GTX 970 SLI vs GTX 980 Ti vs Wait for Pascal

Joji Sulistyo

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Hey there guys, I currently am running a i7 870, a Gigabyte GTX 970 G1, Seasonix X750 80+ Gold PSU, Samsung 240GB 850 Evo SSD, WD Black Caviar 1TB, and 16 GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM.
I know that my CPU doesn't match up with my GPU that's cause I was waiting for Skylake to come out, and by December I'll be getting the 6700k.
So my question now is I want to further increase my graphics power as I want to be somewhat "futureproof" for the next upcoming years. My choices were buying another GTX 970 and run it in SLI; sell my GTX 970 and go for a non-reference 980 Ti (probably Gigabyte or Asus); or keep my GTX 970 and close before Pascal comes out sell my 970 and buy a top of the line Pascal GPU. Money isn't really a concern here as I've been saving up for quite awhile. I heard that HBM 2.0 will be a huge increase in performance compared to the current Maxwell architecture. So I don 't really know what to do here. I currently run 3 monitors at 1080p but I'm going to upgrade my main monitor to a 1440p 144hz BenQ monitor. What do you guys think I should do? Help is much appreciated! Thanks!
 

Random_tech

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the 2 970's in SLI Would be (in my opinion) better than getting a 980ti.
if you ever watched linus techtips, then you would of heard him say that 2 970's are a fair bit faster that 1 980, for about a few hundread dollars cheaper
 
2xGTX970s is a wee bit faster than a single GTX980Ti as long as the VRAM usage does not go above 3.5GB VRAM. Just also remember than SLI/XFire has it's own potential issues.

If you already have a GTX970 and need only to buy another one, 2xGTX970s is definitely worth to try.
 

Random_tech

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not only is it a tiny bit faster, it is a lot cheaper
 


No it is not, if you want to buy 2xGTX970s at the same time
1 KFA2 GTX 970 EXOC costs €329
2 KFA2 GTX 970 EXOC costs thus €658
1 KFA2 GTX980Ti OC Active costs €659

If you must sell your current GTX970 as a second-handed item on eBay then buy a brand new GTX980Ti, yes, a second GTX970 is a lot cheaper.
 

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ill wait as buying another gtx 770 2gb dont have a much sense to me now.