Micro stutters with GTX 960 4GB SLI?

[IZON]

Hi everyone,

 

i know there a some topics around that discusses if a gtx 960 sli config makes sense or not, and most users find that this card in sli would makes less sense.

 

But anyway, i want to know, if i would stick in a second card, in my case a evga gtx 960 ssc 4gb, will i get trouble with micro stutters? 

In general i would like to know if there is anything that a user can do, to avoid micro stutters (for example, using them on a motheroard that allows 2x 3.0 PCIE x16 at the same time) or a more powerfull cpu or something like that.

 

For now, i am playing GTAV, witcher 3 and dying light.

 

Thanks!

 

 

My rig:

 

 

• CPU
  Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1231 v3
• Motherboard
  ASUS Z97-AR
• RAM
  G.Skill F3-2400C10D-16GTX
• GPU
  EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 4GB GDDR5
• Case
  Chieftec LBX-02B-U3
• Storage
  Samsung 840 EVO 250GB | WD Green 1TB
• PSU
  Corsair RM650i
• Cooling
  All Noctua
• Operating System
  Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit

[ZetZet]

Well it's SLI, one of the drawbacks of SLI. Try all of the drivers, but AFAIK Windows 10 still has no good Nvidia drivers.

[Birderper]

Your GTX 960 can't even use all of it's memory soo...

[PlayStation 2]

Why did you SLI two 960s.

Microstutter is a disadvantage of a dual GPU setup

[smith315pm]

frame counters can sometimes affect games, when i had a kracken x61 with cam software i used to have constant stutters in witcher 3 and gtav when i had the fps counter on.

[AstroBenny]

Why did you SLI two 960s.

Microstutter is a disadvantage of a dual GPU setup

If you'd read it you would know he hasn't actually bought a second 960..

[PlayStation 2]

If you'd read it you would know he hasn't actually bought a second 960..

Then he should get a 390.

SLIing 960s is an awful idea

[DildorTheDecent]

Your GTX 960 can't even use all of it's memory soo...

It can. 

 

low quality bait. 

[don_svetlio]

SLi is more janky than crossfire thanks to the ancient bridges still being used. I'd say depending on the game, you may or may not have issues with SLI but 960 SLI is pointless. Better get a 390 for that price.

[Birderper]

It can. 

 

low quality bait. 

You sir are my favourite orgasm. 

[Guest]

Why did you SLI two 960s.

Microstutter is a disadvantage of a dual GPU setup

there are youtubers who recommend lower-end sli above stronger single card because of slightly higher fps

[PlayStation 2]

there are youtubers who recommend lower-end sli above stronger single card because of slightly higher fps

But there's all the disadvantages with dual GPU setups, and 9 times out of 10 they need more power than a single card setup (looking at you 2 380s vs 390)

[don_svetlio]

But there's all the disadvantages with dual GPU setups, and 9 times out of 10 they need more power than a single card setup (looking at you 2 380s vs 390)

I'm more so looking at 2x 960s using more than a 390X and costing the same.

[IZON]

Thanks for your replies!

 

A evga gtx 960 ssc 4gb cost about 225€ in germany, the cheapest 390 about 100€ more

 

I had one experience with crossfire years ago with two HIS Radeon HD 5770 1GB cards and i had tons of stutters, so i thought maybe this kinda problem with dual gpu cards has been solved

 

i prefere a single gpu solution anyway, but I wanted to know, maybe if price drops for the 960 somedays under 200€ or so, if this could be a nice upgrade solution, but higher fps makes no sense with micro stutters

 

they testet dual 960s in some reviews but never mentioned micro stutters

[don_svetlio]

Thanks for your replies!

 

A evga gtx 960 ssc 4gb cost about 225€ in germany, the cheapest 390 about 100€ more

 

I had one experience with crossfire years ago with two HIS Radeon HD 5770 1GB cards and i had tons of stutters, so i thought maybe this kinda problem with dual gpu cards has been solved

 

i prefere a single gpu solution anyway, but I wanted to know, maybe if price drops for the 960 somedays under 200€ or so, if this could be a nice upgrade solution, but higher fps makes no sense with micro stutters

 

they testet dual 960s in some reviews but never mentioned micro stutters

AMD CrossFire has been stutter free ever since they removed the CF bridges in 2013 - they now do it via PCIe interface resulting in a vastly superior experience and better scaling all the way up to 90% in some games.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Too bad Digital Foundry hasn't done 960 SLI benchmarks with FCAT. They're the gold standard to me when it comes to hardware reviews since they do a large testsuite of games while showing instantaneous frametimes (a stutter is a spike in instantaneous frametime).