpu's.

And since fallout is quite a huge game, and many people spends hundreds of hours playing such games, it's a friendly warning. + some people can't tolerate sub 60 fps and/or don't wanna lower settings with high end cards. better to know what you are getting before buying.

but I do agree with you, that overall, a 390 is a great card. I personally wouldn't recommend it for a fallout fan atm though.
 
At the same price the 290 easily. You will get a solid performance bump. Your VSR options are a bit more limited but that is the only real lose. The 290 supports the entire rest of the feature set at the same level.
 
SoCalMX70 said:
VSR is not a form of supersampling?
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He means real supersampling(either rotated or sparse grid) vsr/dsr is nothing more than brute force ogssaa

@bab same old ssaa situation with amd. If the game has msaa support than ssaa can be forced. Otherwise your generally sol
 
Higgy10 said:
He means real supersampling(either rotated or sparse grid) vsr/dsr is nothing more than brute force ogssaa

@bab same old ssaa situation with amd. If the game has msaa support than ssaa can be forced. Otherwise your generally sol
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Eh, beyond dx9 Nvidia is in the same boat. Does the enhance mode work reliably?
 
Higgy10 said:
He means real supersampling(either rotated or sparse grid) vsr/dsr is nothing more than brute force ogssaa

@bab same old ssaa situation with amd. If the game has msaa support than ssaa can be forced. Otherwise your generally sol
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Ah gotcha... Well, good news is it looks like AMD will support Supersampling as of the Crimson driver. :D

PS- I was only able to glance at the article when I was on my work computer, so I might be wrong. Will read later.
 
Looks like I will be getting the 380x as soon as some more options come out. Looking at Gigabyte primarily or ASUS. Namely for quality of the hardware used and warranty options.

My HD5770s are just getting to old to keep using and I am really pushing them to the point of failure. (6 years of continuous service is really pretty good for any mid-range graphics card setup. They are my bottleneck atm)

If I get the card before you do (or if I get the card at all, lol seeing as 14nm cards will be out next year), I will let you know how it does on at least Witcher 3, WiC and Thief since we have a similar setup.
 
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I have a nice coil whine in 3dmark Vantage especially when i use boost frequency...
Never had this before on AMD cards...hmm
One solution: limit the framerate to 60FPs...In Cod Black Ops 3 i can't hear it but is limited to 60FPS...Funny :)
 
yeah, seems like it's a lottery if you get coil whine or not these days, with both camps. everyone gets it at super high fps, but some people get it even at 60 fps.
 
I've never had coil whine with a top tier GPU tbh. I did have it with a pair of 670's, which I returned for a pair of 680's that were fine.
 
i've talked to people with 980's and 980ti's and they also report getting it at extremely high FPS ranges. like 500+ fps uncapped framerate in a main menu or something, so not really a problem.
 
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