Best upgrade option from GTX 780 ti

[tymann23]

Hey folks, I currently have a EVGA GTX 780 Ti Superclocked with the ACX cooler, it was an upgrade from 2 GTX 660's, I did a deal with a friend of mine to get it for a discounted price and my 660's. So either way I already had planned on upgrading to 2 GTX 980's in SLI in a month or two when I get my tax return.

I plan on selling the 780 Ti and getting the dual GTX 980's in SLI, the only reason i'm holding back from just getting another GTX 780 Ti is sadly for one reason: VRAM limitation on the 780 Ti since there's only 3gb (Still doesn't make sense to me how/why Nvidia manufactured a regular GTX 780 6gb version, but NOT the GTX 780 Ti) and I plan on playing at 1440p/1600p sooner rather than later.

There's games when running on max settings ALREADY requiring up to 6gb of VRAM at JUST 1080p like Shadow of Mordor, Lords of The Fallen etc. and something tells me this trend will continue. So basically, while having 2x GTX 780 Ti's in SLI would be MORE than enough GPU power to handle 1440p/1600p at max settings in most games, it's going to be crippled by that 3gb of VRAM.

Now, I've heard rumblings of rumors stating that Nvidia will be releasing the second generation of Maxwell GPU's soon, most notably, the GTX 980 Ti that apparently will have 8gb of VRAM. So in a nutshell, my question here is, what is the all around BEST upgrade option here? I'm sort of stumped, and I'm not expecting miracles here, but I'd at least like to hear some opinions and some other enthusiast PC gamers advice.

Thank you in advance for any/all advice/suggestions.

Regards, Tyler.

 

[alpacino2368]

Based on what I have read about the GTX 980ti leads me to believe rumors are scarce and vastly different. Some are saying Q2 of 15 some Q3 however I have even read of Q1 of 16. I am personally thinking it will be released around August of 2015.

Maxwell has already proven to be a huge step up from the 700 series gpu's so I have no question the gtx 980ti will be the first gpu from nvidia to be able to play 2k lead titles out of the box at 60fps. Which based on the resolutions you plan on running is very important, as you will also have some overclocking headroom.

If I were in your shoes I'd get another 780ti and run sli and wait for more specs and preferably benchmarks to come out for the gtx980ti, you will have no issue running 2k with 780tis in sli, vram may bottleneck you but you will be well above the 60fps standard when that happens.

Check this out for some benchmarks and fps comparisons: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1073

 

[tymann23]

Based on what I have read about the GTX 980ti leads me to believe rumors are scarce and vastly different. Some are saying Q2 of 15 some Q3 however I have even read of Q1 of 16. I am personally thinking it will be released around August of 2015.

Maxwell has already proven to be a huge step up from the 700 series gpu's so I have no question the gtx 980ti will be the first gpu from nvidia to be able to play 2k lead titles out of the box at 60fps. Which based on the resolutions you plan on running is very important, as you will also have some overclocking headroom.

If I were in your shoes I'd get another 780ti and run sli and wait for more specs and preferably benchmarks to come out for the gtx980ti, you will have no issue running 2k with 780tis in sli, vram may bottleneck you but you will be well above the 60fps standard when that happens.

Check this out for some benchmarks and fps comparisons: Thanks]http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1073

Thanks for your advice and suggestions. I was also thinking of maybe selling the 780 Ti and going with the 980's in SLI as planned, and then whenever the Maxwell 2.0 GPU's launch, sell the 980's and get the 980 Ti's, if need be depending on the performance improvements. Once again thank you very much for your input.

 

[alpacino2368]

I neglected to ask you what wattage is your psu?