1070 SLI in a Slim Laptop – Is it Stupid? Aorus X9 SLI Review

[AlexTheGreatish]

It's impressive how Gigabyte was able to fit TWO GTX 1070s into a relatively thin laptop... but was anyone even asking for that?

 

Buy the Aorus X9
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[kelvinhall05]

I hope SLI dies a slow, painful death.

[DarkBlade2117]

7 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I hope SLI dies a slow, painful death.

I hope people start to push for SLI to be more widely used and efficient. Not the second GPU only using some of its power, 1:1

[kelvinhall05]

4 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

I hope people start to push for SLI to be more widely used and efficient. Not the second GPU only using some of its power, 1:1

Yeah, either it dies, or becomes an actual good solution that is widely supported.

[Zodiark1593]

32 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I hope SLI dies a slow, painful death.

Whatever will those with one 1080 TI, but in need of more GPU power, do if SLI doesn't exist.

 

[Sfekke]

this morning I had breakfast watching an LTT video and now this evening I'll have late dinner watching this ... that is just perfect timing

 

 

A bit more on topic :

It is quite interesting how they did this, imagining this years ago .. no way is what I thought; look at this now!

Personally wouldn't buy it though, I'm happy using my Clevo with a GTX960M & Quad Core 2.4GHz i5; When I go hardcore PCMR I'll go on my desktop anyhow.

[Ashleyyyy]

the clickbait in these thumbnails is getting out of control... 

[kelvinhall05]

28 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Whatever will those with one 1080 TI, but in need of more GPU power, do if SLI doesn't exist.

 

Who needs more GPU power? Plus, if they need it that bad, they can use it right now, and by then there will be more powerful cards.

[Zodiark1593]

1 hour ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Who needs more GPU power? Plus, if they need it that bad, they can use it right now, and by then there will be more powerful cards.

For this particular laptop, I feel workstation users would find it favorable to a single 1080 configuration as compute power scales extremely well with certain tasks such as rendering. For gaming however, I would be hesitant to recommend this.

[Guest lilbman]

5 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Whatever will those with one 1080 TI, but in need of more GPU power, do if SLI doesn't exist.

 

Do as I did and buy a second one.

[Guest]

11 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Whatever will those with one 1080 TI, but in need of more GPU power, do if SLI doesn't exist.

 

Stop trying to do NASA work at home 

[Tcrumpen]

Seems like this laptop is really for productivity in the form of video editing and 3d Rendering than gaming; to me it seems like a workstation laptop i mean doesn't video editing and 3d rendering take better advantage of SLI config than gaming does?

[Zodiark1593]

4 hours ago, Tcrumpen said:

Seems like this laptop is really for productivity in the form of video editing and 3d Rendering than gaming; to me it seems like a workstation laptop i mean doesn't video editing and 3d rendering take better advantage of SLI config than gaming does?

Well, not necessarily SLI, as some CUDA workloads work perfectly fine with mismatching video csrds. SLI itself is for gaming, compute applications can use multiple cards without SLI.

[Tcrumpen]

11 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Well, not necessarily SLI, as some CUDA workloads work perfectly fine with mismatching video csrds. SLI itself is for gaming, compute applications can use multiple cards without SLI.

Touché

[Frankenburger]

22 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Who needs more GPU power?

Good question. Who needs a 1080Ti? Or even a 1070 for that matter?

 

We don't need $300+ GPUs. We want $300+ GPUs. It's not like we can't play games at 1024x768 on low settings with low end and integrated GPUs.

 

That being said, I'm one of those who wants more than a GTX 1080Ti, because I'm a DSR/SSAA slut who has a hard on for ReShade.