Help choosing new graphics card.

[Big Law]

Basically, 970 or 390? Or should I choose a lesser card and upgrade other items as well?

I've always been a fan of Nvidia mainly because of bad experiences in the past with AMD. I'm willing to use the Radeon if it's completely worth it.



Budget
$300-$500

Resolution
1080p

Games / Settings Desired
All games at max settings

Any other intensive software or special things you do (Frequent video encoding, 3D modeling, etc)
No

Country
USA

Parts that can be reused
* Cooler Master HAF 922 Case
* ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 Motherboard
* 128gb SSD
* 1TB HDD
* I5-2500 3.3GHZ (Evo 212)
* GTX 580
* 8GB RAM
* SeaSonic 750w PSU

Do you need an OS?
No

Do you need peripherals (e.g. monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers, etc)?
No

[Deleted]

The r9 390 is better card than gtx970 atm. With their 50buck drop they are worth even more performance/value. Driver screw ups tho happen at both and will go from game to game. I consider them close enough in performance that i'd say value usually determines it. Gtx970 has alot more room for overclocking if you are into that but the other one offers 8gb vram which is alot. You probably won't need it tho @ 1080p anyway.
R9 390 is supposed to benefit more withen dx12 comes but you can't count on something 1-2years away.