Ok am I being stupid? right now I have 6 1080ti's, selling four of my 1080ti's because it was an overkill for rendering (sold 3 already). Yes it helped so much with super fast renderings. Especially because I'm a terrible student and to get a 4k render, it helped speed things up and I was always super last minute with these... Since now im not in school, time isn't the biggest factor and mainly doing it as a hobby. I wanted to keep two of my 1080ti's. Ive been selling my 1080ti's for about 400-500 per card. Which is the same price as a 2070 super fe (im getting the FE versions mainly for aesthetics, I know they perform worse than the strix or gaming trio but they're so much sexier). I looked at cgdirector (https://www.cgdirector.com/category/benchmarks/) for benchmarks and the 1080ti's and 2070 supers perform about the same. With rendering moving towards ray tracing for more realistic light in the future and using nvlink, for the same price im getting about the same performance and getting raytracing and more vram? so instead of keeping 2 1080ti's, I wanted to sell all of them and get two 2070 supers for nvlink and future proofing with ray tracing. Im pretty new to computer but just want to makes sure my logic is correct.
with nvlink I get 16gb vram correct? while if they were just rendering independently, my 1080ti's would still get 11 gb vram, even if I run them in sli, correct?
also my 1080ti's have held their value pretty well, can I expect the same with lower tier cards like the 2070 super?