hkbazzi wrote7. GTX 980 is great, but AMD does better for some reason when it comes to higher resolutions (relatively to the price for performance). Regardless of what GPU you get, AMD or Nvidia you are gonna be satisfied with the frames each can draw. Drawback to AMD for its drivers and power hungry cards. (thats gonna change since pascal is based on 16nm and AMD is skipping 16 and go directly to 14nm so much much less power draw for performance which also means cooler cards and better mobile graphics for laptops)
8. And this is the main thing I wanted to ask. is FREE-SYNC WORTH CHANGING MY GPU????? Im very happy with my gtx 980. I'm thinking of just stick with the 980 for now if its not worth it
Power hungry? Yes, but it's not as huge a deal as some people make it seem like, it's a $10/year increase on your power bill, and you're paying $100 less in case of the GTX 980/R9 390X, you're not going to use the video card for 10 years, it'll be really obsolete and heavily outperformed by even the crappiest iGPU on the market.
Drivers? No, especially after Crimson drivers came out, AMD Crimson is so much better than GeForce Experience, being snappier, more responsive, better looking and just being better at everything. AMD's main problem is their strength in the GPU market, they have 30% compared to Nvidia's 70%, what that translates to is more game developers focusing on Nvidia hardware for their optimizations, as that also targets the vast majority of gamers. As above, this translates directly into more stable drivers for Nvidia than AMD nearer to a game's release day, a well-established trend. Does any of this mean that AMD has bad drivers? Not at all.
You want my opinion? No. Don't change your GPU right now, Polaris cards are coming out in the summer and they're looking to be absolutely awesome, wait until then and grab a Polaris card, it'll consume less power while offering much better performance than current gen cards.