Stick with GTX660ti SLI or upgrade to single GTX970?

[Toxicnitr8]

Hi Guys , 

 

It says it all in the title , what do you think is the better option in terms of bang for my buck , 

Should I stick it out till the next set of cards , or upgrade now ?

 

Thanks 

 

Dylan

[Johannes_Lazor]

They have about the same raw performance.

If you only play games that only make use of one GPU Buy the 970.

But if most of the games you play can make use of SLI you should stick with the 660 ti's.



If you should upgrade, You should go with a 980 or Titan X, Those the only ones that gives a significant performance increase.

[TheGamingBarrel]

Stick out until maxwell refresh is what I would do (1000 series) you wont gain that much performance, if you have perfect scaling (exactly double with 2 cards) then there is no point in the 970 performance wise.

[nhatduy1611]

Just stick with 660ti sli for now there not's really a point for upgrading right now. The 300 series from amd is coming soon anyways.

[TheDev]

with dx12 coming i woluld keep the 660ti's. it rumoed that dx12 can treat SLI/Xfire card's as a single card

[Manny Calavera]

You can probably sell each of the cards for like... 160 bucks?

 

If you can then you can get 970 no problem or some new AMD cards, if you wanna wait a little.

What you get? Similar performance, newer tech (shadowplay, async shaders, ...) and 3.5gb of vram.

And its new.

[Samfisher]

The 970 is about 30%+ better performance.  How do I know?  Cos I used to have dual 7950's and the 970 is slightly faster.  7950 = GTX 670 > 660 Ti

[Toxicnitr8]

They have about the same raw performance.

If you only play games that only make use of one GPU Buy the 970.

But if most of the games you play can make use of SLI you should stick with the 660 ti's.

If you should upgrade, You should go with a 980 or Titan X, Those the only ones that gives a significant performance increase.

 

 

Stick out until maxwell refresh is what I would do (1000 series) you wont gain that much performance, if you have perfect scaling (exactly double with 2 cards) then there is no point in the 970 performance wise.

 

 

Just stick with 660ti sli for now there not's really a point for upgrading right now. The 300 series from amd is coming soon anyways.

 

 

with dx12 coming i woluld keep the 660ti's. it rumoed that dx12 can treat SLI/Xfire card's as a single card

 

 

You can probably sell each of the cards for like... 160 bucks?

 

If you can then you can get 970 no problem or some new AMD cards, if you wanna wait a little.

What you get? Similar performance, newer tech (shadowplay, async shaders, ...) and 3.5gb of vram.

And its new.

 

 

The 970 is about 30%+ better performance.  How do I know?  Cos I used to have dual 7950's and the 970 is slightly faster.  7950 = GTX 670 > 660 Ti

 

 

Thanks for all the help guys !! Much appreciated ! I'm gonna stick it out till the 300 / 1000 series and DX12 , going with a 980 or Titan X is just too pricey for the performance upgrade for me .