Upgrade worthwhile?

[strumpusplunket]

I bought a GTX 780 (at a very good offer price) about a year ago for my last Christmas gaming session and I was pleased with being able to max out Dragon Age and Wolfenstein.

This Christmas I'm planning to spend my month off playing GTA V, Shadow of Mordor and The Witcher 3 (can't wait! )

I've heard some reports of poor performance with 7xx cards particularly with Witcher 3, although I'm not quite sure if and to what to degree this was ameliorated with the promised driver fixes.

Mid-December to Mid-January is my main gaming time as I am able to take a long time off work, much of which is whilst the kids are in school and my wife is at work, so I like to get in as much top quality gaming experience as possible. So I do want to max everything out and enjoy the best gaming I can get. I do only game at 1080p though.

What are people's thoughts about the likely difference between a GTX 780 and a 970 for 1080p gaming in those titles? (I have a G-Sync monitor so I'm not too bothered about unstable frame-rates as long as thing stay above 40-45fps or so at high/max settings.)

All advice much appreciated.

 

[strumpusplunket]

Cool. Thanks for the replies, guys.

A 980 (and especially a 980Ti) is too rich for my blood. I generally try to keep my spending on individual components under £200. Just because things could easily get out of control otherwise, so both the 980 cards are out for me.

At least good to know I shouldn't be too badly off going into these games with my current card (it does overclock quite well, too.)

Cheers!

 

[strumpusplunket]

Thanks. Unless by some miracle I spot a second-hand 980 for under £200 before Christmas I guess I'll stick with my current card. I may need to get around to reapplying the overclock I spent so long stress-testing when I first got it...

 

[strumpusplunket]

Very pleased to see such a strong consensus in favour of sticking with my current card!

SLI is a thought that crossed my mind, but I was unsure a) if it would be overkill for 108p, b) if my PSU would be up to it (it's a few years old now) and c) whether I'd get microstutter.

Or, maybe I can put the upgrade money towards a bigger SSD, since my 240GB on is filled very quickly with the size of modern games...