SLI and my woes

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Check the list. But check the price too. The ti's are in a different league than anything, and yes, you can get nothing better performance wise.

Compare the 970 SLI to the 980 instead.

As Mark said in this thread: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2763675/save-m...
MarkW said:
For the past 4 years, both AMD and Nvidia have been stuck at the 28nm node process when it comes to making chips. The fabs simply did not create the technology that both companies needed at the 20nm node.

So now the fabs have moved to a 16nm FinFet node, and created what AMD and Nvidia needed at that level to produce new chips. But the announcement that this process is now in full production was just made yesterday. So it is going to probably be about June 2016 before we see any of those GPU's hit the market.

So back to the GTX 760 vs GTX 970 comparison... Both are 28nm GPU's. There were minor changes to the GPU over the years, but since they are both made at the same technology level, they are going to perform very similarly.

When the new video cards come out next year, they will be as much as 65% faster with the same number of transistors, and they will have new HBM v2 (High Bandwidth Memory) which will allow for as much as 32GB per video card, with memory bandwidths as high as 1.2TB vs the maximum of 512GB today. They should also be much more power efficient, and much like what has been going on with the AMD Fury line, the video cards themselves should be much cooler and smaller.

After reading everything I have been able to dig up about all of this new technology, and observing how the AMD Fury X and Fury are performing with HBM v1 memory, and knowing what should be possible by next June, my guess is that when the product lines start flushing out next year, for the money you would spend right now on any given video card out there, the same money this time next year should get you a video card that is 50% to 60% faster than the card you can buy right now.

So unless you must have a video card immediately, you are probably going to be much better off just waiting for most of a year.