GTX 970 vs GTX 760 SLI

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Satoshi McKeown

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Hi so I am wondering what I should do in this situation. So right now I am running a single gtx 760. I want more power as the single card solution seems to be slowing down a bit. I want to know if I should buy another GTX 760 for around $300 or wait until I get a job and get a single GTX 970 for around $500
 
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I would recommend a single 970, though I assume the $'s you quoted is not US (970 is around $350~$400 in US).

760 SLI will give you more raw power, but at a higher power consumption, and only for games that has better than 50% SLI scaling (newer games tend to have better scaling, though exceptions apply). 970 is a more convenient upgrade overall.
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I would recommend a single 970, though I assume the $'s you quoted is not US (970 is around $350~$400 in US).

760 SLI will give you more raw power, but at a higher power consumption, and only for games that has better than 50% SLI scaling (newer games tend to have better scaling, though exceptions apply). 970 is a more convenient upgrade overall.
 
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True unless he needs to upgrade his PSU to support his second 760. If he needs to, 970 is more cost effective.

Microstuttering also depends on the game, but generally older cards have more SLI related problems (970 SLI for example does not seem to exhibit it, at least not from the games I tried).
 
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Go with a 970 and sell the 760 or use is it for Physx
 
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Sorry if this is a newbie Question but what is Physx
 
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Its nvidia's way of making games looking better and taking some load of the CPU this isnt for Nvidia only AMD can also get that feature but Nvidia's card have better Physx and looks better.
 
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nVidia's own Physics engine, however the number of games that uses it isn't very big (off the top of my head I know Borderlands series use it), and a powerful GTX card will handle PhysX on its on fine, so the benefits of using 760 just for physX is somewhat limited.
 
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I have never seen microstuttering on any SLI build where the card costs was above $150.

560 Ti and above
650 Ti Boost and above
760 and above

Actually since the 5xx series, I have not seen MS at all as all the cards that would be suspect don't have the feature.

As for scaling, consumers are oft misled by reviews which average scaling over a whole bunch of games. The fact is that scaling is high in demanding games (new or old) and low in games that non demanding games.

Crysis 3 - 87.5% (76.5 / 40.8)
Tomb Raider - 93.3 % (111.0 / 56.9)

Compare that with Diablo 3 47.4% (360.3 / 244.4) .... but who cares when ya already have 200+ fps.


 
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Had 2 760's in crossfire i played bf4 and bf3 a lot and to be honest with you there was a lot of stuttering
 
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Done maybe 6 or 7 builds with 760's, about half as upgrades and half from the get go .... most of which were used in 3D with nVidia glasses and 120 / 144 hz monitors. No microstuttering caused by SLI. On the other hand, were lot of CPU related issues including stuttering crashes especially in multiplayer mode. On all the gaming builds, I have created separate overclocking profiles.....

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This goes for both the GPU and GPU ... the BF series is the only game I have come across that exhibits this behavior and it occurs in both SLI and single card builds.
 
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yeah i was running an i5 2500k with the 760 SLI'd and i noticed stuttering so i sold that build and bought a fx 8350 and than a 7950 boost
 
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