Upgrade my gpu?yay or nay

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ViciousClone

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Well i have the following

2500k (clocked to turbo at 4ghz)
8gb ddr 1333
Asus p8p67 motherboard
Samsung ssd
R9 270 gpu(not the 270x)

Battlefield 4 is on high setting and getting 60fps

With battlefront coming soon i know my pc will be able to run but i ran some few tests to see what my next bottleneck was

Graphics card seemed to be 100% used in battlefield while cpu was at 62-68% and ram at 70%

What would a better GPU be to upgrade from the r9 270,not to picky about amd and nvidia so please share ideas and opinions :)
 
Your R9 270 is still quite current but it's definitely on the low to mid range of current gen cards. You'll see a big difference upgrading to a high end card. I had a 270x previously and it was okay but now running an R9 290 and it's enabled me to max out pretty much anything at 1080p. Far Cry 4 on highest settings only occasionally dips below 60fps. It'll all depend on your budget though.
 
Yea i get the r9 290 models but they are power hungry as i have a 550w corsair power supply

Budget ,hmmm MAX 3500 i guess havnt checked how much i have to play with
 
Might need to up your budget for a reasonably future proof upgrade
 
I'm running the windforce 270x and it runs bf4 smooth on high settings. Above 60+ fps, i would say keep the 270 and tweak the settings one or 2 down to medium. If u wanna go through the hassle sell the 270 and add +- 500 for an 2nd hand 280x(powercolor perhaps) Otherwise there is nothing u can upgrade to for 3500 that is worth it. 970 is the card u want but they retail about 4500 2nd hand.
 
You can sell your current card for around R1500 and add that to make your budget R5000, which then opens some more doors.
 
I would say nay. Wait 9 months for the next generation of video cards to come out. You can get a card manufactured on a smaller process node, possibly including HBM2.

I think the next generation could be quite a big leap, so personally I'd rather wait it out.
 
Now is a terrible time to buy a graphics card. Wait for the next round of cards from AMD and Nvidia to be released, with full DX12 GCN 12.1 support.
 
Bryn said:
Now is a terrible time to buy a graphics card. Wait for the next round of cards from AMD and Nvidia to be released, with full DX12 GCN 12.1 support.
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good point

so stick it out for 4-5months?

i have a friend in dubai,that comes to SA every second to third month
so guessing i can pick up a nvidia card for a normal price not SA price hike prices
 
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