Can Sli 770's do 144hz and Ultra Settings?

[tman2damax11]

So the main focus of my next build is to get 144hz (FPS) gaming for an ultra smooth experience, while on ultra settings. Also its a budget build so keeping it as cheap as possible at the same time. I knew to do this I would have to go SLI because even a titan black, which is more than 2 770's, can't do 144hz ultra gaming. So I settled on the 770 because it's nvidia's sweet spot card, where it has high end card specs, at closer to a mid range card price, anything lower would not get me the performance I'm looking for, and anything higher I wouldn't be able to afford. So my question is is those who have SLI 770s, or know of their performance,  is what I'm aiming for possible? Also when I say ultra, I don't mean ultra, ultra, my idea of ultra is mainly just ultra textures, particles, lighting, effects, and I don't really care about anti-aa, hbao, or basically any unnecessary post effects. From my experience those post effects affect frame rate the most, and most benchmarks online for 770s in SLI are just all the dials cranked up to 11, but thats not what I want to do, so these benchmarks aren't giving me useful info. So again what do you guys think about this setup? Just for those wondering my other specs will be: 2 Reference 770s (mostly for the bling factor), i5-4670k, Gigabyte Z87 SLI supported mobo, and 8gb gskill 1600 ram. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

 

Edit, wow completely forgot to mention a few things: it's only 1080p performance I'm looking for here, for most games I can settle for a min of 120fps, and for cinematic/single player focus games I can settle for anything really above at leaset 90fps, I really just want the performance for competitive games, mostly battlefield and few others.

[Rorgash]

on a 5 year old game maybe...

[Cacao]

1920x1080? Yeah they should do 100+ FPS in most games maxed out. 

[nokturrduk84]

How much fps do you want for 144hz. I belive 2 770s can pass over 60 fps in games, but I don't think they can reach 120+ fps in games on everything maxed out. Also depends on games.

[theelitegamer]

Might have to turn down the MSAA and such, maybe... but what I do is always run everything low, so you can get 144+ fps if you want too.. plus it's so smooth, it feels real..

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

Hell yah, we talking 770 SLI, 2x 1Ghz+ Cores, 770 GPUs with over 2000 Cuda Cores, Hell Yah

[TheDigitalRealm]

How much fps do you want for 144hz. I belive 2 770s can pass over 60 fps in games, but I don't think they can reach 120+ fps in games on everything maxed out. Also depends on games.

Erm, at 1080p a sinlge GTX 770 will get over 60fps in most titles....

 

To the OP: If it's 1080p you plan on playing at, while you may not reach 144Hz in every game. You'll definitely be looking at over 100fps in nearly every title, aside from Crysis 3, Metro and the like.  

[TheDigitalRealm]

Hell yah, we talking 770 SLI, 2x 1Ghz+ Cores, 770 GPUs with over 2000 Cuda Cores, Hell Yah

3072 Cuda Cores in total to be exact  

[nokturrduk84]

Erm, at 1080p a sinlge GTX 770 will get over 60fps in most titles....

 

To the OP: If it's 1080p you plan on playing at, while you may not reach 144Hz in every game. You'll definitely be looking at over 100fps in nearly every title, aside from Crysis 3, Metro and the like.

Not really. I have 770 & I can tell it from my experience. For ex. In Tomb Raider everything maxed I get - 32 fps average, Hitman: Absolution - 37, Metro: Last Light - 35. And I have 1080p resolution. Heavy modes of AA stress GPUs very much.

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

3072 Cuda Cores in total to be exact

See, so, @tman2damax11 what' s it Gonna be ?

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

3072 Cuda Cores in total to be exact

i just assumed since the 760 has over 1070~ Cores the 770 is some where around there, thnx Dude you sure got me covered 

[fryman]

I have 2 770s ATM. Depends on game. If you are talking battlefield multiplayer its all down to CPU. Anyone who tells you otherwise is uneducated. 144fps is not easy to acheieve constantly. At times it is but in highly contested areas you won't. Counterstrike you get 300fps on max all the time. Metro last light I average about 40fps on max. Some spots 70. Low of 25.

[Maslofski]

probably nope, what games do you  plan on playing?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOlEWyHokro

[Sonefiler]

SLI R9 290s. two of these: two of these: http://www.amazon.com/ARCTIC-Accelero-Efficient-VRM-Cooling-DCACO-V800001-GBA01/dp/B00HHMJIIO/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1399235905&sr=1-1&keywords=arctic+accelero+Xtreme+r9+290

[novaboi24]

Don't forget that some games don't support SLI and others do but doesn't perform at a same price ratio. I think you might benefit from researching your games first.

[TheDigitalRealm]

Not really. I have 770 & I can tell it from my experience. For ex. In Tomb Raider everything maxed I get - 32 fps average, Hitman: Absolution - 37, Metro: Last Light - 35. And I have 1080p resolution. Heavy modes of AA stress GPUs very much.

I get a 60 fps average in Tomb Raider with an HD7950....So your doing something very wrong buddy.

[AllstaRawR]

I get a 60 fps average in Tomb Raider with an HD7950....So your doing something very wrong buddy.

 

Other than the fact that TR really does run waaaay better on AMD. 

[Sonefiler]

Other than the fact that TR really does run waaaay better on AMD.

On the contrary, Tomb Raider prefers Nvidia.

[AllstaRawR]

On the contrary, Tomb Raider prefers Nvidia.

 

... What? But TressFX was made for AMD. And the intro logo is AMD. How on earth is that nVidia?! (Not angry, just really, really confused.)

 

Edit: Source - http://community.amd.com/community/amd-blogs/amd-gaming/blog/2013/03/05/tomb-raider-launches-with-revolutionary-tressfx-hair

[GamerDude]

... What? But TressFX was made for AMD. And the intro logo is AMD. How on earth is that nVidia?! (Not angry, just really, really confused.)

 

Edit: Source - http://community.amd.com/community/amd-blogs/amd-gaming/blog/2013/03/05/tomb-raider-launches-with-revolutionary-tressfx-hair

You're right, it's a Gaming Evolved game, but unlike nVidia optimized games, driver updates have close the gap between AMD and nVidia cards in terms of performance since its release. My gripe is, for nVidia optimized games, they are done in such a way as to handicap AMD GPU's.....for example, Batman AO has tons of unnecessary Tessellation which AMD GPU's aren't that great at. It's similar to Crysis 2 IIRC, Tessellation done on unrendered objects and such to bog down AMD GPU's.....anyway, I shall quit my rant .......for now.

 

If you want 120fps or higher for all games, I don't think even dual GTX780 Ti/R9 290X/Titan/Titan Black can do it simply because some games are badly optimized while others may push the envelope somewhat with the engine used. Dual GTX780 Ti/R9 290X or R9 295X2 can certainly hit more than 120fps for BF4 (would prolly hit >200fps at times), but there are bound to be certain spots where it might very well drop to <100fps. There is a combination of factors at work here, like CPU speed, GPU throttling, not optimum SLi/CF scaling, badly optimized games, to name but a few.