ideas on next graphic card/s for 3 screen setup on a budget

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xxlonebearxx

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hi all

i was hoping a few of you might be able to help me out. at the moment im running 2x Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 Overclocked 2GB cards on 3 Monitors at 5040*1050 eyefinity and i think its time for abit of an update but i dont no what to get.
ATM money is a little tight so saving up for a month or so is what i might have to do, witch is fine.
1st ill list a few games i would like to run in 3 screens with setting near to high as possible and getting a decent fps.

GTA 5
Star citizen
rainbow 6 siege
no man sky

im unsure what i would need to run 3 screen smoothly a few friends said that having a card with 4GB and over on memory shouldn't have a problem, are they right in that fact?
i have been looking around online and i think that nvidia might be out of my budget as much as i would love to get one they are tooooo expensive for me, well the 900 and 1000 series cards are anyway, i have never had one due to the pricing of there cards. but ATI's new RX 480 looks nice with its 8gb memory and for the price is kinda hard to pass up (£250ish).

anyone got any idea im open to all and im in need of abit of help. if you need anymore info just ask
thanks alot in advance

pc specs

OS Windows 8.1
CPU: i5-3570K CPU (4 x 3.40GHz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte SKT-1155 GA-Z77X-D3H Motherboard
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 8GB (4GB x2) DDR3 BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU
Graphics Card: Crossfire Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 Overclocked 2048MB
Monitor(s) Displays: 3 x SyncMAster 2253BW 2ms
Screen Resolution: 5040*1050 or 1680*1050
 
If you want to run the games on 3 screens close to or above 60FPS, you will need something like GTX 1070 performance on a single card.
It also features Simultaneous Multi-Projection which may improve you multi monitor experience.
A single RX 480 will not be able to do that very well. On the other hand, you will be able to add another RX 480 later and meet your performance requirements.
 
thanks for the insight. the plan was to go for the rx 480 and later on to get another one and cross fire them, but considering that ati drivers aren't the best and i have always been with ATI for gfx card i just wanted to change it up a bit and see if the nvidia drivers are any better. i know that the nvidia cards are powerful but its hard to justify spending a lot for it. i know that someone will say that £400 isn't a lot but for low income worker like me it is.

i also thought about getting the 980 but the prices havent dropped enought and i doubt that they will tbh.
any other suggestions?
also the card needs to have at least 3 display ports. as atm im running 2 DP and 1 DVI and the dvi is having some screen tearing issue witch is driving me up the wall.
 
What about the used market? Should be a ton of GTX 970s going for cheap, a couple of them in SLI would be a good configuration for 3 screens. I bet youll be able to get GTX 970s for under £150 each on ebay.
 
Yes, Nvidia drivers for DX10, DX11 and OpenGL are way better.
You can wait a few month and see the Vega release from AMD will affect the prices. IMHO, you should be able to get the GTX 1070 for less than 400 around Christmas.
I'm not a huge fan of the multi GPU setups when there is a single card that can do the same.
Anyway, if you go RX 480, get only 8GB version and only non reference cooler, though at the end, it will cost you more or the same as GTX 1070.
 
i have been watching for 970s on ebay and the auction prices pretty much hits the £200 mark almost same as the buy it now ones. may aswell get the rx 480 for that. altho i dont no if the rx 480 is better then the 970, i always think that new is better tbh
 
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