GTX 980 SLI or GTX 1070/1080?

[Worm20]

I currently have a GTX 980, and am looking for an upgrade. The rest of my specs can be found at the bottom. Basically I want to know if it would be better to sell my 980 to get a 1070 or 1080, or just get a second 980. My current monitor is 1440p @ 165hz so I think the extra power would go to good use. I am leaning towards a second 980 since it's cheaper, but am not entirely sure if my 750w GOLD power supply is enough.

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/3cybpb

 

[RCFProd]

It would be better to sell your GTX 980 and get a 1070/1080. A single stronger GPU is always the better option by quite a margin. More consistency in (much) higher performance. That being said, your CPU will hold you back in performance at times. Even with the GTX 980 you already have. Actually, I might've looked for a CPU upgrade before hand, unless you play at 1440p/4k resolutions where the CPU bottlenecks are not as severe.

In-depth analysis in the latest Battlefield game shows exactly this fantastically imo.

 

[Worm20]

It would be better to sell your GTX 980 and get a 1070/1080. A single stronger GPU is always the better option by quite a margin. More consistency in (much) higher performance. That being said, your CPU will hold you back in performance at times. Even with the GTX 980 you already have. Actually, I might've looked for a CPU upgrade before hand, unless you play at 1440p/4k resolutions where the CPU bottlenecks are not as severe.

In-depth analysis in the latest Battlefield game shows exactly this fantastically imo.

Like I said at the top, I will be playing at 1440p so I do think that more GPU power would benefit more than CPU. I overclocked my FX-8350 to 4.5ghz, and plan on going higher at some point.

 

[RCFProd]

Still quite a bottleneck even at 1440p, if you look at the benchmark results (which does go in controversy to what I said about 1440p/4k being fine), you can see about 30 fps difference between an i7-6700k and FX-8370 with a GTX 1080, and almost 50 fps difference in multiplayer. That's quite insane.

 

[Worm20]

Still quite a bottleneck even at 1440p, if you look at the benchmark results (which does go in controversy to what I said about 1440p/4k being fine), you can see about 30 fps difference between an i7-6700k and FX-8370 with a GTX 1080, and almost 50 fps difference in multiplayer. That's quite insane.

That does seem to be true, but an upgrade like that would cost around $500+ and at that point I'd basically buy myself a new computer... I can sell my GTX 980 for about $280 to a friend, so getting a GTX 1070 would only cost me like $100. I just wasn't sure if getting a second GTX 980 would be better than going for a 1070, or saving a little longer and going all out for a 1080.

 

[sshortguy1]

I currently have a GTX 980, and am looking for an upgrade. The rest of my specs can be found at the bottom. Basically I want to know if it would be better to sell my 980 to get a 1070 or 1080, or just get a second 980. My current monitor is 1440p @ 165hz so I think the extra power would go to good use. I am leaning towards a second 980 since it's cheaper, but am not entirely sure if my 750w GOLD power supply is enough.

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/3cybpb

I seen your question according to your question that the fact is a single gtx 980 sli isn't equivelant to a gtx 1080 the gtx 1080 is slower than a gtx 980 sli and done my homework back from may 27th of this yr and found it not accurate , the best bet would go with a single gtx 1080 if u don't like the heat concerning sli , if it doesn't bother you go with a gtx 1070 sli and a hb bridge , like I done back in the beginning of june , the gtx 1070 uses a lot less power and not as hot like the Maxwell cards gtx 970s 980s 980 tis and the gtx titan x , on my system I get around 150-200 fps on 1440p but like the new games that are coming out isn't optimized for sli as release but they will eventually as time goes on , if i'm right I think you have the asus pg279q monitor which I had in the past

 

[RCFProd]

My suggestion would be keeping the GTX 980 and saving cash for an upgrade for the CPU+motherboard. Maybe a good i5 CPU with a reasonable motherboard. Because I believe your current GPU already goes really well with your current CPU. Might not see a big enough improvement with a GTX 1070 until you upgrade the CPU. It's only 100 dollars, sure, but if that means you'll keep the FX-8350 for another while then I'd say don't.