Is now a good time to buy a graphics card? and if so, which one is for me?

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The_Blindman

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Hi,

I am currently on the lookout for a new graphics card as my good ol' GTX760 loves to have long chugs along the beach in Los Santos in GTA5.
I would have just straight bought a GTX980 already if it wasn't for a few variables that popped up during my window shopping.
Variable number 1 - 980 Ti came out
Variable number 2 - Pascal architecture in 2016 nVidia GPUs
Variable number 3 - AMD HBM with their R9 300 series

For me its mainly the new architecture from nvidia that has stopped me from buying a new graphics card.

I just wanted some thoughts on whether now is a good time to buy one, or if it is best to wait until the newer cards come out.
And if it is ok to buy one now, what would suit my system and my requirements in the spoiler below.

Thanks,

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Any time
BUDGET RANGE: $600 USD but i'm flexible with it.

USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT:
Gaming - Batman Arkham Knight, GTA 5, Witcher

CURRENT GPU AND POWER SUPPLY:
ASUS GTX760-DC2OC-2GD5 GeForce GTX760 OC 2GB GDDR5 PCI-E3.0-
Corsair HX750W

OTHER RELEVANT SYSTEM SPECS:
Gigabyte G1.Sniper B5 Intel B85 ATX Haswell LGA1150.
Intel Haswell Core i5 4670K 3.40GHz 6MB LGA1150.
Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-1600 CL9 (KHX16C9T3K2/8X)

I got a full tower with about 6 hard drives connected (Not in a RAID).

Everything has stock cooling

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS:
computerlounge.co.nz
playtech.co.nz
amazon.com
amazon.co.uk
newegg.com - (Last resort)
(Pretty much any site outside of NZ that has low shipping costs / wont be charged by duty taxes)

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
New Zealand

PARTS PREFERENCES:
I've always been attracted to Nvidia cards, but am willing to change if it's going to save me money/give me better performance.

OVERCLOCKING:
Maybe
SLI OR CROSSFIRE:
Maybe

MONITOR RESOLUTION:
1920x1080

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:
Must run GTA5/Arkham Knight(Once it gets fixed) at 60FPS on average.
I am also willing to upgrade any other component as well.
 
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In my opinion, If you are just going to be playing games on a 1080p panel, you could still wait a few more years and get the Pascal architecture GPU's from Nvidia and at the meantime use your GTX 760. From the link below, it can be said that everything will be faster and efficient for example, the memory. Every new generation of Graphics card offers something new and of course better, I think that these GPUs would be using HBM2 memories, However The price point is unknown. If you do not want to wait any longer the GTX 980Ti is an excellent choice and will mostly max out any game in 1080p. and the 980Ti is just at $650 which is an amazing value. Or you could also go to the SLI route and SLI 2x GTX 970 which is a good option too! One...
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Maxwell is incredible. One thing to remember, especially with computers, is that the "Should I wait?" game will never end. You could buy a Pascal GPU the day of launch and in just over a year there will be something that crushes it. In my opinion the 980 Ti performs amazingly at the price point you're looking at and it worth buying. It will max out all of the games you mentioned except at 4K. You didn't mention what resolution you're running, though.

Also, AMD does not have HBM on any of the 300 series. It's only on the Fury series.
 
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In my opinion, If you are just going to be playing games on a 1080p panel, you could still wait a few more years and get the Pascal architecture GPU's from Nvidia and at the meantime use your GTX 760. From the link below, it can be said that everything will be faster and efficient for example, the memory. Every new generation of Graphics card offers something new and of course better, I think that these GPUs would be using HBM2 memories, However The price point is unknown. If you do not want to wait any longer the GTX 980Ti is an excellent choice and will mostly max out any game in 1080p. and the 980Ti is just at $650 which is an amazing value. Or you could also go to the SLI route and SLI 2x GTX 970 which is a good option too! One of them costing around $300. Benchmarks of it can be seen in the link below.

Links:
Benchmark for SLI GTX 970 - http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/82060-evga-gtx-970-ssc-sli-vs-titan-x-r9-295x2/
Nvidia Pascal Architecture GPU - http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/03/17/pascal/
 
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