should i buy a gtx 970 or a gtx 780 ti?

[Scoobys]

so i have a gtx 770 and im about to buy a new graphic card i will probably buy a zotac gtx 970 4gb but which is better? gtx 970 or gtx 780 ti? i saw many benchmarks where gtx 970 beats gtx 780 Ti with 2 or 3 more frame rates than the gtx 780 and yeah i know gtx 970 has a lower consumption, but for example will i get better fps with that gtx 970 or with gtx 780 in bf4?

 

[Helldog26]

970 is better all around plus you will save 200 bucks at least going that route. The 780ti is a good card but the marginal performance is not anywhere near the 200 dollar difference.

 

[photonboy]

GTX970.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_970_STRIX_OC/25.html

On average (over many games) there's a 4% difference. The GTX970 will overclock even heigher. There's also MFAA support which for supported games can gain roughly 10% to 30% (let's just say 15%).

So for arguments sake let's just say the cards are ROUGHLY EQUAL but there's a lot of other differences as well:
- DSR
- Voxel (for future dynamic lighting)
- H.265
- 4K HDMI @60FPS
- fans can turn off (on supported cards)
- 4GB vs 3GB of VRAM

The card I'm currently recommending is this one:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-04gp42974kr

The EVGA SC model with 1.17GHz GPU speed. It's currently $335 USD and you can get a game (recommend FC4).

 

[photonboy]

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/mfaa-multi-frame-sample-aa-guide-review,1.html

Battlefield 4 is already supported by MFAA and shows about a 10% frame rate increase vs MSAA at similar quality.

Note that's on the LOW end of things for MFAA and apparently due to heavy CPU usage by the game. Crysis 3 as tested got 20%.