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Gtx 760 upgrade

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Doodlehed

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For this year's upgrades I really wanted a 144Hz monitor to take my gaming to the next level.

With this I learned that my 760 gtx probably wouldn't give me the output I wanted to get games close to that frame rate to take advantage of 144Hz refresh.

So it's just turned into upgrades across the board. My one big head scratcher is what to upgrade to. The 970s seem like a great buy but I would like to Chuck some more money into it so.....980? But then I hear about amd possibly releasing the 3xx series soon. If that's not going to be a huge upgrade which from what I've read it won't destroy the 980. So is a 980 a good option right now? I don't get to upgrade all the time so I guess since I can right now I want to do it right. I enjoy the low power consumption and it seems like a great card. Just hesitant about pressing the order button.
 
wait definitively for the AMD next gen cards. I have a 120hz and a 144hz monitor and I'll tell you that for any recent game you will need A LOT of GPU and CPU horsepower to be able to stay stable at high FPS.. dual cards its a must if you want to keep eye candy settings up.. if you can't wait until next AMD cards or you want to stay with nvidia the cheaper choice would be Dual GTX 970s.. and that would be the minimum route I would pick for high FPS gaming..
 
I have two 760's in SLI on my 4970k rig. Put a 980 Classified in my X99 machine. I at some point am going to make the jump to 4k and the 760's will have to go. But at 1080 the 760's are a tad faster than the 980 single classy. Myself, I wait on no AMD product. A buddy of mine and I took a AMD dual cpu board a cpu's and smashed them up against the nearest tree. The newest stuff they have and it was junk! Benched great! Put it to work and the Xeons walked all over the amd junk.

I wouldn't hold my breath over a AMD gpu. And I haven't regretted unloading my amd stock. :)

Good Luck
 
psyshack said:
I have two 760's in SLI on my 4970k rig. Put a 980 Classified in my X99 machine. I at some point am going to make the jump to 4k and the 760's will have to go. But at 1080 the 760's are a tad faster than the 980 single classy. Myself, I wait on no AMD product. A buddy of mine and I took a AMD dual cpu board a cpu's and smashed them up against the nearest tree. The newest stuff they have and it was junk! Benched great! Put it to work and the Xeons walked all over the amd junk.

I wouldn't hold my breath over a AMD gpu. And I haven't regretted unloading my amd stock. :)

Good Luck
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There is no way that 760 SLI is faster than a 980 classified. A stock 980 is twice as fast as a single 760 so it would take magical 100% scaling for 760 SLI just to match even a stock reference 980.
 
Well they are at 1080 at stock clocks. Overclock them and the 760's fall hard. My 760's have scaled very well indeed. And honestly I'm in no hurry to retire, or get rid of them. Heaven and BF4 don't lie.
 
misterbobby said:
There is no way that 760 SLI is faster than a 980 classified. A stock 980 is twice as fast as a single 760 so it would take magical 100% scaling for 760 SLI just to match even a stock reference 980.
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760 SLI beats a single reference 980.

http://imgur.com/a/DNIdv

I know from experience.

With a decent overclock it's possible that 760s in SLI can trade blows with/equal a 980 classified.
 
Nexus6 said:
760 SLI beats a single reference 980.

http://imgur.com/a/DNIdv

I know from experience.

With a decent overclock it's possible that 760s in SLI can trade blows with/equal a 980 classified.
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no, a 760 SLI aren't going to beat a 980.. try again with real world gaming and you will see.. you need 100% scaling to be at most tied (as the screen shots you've provided) and that's not gonna happen...
 
Nexus6 said:
760 SLI beats a single reference 980.

http://imgur.com/a/DNIdv

I know from experience.

With a decent overclock it's possible that 760s in SLI can trade blows with/equal a 980 classified.
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In actual games NO it does not. AGAIN overall a stock 980 is exactly twice as fast as a 760 and so even with perfect 100% scaling, 760 SLI would only match a 980. Yes there might be a corner case or two but overall a 980 is easily faster than 760 SLI. Plus in nearly all newer games, Kepler is falling farther behind.
 
You're both just talking out of your asses.

I owned 760s in SLI. I owned a reference 980.

There wasn't a noticeable difference in performance unless the game used more than 2GB of RAM.
 
Nexus6 said:
You're both just talking out of your asses.

I owned 760s in SLI. I owned a reference 980.

There wasn't a noticeable difference in performance unless the game used more than 2GB of RAM.
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No one said there was a noticeable difference. You said 760 SLI was faster. Look here and see the stock 980 is TWICE as fast as the 760 just like I said. Now AGAIN it would take PERFECT 100% scaling just to match a stock 980 which is not realistic at all. :rolleyes:




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