Trying to decide if its worth getting the Radeon 380

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darkhunter139

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Right now I have an old 6850 with a i5-3570k 3.4GHZ CPU. I am trying to decide if it would be worth upgrading to the Radeon 380. I have a monitor that supports freesync which would be kind of nice but I have heard from a friend that AMD has a lot of driver problems and it would be better to wait and get an NVIDA card. Problem with that is I really don't want to spend $300 on a video card and I can get the 380 for about $180.

What do you guys think?
 
If you have a freesync monitor, buying a nvidia card would be wasted money. And I have had nvidia cards for years! I rarely recommend a AMD card anymore if you have the money for a nice nvidia card.

That said, sure AMD lags a bit behind with drivers. But AMD is completely usable, and will go along very nicely with a freesync monitor.

I don't know value wise if the 380 is a sweet spot though. I do not follow performance and price with AMD cards anymore.
 
What sort of games do you play/plan on playing, and are max settings or performance more important?
 
Performance but I don't want to be playing on low.

Right now I'm playing rainbow 6 seige.
 
Price for performance AMD always wins ive owned both nvidia and amd cards along with intel cpu's also. Ive had personally more issues with nvidia drivers than i have again persoanlly with amd. Im running a amd 390 right now with NO problems
 
i think you would do well with it although i might be more inclined to get the 380x. Whoever is telling you there drivers are bad is full of shit...trust me:)
 
Definitely get the 380x if you can stretch the budget a bit. You've got plenty of CPU for it...

If you haven't ordered from jet.com yet, you can do the 20% new customer promo on this XFX 380x, and pick it up for $189, assuming you don't end up with any sales tax.

The site says 15% off on the splash page, but there are plenty of 20% off codes floating around. I think scarymommy2015 might be one that is still valid?
 
Great Choiec!

fightingfi said:
Price for performance AMD always wins ive owned both nvidia and amd cards along with intel cpu's also. Ive had personally more issues with nvidia drivers than i have again persoanlly with amd. Im running a amd 390 right now with NO problems
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Most nvidia owners I know also seem to have more issues than not for whatever reason. I just usually just reply I don't have that "x" issue.
 
I jumped from a 6950 2GB to a Sapphire Nitro 380 4GB.

I experienced double the performance of the old card.
 
primetime said:
thats certainly one of them, xfx has much quicker rma service, but card to card im not sure theres any difference. i love asus products as long as they dont need to be rma'd. But In all truth, i think these mid range cards have less chance of failing these days;)
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The XFX one sold out so I just went with the ASUS. Thanks for your help everyone!
 
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