We've been spending the last week or so benchmarking a crap load of NVIDIA video cards on our 34-inch LG 34UC97 monitor, testing out its native 3440x1440 resolution. UltraWide gaming is really taking off these days, but without performance numbers across a bunch of hardware, it's hard to know where you'll find yourself when you come to picking a video card.
Gaming at 2560x1440 isn't so hard these days, with most $250-$400 cards handling most games on the market without a problem at 60FPS, while 4K requires more grunt. 3440x1440 falls in between both of these resolutions and gives - in my opinion - a better alternative to 4K gaming.
Now that we've tested the GeForce GTX Titan X, GTX 980 Ti, GTX 980 and GTX 780 - and then again with the same cards in SLI, it's time to test out some AMD hardware at 3440x1440. We've got a few high-end cards at our disposal, including the Radeon R9 Fury X, Radeon R9 295X2 and the Radeon R9 390X.
Before we kick things off, what AMD card do you think will come out on top? The new R9 Fury X with its High Bandwidth Memory? Or the dual-GPU card in the form of the R9 295X2? First, let's see what we're using for these benchmarks.
What We're Using
As for our system, we have worked with be quiet!, GIGABYTE and Kingston on our new system that we wrote a build guide for here. It's quite the system, with the breakdown in specifications below:
CPU: Intel Core i7-5830K (stock clocks)
Cooling: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3
Motherboard: GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion
RAM: Kingston 32GB (4x8) HyperX Fury DDR4-2666 (HX426C15FBK4/3)
Storage: Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB M.2 PCIe SSD
Display: LG 34UC97 (34-inch UltraWide 3440x1440 21:9)
PSU: be quiet! Dark Power Pro 1200W
Case: be quiet! Silent Base 800
OS: Windows 10 Drivers: Catalyst 15.7.1 / GeForce 353.30
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