Gtx sli question?

[undelt]

I am thinking of buying two gtx 980ti and running them sli. I was wondering if i would get that much of an improvement from one card? And if it would be anywhere near worth it?

[The Pizza Thief]

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I am thinking of buying two gtx 980ti and running them sli. I was wondering if i would get that much of an improvement from one card? And if it would be anywhere near worth it?

 

[Joe D]

With SLI You get the performance of one card and then half the performance of the other one on top I would just invest in a single graphics card that is a bit better

[ELSknutson]

with out seeing what you have for monitors and setup Im going to say stick with the one card

[Castdeath97]

Unless you play at 4K or you have a 120 hz+ 1440p monitor not really.

[Laputacake]

In terms of your highest framerate you will see an improvement but the framerate will dip lower.

[MegaDave91]

With SLI You get the performance of one card and then half the performance of the other one on top I would just invest in a single graphics card that is a bit better

Two-way scaling is very good; usually in the neighborhood of 80% and up.

[MegaDave91]

In terms of your highest framerate you will see an improvement but the framerate will dip lower.

 

1080p benchmarks? Those poor cards are being bottlenecked. Get 1440p or even 4K benchmarks.

[dalomo]

With SLI You get the performance of one card and then half the performance of the other one on top I would just invest in a single graphics card that is a bit better

There's not much better than a 980ti though. Maybe a titan x if you want to waste money.

[Prysin]

for 1080p, just stick with a single 980Ti, or better yet, get dual Fury (non X)... saves you money, gives you the performance you want, CF > SLI. Also, no damn SLI bridge looks ballin

[undelt]

I will have:

i7 5960x

32gb Corsair Vengence 8gb x 4

Deepcool captain 240 cooler

Intel 480gb SSD

4TB Hard drive

And i will be playing games like: farcry 4, CSGO, LoL, Skyrim w/ mods, bF4, etc.

Also will be using CS6, Cinema 4D, CAD, and some video editing...

Using 2 1080p 144hz monitors.

[undelt]

Will prob be upgrading to 1440p or 4k monitors soon

[undelt]

Should i do single gtx titan x or these 980ti's

[Prysin]

if going 4k, and playing Far Cry and BF4, then AMD would serve you well. CAD programs also make use of OpenCL (you just gotta change some settings). Which AMD is really good at, since GCN architecture is sort of a pseudo workstation - gaming hybrid (very high compute and double precision while maintaining excellent gaming capabilities).

 

I advice you to look into dual Fury (non X).... they are slower then the 980Ti or Fury X. But they cost less too. Yet they still pack a punch, and with AMDs CF scaling being excellent, more so then Nvidia, then this may be an option.

 

Look into it. 980Ti is a good card, however unless you ARE running 144hz 1440p or 4k, then you dont need two of them.