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Worth doing 1070sli or getting 1080?

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SLI has to be supported by game developers, so only a few games take advantage of the second card so almost everytime it is better to buy the more powerful card than 2 less powerful for SLI, only time sli could be worth it if you already have one card. Even a 2 1070 in SLI will perfrom worse on 90% of games than a 1080.

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Hello, I am asking a quick question about if it is worth buying 1070 sli. As I seen a few videos of it beating the 1080 card.

 

Just to clarify this in a simple way. Theres an Asus strix 1080 8GB for 649$ (discounted 75$). Simply put is it worth buying the 1080 or doing 1070sli, not sure in performance for 2019 with the 1070's sli. Or wait til the new card is out so all prices will drop? Also they had a new restock on asus gtx 1080 cards on a website, about a 100 so I guess they are ready to sell them out, just a theory.

 

Would be nice to leave opinions, since that discount ends tomorrow!

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1060 has no SLI pins

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1060's don't SLI. You must be thinking of 580's in Crossfire.

 

 

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Oh, gosh. I ment 1070, so sorry for the misleading title

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9 minutes ago, IdiotPenguin said:

Thought you couldn't sli 1060's?

I ment 1070, so sorry. I was thinking about the 1060 while writing.

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SLI has to be supported by game developers, so only a few games take advantage of the second card so almost everytime it is better to buy the more powerful card than 2 less powerful for SLI, only time sli could be worth it if you already have one card. Even a 2 1070 in SLI will perfrom worse on 90% of games than a 1080.

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Just now, ChernobilChuck said:

SLI has to be supported by game developers, so only a few games take advantage of the second card so almost everytime it is better to buy the more powerful card than 2 less powerful for SLI, only time sli could be worth it if you already have one card. Even a 2 1070 in SLI will perfrom worse on 90% of games than a 1080.

Alright, thank you for the information. I still hope sli will be a thing in the future as a common thing.

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1 minute ago, lewdicrous said:

What do you want the sli for? gaming or editing/rendering?

Gaming, someone already told me it would be better to buy a single card which supported more games since a lot of games doesn't have sli support.

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Just now, Swezed said:

Gaming, someone already told me it would be better to buy a single card which supported more games since a lot of games doesn't have sli support.

Yeah, using sli for gaming would be a waste for the most part.

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A pair of 1070s would be way better than a 1080. Even a pair of old keplers out perform a 1080 in certain games. If your cpu can hold out, id do it. All my games use sli so I don't a have  the issues the parrots say people have.

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16 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

A pair of 1070s would be way better than a 1080. Even a pair of old keplers out perform a 1080 in certain games. If your cpu can hold out, id do it. All my games use sli so I don't a have  the issues the parrots say people have.

Not all games are SLI/CrossFire optimize well. 

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1 minute ago, DaPhuc said:

Not all games are SLI/CrossFire optimize well. 

Which is something the op would need to find out. Most do, so its a simple choice.

 

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I would personally prefer one 1080ti. Do you already have one 1070? Do you really need more performance? Also remember new Nvidia (and AMD later) cards are heavily rumoured to be coming soon 

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3 hours ago, Froody129 said:

I would personally prefer one 1080ti. Do you already have one 1070? Do you really need more performance? Also remember new Nvidia (and AMD later) cards are heavily rumoured to be coming soon 

Yes, I do suspect that it is gonna come out since they restocked about 100 new cards and it's on discount also. So I am pretty sure about that.

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Contrary to popular belief, SLI doesn't need to be "supported by the developer" for SLI to work. That's why we have driver level compatibility layers that enables SLI.

 

Statistically speaking, SLI scales in 3 out of 4 games. Also, if you exclude non-scaling games, SLI scales by an average of ~70% as long as you're not bottlenecking the setup by playing at 1440p or lower.

 

https://babeltechreviews.com/the-50-game-gtx-1070-ti-sli-review/3/

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080_SLI/20.html

 

Also, if a game doesn't play nice with SLI, you can often times enable SLI by a few driver tweaks. Of course, there will always be some games that simply don't work with SLI no matter what you do. But the odds are you'll come across more games that are SLI compatible than ones that aren't.

 

You need to decide for yourself if you're OK with games scaling differently from others. You also need to decide if you're willing to take it upon yourself to seek out manual fixes for games that aren't natively SLI compatible.

 

However, in most SLI compatible games, SLI 1070 will be more powerful than a single 1080.

 

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