Really? Is it really worth it for me to upgrade from a GTX 770 4GB to the GTX 970 ?
It was priced at $549 when it competed with 780 Ti. For nearly all of the 970's lifespan, it was the same price or cheaper. MSRP is totally irrelevant.Nobody would buy a 290X for $549 anymore. But yet you have people here who are hyping this card as a better card than the GTX970 at $329.
AMD cards are not better. They got price reduced to a point where people would buy then again.
It was priced at $549 when it competed with 780 Ti. For nearly all of the 970's lifespan, it was the same price or cheaper. MSRP is totally irrelevant.
That or the 780 at $650 is the biggest joke in the world.
They're already proving you right. The 390 matches the 980 in fallout 4 latest patch and rise of tomb raider latest patch.If? more like when in about 3 -4 months, give or take
Here, I challenge Nvidia to prove me wrong, and serve its customers right for a change by not dropping optimizations for Maxwell when it releases Pascal. Although I will not benefit from it, since I have moved on to a better GPU solution for ME (From quad OG Titans to a single Fury), hope the others gain from Kepler owners experience, and a possible remedy, may be
It was priced at $549 when it competed with 780 Ti. For nearly all of the 970's lifespan, it was the same price or cheaper. MSRP is totally irrelevant.
That or the 780 at $650 is the biggest joke in the world.
They're already proving you right. The 390 matches the 980 in fallout 4 latest patch and rise of tomb raider latest patch.
I'm already worried for maxwell owners. I was already going amd because of freesync but if maxwell performance tanks I will not recommend nvidia cards anymore either.
PCGH has retested Fallout with 1.3 and nVidia is still way ahead of AMD.
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Fallout-4-Spiel-18293/Specials/Fallout-4-Drawcall-Benchmarks-1186461/
For real? If true, then Nvidia has managed to compress a very expensive GPU rental period and make it even shorter. Since I personally don't have a dog in the Maxwell fight (I am a Kepler owner with 4 Titans in a NV shame drawer, and 2 other Keplers doing light duty), I will let someone else fight this one, but surely this has to be discouraging not just for Maxwell owners, but also for anyone who gives a darn about GPUs.......
Ooops... .PCGH has retested Fallout with 1.3 and nVidia is still way ahead of AMD.
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Fallout-4-Spiel-18293/Specials/Fallout-4-Drawcall-Benchmarks-1186461/
Again, it's early, but I don't trust Nvidia right now.
I was tied up with some other stuff, but just looked up that chart you linked on Maximum PC, I guess you were summarizing what Maximum PC stated here:
http://www.maximumpc.com/fallout-4-graphics-revisited-patch-13/
"What's interesting is how far the gap has narrowed between AMD and Nvidia GPUs. Where the 980 Ti and 980 used to hold double-digit percentage leads over the Fury X and 390, with the patch and updated drivers the cards are now running basically tied (46 percent leads for Nvidia, but AMD has better 97 percentile results now). The 970 was also more or less tied with the 390 before, but now the 390 holds a sizeable 12 percent advantage. It's just unfortunate it took a couple of weeks after launch to narrow the gap. We could point out how badly AMD dominates Nvidia at the $200 market, though with sub-20 fps results we'll save that for below......."
"All of the GPUs we tested remain "playable" (meaning, higher than 30 fps averages), though interestingly it's Nvidia that appears to have more stuttering and low frame rates now."....
I am not day zero gamer anyway with all the glitchy bugs and all, so may be waiting a while isn't a big deal... besides I already bought this game on a peasant platform, console... lol .. may try it on pc too, may be....
What's the point you're making? People who bought a $550 290X got a bad deal? The 780 Ti is a $700 card that nobody cared about after the 970 launched. They should be feeling much worse, maybe not as bad as people who bought a 780 for $650 though.It was a $549 card which needed a $200 price cut to be still competitive. Nobody cared about these cards anymore after the GTX970 and GTX980 were launched.
What's the point you're making? People who bought a $550 290X got a bad deal? The 780 Ti is a $700 card that nobody cared about after the 970 launched. They should be feeling much worse, maybe not as bad as people who bought a 780 for $650 though.
It seems you're just bragging about your team winning. "Look how great these cards are, they forced a $200 price cut on the other side to stay competitive". Why should we care? A $200 R9 290 is a great thing for people in the market for video cards as far as I can tell.
Looks to me that the stock GTX 970 is a full 42.6% faster at 1080p than the stock GTX 680.
Love the conspiracy theory BS that NVIDIA is artificially gimping Kepler and that there's no way that Maxwell could possibly just be a better/more robust architecture. Nope, no chance of that...
What's the point you're making? People who bought a $550 290X got a bad deal? The 780 Ti is a $700 card that nobody cared about after the 970 launched. They should be feeling much worse, maybe not as bad as people who bought a 780 for $650 though.
It seems you're just bragging about your team winning. "Look how great these cards are, they forced a $200 price cut on the other side to stay competitive". Why should we care? A $200 R9 290 is a great thing for people in the market for video cards as far as I can tell.
"We care" when somebody pointing out how great AMD cards are. The fact is that a 290X is not great when you need to pay $200 over a GTX970. That's the reason why this card got a $200 price reduction.