SLI or new Graphics Card?

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Hi! First post on this forum, so forgive me if I did anything wrong by posting in the wrong place or by asking a question that has already been asked.

I have the Nvidia GeForce GTX 560Ti and now with the new Battlefield 4, Watchdogs, Witcher 3 games coming out soon, I wanted to upgrade my graphics card. I'm wondering if it would be better to just buy a new graphics card altogether (and if so, suggestions? $500 budget) or if it would be possible to SLI my current graphics card with another for equal performance.

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You can SLI for better performance, but with $500 budget and a GPU that only has 1GB VRAM, I think you're better off upgrading. If have to get Nvidia, 770 for about $400 is a good choice. Alternatively you can get a similarly performing AMD 7970 / r9-280x for about $300. Both options should be faster than 560ti SLI -- and importantly, have a large enough frame buffer for high settings on new games.
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You can SLI for better performance, but with $500 budget and a GPU that only has 1GB VRAM, I think you're better off upgrading. If have to get Nvidia, 770 for about $400 is a good choice. Alternatively you can get a similarly performing AMD 7970 / r9-280x for about $300. Both options should be faster than 560ti SLI -- and importantly, have a large enough frame buffer for high settings on new games.
 
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Thanks a bunch for the answers! It really helped out :)

I think I'll wait until Christmas comes around and get the 770.

EDIT: I'll also look into doing SLI with a pair of 760's
 
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A pair of 760's outperforms any single GPU solution.

Here's some benches with the SLI 760's topping the 780 by a large margin in almost all games tested.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/geforce-gtx-760-sli-msi-palit-zotac_8.html#sect2

So, the two graphics cards which cost $100-150 less than the single GeForce GTX 780 beat the latter by 14-19% at 1920x1080 and by 17-18% at 2560x1440. The only exceptions are GRID 2 (where SLI isn’t very efficient) and, to some extent, Company of Heroes 2.
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