3 way SLI 690's or a Titan Z

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I am looking to upgrade the graphics card on my gaming pc as I want to play gta 5 on full graphics and call of duty advanced ware fare with supper sampling cranked all the way up and also theirs lots of new games coming out which I would like to play on absolute maxed settings!
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Current specs:

Asus Maximus VII Ranger

Intel Core i7 4790
Dominator platnum 32GB Ram
Nvidea Geforce GTX 690
PSU OCZ 600W (Will be upgrading to a Corsair 850W or higher soon)
Corsair water cooler
Windows 10
120 sandisk ssd (os install)
2x 4TB hard drives (Game install)
30 ocz ssd (game save file backups)
all housed in a Corsair Graphite Series 230T Windowed (might upgrade to a CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES 780T)

BenQXL27" Monitor with 144Hz
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I was original looking at the Titan z which has 12gb of graphics memory which would be more than enough I would imaging to play gta 5 and all the new games coming out in the next few years on maxed settings, however the cheapest I can get this card for is £900.

Or my other option is to keep my nvidea 690 which is 4gb and add another two 690s giving me a total of 12GB and will only cost me £440

i'm aware that the titan Z supports direct x12 and is a much better card

I use to use a dell as my main computer but I have now switched over to a mac mini as I use a lot of apple devices and I also like using there OS as well. so my custom built pc is only really used for gaming and the odd editing and rendering here and there.

out of the two options what would be the most reasonable one to go for? once I do the upgrade to my PSU and GPUI don't want to upgrade anything else for another 4-5 years unless I have to. as after this I will probably build a DDR4 build
 
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jason_villada

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the R9 Fury sounds like I good idea however my friend has GTA5 on a titan z and on maxed out setting GTA a little over 6gb of video memory on 1080p, so 4gb would not be enough
 

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Yes it will. Notice that the Fury has HBM, which performs better than GDDR5, so you can have less VRAM.
 

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When running mutliple cards VRAM doesn't stack. The 690 has 4gb on the board which is split between two 680's, so you only have 2gb of vram. You could add a second 690, but not a 3rd since SLI only supports up to 4 gpu's. In that case you would have 4 gpu's and still only 2gb of vram.

If the 980ti is in your budget it would probably be your best upgrade option.

Here is a link to actual VRAM usage in GTA V at various resolutions:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/gta-v-pc-graphics-performance-review,9.html
 
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I agree, the 980ti is your best option. Getting two of these would be much better than a Titan Z if you can fit it in your budget.
 

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