Which single card for 3 monitor setup?

[e36Adz]

See spec in sig.

If I was to keep my setup and change only the gfx card, which single card would my system benefit the most from bearing in mind -

1) Psu is Ocz 700W
2) Gaming on 3x Dell 24'' screens each 1920x1200
3) budget £300-£400

Racing games are simply awesome on 3 screens, at the moment I have grid and dirt showdown which my system handles very well but when I get newer games I want to be able to crank up the settings without performance suffering too much.

I've never had an ATI card, I prefer to stay with nvidia as I'm more familiar with the drivers and I've never had any issues.

What would you recommend?

 

[Gregster]

Sadly, there isn't a single card out that will cope with games like Crysis 3/BF4 unless you consider a dual card (7990/690). Something like a pair of 780's will see you well though or try and source a couple of 280X's and hope they fix the frame pacing stutter soon.

 

[ICDP]

Top end of your budget but on a this week only deal.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-234-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341

This is one of the best GTX780s out there.

Pretty much all GTX780s will be at the higher end of your budget. I would not even consider a GTX770 as it will not be enough to drive triple screens.

I played Assetto Corsa, PCARS an rFactor 2 using a single GTX780 at 2560x1600 with all detail at near max and got very playable frame-rate. Though with your 3x 1920x1200 screens you will have to overclock AND lower the settings to mid/high on the latest racing games.

 

[PhysicsMan94]

Even a single 780 would struggle with a monitor set-up like that, I have a single 2560x1440 monitor (i.e. ~ 3.7M pixels per frame) whereas you have 3 monitors at 1920x1200 each (i.e. ~ 6.9M pixels per frame); so you have around 1.9x more pixels to push than my set-up, and note that I only have a single 780 which already struggles with the more intense games at max/ultra settings.

So, as Greg says, you'd really need something like a pair of 780s to get good frame rates at that kind of resolution with ultra settings on many games.

 

[GefGz]

Grid and Dirt are really quite well optimised so you'd get playable performance with medium/high settings with a single 780 - On the other hand, newer games are going to stress a single GPU more, plus you have the downside if you do get two cards you're at the mercy of drivers/optimisation for scaling

 

[e36Adz]

My single 760 handles GRID and Dirt Showdown very well. I am running at the max res with most settings on high/very high and it is very smooth, the only thing I normally leave off is AA. Even Crysis (first one) runs smooth on max res with most settings on high (no AA) so although I don't expect the very latest games to fly with everything absolutely maxed out, it'd be nice if they run smooth at least at this resolution with settings on high-ish. I only even try AA if everything else is maxed out and it runs smooth.

A mate has offered me a GTX 780ti for £400, I think the Asus model.