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Should I upgrade?

blacblu

blacblu

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I currently have a couple of 7950's. But recently I noticed a lot of new games, like Alien: Isolation and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter have been quite problematic with CrossFireX.

I have been thinking about getting a GTX980 (also to see how Nvidia is doing, as my last card from them was a 9800GTX).

I would like to get some performance boost from this upgrade, if possible, but my main concern is get rid of multi-gpu.

Although, there is one thing holding me back. From the benchmarks I've seen the 980 seems to match the performance of my 7950s in most games (considering a decent scaling). But from the Heaven 4 thread I could see that a single 980 (overclocked with a good CPU) gets about 200 points less than I get (2000).

I don't want to lose performance where my CrossFireX setup is scaling flawlessly, like Battlefield 4, for instance.

What do you guys think?
 
If you can get a 780 Ti for cheap then I would recommend that over a 980 to be honest, Putting heat and power usage aside the 780 Ti does edge ahead in a fair few titles.
 
Grab a single 970 now and add another if you feel the need later on. I see no difference between the 970 & 980 gaming at 1440p 60hz so would save a few quid going for the 970.
 
Naturally, they will be along in due course. I don't personally have any idea as to when though.
 
blacblu said:
I currently have a couple of 7950's. But recently I noticed a lot of new games, like Alien: Isolation and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter have been quite problematic with CrossFireX.

I have been thinking about getting a GTX980 (also to see how Nvidia is doing, as my last card from them was a 9800GTX).

I would like to get some performance boost from this upgrade, if possible, but my main concern is get rid of multi-gpu.

Although, there is one thing holding me back. From the benchmarks I've seen the 980 seems to match the performance of my 7950s in most games (considering a decent scaling). But from the Heaven 4 thread I could see that a single 980 (overclocked with a good CPU) gets about 200 points less than I get (2000).

I don't want to lose performance where my CrossFireX setup is scaling flawlessly, like Battlefield 4, for instance.

What do you guys think?
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I sold my 7990, and got a msi gtx 980 gamer was sick of crossfire not working properly, taking them weeks to sort it, hope sli is better got another 980 on the way.:D
 
Wizzfizz said:
How can you buy such GPUs and only have pants 60hz displays :/
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I would much rather a 60Hz display than have to go TN. I tried the Asus ROG swift but the image quality was horrid compared to an IPS display.

Really need some nice 1440p 144Hz IPS screens.
 
I've gone from 7990+7970 trifire to single 980, then 980 SLI.

The single 980 was a slight regression in Firestrike Extreme over the 7990 on it's own until I overclocked it and put the EVGA SC Bios on, but even then was a better experience than the 7990 or trifire.

The second 980 is good, but I am questioning why I bothered with it, as the single 980 was good enough in almost everything really, the games that could do with SLi (e.g. Mordor) don't have a profile yet anyway.

Trifire made Watch_Dogs unplayable for me, it was a stuttery mess. Now it's quite smooth and I might go back to it.

I'd take a single 980 over 7990/7970 trifire, so I'd certainly say go for it for you, with 7950 xfire right now.
 
rtho782 said:
I've gone from 7990+7970 trifire to single 980, then 980 SLI.

The single 980 was a slight regression in Firestrike Extreme over the 7990 on it's own until I overclocked it and put the EVGA SC Bios on, but even then was a better experience than the 7990 or trifire.

The second 980 is good, but I am questioning why I bothered with it, as the single 980 was good enough in almost everything really, the games that could do with SLi (e.g. Mordor) don't have a profile yet anyway.

Trifire made Watch_Dogs unplayable for me, it was a stuttery mess. Now it's quite smooth and I might go back to it.

I'd take a single 980 over 7990/7970 trifire, so I'd certainly say go for it for you, with 7950 xfire right now.
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am the same as you 1 gtx 980 plays shadow of mordor fine loads better than my 7990, not sure why i bothered getting a another 980, i suppose it will come to use sometime soon. ie witcher 3 etc
i read on steam forum somewhere the sli support is coming in the next week for som.
 
My 970 runs everything I throw at it pretty much.

FPS is very acceptable in BF4 at superwide screen resolution. High settings and it averages 120fps or higher.

That's a single 970, the 980 overclocked is quicker.
 
JamesM said:
My 970 runs everything I throw at it pretty much.

FPS is very acceptable in BF4 at superwide screen resolution. High settings and it averages 120fps or higher.

That's a single 970, the 980 overclocked is quicker.
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The only thing that worries me about the 970/980 is the 4gb memory hope i aint blown nearly a grand, if more games in the future are gonna need 6gb:confused:
 
tbh it's swings and roundabouts.

For god knows how long everyone has been saying how 2gb was enough while people said you needed 4GB

Now one game comes out that says it needs at least 6GB and everyones saying you MUST have at least 6GB on your GPUs.

A GPU won't refuse to run a game if it requires more vram.

For the time being you'll be fine.

That's ignoring 4k and multi screen setups though.

If you game with a single monitor you'll be fine for a while yet. Infact by the time 4k is the norm new GPUs will be ready and much more powerful anyway
 
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