The best value in graphics that no one cares about

[mooseman]

760 SLI offers dramatically better performance than 290, 290x, 780, or 780 ti at 1080p and 1440p. The 760s were on sale for $200 for the last couple weeks at newegg.

 

Yet no one seems to care. I think all the problems with crossfire have put a bad taste in everyone's mouth regarding multi-gpu setups in spite of the fact that SLI is much better designed and doesn't have the frame pacing issues that still plague crossfire.

[Freaky_spider]

well, you forget one thing...

 

you can't SLI in the future thats why everyone says you should go one card

 

so in the future you can have 2 high tier GPU wich in turn blows SLI 760 out of the water....

[M-ursu]

well, you forget one thing...

 

you can't SLI in the future thats why everyone says you should go one card

This and also 760 have only 2GB of vram, also 256 bit mem. bus aint enough to fill 4Gb models.

[mooseman]

If you have $400-500 now and you will have $400-500 in in a year or two, I think you are better off getting 2x760 now and then getting the bext $400-500 system again in a year or two.

[AlwaysFSX]

My guess is that not all games support multi-gpu configurations so having 2 lower end gpus may get you worse performance than just one good gpu.

[Guest GRRigger]

i guess nobody knew should have said something ^^

[miyabwah]

Not every game supports 2 way SLI.

[mooseman]

This and also 760 have only 2GB of vram, also 256 bit mem. bus aint enough to fill 4Gb models.

Benchies show that doesn't matter at 1080p-1600p for any game really.

[M-ursu]

Benchies show that doesn't matter at 1080p-1600p for any game really.

Modern games consume way over 2GB of vram, here you can see my usages, almost every curreent game uses more than 2 GB's...

http://youtu.be/gsHg9rJmqsI?t=24s

[Tmh85]

Benchies show that doesn't matter at 1080p-1600p for any game really.

With future games it will be taking advantage of the ram, so it does matter, especially for the future.

[mooseman]

Uh... modern games consume way over 2GB of vram, here you can see my usages...

http://youtu.be/gsHg9rJmqsI?t=24s

You show skyrim uses close to 4GB ram on your 290 there. This shows an sli 760 setup having a 20-30% advantage over 290 in skyrim at 2560x1600p.  

 

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2013/12/04/asus-geforce-gtx-760-mars-review/6

[Exotath]

.....and when SLI isn't supported....congrats you have one GTX 760.

[Mindtrickz]

2x GTX 760 in SLI would have been an enticing deal if every game supported Multi-GPU. They don't. So in those case you have the performance of 1 x GTX 760. That would fucking suck.

[Bluuz]

You show skyrim uses close to 4GB ram on your 290 there. This shows an sli 760 setup having a 20-30% advantage over 290 in skyrim at 2560x1600p.

 

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2013/12/04/asus-geforce-gtx-760-mars-review/6

Now factor in modded textures and increased draw distances.