2 GTX 960 4GB or 1 GTX 980

[OD_Hindu]

My current build:
i5 6600k
Asus Z170-A Mobo
Evo 212
16GB DDR4 RAM
EVGA Supernova 750 WATT PSU
I have a GTX 960 4gb in my old rig, which I will be selling for $500

Should I buy another 960 and not sell my old one or buy a GTX 980 and just start new?

 

[ryuk7533]

get the single best card you can afford and then sli that later. So the 980 is better. Also remember that a lot of games dont even support sli.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Neither. GTX 980 is one of the worst price/performance, worst value cards. And with upcoming Pascal GPUs, I would personally wait. But if you want a quick jump in performance, a second 960 is better since it won't cost an arm and leg like the GTX 980.

 

[matthoward85]

http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1538

Synopsis: If $ is not a factor get a 980. The performance will be better. If you are not in a rush, i got a MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GB Twin Frozr Video Card for $399 on black friday.

 

[darky26]

If you manage to find a buyer for your GTX 960 for 500$ please introduce me to him. I have a few things which I would like to sell

 

[Epicness937]

if you cant get a 980 for under 420$ it is not worth it it really comes down to 960sli vs 970 or 980 ti

 

[10tacle]

A nicely factory overclocked 970 will come within 10% of a stock 980 in performance. And if you get a good card with an excellent cooling solution from the likes of EVGA (ACX series), MSI (Gaming series), ASUS (STRIX series), Gigabyte (G1 series), or Zotac (AMP! series), you can overclock it even higher to equal a 980. Like others, the 980 is not worth the 60% higher cost over a 970 for just 10% better performance out of the box.

If you have to get another card now, get one of those, whichever is the best priced in your region. Otherwise like another person here said, I would urge you to wait for the 970/980 replacements (Pascal) to come late this summer. Based on recent generation release history from Nvidia, the 1080 (or whatever it will be called) will be released first followed up by the 1070 a month or so later. And also based upon history, the 1070 will likely be equal to if not faster (with more VRAM) than the 980.

Also like another said here, there has been an upward trend of multi-GPU support not being offered or having poor scaling. For this reason alone I will seriously be looking at getting a single high end solution to replace my SLI 970s for my next GPU upgrade (whatever the 980Ti replacement will be).

 

[Epicness937]

A nicely factory overclocked 970 will come within 10% of a stock 980 in performance. And if you get a good card with an excellent cooling solution from the likes of EVGA (ACX series), MSI (Gaming series), ASUS (STRIX series), Gigabyte (G1 series), or Zotac (AMP! series), you can overclock it even higher to equal a 980. Like others, the 980 is not worth the 60% higher cost over a 970 for just 10% better performance out of the box.

If you have to get another card now, get one of those, whichever is the best priced in your region. Otherwise like another person here said, I would urge you to wait for the 970/980 replacements (Pascal) to come late this summer. Based on recent generation release history from Nvidia, the 1080 (or whatever it will be called) will be released first followed up by the 1070 a month or so later. And also based upon history, the 1070 will likely be equal to if not faster (with more VRAM) than the 980.

Also like another said here, there has been an upward trend of multi-GPU support not being offered or having poor scaling. For this reason alone I will seriously be looking at getting a single high end solution to replace my SLI 970s for my next GPU upgrade (whatever the 980Ti replacement will be).

thats true and you can then overclock it TOO 980 performance like my two 970s

 

[10tacle]

thats true and you can then overclock it TOO 980 performance like my two 970s

Of course! But you are still left with a net sum gain of 10% for 60% higher cost whether both are stock or both overclocked. The 970 has been the best overclocking performance GPU value from Nvidia since the $249 GTX 275 (which I also bought two of in SLI when introduced some 7 years ago).