Captain_Tom on 22 October 2014
| the-pi-guy said: -The 290 series did see a price drop (after a severe price increase).  -Glad to know I'm not in my right mind.  Thinking about getting a 970 for 1080p gaming. I love looking at the benchmarks and seeing that I'd be able to play X game at Y framerate. Especially considering the fact that I've never been able to do so. My current computer for example runs Skyrim @ 1024x768 at a frame rate of 30 fps. Which is awesome for me, but comparatively to the 970, that's sad. I do agree with the point of this thread, AMD is definitely competitive and after the new 900 series was such a small jump over the 700 series, they could very well jump ahead. Though they usually close or even ahead in 4K benchmarks, they could so even more. |
My honest to god advice is to not get a new GPU for another half year at least. 4K, 5K (LOL 8K too), Display port 1.3, FreeSync, OLED displays, and 20nm/16nm are all on the horizon. I personally want to see how some of these play out/be supported before I upgrade.
