Advice on new graphics card

I have recently purchased an obutto cockpit with 3x24" monitors and have a currently got a gtx 550ti so will need to upgrade. what will be the best to get for this?

I'm split between the decision of a 970 or 780ti don't really want to spend more than £280

 

780ti has more well everything, get it
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-970-vs-GeForce-GTX-780-Ti

 

780 is older gen card. I would look into 970 if not 980.

 

gpuboss.com is not bad for reference but sometime their ''compare'' are wrong I will not trust them at 100%

Yes the 970 is the latest gen vs the 780 BUT 970 had some kind of issue with the memory they even offer customer to refund them ( If I remember correctly)
Have you take a look at AMD's card ? cause you can have a really good one for cheap and their last card generation is about to be launch R9 3**

I am waiting for that release. I am going to buy a R9 390X for about 729$-829$

 

You'll probably want to run SLI with three monitors. I started with one 780 Ti and when the prices came down added a second. Great bang for the buck. Still better than 95% of all results for Firestrike Extreme.

 

Thanks for all your replies I have looked on a lot of comparisons and seems they are near on the same but being as the 970 is newer surely it's better? But I also read somewhere it is better for triple monitors.

I get the impression there around the same but the 780 runs at higher temperature and is older so I assume the 970 will be better?

Also why is the 780ti more expensive if it is the equivalent to the 970?

 

The 780ti tends to be just slightly better. However, it's less than 5% difference and in some titles it will run a bit worse due to drivers. The one thing you will lose that may or may not matter are the extended DX12.1 features that literally may make absolutely no difference in games. DX12 will be supported as far as core features on both cards. You would also get another .5GB of RAM that could help a tiny bit on higher resolutions. Driver support will definitely be a bit better on the newer 900 series and the Witcher 3 had pretty bad performance at launch on 700 cards.

The 780ti is expensive because it was the top performing and most expensive 700 series cards. It was $700 MSRP at launch.

 

The memory issue with the 970 is that it is advertised as 4GB but really only has 3.5GB. However, that's still more than the majority of 780ti which have 3GB. 6GB 780ti came out quite a while after the intial release so they are more expensive and rare.

The 390X is not AMDs flagship card. The 390X is a rebranded 290X with slightly better specs. AMDs new flagship cards will be called the Fury series.

 

I see thank you for making it clear so for the 5% extra it's not worth it for the price and less ram And being an older card

Should I hold on and wait for the new series from AMD or would they just match the 970? As £280 is my budget

 

The fury will be the fully new card yeah I know that, but the 390X still have 2 time the memory of the 290x plus 1 extra ghz of memory frequence plus other that I won't enumerate. I still think its going to be very good. I dont know what slightly mean for you but going 4go to 8go to me is more than just slightly

 

Then where did you pull the $700+ price tag from? That's 980ti money for a card that will likely be trying to compete with the 980 at best. The 390X will be $400 at most (rumors have it at $389). Going from 4GB to 8GB is essentially pointless as of now since 4GB is fine for anything 4K and below. The only area 8GB of RAM has shown good improvement over 4GB is at 8K which a single card couldn't hope of doing anyway. Memory frequence also does much less than core clock so that's also quite irrelevant.

 

Went for the msi dual frozer 970 in the end