Is SLI worth doing anymore? (opinions)

[Macslayer29]

Hello I just wanted to know if SLI is worth doing. I have a 1080 TI and I was thinking about adding another one to my rig. But as I read up on SLI it seems it comes with mixed reviews and it would seem like it is on the decline and not many game, very few it seems, even benefit from it. Just want to get every ones opinion on it.

[iRileyx]

Not really.

 

A 1080ti can easily do even 4k at 60hz, which is pretty much the best and most demanding consumer resolution/refresh rate available. Adding an extra card would just make it so there's less stress on the 1 card. Even then though, it's only in games that support SLI, which honestly isn't that many.

[Damascus]

Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope 

 

Seriously though so few games support it.

[Cyberspirit]

1 minute ago, Macslayer29 said:

Hello I just wanted to know if SLI is worth doing. I have a 1080 TI and I was thinking about adding another one to my rig. But as I read up on SLI it seems it comes with mixed reviews and it would seem like it is on the decline and not many game, very few it seems, even benefit from it. Just want to get every ones opinion on it.

As far as I know, it's not worth it nowadays.

[Canada EH]

No its not worth it

very few games support sli

[kelvinhall05]

SLI is dumb.

[Paddi01]

It can also cause microstutters.

[Mira Yurizaki]

I've always seen multi GPU setups as this: Next-gen performance with current-gen features. Which means it only makes sense to get one early-ish in a GPU's life. It tends to make no sense to double up on a video card when it's two generations old. It might be worthwhile if it's a generation old, but that's about it.

 

Plus performance is not guaranteed, consumes more power overall even if you double up on two midrange cards to match a high-end one, and only GPU compute power is combined spec-wise. VRAM doesn't combine so you could be left with something as powerful as the highest-end card with half the VRAM.

[Mick Naughty]

Depends on the game. If I had cards that could do what I needed, then I would only use one. That time hasn’t come yet. 

[Maslofski]

it depends on what you do. i had sli but mixing gaming with sli enabled and productivity with sli disabled was a pain in the ass since you had to close everything thats gpu accelerated to switch. if you only do gaming then maybe, but even then games like arma 3 had sli glitches. only reason for multi gpu i see is rendering.

[Paddi01]

How much will performance increase with sli usually? like 20%?

[General Winter]

for the most part not at all, especially when the 1080ti exist

 

although if the game you play a lot happens to have SLI support and you don't care about all the other games not having SLI then you may consider that as well

[Aeternalis]

The 1080ti is so stupidly powerful that SLI is honestly an add on if you have money to burn.

[AlexTheGreatish]

In some situations we've seen performance go DOWN with SLI enabled - its totally not worth doing. Dual cards do look sick though.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

dual card setups have historically been rarely worth doing since you're more likely to run into driver issues and game compatibility issues rather than actual gained performance. The fact that Nvidia and AMD has pretty much thrown in the towel for dual card setups at this point shows the lack of potential for these technologies have in terms of gaming. 

[Mk7-Golf-R]

Just do it

 

[Guest]

The only thing I use SLI for is GTA V. Nothing else I play needs it or scales well.

But I play GTA V the most, so it was worth it. I don't recommend it though.

[Princess Luna]

Obviously not, keeping this in mind:

 

A single 1080 Ti can do all the game you could possible want, 4k60fps to 1440p144hz it only depends on slight adjustments to the game graphical settings.

[Mightythor460]

I had nothing but trouble when I added a second 780 to my rig a few years ago. I ended up just pulling it because the hassle and heat were not worth the benefits.

[i_build_nanosuits]

2 minutes ago, Mightythor460 said:

I had nothing but trouble when I added a second 780 to my rig a few years ago. I ended up just pulling it because the hassle and heat were not worth the benefits.

and a few years ago, SLI was better than it is now in newer games.

[pas008]

3 hours ago, Macslayer29 said:

Hello I just wanted to know if SLI is worth doing. I have a 1080 TI and I was thinking about adding another one to my rig. But as I read up on SLI it seems it comes with mixed reviews and it would seem like it is on the decline and not many game, very few it seems, even benefit from it. Just want to get every ones opinion on it.

Look at the games you play

3 hours ago, RKRiley said:

Not really.

 

A 1080ti can easily do even 4k at 60hz, which is pretty much the best and most demanding consumer resolution/refresh rate available. Adding an extra card would just make it so there's less stress on the 1 card. Even then though, it's only in games that support SLI, which honestly isn't that many.

 

3 hours ago, Damascus said:

Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope 

 

Seriously though so few games support it.

 

3 hours ago, Cyberspirit said:

As far as I know, it's not worth it nowadays.

 

3 hours ago, Canada EH said:

No its not worth it

very few games support sli

 

3 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

SLI is dumb.

 

3 hours ago, Paddi01 said:

It can also cause microstutters.

 

2 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

Depends on the game. If I had cards that could do what I needed, then I would only use one. That time hasn’t come yet. 

Agreed

2 hours ago, Aeternalis said:

The 1080ti is so stupidly powerful that SLI is honestly an add on if you have money to burn.

 

2 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

dual card setups have historically been rarely worth doing since you're more likely to run into driver issues and game compatibility issues rather than actual gained performance. The fact that Nvidia and AMD has pretty much thrown in the towel for dual card setups at this point shows the lack of potential for these technologies have in terms of gaming. 

 

19 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

and a few years ago, SLI was better than it is now in newer games.

For the rest that is quoted

Been running sli since 8k series

Could list all the cards but almost every gen and multiple times per gen

Maybe some should learn new drivers are always giving sli profiles even today

 

Just like anything enthusiast

You should also learn how to tweak

Like some. Non supported games respond well with other profiles better than negative impact

 

And for micro stutter haven't had that issue since 8k and random driver releases that were fixed next driver

 

I run 5760 x 1080 @144hz show me single card that handles that well 

 

[mrchow19910319]

2 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Obviously not, keeping this in mind:

 

A single 1080 Ti can do all the game you could possible want, 4k60fps to 1440p144hz it only depends on slight adjustments to the game graphical settings.

a very good point.

[mrchow19910319]

unless 2 1080Ti only cost you a few days of work, you shouldn't do SLI.

especially since you are using a 1080Ti.

[Goildzy]

The question is, was SLI worth it in the past or was crossfire?

[Hiitchy]

I feel like there were just some people buying two graphics cards at once for A E S T H E T I C more than actually having a proper use for all that VRAM. In any case, I still think it was just as useless as it was to me when I first found out what SLI and Crossfire was used for lol.