How Useful is SLI/CrossFire for Video/Photo Editing

[MRE Teck]

So how useful is SLI (crossfire for that matter) for photo/video editing (not to be confused with a GTX and Quadro)

Plz. Help,

MRE

[bhagatneel15]

Well crossfire/sli will allow you to pack more processing power into a rig, so very useful..

[Oshino Shinobu]

Well crossfire/sli will allow you to pack more processing power into a rig, so very useful..

For gaming, yes. 

 

For editing, rendering and such, SLI/Crossfire is not needed. Just having two GPUs in the system will allow them both to be used (provided the application supports multiple GPUs), theoretically doubling the performance of GPU rendering/editing etc. 

[Arct1c0n]

Your GPU horsepower is worthless for visual rendering studios such as Premiere or Photoshop, thats were raw CPU power comes into play

[MRE Teck]

Your GPU horsepower is worthless for visual rendering studios such as Premiere or Photoshop, thats were raw CPU power comes into play

well for things like do cuda cores get stacked

[MRE Teck]

Well crossfire/sli will allow you to pack more processing power into a rig, so very useful..

  

For gaming, yes. 

 

For editing, rendering and such, SLI/Crossfire is not needed. Just having two GPUs in the system will allow them both to be used (provided the application supports multiple GPUs), theoretically doubling the performance of GPU rendering/editing etc.

  

Your GPU horsepower is worthless for visual rendering studios such as Premiere or Photoshop, thats were raw CPU power comes into play

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/343537-how-useful-is-slicrossfire-for-videophoto-editing/?p=4679961

[Oshino Shinobu]

well for things like do cuda cores get stacked

Yes, but you're not using SLI/Crossfire for things other than games. It works differently.