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3 Reference GTX 970's or 2 8GB 290x Vapors for 1440p

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You don't need 8GB cards@1440p. 3x 970s will give more performance if the game properly support multi-gpu.

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Take the 970's as you dont even need 8gb for 1440p.

 

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3 970s ;)

 

Try to get reference ones :)

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Neither, 3 970s are way overkill for 1440p and you really don't need more than 4gb of vram. Go for 2 970s.

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you don't need 2x290x for 1440p (4k and higher is a different case)
 3x970 is way too much for this resolution get a 980 or 2x970 and improve other things in your system 

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way too op for 1440p. Imo you should just buy 2x 970s or 2x 4 GB 290Xs

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Which one will have higher frame rates?

One piece of advice, 3-way SLI is still very meh and Linus made a video on 3x 970 vs 2x980. The 3x970 had horrible stutter in a good amount of games while barely overperforming the 2x980

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2X 970 don't overspend the third one doesn't really help linus did a video on it if you want 3 GTX 970 better get 2 980...#

 

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AFAIK the R9 290's would do much better at higher resolution than the 970's, but at this particular res it could be very close.

Even if it is extremely overkill I would go with the 290's, this gives you the option going to 4K with those same GPU's.

 

Ultimately you need consider if you are ever going to use 4K, and if you are also going to upgrade your GPU's then. The 970 and 980 series beats the 290(x) in most sub 4K situations, but at 4K AMD is king ATM.

 

That is what I have been able to collect from a few benchmarks, I am no 100% on which is better for 1440P, all I am sure about is 1080p (9xx series) and 4K (R9 290).

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Just remembered that the benchmarks I saw use 2 way SLI at max, 970 would probably be the best.

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Go for the 970, 2 8GB 290x Vapors would be awesome but nobody need that much for 1440p

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I'd say pick two 4 GB R9 290s, unless you are going to play Star Citizen, then I'd go with 8 GB versions :)

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