Single gtx 1080 ti or smaller cards in SLI

[Freakiefrog]

Looking to build a descent gaming system and trying to decide on a single higher end card or two less expensive cards in SLI. My hardware list is as follows.

 

 Asus crosshair VI hero AM4 AMD x370 

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x 3.6 ghz

64gbs g.skill ripjaws V ddr4 3200

MSI GeForce GTX 1080 ti 11gb 352bit

 

other stuff is just some SSD and a 8tb HHD in RAID

 

So the question is with modern GPU's on a single card like the 1080 ti does multiple lower end cards in SLI offer any advantage over the single card. 

[MorganO]

1 minute ago, Freakiefrog said:

Looking to build a descent gaming system and trying to decide on a single higher end card or two less expensive cards in SLI. My hardware list is as follows.

 

 Asus crosshair VI hero AM4 AMD x370 

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x 3.6 ghz

64gbs g.skill ripjaws V ddr4 3200

MSI GeForce GTX 1080 ti 11gb 352bit

 

other stuff is just some SSD and a 8tb HHD in RAID

 

So the question is with modern GPU's on a single card like the 1080 ti does multiple lower end cards in SLI offer any advantage over the single card. 

not really just get the 1080ti

[Max_Settings]

Always go for the most powerful single GPU you can.

[Princess Luna]

1080ti for sure.

[Changis]

18 minutes ago, Freakiefrog said:

Looking to build a descent gaming system -snip-

it shouldn't be to hard, it's a pretty old game..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(video_game)

lol yokes aside, as the above posts say, get a single gpu.. if you really want, you can add more later

[Mira Yurizaki]

I find multi-GPU setups almost never worth it unless you're on the current generation and sticking two high end cards together. The problems are:

• You have increased power consumption and heat to deal with
• The price/performance is almost the same, though sometimes you may get something slightly better
• VRAM does not combine. So getting two 4GB cards will leave you with 4GB of VRAM. So if NVIDIA allowed say the GTX 1060 to SLI (they don't), it may have GTX 1080 Ti performance, but with almost half the VRAM.

And this is before any potential issues in software, like how games need to have a multi-GPU profile to scale properly, microstuttering is probably a thing still, among others.