Keep 980 TI SLI or upgrade 1080 TI SLI

[Cheex18]

Hi Guys,

I am gaming with 2 GTX 980 TI Classified's in SLI and playing on a 4K monitor. now that the 1080 TI is out would it be worth upgrading to the 1080 TI in SLI or because SLI support is somewhat going away (could be wrong just thought i remember this being a thing) would i simply be better off getting a single 1080 TI for 4K gaming (though frame rates in Linus's most recent video had very few games running 60FPS@4K on the 1080TI) 

 

thoughts?

[Jakeus]

Just now, Cheex18 said:

Hi Guys,

I am gaming with 2 GTX 980 TI Classified's in SLI and playing on a 4K monitor. now that the 1080 TI is out would it be worth upgrading to the 1080 TI in SLI or because SLI support is somewhat going away (could be wrong just thought i remember this being a thing) would i simply be better off getting a single 1080 TI for 4K gaming (though frame rates in Linus's most recent video had very few games running 60FPS@4K on the 1080TI) 

 

thoughts?

You should keep the 980 ti it's not too much performance increase and too much cost

[The_Denks]

A single 1080ti is better than 2x 980ti's

 

Less power draw

Less thermals

Better stability by not using SLI

Pascal arcitecture

 

[Cheex18]

Thanks Jakeus, whats the general rule of thumb on this? when i gain X% in performance that's a good time to switch or when it costs $Y to upgrade you should do so? Maybe Lunis should do i video on this (just sayin) 

[Cheex18]

1 minute ago, UberGamerKing said:

A single 1080ti is better than 2x 980ti's

 

Less power draw

Less thermals

Better stability by not using SLI

Pascal arcitecture

 

maybe better in those categories but i only care about performance here. if you were to say a single 1080TI gives better FPS in AAA titles than 980TI's in SLI i'm all ears. 

[NinJake]

My general rule of thumb is no upgrades for at least 2 years. Unless there is a massive improvement/breakthrough in the efficiency/power of components. As of yet, there has not been.

[19_blackie_73]

Just now, Cheex18 said:

Thanks Jakeus, whats the general rule of thumb on this? when i gain X% in performance that's a good time to switch or when it costs $Y to upgrade you should do so? Maybe Lunis should do i video on this (just sayin) 

It's always a kind of personal thing what's worth it or not. Dunno the exakt numbers, but your are basically getting according to linus' vid 350$ per 980ti, so sell both and you'll get one 1080ti, for 1080ti SLI you would have to pay 7-800$ extra. is it worth for YOU to get about 20-40% higher performance for that extra money? How happy are you with your actual performance atm?

[mmaatt747]

5 minutes ago, Cheex18 said:

Hi Guys,

I am gaming with 2 GTX 980 TI Classified's in SLI and playing on a 4K monitor. now that the 1080 TI is out would it be worth upgrading to the 1080 TI in SLI or because SLI support is somewhat going away (could be wrong just thought i remember this being a thing) would i simply be better off getting a single 1080 TI for 4K gaming (though frame rates in Linus's most recent video had very few games running 60FPS@4K on the 1080TI) 

 

thoughts?

In my opinion SLI is not going away.  It seems NVIDIA is putting more efforts into 2-way (hence the new bridge) and pretty much ignoring 3/4-way which I think is a good thing because of the diminishing returns.

 

Also, I don't ever replace cards every generation.  I usually upgrade every 2nd or 3rd generation. 

[Cheex18]

Thanks guys great help here. 

 

3 minutes ago, 19_blackie_73 said:

 is it worth for YOU to get about 20-40% higher performance for that extra money? 

Do you really think it could be as much as 40% if 1080TI is in SLI? i think 40% would be huge and i'd probably pay to get it. but i can't find 1080TI-SLI videos that compare to 980TI-SLI. anyone see one?

[Princess Luna]

I would honestly wait for Vega at least before ditching the 980ti's

[TVwazhere]

11 minutes ago, Cheex18 said:

Thanks guys great help here. 

 

Do you really think it could be as much as 40% if 1080TI is in SLI? i think 40% would be huge and i'd probably pay to get it. but i can't find 1080TI-SLI videos that compare to 980TI-SLI. anyone see one?

Well a single 980ti is about half the new 1080ti according to Linus's lastest video

 

[Cheex18]

1 minute ago, TVwazhere said:

Well a single 980ti is about half the new 1080ti according to Linus's lastest video

 

correct but interested to see how this scales in SLI. we both know that 2x1080TI-SLI will be better then what i have now but if only 20-30% because games might not optimize for SLI then i might just wait with a single card can beat my SLI 

[jjohnthedon1]

It's a side grade at best dude, mine beat the Titan xp in everything 

and you gona have to put money to it bro so not worth it.

also u know as well as the rest of us sli users there are no real problems with sli anymore 

[jjohnthedon1]

@App4that

bro tell um how it is 

[App4that]

SLI support is not going away. It's gotten way better in just the last 6 months.

 

Linus also nerfs the 980ti.

[Cheex18]

2 minutes ago, App4that said:

SLI support is not going away. It's gotten way better in just the last 6 months.

 

Linus also nerfs the 980ti.

good to know. so in your opinion it's fair to assume that 1080TI-SLI would greatly outperform 980TI-SLI. What would you do? upgrade for $800 or wait?

[App4that]

The 1080ti SLI will be CPU bottlenecked by even the fastest CPU in most games. I'd get a second 980ti used for cheap if you already have one, or a single 1080ti and wait on the second until CPUs catch up.

[scottyseng]

1 hour ago, Cheex18 said:

good to know. so in your opinion it's fair to assume that 1080TI-SLI would greatly outperform 980TI-SLI. What would you do? upgrade for $800 or wait?

Also a fair bit of notice, from what I've seen of video reviews, they use the reference 980 Ti and run it at stock clocks...the 980 Ti gains a lot when overclocked / not thermally limited.

 

My 980 Ti I got used is beating my 1070 used...I have both OC'd as well.

 

Though personally, I don't think it's a smart buy... I'd wait until next gen to get a bigger bump for what you pay for it. Also wait to see if Intel makes a faster CPU (Wow, it's going to take a lot of CPU power to feed them 1080 Ti SLI...will be interesting to see SLI numbers).

[Cheex18]

25 minutes ago, scottyseng said:

Also a fair bit of notice, from what I've seen of video reviews, they use the reference 980 Ti and run it at stock clocks...the 980 Ti gains a lot when overclocked / not thermally limited.

 

My 980 Ti I got used is beating my 1070 used...I have both OC'd as well.

 

Though personally, I don't think it's a smart buy... I'd wait until next gen to get a bigger bump for what you pay for it. Also wait to see if Intel makes a faster CPU (Wow, it's going to take a lot of CPU power to feed them 1080 Ti SLI...will be interesting to see SLI numbers).

pardon my ignorance but shouldn't a 980TI beat a 1070 anyway? no shock there.

[MilfShake]

Based on your situation you seem like a guy who has money to spend, then why not?

 

If you want to really consider, wait for benchmark for 1080Ti SLI, then do percentage in performance increase vs percentage in cost, and then only you can decide if it is worth it, because different ppl have different financial situation, maybe it is ok for you to spend 2 times the cost to get 40% increase in perf, but for me it is not OK.

 

But because it is Nvidia, % increase in cost will be way bigger than % increase in perf

[Cheex18]

Just now, MilfShake said:

Based on your situation you seem like a guy who has money to spend, then why not?

 

If you want to really consider, wait for benchmark for 1080Ti SLI, then do percentage in performance increase vs percentage in cost, and then only you can decide if it is worth it.

 

But because it is Nvidia, % increase in cost will be way bigger than % increase in perf

yeah i've decided once SLI numbers come out then if i get a bump of 35%+ in most AAA titles and synthetics then i'm selling and buying 1080TI's thanks guys. 

[scottyseng]

2 hours ago, Cheex18 said:

pardon my ignorance but shouldn't a 980TI beat a 1070 anyway? no shock there.

Nah, you'd be surprised... A lot of people claim the opposite due to reviewers not overclocking the cards...stock 980 Ti will lose to a 1070 because the 980 Ti stock clock is pretty low.

 

Yeah, I hope someone does SLI numbers. It would be pretty interesting to see how much gain there would be for you.

[Cheex18]

14 hours ago, scottyseng said:

Nah, you'd be surprised... A lot of people claim the opposite due to reviewers not overclocking the cards...stock 980 Ti will lose to a 1070 because the 980 Ti stock clock is pretty low.

 

Yeah, I hope someone does SLI numbers. It would be pretty interesting to see how much gain there would be for you.

Thanks Scott, i always just assumed 980TI was better. 

[carlosriosness]

i am in a similar boat. i have a 980ti hybrid sli setup. i am curious as to what i will gain/lose by going to a single 1080ti. i would like to do a 1080ti sli setup, but buying a 2nd 1080ti card would have to come after getting a new board/cpu. my z87-deluxe/4770k cant handle sli and my nvme drive at full speeds (i have to run the nvme on a gen 2 pcie slot).

 

hopefully someone will do a 980ti sli vs 1080ti video sometime in the next couple months.

[jjohnthedon1]

On 09/03/2017 at 9:59 PM, scottyseng said:

Nah, you'd be surprised... A lot of people claim the opposite due to reviewers not overclocking the cards...stock 980 Ti will lose to a 1070 because the 980 Ti stock clock is pretty low.

 

Yeah, I hope someone does SLI numbers. It would be pretty interesting to see how much gain there would be for you.

The amount of 980tis videos where there running it at 1150mhz is rediculas 

1450 at least or don't make the video