AMD continues to see significant performance gains in DX12, Nvidia not as much

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Eddie_Raja said:

JEMC said:

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And in that case, a 980Ti card is the best option.

You see I actually disagree completely.  If you want to play in 1080p, the 980 Ti and 390 will give you the exact same experience - even 5 years down the line.  If you want to play in 4K - 390 CF is the same price and almost twice as powerful with more VRAM.

And here I disagree with you.

At 1080p they don't give the same performance, the 980Ti is much, much faster (btw, it's hard to find reviews of these cards at 1080p. Most reviews go directly to 1440p and 4K)

http://www.bjorn3d.com/2015/08/sapphire-nitro-r9-390-8g-ds-review-playing-nitro/

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/R9_Fury_Tri-X_OC/1.html It's a Fury review but it has numbers for the R9 390 and the 980Ti

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/powercolor_pcs_r9_390_8gb/

The only thing that saves the 390 is that most of the time it is able to give 60fps, so in a regular 60Hz monitor they will look the same... now. In five years they won't feel the same, not even close.

And if we go into CF, well, yes, in a best case scenario a pair of 390 in CF will be much faster than a 980Ti. But with that stupid GameWorks thing and with studios like Ubisoft, crossfire won't work all the time, so the performance will vary greatly. And of course there's the fact that the system will draw +300W more, making the system a lot hotter and a lot more noisy.

Personally, I think that CF or SLI is not the best option. It's better to buy a single and fast card than 2 slower ones. You'll run into less troubles.