GTX 970SLI or GTX 980Ti for 5760x1080p gaming???

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ktn21

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Hello,



I am having thoughts about upgrading my GPU in the near future. So I would be grateful if you could give me your opinion about this subject.
Don't get me wrong, for the most part I am satisfied with my current GPU. It does a quite good job with games at 1080p (single monitor), not much to complain about.

I recently bought a second monitor mainly for editing at home, since I work as a video editor at the National Television. Decided to try a few games with the dual monitor setup, not the best experience, since the bezel is right in the middle, but I liked the idea of multiple screens. So that got me into thinking about perhaps buying a third 27" 1080p 60Hz monitor. But this probably requires a more powerful GPU.

At the moment I am using "MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G" GPU. So I guess the most reasonable option would be to buy another GTX970 card (SLI). But this also requires me to buy a new MOBO, since my recent one doesn't support SLI. I live in a small country in Europe, so my options are limited regarding the prices. Another identical GPU would cost ~370€ ($416) + new mobo Z97 (MSI, Gigabyte or Asrock) ~135€ ($152) =~505€ ($568).
Would it be worth it? People say that some games don't support SLI or are badly optimized, micro shutter and messing around.

or

Would it be wiser move to buy GTX 980TI (Gigabyte, EVGA or MSI) for about ~680- 699€ ($765- $786). Less chance of issues, less heat, less power consumption, less hassle, more ram etc?



My rig:
Processor: Intel Core i5-4440 Haswell Quad-Core 3.1 GHz
Motherboard: ASRock H87 Pro4
Memory: 2x Crucial DDR3 4GB 1600MHz
Video Card(s): MSI GeForce® GTX 970 GAMING 4G
Hard Disk(s): Samsung 850 EVO Series 250GB SSD/ Hitachi Deskstar P7K500GB
Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster s27b350 27" , Samsung s27d590 27"
Power Supply: Corsair VS Series™ VS650
Software: Windows 7 64x Ultimate


I appreciate any help that you can provide,
Chris


 
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The 980Ti is better cause a lot of games scale better with a single gpu and have less issues and those 6gb's are really esential and the 3,5gb's are really not enough for even 1440p or 4K siingle monitor
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sshortguy1

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if you haven't bought a new gpu yet wait n see how the new releases of the gtx 1070 or the 1080 performs , as of now i only seen a few benchmarks of the gtx 1080 going toward the 1920 x 1080 p resolutions anything higher not so good
 
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If you are going to upgrade to a single card make it a 1080. A 970sli setup should do you good for a 3 monitor setup though. But the 1080 would leave you room in the future for sli. Once you sli 970's you are pretty much at a dead end with no further options of upgrade. 980ti's are going to become hard to find soon because production has been stopped on them and started on the 1080.
 
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sshortguy1

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i'm not planning on changing anytime soon , for a few reasons 1 reason I have a 32" 4k which the gtx 1080s don't work to well with 4 k resolutions, the gtx 1080 is aimed for 1920x1080 p resolutions for which I can understand b/c most are on 1080 p still and 3rd NVidia mentioned to be twice as fast as the titan x which is only in vr mode not in dx mode which failed miserably in the benchmarks
 
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Many people were afraid of that... That peopl

The gtx 1080 is for all resolutions just in 4K it doeesnt beat the titan x for more than 10fps usually..

For example 970 SLI VS GTX 1080 (4K)


AC Syndicate.... 45fps vs 51fps
Battlefield 3 60fps vs 66
Battlefield 4 45 vs 50
Batman ARkham knight 30fps vs 60
Black ops 3 30fps vs 36
Crysis 3 33fps vs 35
Fallout 4 58fps vs 69
Far Cry Primal 41fps vs 43
GTA V 42fps vs 45
Hitman 29 vs 34
Just Cause 3 24fps vs 50
Rainbow Six: Siege 37fps vs 62
Rise of the Tomb Raider 13fps vs 40
Witcher 3 35 vs 43fps

You see? Many games dont support SLI and the 970 SLI gets rekt.....
 
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wait please dont tell me you just said the 1080 is aimed at 1080p resolutions..................omg just stop and log off the internet now. You are spreading the most obsurd rumor i've ever heard. If it was aimed at 1080p is would not have 8gb vram and be able to out perform a titanX. Please tell me the titanX is aimed at 1080p also please..........
 
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980 destroying the titanX

Dat typo :D
 
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azz did u go to utube and looked at the benchmarks ? it said its better than the titan x configuring vr mode not dx mode aka direct x.
a lot of people misunderstand thinking its faster than the titan x but the titan x has 12 gigs of vram and not enough horse power to push the 12 gigs of vram to go with it , why a lot of people think the titan x is weak.

I've seen the titan x being bought and return for the reason it wasn't fast enough for their needs but in reality the gtx 980 ti was in question when it came out but proved to prove to have the power , I've seen some benchmarks in games that the gtx 1080 only beaten the titan x by a small margin aka 12 frames per sec , not really as fast as all the hype was about
is all i'm saying

I've compared the gtx 970 in sli to 1 r 9 390 x the r 9 390 x had 8 gigs of vram but not as fast as I thought it would be , from my experience in graphic cards I waited for a few others to come out and see the difference . b/c in reality u are only looking to is a big disappointment
 
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