Gtx 970 vs r9 390 so im saving up my money to buy either of these two cards and am stuck between which to choose. The only thing it excels at is power consumption saving about 70watts on the standard gaming load. Based on 604976 user benchmarks for the amd r9 390 and the nvidia gtx 970, we rank them both on effective speed and value for. R390 vs r390x vs gtx 970 all msi overclockers uk forums. Gigabyte z390 aorus owners thread page 461 overclock. I can not see that graphics card you have giving you any issues with those games and the shaders are good on the gtx 970. Using afterburner and the gaming app, i was able to successfully overclock all of the settings except one. Because it is so new, we lose the 970 data here as well as gta v as we do not have one to retest. And i am going to overclock whichever i get as much as i can.
I have personally tested the driver and it performs very well in all games tested. Based on 604,976 user benchmarks for the amd r9 390 and the nvidia gtx 970, we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the best 636 gpus. Gigabyte z390 aorus owners thread page 686 overclock. Aug 19, 2015 nvida geforce gtx 970 vs amd radeon r9 390.
Juste mon avis sur le duel des deux gpu vraiment gaming du moment. I once tried to overclock my ram to almost 8000mhz but got freezes or white blocks. R9 390 owners that overclocked, how far were you able to take your card. It also uses a 256bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. If you have hynix ram then your overclock can be slightly limited.
The overclocked asus strix r9 390x mostly outpaces the nvidia geforce gtx 980 at stock speeds, but given the price, most buyers should shell. In order to be a serious hit with overclockers, hardware needs to offer an excellent priceperformance ratio that doesnt come with hidden gotchas. Jan 18, 2016 one reason to overclock a gpu is if its not giving enough performance for a game to be playable or low fps in a game. Gtx 970 vs r9 390 overclocked benchmarks 4k who wins. Geforce gtx 1060 vs rx 480 vs r9 390 vs gtx 980 vs gtx 970. Even without the ability to meaningful overvolt on. Ok first of all evga precision or the type of software has. Mar 05, 2016 i dont overclock my vram by much as it doesnt give you that much performance gain and ram is usually the one thing that fails.
Nov 11, 2015 as for the 390 and 970, at stock clocks the 390 will outperform the 970 in every resolution. With gtx 980 we saw firsthand how gm204 had very significant overclocking headroom. At the most used resolution no less than six graphics cards are compared including geforce gtx 1060, radeon rx 480, radeon r9 390, geforce gtx 960, geforce gtx 970, geforce gtx 980 and geforce gtx 1070. Apr 24, 2019 today were benchmarking the performance between the gtx 980, gtx 970, and gtx 960. Lets see how these graphics cards are performing sidebyside in 2019. For testing i have taken my old his radeon r9 390 iceq x2 oc graphics card, benchmarked it in the factory configuration and then again with a. At 4k, the r9 390 has an edge, but most people would want more performance for 4k than either card can provide. If you are in the market for am appropriately priced, fastest, and hassle free gtx 970 out of the box, you just found it. Unfortunately i had to pick a 7950 model that was voltage locked as well, lol.
So i am buying a new graphics card as a christmas gift for myself, and i am honestly at a loss at which card to buy. Asrocks atuning utility still relies on firmware hooks to enable its auto tuning algorithm. I know that not all cores perform at the same speed but is this deviation between some instances % vs 800% vs 900% normal, or maybe could it indicate that my overclock 9900k at 5ghz is not completely stable. The factory overclock evga applied to the gtx 970 ftw is one of the. Even factoring in overclocking, the r9 390 has just enough headroom to stay ahead. If you overclock, however, the 970 will pull ahead most of the time in 1080 and even some of the time in 1440, because they just have a lot more overclocking head room than the hawaii refresh. The nvidia gtx 970 is a game changer in terms of performance per watt and value for money. This affordable model comes with the new twinfrozr v cooler. Geforce gtx 970 vs radeon r9 390 8g hardware compare. The 970 g1 features gigabytes windforce cooling unit, which as of november 1st, 2014 appears to be the best heatsink assembly for the geforce gtx 970 cards. When the r9 290x was released, it was meant to compete with gtx 970 in a very. Asus also clocks the product a little faster then reference. As a result, 970s are also quieter, although good 390s are also quiet. Sep 23, 2014 the gtx 980 is also rumored to overclock well, so gamers who want the absolute best performance will still find it there but the overclockability of the gtx 970 means that the top tier of.
Evga geforce gtx 970 sc overclocking windows 10 forums. Overclocking the gigabyte gtx 970 g1 updated 121614. Beginners step by step howto overclock your amd video card rx 480 global wattman duration. Intro intel i99900k overclocks to 5ghz on z390 aorus boards the core counts keep going up and this time intel has come up with an 8 core, 16 thread processor. The r9 390 performs like a champ in far cry primal, leaving the rx 480 behind and comfortably beating the gtx 970. Nov 01, 2014 its been a crazy two weeks, but i finally finished editing the overclocking video for the gigabyte gtx 970 g1. Also, if you overclock, youre right, i think that gtx 970 probably gives you a lot more headroom than the 390 would. Windforce cooling, rgb lighting, pcb protection, and vr friendly features for the best gaming and vr experience. Discussion in computer hardware started by razer11, aug 19, 2015. A product that has been overhauled in terms of pcb and cooling. Oct 24, 2015 the reality is, i bet if the software features shadowplay were not part of the equation, gregster would pick the 390 over the 970 for raw performance. But we found that setting our own manual overclock caused the a. Find out which is better and their overall performance in the graphics card ranking.
Hey everyone, i was curious about how much some of you were able to overclock your cards. If you are looking to overclock a gtx 970 to the limits and need the most robust solution to do so, look no further. Amd cards age so well, with further driver optimizations and features like freesync they are really good longterm purchase. In order to be a serious hit with overclockers, hardware needs to offer an excellent priceperformance. But we found that setting our own manual overclock caused the atuning utility to. No matter what degree of overclock i attempt on the memory, it reverts to 0 when i click the apply button.
Hes just being a bit clever by picking some cherry picked results making the 970 look good and saying decide for yourself. With that i cant speak on your board, but i do know gigabyte includes a matrix in the owners manual telling you which m. If you plan on doing only 1080p gaming, i dont think the 3. Geforce gtx 970 vs radeon r9 390x 8g hardware compare. I bought a gtx 970 gaming 4g card last week and have run into a small overclocking problem. May 25, 2017 the r9 390 performs like a champ in far cry primal, leaving the rx 480 behind and comfortably beating the gtx 970. Overall this is a weaker overclock than gtx 980, though not immensely so. R9 390 owners that overclocked, how far were you able to take. What is the difference between amd radeon r9 390x and nvidia geforce gtx 970. Its just that some people here act like the 390 is miles ahead of the 970 and basically renders it obsolete, which is simply a load of bull. The gtx 970 has a slight edge in resolutions lower than 2560 x 1440. An overclocking community vs containerdefault vs containerfixedwidth.
And you cannot overclock the r9 390x very much, so its no question here. Overall the generic rule of thumb here for a decent tweak and overclock is that performance can gain anywhere from 5 to 20% performance. I have the msi r9 390, using msi afterburner i was able to achieve the following. For anyone that cares about power consumption or heat output, the 970 has a clear advantage. Intro the geforce gtx 970 features a clock frequency of 1050 mhz and a gddr5 memory speed of 1750 mhz.
On the face of it purchasing an r9 290 at a discount and then manually overclocking will result in the same performance as an r9 390 but. Today, were going to drop it down a notch and have a look at our first gtx 970. At stock speeds the 390 seems to be faster in pretty much everything, but the 970 overclocks a lot, ive seen people reach 14501500mhz, so i think it is an interesting comparison. The rivalry between the geforce gtx 970 and radeon r9 390 starts to resemble an ideological dispute, since any tests of these video cards, make your readers instead of coldly analyze the situation, take a lively but not necessarily substantive polemic. An overclocking forum devoted to maximizing the performance of graphics cards, cpus, motherboards, ram and everything else found inside your computer case. The gtx 970 is based on nvidias groundbreaking maxwell architecture which delivers considerable clock for clock performance gains over kepler, its predecessor. Jul 05, 2015 lets put the sapphire nitro r9390 up against the msi gaming 4g gtx970 and see who comes out on top. Overclocked gtx 970 vs overclocked r9 390 benchmarks. Earlier this year we decided to dust off the venerable gtx 980 ti along with the radeon r9 fury x to see. We benchmark 26 games at 3 resolutions to 4k on win 10. Test in demanding games after youve finished and dial back if you encounter any problems. Based on 527618 user benchmarks for the amd r9 390x and the nvidia gtx 970, we rank them.
1525 941 1460 601 385 1419 591 1282 1444 25 154 954 1444 1298 1322 1377 1421 1524 408 1406 770 1410 1054 1030 701 983 459 1111 330 423 191 213 1128 325