4 GTX 980s or 4 Titan Blacks?

[TheEliteTaco]

I'm building a rig for 4k gaming and I was trying to see if the GTX 980 in 4-way SLI or the Titan Black in 4-way SLI would be better but I can't find any benchmarks for it or anything. Price, availability, power consumption, and noise don't matter too much. I won't be building it until the summer of 2015 so I might not even consider the GTX 980 or Titan Black by then but if nothing better comes out then I'll get one of these two. If there is only a one or two fps difference on most games then I'll just get the one that produces less heat.

[Guest Kloaked]

Uh... If this isn't a troll post, 980.

[cloclo8003]

Get the 980, don't waste your money on the titan black

[MasonIsPurple]

Get the 980, don't waste your money on the titan black

He shouldn't waste his money on 4way SLI.

[d3sl91]

I'm building a rig for 4k gaming and I was trying to see if the GTX 980 in 4-way SLI or the Titan Black in 4-way SLI would be better but I can't find any benchmarks for it or anything. Price, availability, power consumption, and noise don't matter too much. I won't be building it until the summer of 2015 so I might not even consider the GTX 980 or Titan Black by then but if nothing better comes out then I'll get one of these two. If there is only a one or two fps difference on most games then I'll just get the one that produces less heat.

Summer Is a lonnnggg ways away in the computer world.

 

Probably will want whatever the release (980ti, new Titan, whatever) between now and then.

[Commander_Z]

4 980's will pull less than 800w

[Vacsol]

a 3x980 setup would be the current best option for 4k. 4xSLI on Maxwell cards can have little to no performance advantage over 3x.

3 980s would cost $1650 USD

3 Titan Blacks would cost upwards of $3200 USD and produce far more heat. it may get small performance gains over the 980s due to more VRAM, but it costs around twice as much.

 

and planning a rig almost a year in advance is a terrible idea. come back in 8 months when AMD and Nvidia will have better 4k options (GTX 980Ti, GTX 990, Maxwell Titan, R9 390)

[themaniac]

1. 980

2. max you should ever sli is 3

3. 2 980s are already amazing no need for 3 or 4 way sli

[FlashingKool_Z]

I don't understand. Why are you asking now and not when you'll actually buy it? By then, there will probably be something better and that question will be useless. 

[stieber382]

I would say go for the 4 980's if you want the max performance. Here is a tweet from jay showing that he beat 4 titans with only 3 980's https://twitter.com/JayzTwoCents/status/524108949990023168 

[Hendrics]

All I gotta say is Diminishing Returns. Especially going beyond 2 cards. I cant remember but someone who was running (may have been Jayztwocents) that said that on a 3 way SLI on a 980 they saw almost no gains over just having 2.

[Cheddle]

I'm building a rig for 4k gaming and I was trying to see if the GTX 980 in 4-way SLI or the Titan Black in 4-way SLI would be better but I can't find any benchmarks for it or anything. Price, availability, power consumption, and noise don't matter too much. I won't be building it until the summer of 2015 so I might not even consider the GTX 980 or Titan Black by then but if nothing better comes out then I'll get one of these two. If there is only a one or two fps difference on most games then I'll just get the one that produces less heat.

 

Wait for 8gb 980's or the big chip 980... summer 2015 (assuming you are in northern hemisphere) will see the AMD 3xx series released, with 3d stacked ram I expect these will be a game changer for high res set ups. I also assume these will net larger memory bandwidth - 2-way SLI should be ideal for 4k gaming... 3-way a little overkill (for now) and 4-way is just show pony stuff.

 

my single overclocked 980 4gb is hitting 70-90 fps in farcry 3 at 4k with all settings maxed (no AA) - I get 45-60 fps in AC4 though...

[Thebman712]

2 980

[GuideMe002]

2 GTX 980 will be your best pick!
4way SLI scaling sucks!

[dre92]

Watch this...

 

http://youtu.be/UnS0xWtoRzk?list=UUXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw

 

...and think wisely. Think about what other useful things outside gaming that you can possibly do with your spare money.

 

If you want to really max out everything at 4k res and get constant 60fps or even more, perhaps you should wait for another generation of graphics card.. or two..