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Hello again people of the internet,

With christmas aproaching and the release of the Nvidia 900 series cards, I was wondering whether I should sell my current Nvidia 760 and invest in an Nvidia 970.
I do a lot of video editing and gaming, and the 760 has been great for that, but I see it slowing down as games get more graphically demanding and editing suites get loaded with more effects.

So what do you guys think? Should I upgrade, stick with my current GPU, or perhaps invest in a second monitor? Will I see a justifiable performance increase?

Thanks for your time with this.
 
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Then again, for a third time, that is Sony Vegas and Sony Vegas only. The industry standard Premier Pro acts completely different. All editors based on CUDA act completely different. As I mention in 2 other posts, leave Vegas and learn to read.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Premiere-Pro-CS6-GPU-Acceleration-162/

Anything over 760 is a waste of money. Gaming is a whole different story and I came here to answer the editing question.
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i don't know about the edit part but Yes the 970 is way faster then 5the 760 and you probably don't need to change the powersuppply.
If your graphic card is slowing down, addding a second monitor will only increase the problem.
bu I have 3 monitors and love that.
 
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A GTX 970 will not increase your rendering speed much. Maxwell has much lower floating performance compared to the older Fermi and Kepler. Double precision of Kepler is 1:24, while Maxwell is quite bad at 1:32. All in all, for Premier Pro - the 760 is more or less the best. Any video card over it, does not impact performance. I do not know about Sony Vegas though. There might be a slight chance that 970 will perform slower in editing.
 
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Where did you get that?

From what I can see the 970 smashes kepler in single precision floating point, and only loses to the big kepler gk110 chips like the 780/780ti/titan and AMD in double precision.

In every case the 970 is miles faster than the 760...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8568/the-geforce-gtx-970-review-feat-evga/14
 
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Hi Cowboydude, I'm using the Haswell i5 4670 at the moment, with a mere 8gb of RAM.
 
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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-750-ti-review,3750-16.html

"Our benchmark results indicate a 8:1 ratio between them on Nvidia's GeForce GTX 750 Ti (Maxwell). That's quite a bit weaker than the GeForce GTX 760's (Kepler) 4:1 in this metric (Explicit Solvent). "

How else do you think they reduced the power consumption that much? Fermi by far has the best floating point performance out of nVidia products. Kepler lowered floating point performance, but increased core count, therefore negating the increase. Maxwell is a completely different story. It's floating point performance is so crippled that I don't see 980s beating 780s or 970s beating 770s in productivity.
 
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8GB is great. I also use 8GB.

Your CPU and RAM are just fine. Go for the upgrade :)
 
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1) the 750 Ti is first gen Maxwell and the 970/980 is second gen, so not the same. Not only that its a 60w mid range card, and in single precision its far higher than the equivalent kepler!

2) see my link for real performance benchmarks of floating point performance of the 970 and 980 to see that you are incorrect.
 
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You do realize that is Sony Vegas, which works completely different than Premier Pro or other CUDA based applications. Not to mention Vegas is OpenCL based. You can trust your benches as much as you want, but I am working in this field.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Product-Qualification-NVIDIA-GTX-980-4GB-600/

GTX 980 loses to 780 TI. They do not have 780 in that graph but if you search all of their articles - 980 loses to 780 in Premier and lands closer to 770.

Also, your complete second and first generation Maxwell is complete mumbo-jumbo. All that matters is that it is Maxwell, CUDA cores, MHZ, Shaders, Texture units and etc and etc.
 
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Do you realise he has a 760 not a 780, big difference. Regardless the 970 and 980 are faster at sony vegas rendering.

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Then again, for a third time, that is Sony Vegas and Sony Vegas only. The industry standard Premier Pro acts completely different. All editors based on CUDA act completely different. As I mention in 2 other posts, leave Vegas and learn to read.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Premiere-Pro-CS6-GPU-Acceleration-162/

Anything over 760 is a waste of money. Gaming is a whole different story and I came here to answer the editing question.
 
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