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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

I'm trying to upgrade from my trusty 5850, but with what's on the market is right now (and because of some unexpected expenses, like a big dentist bill) I may hold a bit longer.

Honestly, I'm disappointed with AMD because, despite what they may say, they have undelivered. Yes, yes, I know that they have only launched the x80 and lower parts, but they should at least be able to beat the 390/390X cards. What's the point of lanching a new product if offers nothing new? They should have made the full Polaris 10 a 40CU chip. At least it's cheap... when there's stock.

And I'm angry with Nvidia, because they have delivered, performance wise, but they have gone totally nuts with their prices. The 1070 for $449 (because good luck finding one for $379), that translates to 500 € is a f*cking joke, and the price of the 1080 is even worse. At least the 1060 is ok, with some models retailing for the same as the 480.

So right now I'm between getting a 480 and feel like I'm getting less performance than I should, get a 1060 and feel stupid for having to get that card despite my budget being bigger than that or simply wait until whatever comes next.

I'm still deciding.

At the very least you would want to wait for Vega as it should help drive the Radeon 470, 480 and Geforce 1060/1070 prices downwards with some luck.

Keep in mind though, you are probably looking at a 500% performance increase or more going from a Radeon 5850 to a Radeon 480, so the jump isn't to be understated... But you could probably wait it out as well. I would hazard a guess most games you can still do medium/high settings still?

I don't think Vega will lower the price of the 480/470 and 1060 as they are already low enough, but the 1070 surely will drop in price... at least I hope. And yes, the performance jump I'd get right now is ridiculously huge, but it's roughly the same I would have had one year ago with the 390/390X cards.

On most games I can still enable medium with sometimes a bit of high settings. I think having only 1GB of VRAM is the main problem. Still, because the PS4/X1 have raised the bar, many new games are completely out of my range as they ask for a 7870/660 in the min. requirements.

Solid-Stark said:

JEMC said:

*rant*

Dude I was rocking a GTX550ti last year. Then I sold the PC. I've had my 3440x1440 monitor for more than a year now, still no PC/GPU. Though I've decided on an i5, I have not decided on GPU (aiming for ~$300 card). But while waiting, I might as well wait for next Intel and AMD's Zen.

With that monitor, waiting is you best bet, at least for the GPU. There's currently no card for ~$300 with enough performance to run every game at that resolution without lowering the settings. A 1070 or a used 980Ti may be your best bets right now, and they are out of your budget.

By the way, the latest rumors talk abour Zen not arriving until 2017 (source: SemiAccurate forum / article: Wccftech)

So the wait may be long.