At a first glance, it looks like the money/hash rate ratio is about the same, but I'd prefer higher hash rates regardless of price. More hash rate per cards means less machines, which means less money goes into cases, CPUs, RAM, PSU, Motherboard, and shipping and more goes into GPUs. The idea is viable, I'm just very persnickety and like to take things to the extreme.
Then the sky is the limit. Or? maybe just get a few 7990
