GTX 970 vs GTX 770

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Hello, so my question is, is the GTX 970 really that much of an upgrade compared to the 770? I currently have a 770 installed in my rig and was wondering if selling the card and upgrading to the GTX 970 is worth the extra money I will be playing? I don't plan on over-clocking the card myself nor have I over clocked my GTX 770 from the original MSI setting. Thanks for reading!
 
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Everything I have seen so far indicates it is about 25% faster than the 770 in most applications at 1080p. The biggest change is that it uses less power, therefore generating less heat. This could be a big help in SLI configurations or if you don't have a huge PSU. The 970 is a 4gb card, so if you do higher resolutions it should handle that better than a 2gb 770. With the other features it adds and at a comparable price it is an easy choice over a 770, but as a replacement it comes down to if a 25% gain is worth $330. For about the same price you can get another 770 and go SLI and see bigger gains, but will be lacking the new features added in teh 9xx series. Tough choice, and one I am mulling over too.
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It depends on how happy you are with your 770. If you're gaming at 1080p and have no trouble with good detail settings and framerates in most games (as I'd expect for a 770) then you really don't need to worry about it for awhile. The 770 should have a few more years left in it, and by that point something even better than the 970 will be available.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-970-maxwell,3941-16.html
If you want to see the performance difference, though, Tom's found it to average 23% faster than the 770, which places it just slightly north of an R9 290X. Stunning for a $330 card.
 
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No one can give you the answer if the upgrade is worth for you or not but yourself. Does upgrading GTX 770 to GTX 780 Ti makes sense? The answer would be the same for 970 as its performance is more or less the same as 780 Ti but uses 100W less power and is supposed to support DX12 (which is currently unreleased). Is it worth for you? Well that's for you to decide.
 
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Everything I have seen so far indicates it is about 25% faster than the 770 in most applications at 1080p. The biggest change is that it uses less power, therefore generating less heat. This could be a big help in SLI configurations or if you don't have a huge PSU. The 970 is a 4gb card, so if you do higher resolutions it should handle that better than a 2gb 770. With the other features it adds and at a comparable price it is an easy choice over a 770, but as a replacement it comes down to if a 25% gain is worth $330. For about the same price you can get another 770 and go SLI and see bigger gains, but will be lacking the new features added in teh 9xx series. Tough choice, and one I am mulling over too.
 
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No, it's not. Unless you're already having issues, in which case I'd rather recommend another 770 than an upgrade to 970. If you've just got some spare cash and are wondering where to spend it: SSD/RAM.
 
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Sure it will.. but it depends on games and screen resolutions that you are playing. GTX 760 is also a very good card.
 
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This is probably an annoying thing to point out, but any card will last as long as you're happy with the performance its giving you. You may not be playing at max details at 1080p with a 760 in two years, but sure, it will probably hold up well enough.
 
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Definitively not! I doubt the 970 performance is 25% greater than the 770, maybe a 10%. You may gain a few FPS since 970 comes with 1664 cuda cores vs 1536 in the 770 but this doesn't justify the upgrade. Core clock and memory clock frequencies are similar, the 970 generates a bit less heat but the 770 can handle this heat dissipation difference. Note that the 970 comes with 2x 6pin connectors while the 770 comes with a 1x 8pin + 1x6pin. My advice is waiting for the new 20nm fab cards. Don't waste your bucks making that upgrade, the GTX 770 is sufficient to run every game at high settings.
 
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I'm thinking about upgrading 770 to 970 for about 90$. All current and upcoming games demands 3GB of video ram, I feel like that I'm getting into trouble with that even with lowered aa/af to 2x and only 1080p gaming.
 
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I upgraded from single 770 to 970 SLI and I am very happy with the performace upgrade, now that I'm finished upgrading my computer, it's time to start preparing for the collapse of america, first up is a glock! :)
 
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lol
 
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I currently have a GTX 770 SLI setup (reference cards). I would have to say the performance at 1080p is good...sometimes great depending on the games you play. Watch out for newer games that require a newer version of DirectX. You may have to do some tweaking in the SLI settings for better performance. I got my two cards from ebay for the price of one GTX 970.


Setup:
ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3
AMD FX-8350 4.0Ghz (4.3Ghz OC)
GTX 770 Reference (x2)
CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i
CORSAIR HX Series HX850 850W
Thermaltake Chaser A71 VP400M1W2N
WD Blue 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM
SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD 128 GB SATA 6.0 Gbps 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
 
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was looking up power efficiency data for GTX 970 vs 770 and came across the following. Most of what is mentioned here was not mentioned in any previous comments and it seemed prudent to make this info accessible for this discussion:

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Architecture
The Second variant of the Maxwell Architecture, despite being also manufactured with a 28nm technology, has an extremely large L2 Cache (1792 kb vs 512 kb for the 770) and features a Third Generation Delta Color Compression which allows NVIDIA to produce Graphics Cards with relatively small memory data transfer rates, without causing too much impact on the overall performance. Furthermore, the Shaders have been redesigned and are both more powerful and energy efficient.
The Second Revision of Maxwell also adds the VXGI (Voxel Global Illumination) Technology which makes scenes significantly more lifelike and believable as light interacts more realistically in the game environment and the MFAA Technology which provides the same effect as MSAA but at a much lower performance cost.
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IMO it's not just about framerates ...
 
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When it comes to gaming, it is indeed. So don't start that discussion on old thread.
 
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