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this has probably been covered already but still dont find a arnswer
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Only my guess but bang for buck they will both work out about the same.
There was an argument in another thread about which was better the GTX 770 lightning or a GTX 780. If you do the sums 2 x GTX 780s are about the same performance as 3 x GTX 770 lightning's and both options cost about the same.
What is relevant about the above example is you can have 3 smaller cards with SLI scaling problems and less vram, or you can have 2 larger cards with more vram and possibly better SLI scaling.
I think the above will be the case when comparing the new HD9970 with the older HD 7970 matrix platinums.
All this is guesswork so as the other posters say "who knows what the future holds"
There was an argument in another thread about which was better the GTX 770 lightning or a GTX 780. If you do the sums 2 x GTX 780s are about the same performance as 3 x GTX 770 lightning's and both options cost about the same.
What is relevant about the above example is you can have 3 smaller cards with SLI scaling problems and less vram, or you can have 2 larger cards with more vram and possibly better SLI scaling.
I think the above will be the case when comparing the new HD9970 with the older HD 7970 matrix platinums.
All this is guesswork so as the other posters say "who knows what the future holds"