390x to Fury X?

[jtvang125]

I have a 390x right now with a freesync ultrawide monitor. I was thinking of getting another 390x to CF but with all the issues of compatibility I'm going to ditch that idea. Plus I'll need to upgrade my 750w psu to do that too.

There's a chance I can pick up a Fury X for $300 and this seems to be the best AMD has at the moment. I'm a little hesitant because the 390x really isn't that far behind (10fps or so). The thought of going to a1070 has crossed my mind but a big point of getting my particular monitor was for freesync so I'd hate to just ditch it.

Decisions, decisions, decisions.

 

[Bacon1]

I went from a 290 -> Fury Nitro (Air not X) and it was a solid upgrade for 3440x1440.

Yours would be similar, but less of an upgrade since the 390x is more powerful than the 290 I had (mostly memory but core as well).

One downside will be going 8gb -> 4gb of VRAM, though it usually doesn't cause an issue thanks to HBM insane bandwidth. If you are going to sell your 390x you might be able to upgrade for very little, in which case its worth it, but I wouldn't say its a worthy $300 upgrade at all.

 

[crisium]

I don't think so. 390X can be very close especially in games that are really optimized for the consoles (GCN 2). Overall Fury X is faster but this would be one of the smallest upgrades one could do, especially since 390X is clocked very high and has 8GB of VRAM. Latest TPU chart has a Fury X only 20% faster than a 390X at 1440P. And while the Fury X's lead grows with higher resolution and AA, then you could approach the 4GB bottleneck.

Wait for Vega 10 (smaller vega). I do not think cut down Vega will be at $300 to start, but if it gets into a price war with the 1070 it will get there sooner or later.

 

[Mercennarius]

This is the dilemma many 290X/390X owners are in I feel....Hawaii GPUs have been out for quite some time and many owners are ready to upgrade. But AMDs best offering currently (Fury X) is only roughly 20% faster...not a big enough upgrade when the next gen high end AMD card will undoubtedly be much faster. But seems like were 6 months away still from having a AMD GPU worth while to upgrade to from Hawaii...

 

[IEC]

I went from a 290 to a Fury Nitro (slightly faster than stock Fury X) and am satisfied. But 390X to Fury X isn't as big a jump, so you might as well wait for Vega (or at least cheaper 1070s).

I would have considered a 1070 except I didn't want to replace my Freesync monitor with a Gsync one.

 

[Headfoot]

I'm doing 5760x1080 with 2 290s and I'm waiting for Vega or 1080 Ti. This is the chart that convinced me

IMO there is just not enough of a performance uplift from 390x to Fury X for it to be worth $300.