Should I upgrade my 770 to a 970?

[viowithcrailtap]

Hey Guys,

I've been looking in to the 970 (not a particular model) and I'm wondering if I should upgrade from my 770 (EVGA ACX SC 2GB) to a 970?

I know it's got twice the Vram so I imagine it's got more than enough memory to actually use AA in games like BF4 without it affecting FPS too much and would cater nicely for me adding another display if I wanted to.

It's the power consumption side of the 900 series which is the more interesting point.

I only bought my 770 in January and I'm wondering if the 970 would be the better investment as it's newer technology/ architecture so hopefully it wouldn't date so fast. I game quite a lot so I'm wondering if the 970 would actually begin to make my PC a little more economical (along with my 80+ Gold PSU).

If it was simply a question of the 970 is more powerful then it probably wouldn't bother me so much.

Or is there something I'm not aware of?

I read on a post to wait until they go from 28nm to 20nm but I'm not sure what difference that would make.

 

[RobCrezz]

Is your 770 not giving you the performance you want? If so then go for it.

 

[Max Guymer]

If you have the money, then I'd say yes, the 970 performs better than the 780 alone, so it would be good performance increase. The question is do you need it? You bought your 770 in January, It's not even a year old yet, it's got life in it still, what frames per second are you getting? Plus points: the 970 runs cooler and doesn't consume as much power from what I've read, plus since it does runs cooler, you could overclock it to squeeze a few more frames out of it. I'm not sure on the 28nm - 20nm either sorry :/

 

[iAboodz]

The 970 is indeed a better performer, but if you game on 1080p there's not point on going more than a single 770 as it can max out almost all games with 60+. But if you have the budget and don't mind all that then go for it

 

[viowithcrailtap]

It would be a case of selling my 770 (and putting the extra money in) to buy a 970.

To be honest the 770 is serving me very well. I just don't want to be having to upgrade so soon. I was hoping to get at least a couple of years out of it.

 

[iAboodz]

Then don't, i do not recommend that. yes you may get better performance but you are wasting the couple of years the 770 have. Save up and get a 980 ti later on or you can see other options. The 770 is still breathing and will get you through what you want

 

[viowithcrailtap]

Then don't, i do not recommend that. yes you may get better performance but you are wasting the couple of years the 770 have. Save up and get a 980 ti later on or you can see other options. The 770 is still breathing and will get you through what you want

Ok great.

980ti you say.......

Now that's an aim

 

[iAboodz]

Then don't, i do not recommend that. yes you may get better performance but you are wasting the couple of years the 770 have. Save up and get a 980 ti later on or you can see other options. The 770 is still breathing and will get you through what you want

Ok great.

980ti you say.......

Now that's an aim

Yeah it is, but we have to wait to see how the 3xx series from and will perform too. I just hope AMD will make a product that make me do more research before getting a new gpu

 

[viowithcrailtap]

I've never really been in to the AMD stuff. I guess if they came out with something really good I'd look in to it.

 

[iAboodz]

*nvidia fanboys high five*