1 gtx 1080 or 2 980ti?

[mariobros]

I got offered 2 980ti custom cards (evga sc I think) in exchange for my 1080 FE should I change I play at 5760/1080p most of the time or 1080p 144hz 

[unidentical]

Single card performance should always be your priority. Never give up that for the possibility that the games you want to play will scale well and be stable in SLi.

[Cracklingice]

Single card is better (far lower power, no worry of does a game scale with multi-gpu and the ability to multi-gpu in the future as an upgrade).  Well unless you can sell the two 980TI, buy another 1080 and profit enough to make it worth the trouble.

 

[mariobros]

2 minutes ago, Cracklingice said:

Single card is better (far lower power, no worry of does a game scale with multi-gpu and the ability to multi-gpu in the future as an upgrade).  Well unless you can sell the two 980TI, buy another 1080 and profit enough to make it worth the trouble.

 

too much trouble and would be a risk if i could make profit

[StormEye]

If you have 1080, why bother with 2x980ti...

 

I would understand if it was other way around, but even that does not make sense as its better to wait for Titan Omega or 1080ti.

[jjohnthedon1]

2 980tis will smoke the 1080

litterly leave it for dead

i no all the ltt  beeeatches will say best card single performance but thies aren't mid tier cards ur talking about

at 1080p worst cause u run one 980ti and get 90fps in everything

but best case 144hz with both cards in everything with Sli support

1080 probly won't hit 144hz in all the new shooters at 1080p by its self but Sli 980tis will

ita about 170 percent of the performance of the 1080 more if u Oc them 

 

[mariobros]

12 hours ago, jjohnthedon1 said:

2 980tis will smoke the 1080

litterly leave it for dead

i no all the ltt  beeeatches will say best card single performance but thies aren't mid tier cards ur talking about

at 1080p worst cause u run one 980ti and get 90fps in everything

but best case 144hz with both cards in everything with Sli support

1080 probly won't hit 144hz in all the new shooters at 1080p by its self but Sli 980tis will

ita about 170 percent of the performance of the 1080 more if u Oc them 

 

That's what I'm thinking

[jjohnthedon1]

2 hours ago, mariobros said:

That's what I'm thinking

Good lad 

u no it's true 

[LordLeewee]

So ideally the 980ti sli is better, why are they offering the swap? Stick to consistent single card performance 

[Lays]

7 minutes ago, LordLeewee said:

So ideally the 980ti sli is better, why are they offering the swap? Stick to consistent single card performance 

Not ideally, 980 TI SLI stomps it into the ground, even when SLI doesn't scale properly it'd still be faster lol.  Worst case scenario you find a game that doesn't support SLI (which most games that don't support it run PERFECTLY fine with a 980 TI)

[jjohnthedon1]

16 hours ago, Lays said:

Not ideally, 980 TI SLI stomps it into the ground, even when SLI doesn't scale properly it'd still be faster lol.  Worst case scenario you find a game that doesn't support SLI (which most games that don't support it run PERFECTLY fine with a 980 TI)

This ^^ so much this

becsuse thies arnt middle level cards! 

Its not like recommending 1070 over cf 480

its the same as recommending Sli 980ti over titanx

[Lays]

7 hours ago, jjohnthedon1 said:

This ^^ so much this

becsuse thies arnt middle level cards! 

Its not like recommending 1070 over cf 480

its the same as recommending Sli 980ti over titanx

All these people are literally just trying to reiterate what Linus said in a bazillion videos, however even he said he only recommends top tier cards in SLI over a single "better" GPU.   What he doesn't recommend is MID RANGE CARDS over 1 "better" single GPU. 

[Thisunami]

stick with the 1080

[Technous285]

I'm running a pair of 980Ti's (EVGA's SC+) in SLI and no way in hell am I going to swap them for a single 1080 even if I can get 1500+MHz on Core & 2000+MHz on Memory on the 1080 with stock volts (1470MHz/2000MHz Core/Memory on STOCK VOLTS for my 980Ti's), and the only moderate leg-up the 1080 will have beyond clocks is 8GB V-RAM Vs. the 6GB V-RAM on the 980Ti's.

 

Sure a *single* 980Ti will get smoked by a *single* 1080, but if you're getting a PAIR of 980Ti's in exchange for the single 1080 FE - TAKE THE DEAL AND PUT THEM UNDER WATER! Hell, if you're going to go nuts grab a third 980Ti and put it under water with the 2 you're swapping the 1080 FE for.

[jjohnthedon1]

24 minutes ago, Lays said:

All these people are literally just trying to reiterate what Linus said in a bazillion videos, however even he said he only recommends top tier cards in SLI over a single "better" GPU.   What he doesn't recommend is MID RANGE CARDS over 1 "better" single GPU. 

I think the only time to swap from Sli 980tis or titan x's 

or any top tier Sli set up is littlerly when u can have the same or better performance on one card

 

im also sick of the hate for Sli on ltt

there were issue years and years and years ago 

but now it's pretty much all gona now

the only people that should comment about Sli are people currently running it

if u don't have the hardware or first hand experience there should be no comment

 

sick of people regurgitating old information that's no longer relavent 

#(this rants not aimed at you)

[Lays]

2 minutes ago, jjohnthedon1 said:

I think the only time to swap from Sli 980tis or titan x's 

or any top tier Sli set up is littlerly when u can have the same or better performance on one card

 

im also sick of the hate for Sli on ltt

there were issue years and years and years ago 

but now it's pretty much all gona now

the only people that should comment about Sli are people currently running it

if u don't have the hardware or first hand experience there should be no comment

 

sick of people regurgitating old information that's no longer relavent 

#(this rants not aimed at you)

 

I've had two SLI set ups in the past, 780 SLI and 970 SLI, both performed amazingly, the only real issues I ever had were beta drivers sometimes caused issues, other than that, I ALWAYS had near 80% scaling or higher. Hell, in BF4 and FC3 when my CPU was OC'd I had almost perfect scaling.

 

I think once you can find a single card with ~10-20% less performance, or equal performance, then it's a good move to switch.

[App4that]

How about driver support? DX12 support? No ones going to mention efficiency?

 

Keep the 1080.

 

But here's what you'll get with the SLI verses the 1080

Now between both in SLI bridges, so I'd just get a second 1080 if you want SLI

 

[DXMember]

a 970 SLI beat 1080 in Jay-Z testing... what do you say about that?

[jjohnthedon1]

7 minutes ago, App4that said:

How about driver support? DX12 support? No ones going to mention efficiency?

 

Keep the 1080.

 

But here's what you'll get with the SLI verses the 1080

Now between both in SLI bridges, so I'd just get a second 1080 if you want SLI

 

Good choice witcher 3

worst Sli support in a while yet it's still beating the 1080

try something like over watch at 1440p or 4K 

 

[Lays]

17 minutes ago, App4that said:

How about driver support? DX12 support? No ones going to mention efficiency?

 

Keep the 1080.

 

But here's what you'll get with the SLI verses the 1080

Now between both in SLI bridges, so I'd just get a second 1080 if you want SLI

 

 

And that's with extremely low clocks on a 980 ti as well, 1202 mhz?  Most aftermarket cards already boost past 1350-1400, some of the higher end ones boost to ~1430.   We all know how hard 980 ti scales with OC

[App4that]

10 minutes ago, jjohnthedon1 said:

Good choice witcher 3

worst Sli support in a while yet it's still beating the 1080

try something like over watch at 1440p or 4K 

 

Not the point. What happens in 6 months when the driver support drops off? How about games like Battlefield going to DX12? Or the difference between power requirements between the 980ti SLI and the 1080 SLI? And the HB bridge the 1080 can benefit from.

 

This isn't about SLI, this is about someone who has the best card for them in the months to come.

[App4that]

3 minutes ago, Lays said:

 

And that's with extremely low clocks on a 980 ti as well, 1202 mhz?  Most aftermarket cards already boost past 1350-1400, some of the higher end ones boost to ~1430.   We all know how hard 980 ti scales with OC

And will you refund them the cost of their 1080 they traded because of your advice when the 980ti is the next 780ti and a 1060 beats it?

[jjohnthedon1]

3 minutes ago, App4that said:

Not the point. What happens in 6 months when the driver support drops off? How about games like Battlefield going to DX12? Or the difference between power requirements between the 980ti SLI and the 1080 SLI? And the HB bridge the 1080 can benefit from.

 

This isn't about SLI, this is about someone who has the best card for them in the months to come.

I stand by my choice 

and I would if it were last generation id take 780tis over one 980 

same perfarmace increase 20 percent stock for stock 

[App4that]

2 minutes ago, jjohnthedon1 said:

I stand by my choice 

and I would if it were last generation id take 780tis over one 980 

same perfarmace increase 20 percent stock for stock 

This isn't about you, you're making it about you because you have 980ti's. The OP has a 1080, which will last WAY longer and offer way more benefits than a few fps right now.

[mariobros]

15 minutes ago, App4that said:

This isn't about you, you're making it about you because you have 980ti's. The OP has a 1080, which will last WAY longer and offer way more benefits than a few fps right now.

my thinking behind not taking the trade right away was the future upgrade path and the future better support than the 980ti