Buy a second 970 or a Single 980Ti?

[MagickMan]

wait for pascal.

It's never that simple. If nvidia follows recent trends, they'll release an upper-middle tier part (ex. a 1080) and a Titan-class card. The former being ~$500 and the latter >$1000. There won't be a 1080Ti, or whatever it's called, for nearly another year. The $500 part will be faster than a 980 with DX12, but not as fast as a 980Ti, and may in fact be substantially slower than a 980Ti in DX9 and DX11 games.

Of course, if you splash $1100 for the new Titan none of that matters, but don't be surprised if 10 months down the line you're regretting spending that extra $450 over the price of an equally fast 1080Ti.

 

[Innokentij]

980TI ofcourse, SLI and Crossfire is to be avoided at all cost. This coming from someone that had SLI 2 times and used tripplescreen. Now only 1 screen in right ratio no funny ultra wide weird none support and single card only. Not worth the trouble EVER.

 

[prtskg]

At this point I'd wait. They already fired the entire Maxwell driver team and hired some fresh young recruits and they are getting warmed up to start doing some serious Pascal driver code. No one has seen the Kepler driver team in many months. They probably just dug a hole in the desert for those guys by now.
I'd just wait to start your 18 month subscription with Pascal. My subscription is nearly expired and you'd be signing up late in the subscription cycle. Paying a full $600 for less than half a subscription is not a good idea since product support stops suddenly after 18 months. At least wait for Pascal and get your full 18 months, but make sure you only buy once! Don't let them trick you into buying twice! That's two subscription fees for the same lousy 18 months of support! Don't do it!

Best post I've yet read.:thumbsup: ROFLMAO.
@Currentlypissed - Wait a little bit to see how finfet gpus are performing and dx12 behavior. If things go south, you might seriously be pissed.

 

[pcslookout]

I game at the same resolution and wondering this too! Thanks for the help guys!

 

[Csx-2011]

If you can find a good price on a gently used 980ti (I just discovered that EVGA warranty transfers remaining warranty to new owner) you could do that, or wait until June (thats what I read) for new stuff to be up for sale... those could be in short supply at first or have the price set high for awhile.

 

[steve wilson]

wait for pascal.

I have a 770 and this is what I'm doing.

 

[Fizzy Coca-Cola]

My friend sold both of his 970s for a 980 ti the moment they came out and he loves it. The 980 ti is essentially a half-memory titan x, and you wont need 12GB of RAM until you run more 4k stuff, and you wont be able to push 4k with a single titan x, so dont worry about the titan x, and get the 980 ti for great 1440p or 1080p gaming. I use a gtx 970 with a i5-3570k and I run very nice fps for eve online and witcher 3 at 1440p.

However, don't get the 980 ti right now. Wait until the GPU summit in April when they'll likely announce Pascal and its abilities, then the 980 ti will price drop AND you can get a better card in pascal if you want 4k gaming. none of the current GPUs are capable of real 4k gaming.

 

[VirtualLarry]

At this point I'd wait. They already fired the entire Maxwell driver team and hired some fresh young recruits and they are getting warmed up to start doing some serious Pascal driver code. No one has seen the Kepler driver team in many months. They probably just dug a hole in the desert for those guys by now.
I'd just wait to start your 18 month subscription with Pascal. My subscription is nearly expired and you'd be signing up late in the subscription cycle. Paying a full $600 for less than half a subscription is not a good idea since product support stops suddenly after 18 months. At least wait for Pascal and get your full 18 months, but make sure you only buy once! Don't let them trick you into buying twice! That's two subscription fees for the same lousy 18 months of support! Don't do it!

LOL. Nice!

 

[Linux23]

Wow is SLI that bad?

 

[happy medium]

Wow is SLI that bad?

No, the gtx980ti overclocked is that good.:thumbsup:

 

[IEC]

Wow is SLI that bad?

SLI is good when it works. Having used both it and the competitors product, multi-GPU setups can still be a major headache when it *doesn't* work.

Which is all too often.

Single powerful GPU is always > two weaker GPUs. This may change within the next year or two.

 

[digitaldurandal]

Give me a list to run and if I have the games, I'll run fraps during gaming and report back.

You don't happen to have Overwatch or Battleborn do you?

 

[steve wilson]

Wow is SLI that bad?

It's a double whammy. It's like buying an 6700k over a 6600k. The 6700k is better, but it's only better in certain situations. Also for the extra amount of money you are not getting that much extra performance. Keeping that in mind, I still bought the 6700k, because it's worth it to me. On top of that (this is the double whammy party), sometimes when it should work and give you that extra performance, it doesn't work.

If you know it's going to work for what you are going to use it for (e.g. you only really play one game and you know it works for that one game), then go for it. But things change and you might start playing different games in 6 months time, so it's a bit of a risk. I would be willing to buy into SLI if it was just the 6700k vs 6600k situation, but with the added extra of it not working sometimes, it would frustrate me too much.

The only time I would go SLI, is if I had money to burn and I wanted some stupidly high resolution with everything turned up the max. Unfortunately I am not in that situation...yet

 

[Linux23]

Oh OK. Thought that SLI was perfected by now these days.

 

[jackstar7]

Oh OK. Thought that SLI was perfected by now these days.

Given the limits of their bridge, they're less perfect then ever... past time for nV to evolve their multi-gpu.