1070 or 2x970s with i7 4790k

[asdfghjkl987]

Hey guys

I'm building my brother a pc as a going away present and ive got him so far an i7 4790k 16gb ddr3 ram and an ranger vii mobo

 

I was thinking of getting him a 1070 to go with them but my friend is selling 2 asus strix 970s for £300 for the two

DO I get the 2 970s or the one 1070

whats the performance difference? 

thanks

[TheDankKoosh]

1 minute ago, jorge97 said:

Hey guys

I'm building my brother a pc as a going away present and ive got him so far an i7 4790k 16gb ddr3 ram and an ranger vii mobo

 

I was thinking of getting him a 1070 to go with them but my friend is selling 2 asus strix 970s for £300 for the two

DO I get the 2 970s or the one 1070

whats the performance difference? 

thanks

SLI and Crossfire are going down and probably won't even be supported by games for too much longer. 1070 is a much safer bet and will perform similar to a 980 ti.

[Bananasplit_00]

get the 1070

[asdfghjkl987]

1 minute ago, TheDankKoosh said:

SLI and Crossfire are going down and probably won't even be supported by games for too much longer. 1070 is a much safer bet and will perform similar to a 980 ti.

I thought two say was still supported

 

[TheGlenlivet]

2 970s will outperform a single 1070 when SLI is available, but these days there aren't that many games that support it so really the 1070 might be a better choice.

The other big thing is unless you have your power paid for the 970s will use a lot more juice.

[TheDankKoosh]

Just now, jorge97 said:

I thought two say was still supported

 

Two way is still supported, but not like multi gpu used to be supported. Many games won't even scale more than 30% on the second card.

[Damascus]

1070 or a single 970

[Max_Settings]

1070 hands down

[Guest]

I wonder what the reason for the "ban" on SLI is. Is it "because nvidea told the game devs"? If so, will AMD change their opinions? I mean, AMD does like the idea of SLI, right? So in the future, Vega and all that stuff... SLI might become moar popular again?

[TheDankKoosh]

9 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

I wonder what the reason for the "ban" on SLI is. Is it "because nvidea told the game devs"? If so, will AMD change their opinions? I mean, AMD does like the idea of SLI, right? So in the future, Vega and all that stuff... SLI might become moar popular again?

Multi gpu has always been a kind of niche thing to do, game companies are now just getting lazy enough to not code correctly since nvidia dropped 3 and 4 way.

[Brooksie359]

Get the gtx 1070 because the 2 gtx 970 setup will be heavily limited by the 4ish gb or vram the cards have.