Wich one yout think is better
If Nvidia I would wait for new architecutre next year ;)
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I'm a bit of an nVidia fan, but even I'd say get the 380 out of those two choices.
EDIT: both those cards come in a 4GB flavor, and are close enough in performance that you could just pick your favorite brand and go from there. I'd definitely look at getting a 4GB card, though.
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4GB version is out of budget ;(
here prices skyrocket in GPU section especially.
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I understand that here my country is the same way, but is really worth to wait and save more money, 4GB is becoming the norm, thx to this console generation, some highend old cards are struggling now with the lack of VRAM.
So for future-proofing I, and others here, do recommend you don't waste money on 2GB cards.
Also I agree with Tzaar on that this two are in the same class of performance, I would go for the cheapest od the two.
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the 380 performs a lil better, try to get the 4 gb model if you can.
I already posted a comment like this, anyway: here's a few comparisons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imcj_BxGqD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMnpknaAq0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0HzWW6mDno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESeFXwGfBsI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H26h5ZKmHrQ
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I have a 970 and love it, no issues in the slightest! So I pick 960 for being a Nvidia fangirl! xD
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I'm kind of forced to be an nVidia fan since I only buy EVGA cards. :P
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I have a 970 and I hate it, The stuttering and micro freezing.is making me insane!! Never had a single issue like this on my past cards But this card don't wanna STOP stuttering and micro freezing. I have searched all over the net how to fix it with no good. I just waste my money :'(
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Return it and ask for a replacement card, as you might have got a faulty one.
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Agree on that, this sound more like manufacture problem than 970 chipset flaw, and I know how infuriating is to buy a good vga and suffer with constant crashes and freezing (i'm looking at you XFX!)
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I've only used MSI motherboards, but no problems here.
Well I think you got unlucky, but contact them sap, in my case I had to send the damn thing over seas =[ at least they fixed
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Errr, 2GB is enough for 1080p. And if he's going for a budget card, I doubt he's using 1440p.
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I'd beg to differ. Before I switched to 970's, I was using 680's (2GB) in SLI, and there were a bunch of games that maxed out the VRAM at 1080p. Skyrim (from 2011) with a few mods easily maxed it out, Far Cry 3 & 4, and most recently, Fallout 4, Battlefront, and Battlefield 4 (with ultra textures).
4GB is more the standard these days than high-end.
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I have a 970 and I hate it, The stuttering and micro freezing.is making me insane!! Never had a single issue like this on my past cards But this card don't wanna STOP stuttering and micro freezing. I have searched all over the net how to fix it with no good. I just waste my money :'(
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Not sure what to tell you, but mine are running fine with no micro-stutter or anything. Just finished Fallout 4 the other day maxed out without a problem @ 1440p. I'd be willing to bet it's something else causing it, unless perhaps you have a faulty card?
EDIT: I'm also using drivers from September -- 355.98, so maybe that's it? (I don't update my drivers unless I absolutely need to, and usually stick with what works well until I am forced to update).
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Maybe is a faulty one, I will contact the manufacturer Thanks
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no, i just changed my rp 170x because some game was crashing because they were over 2 gb ram
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I own a Saphire 380 so i'd say 380 but with 4 gb. most new games use more than 2gb. You'll regret getting 2gb version...
P.S.
Plus if you ever would consider getting another one in CF you would definetly need more VRAM
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Thnx for advice...
r9 380 XFX Black edition is:
2GB version is 235$
4GB version is 280$
GTX 960 (MSI) is:
2GB version is 235$
4GB version is 290$
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I can't really vote because that decision requires some research. Maybe you should read a couple of reviews like this one?
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/R9_380X_Strix/23.html
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I don't know much about these two choices, but usually you get more bang for your buck from AMD. Having said that, I will never buy another AMD card again. The extra cost for NVIDIA is more than worth it. I had an NVIDIA card which worked fine, upgraded my computer and got an AMD card. There were numerous of problems with drivers, software, performance in games... Bought another card (NVIDIA again) and couldn't be happier. NVIDIA just works although they are very closed source, and AMD is more of the 'let's share' mentally which I like, but it just doesn't work...
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380 is the better card imo, when amd vs nvidia with same price tag, amd pretty much always takes the win BUT I would never buy an amd again. I've ve had several amd over the years, when it was still ati I had 3 DOA in time span of 5 years and I think that's alot... I've had many problems with drivers to. Nvidia just always 'works', I pop it in, install drivers and go... <3 nvidia lol
Nowadays I'm on a budget with kids, wife,... so was looking for a budget gpu 2 months ago and I got the asus gtx 960 turbo oc (the white one) and it runs really great
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In all honesty im not good with stuff like GPU's (I only recently went from console gaming to PC) but from what I have heard I'd recommend the Nvidia GTX 960, games have a common use of not being very well supported with AMD Radeon cards, most games use Nvidia GTX cards as their main supported card, but as many other also mentioned, most games use more the 2GB of the GPU space, so I'd recommend trying getting a 4GB version of the GTX 960.
And also Nvidia has some nice features :P
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I am the owner of an Nvidia GTX 970. I'm pretty happy with it. That said:
Get the AMD R9 380. It's better than the 960. Get the 4GB version. Shop around, though. Take a look at what each has to offer. Then pick the 960 anyway because of the Nvidia fanboys. :( Or get a 380 anyway, just to spite the Nvidia fanboys. :D
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Probably r9 380(XFX Black edition 2GB). UMHO it's better card, ATI just released major boost in drivers, and frankly, Nvidia's practices recently don't exactly make it company you want to support. Crippling cards of other producers in your drivers is kind of not cool already, but crippling your own older cards so that customers were forced to move to new generation is very greedy :(
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That stuff about crippling older cards is a myth, LinusTechTips has made a video comparison of different drivers affecting old cards and has proven it didn't happen. I'll try to find it and link it here.
EDIT: Here it is.
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He is testing ancient graphic card. 480? It was made in 2009. No, I meant crippling what was flagship product yesterday, such as reports that mid-range 960 easily outperforms twice as expensive 780ti in new games. Here's link to collection of stories and questions, all unanswered on Nvidia's own forums:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/36namy/psa_nvidia_tanking_witcher_3_performance_on/
Edit: By the way, the video misses whole point. It shows nothing like the question people asked, if Nvidia deliberately withheld all optimizations from older cards and only unlocked them for new series. If anything, his charts, showing tiny, barely noticeable performance climb on old cards (and sometimes downgrade on new drivers...), compared to often big jumps new 9xx series gets from software, confirms that the old cards are held back and only new stuff gets GameWorks upgrades. This is unacceptable because today strong card can acceptably last multiple generations of shelf product and it being forcibly made obsolete during first third of its life is very underhanded tactic.
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What else was he supposed to show? The point was to see how drivers affect the older card over the years to see if Nvidia dumps old cards or not. Turns out, it doesn't.
But obviously the priority of the company is on the newer cards (as it should be), so the drivers make a bigger difference for the cards like 960 because they are created for them in the first place. If you had a point then 480 would've shown some horrible performance at the modern titles presented in the video with it becoming worse as the driver version number goes up. But it doesn't.
The fact that performance rise is less impressive in case of 480 might mean that the older architecture is a bottleneck here. Or do you seriously think that performance increase doesn't depend on it?
EDIT: And BTW Nvidia fixed the Witcher 3 issues. See it as you like, either a bug that crawled into Nvidia driver by mistake, or an evil conspiracy that had to retreat under the immense pressure from the customers..
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i have gtx260.all new drivers from nvidia last 2 years are buggy for my card and they don't even care to fix it.that video proves nothing.
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And I have 9800 GT (not kidding, just low on money). And I don't complain about drivers because I know they are not designed with my card in mind. Your comment proves nothing.
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dude did you understand my comment?i spent months to find what was going on with my pc.when nvidia suggests me in their site to download the specific drivers for my specific card and they don't work it's their fault.ok,i said maybe they wanted some time to fix it.2 years passed.the same problems.they don't care.no it's not normal.it is just wrong.
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OK, I did misunderstood you. I thought you were talking about general performance, not some specific bugs. In that case yeah, that sucks. Did you do a clean reinstall? Have you tried to contact support and go further than messing with the drivers?
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believe me i know about pc's and i spent hell of time to figure out what was going on with my pc because i tried old and last drivers and the problems was still there.google didn't help.one day i said let's try to roll back the drivers and do some tests,when i reached 2013 drivers problems solved.and btw the problems was serious issues making some specific games unplayble with freezes all the time.
anyway to stay on topic.i am still a nvidia fan and because me 260 is near the end,i will buy 960 or 950 2gb.i would prefer 960 4gb but i can't afford it atm.
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um not a myth - NVidia deliberately disabled it's PhysX on cards if they are installed in the same machine that is running a Non-NVidia card. That's crippling.
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"That stuff about crippling OLDER CARDS is a myth"(c). And I know nothing about PhysX being disabled in the case you mentioned, so I won't say anything. It sucks, that's for sure.
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The poll has spoken go get your brand new nvidia GPU
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My answer is definitely 380 but XFX is a terrible brand, go for Sapphire if possible.
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i would say the 380, but thry to go for the 4GB one, brand XFX is allright, they used to offer lifetime warranty but i guess its meanningless outside the US
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I'm running the R9 380 2GB model - I play Ark - Survival Evolved at a 1080p with a framerate of about 40fps - most 980's have to run lower resolution than that to even get near that framerate - and this is a game designed in partnership with NVidia. It's nowhere near optimised for AMD and dx12 still hasn't been activated in the game - considering that AMD's dx12 scores are way above NVidia, I'd definitely recommend the R9 - at least until next year when NVidia releases some new architecture..
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what u gonna do with your old card ? I'm lookin for replacement till I get GTX 750 / 750 Ti
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Will put it in multimedia box i'm building from spare parts
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AMD supporter here.
Currently, the R9 380 is the better choice.
In a few weeks, when NVidia drops the price of the GTX 960/970/980, the 960 will be better.
In long terms, it is better to get a cheap GTX 750 Ti 2 GB, then late 2016 or early 2017 get a new DX12 card from AMD or NVidia… whichever you prefer.
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I'm gonna buy a new GPU for my B-day to replace my OLD HD 6770 wich was the only thing that was left from an old computer.
Was looking between r9 380(XFX Black edition 2GB) and GTX960(MSI 2GB) wich are in the same price point.
Wich one do u think is better bang for buck and why.
EDIT* forgot to mention i'm going 1080P res
Here is little GA for your trouble.
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