The next BEST graphics card in the world! The R9 390X.

AMD is about to release the new R9 300 series gpus. The most interesting of them is the R9 390X, which might just become the best consumer graphics card in the world. Yes. Better than the Titan X. 

	Titan X	R9 390X
Cores	3072 Cuda	4096 GCN
Memory	12 GB of GDDR5	8 GB of HBM
Base clock	1.00 GHz	1.00 GHz

The two cards have identical base clock speeds and they both have a 28nm manufacturing process The 390X does have 30% more cores, but the Titan has 30% more memory. So why would the 390X be better than the Titan? Having 1024 extra cores might give the 390X an advantage, but not as much as the 8GB of HBM memory does.

Of course, it's true that the Titan has more memory, but the 390X has HBM memory. This new type of vram is a lot denser, thus making it a lot faster than GDDR5. How much faster? The Titan X has 336 GB/s memory bandwidth, while the 390X will have almost three time as much, 800GB/s. This difference will make the 390X capable of achieving much higher framerates and overall better performance. And if that wouldn't be enough for you, the R9 395X2 with almost double the performance is expected to be released by the end of the year. With this level of performance I wonder when will 8K support for games arrive. Oh, wait! First we need 8K monitors.

Titan X for 300 dollars less? This is the GTX 980 Ti!

The long awaited GeForce GTX 980 Ti has arrived. While it delivers similar performance to the Titan X, it costs 350$ less, making it the Ultimate Gaming Video Card that you can actually buy. 

With a single 980 Ti you can play almost any game with max settings in 1440p and some less demanding titles even in 4K. But if you're not satisfied with these results you can connect up to four 980 Ti-s together with 4-way SLI and play any game at max settings in 4K.

"So what's the difference between the Titan X and the GTX 980 Ti?" you might ask. Well the truth is not much. The Titan has a bit more CUDA cores and twice as much memory, but that memory doesn't really affect gaming performance because 12 gigabytes is completely overkill. These cards have the same features, the same base clock and the same year of release. 

So if you want a beast of a gaming PC and you wouldn't like to pay 300 dollars more for two extra frames per seconds, then the 980 Ti is your best choice. Though the R9 300 series might change this when it comes out at the end of month.