gtx 970 vram problem(so which gpu should i get)

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the R9 290x is not even 2 years old it’s only a little over a year old, AMD has good drivers, and their GCN cards are holding up much better over time than nvidia cards. Especially in new games where nvidia drivers seem to only be optimized for the 9xx series. The 6xx and 7xx have lost a lot of performance in new games because of .

Sure nvidia has it’s on branches where you can download there nvidia specific stuff, but epic won’t be adding it to base UE4 as it’s not crossplatform, and anyone looking to release a game to the general public isn’t going to make any nvidia specific stuff key to their game as it just makes them less money.

I actually find it interesting since UE4 is about cross platform and giving lots of access to developers, where as nvidia always wants to lock their stuff down, even if something can work on competition hardware they will lock it out, and will intentionally lower performance for everyone if it hurts the competition worse.

the R9 290x is significantly weaker than the 970 in terms in memory clock speed. The R9 290x just simply can’t come close the 970x because of . Rather in benchmarks it compares much more identical to the GTX 960 a significantly lower card with only 2 gigs of VRAM and a hundred dollar less than the R9 290x.

There is really absolutely no reason to buy modern high end AMD cards. They’ve been ******** up on their recent hardware too heavily that it isn’t a comparison between the companies at point.