NVIDIA GTX 970 vs 960 SLI - Rise of the Tomb Raider

Read the full post for performance results and benchmark scores: NVIDIA's GTX 970 is the card of choice for virtual reality setups, but what about less-powerful PCs? Can you run two lower-end cards in SLI and expect good enough performance without a full upgrade? Find out in this direct comparison between a GTX 970 and two GTX 960s in SLI running Rise of the Tomb Raider! Settings used in this test: Display: 1920x1080 Exclusive Fullscreen: Off Vsync: Off (to demonstrate FPS over 60) Anti-aliasing: SMAA Texture Quality: High Anisotropic Filtering: 16x Shadow Quality: Very High Sun Soft Shadows: Very High Depth of Field: Very High Level of Detail: Very High Dynamic Foliage: High Ambient Occlusion: HBAO PureHair: Very High Specular Reflection Quality: Very High All other effects enabled. Tested on a system with an Intel Core i5 6600K @ and 16GB DDR4 RAM. Check out the unboxing video for this card: