Upgrade from GTX 760?

[cindylo]

So I've been looking for a new upgrade from my GTX 760 2GB, it has served me well. Would you guys go for the R9 380x or the GTX 960? Or just straight up wait for pascal and arctic islands?

Keep in mind I'd like to get a second card in the future for possible VR or a triple 1080 setup.

 

[Karadjgne]

Neither. Both the 380 and the 960 are barely over a 1 step up, I have my old 660ti pulling benchmarks as high as the Gigabyte G1 960 gaming, which is one of the best performing 960's. I also have a gtx970 and it's a difference I can tell easily. I get over 60fps on dual monitors on all the games I play, set at ultra on the 660ti, but play those same games on the 970 and now it renders at 2k/4k drops down to 1080p and it's a whole different picture, not to mention the msaa, full physX, full shadows etc.

A good upgrade would be a r9 390 or gtx970 for a single gpu, but if you do plan on multiple cards, I'd stick with nvidia because to date the are still bugs with CF and many games still have poor CF optimization whereas sli doesn't seem to have the same amount of issues. I'd of think about amd CF if you plan on raising the resolution to 1440p multiple monitors and take advantage of AMD's greater ram.

Edit: forgot to mention that nvidia cards like the 970 are already set up to work with VR fully, I don't believe amd is.

 

[cindylo]

That's what I was thinking, the 960 pulls ~10+ more frames than my card. The 380x pulls a good ~20+ more most of the time, hence why I was considering that one. You're right AMD CF is still inferior to SLI but not to the point it matter much anymore imo most of the time. Thanks for the input!

 

[Mousemonkey]

Neither. Both the 380 and the 960 are barely over a 1 step up, I have my old 660ti pulling benchmarks as high as the Gigabyte G1 960 gaming, which is one of the best performing 960's. I also have a gtx970 and it's a difference I can tell easily. I get over 60fps on dual monitors on all the games I play, set at ultra on the 660ti, but play those same games on the 970 and now it renders at 2k/4k drops down to 1080p and it's a whole different picture, not to mention the msaa, full physX, full shadows etc.

A good upgrade would be a r9 390 or gtx970 for a single gpu, but if you do plan on multiple cards, I'd stick with nvidia because to date the are still bugs with CF and many games still have poor CF optimization whereas sli doesn't seem to have the same amount of issues. I'd of think about amd CF if you plan on raising the resolution to 1440p multiple monitors and take advantage of AMD's greater ram.

Edit: forgot to mention that nvidia cards like the 970 are already set up to work with VR fully, I don't believe amd is.

Really? I'd like to see screenshots of those results.

 

[Karadjgne]

A little hard to do now. I was using msi kombuster under the benchmarking tab at the 1080p preset. I ran the all the (b) tests which post results online and on that day someone with a G1 was also testing. My numbers were just ahead if his in every test until the tessellation results in which he got a significantly higher score. In the openGL, openGL, fuzzy donut, partical tests etc, I beat the G1 in fps over a 60,000ms test. About then, anonymous with a 970 and an r9 2xx series started posting and results went from 2k-5k to 9k-13k and I felt very small. Needless to say, at stock, the G1 was roasting me but good.

Stock :1046/6008 100%
Oc: 1196/6840 114%

 

[Mousemonkey]

A little hard to do now. I was using msi kombuster under the benchmarking tab at the 1080p preset. I ran the all the (b) tests which post results online and on that day someone with a G1 was also testing. My numbers were just ahead if his in every test until the tessellation results in which he got a significantly higher score. In the openGL, openGL, fuzzy donut, partical tests etc, I beat the G1 in fps over a 60,000ms test. About then, anonymous with a 970 and an r9 2xx series started posting and results went from 2k-5k to 9k-13k and I felt very small. Needless to say, at stock, the G1 was roasting me but good.

Stock :1046/6008 100%
Oc: 1196/6840 114%

How convenient. Well I still have the 2 660Ti's that I replaced with a pair of 960's so I know for a fact that the 660Ti's get blown away by the 960's

 

[Karadjgne]

At stock they do, as I said, but I know what I saw, and I know what I tested. Maybe under differing testing methodology you could very well be right. For all I know, msi kombuster could be taking advantage of my 192bit buss, that the g1's 128 couldn't match. I dunno. All I do know is that I've been using the same program for years and in all the gpu testing I've done with it, it's lined right up with expectations. Some prefer the abuse of firestrike, some don't.

Either way, convenient or not for you, it works for me. Thank you very much.