Two 960? or a 1060

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drxmailman

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Ive been pondering spending the 180$ for a refurbished 960 because my budget is a kind of low, but the 1060 is 200$ more. So I was wondering if I should save for a bit and get the 1060 instead, or if I could buy a 960 and get another one in the future for SLI.

Also a side question is there a 1060 that offers SLI support?
 
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Eximo

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GTX960 = 1/2 a GTX980
GTX1060 = 95-105% of a GTX980 depending on the game. (Also quite a bit better at VR if that is your thing)

SLI does seem to be a dying breed, some of the latest games engines don't support it. DX12 will offer two alternatives (Linked: A sort of software SLI/Crossfire requiring identical cards / Unlinked: mode allowing any GPU to participate, including Intel) --- I should add that the game developers still have to implement this, and SLI and Crossfire are an extreme minority, so don't count on it

2 way SLI is reserved for the 1070, 1080, and Titan X (Pascal). Three and 4 way SLI is supported only through a, likely short lived, work around. They also require a specific High Bandwidth SLI bridge to work at full capacity.
 
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Chugalug_

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Go with the single 1060, SLI scaling is extremely poor if non existent in some games, especially in the case of the 960.
Regardless, even if say hypothetically both 960s performed at 90% scaling, the 1060 would still beat it in terms of performance due to both optimization, clock speeds, VRAM and CUDA cores.
No 1060s support SLI.

 
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