When is sli worth it?

[The321]

When is sli worth it?

[Mokilop]

when you use the best GPU on the market and you cant get a better one for a reosanable price

[Mokilop]

Example:1080 SLI pointless -> get a 1080ti

               1080ti SLI good because titan Xp isnt better than 2 1080tis

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

When you're driving a resolution that a single card cannot push.

 

Such  as 8K or 16K.

 

It could also be argued that SLI is worth it when you want multiple high resolution monitors.

[The321]

but lets say would it be worth it to sli hd 6970's?

[Mokilop]

nooo why

get a new GPU

[Crunchy Dragon]

3 minutes ago, The321 said:

but lets say would it be worth it to sli hd 6970's?

That would be Crossfire.

 

In my opinion no, unless there was literally no better option.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

5 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

When you're driving a resolution that a single card cannot push.

 

Such  as 8K or 16K.

 

It could also be argued that SLI is worth it when you want multiple high resolution monitors.

a Titan V is *sort of* able to drive 8K IIRC

[Mokilop]

2 minutes ago, The321 said:

but lets say would it be worth it to sli hd 6970's?

Well I reacted too fast, sorry about that.

I suggest looking up benchmarks of 6970 crossfire(amd's version of sli) and then look at new gpus benchmarks an compare price of course

Also if you are going to buy a new gpu wait for the 20 series it is unveiled after 18 hours

[itsTrickAF]

SLI only really provides a benefit when using 2 of the top consumer cards because that lets you exceed the potential of a singular card. Otherwise you're always better off just getting the next tier card up for that extra performance and lower cost in contrast to an SLI config of the lesser cards.

[Streetguru]

19 minutes ago, The321 said:

When is sli worth it?

When your budget is completely unlimited and you run out of other things to buy

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

4 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

When your budget is completely unlimited and you run out of other things to buy

Or if you're getting used 980 Tis

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, OrbitalBuzzsaw said:

Or if you're getting used 980 Tis

better off with one 980ti and a lot of pizza

[Stefan Payne]

40 minutes ago, The321 said:

When is sli worth it?

When you only play one (or two) games that are very well optimized for SLI and nothing else.

 

As it causes more Problems than it solves, its discouraged by everyone.

Especially since it either doesn't work with many games or causes trouble you wouldn't have with just one Card.

[Bananasplit_00]

1: when the next teir up in GPUs is so expensive that its cheaper to get another card

2: when you have two of the same GPU laying around and dont want to buy a single, better one

3: when you need to output more pixels than a single card can do by itself

 

those are the ones as i see it

[Stefan Payne]

36 minutes ago, The321 said:

but lets say would it be worth it to sli hd 6970's?

1. They don't support SLI. THey support Crossfire.

2. It only makes sense for testing purposes with old games as the last driver is 3 Years old (or something like that)

3. That setup is worse than a single HD7970 or RX480/R9-290(X). 

 

So no, it makes no sense because you can get a better card that's faster. And has more memory. As the Cards only have 2GiB, wich is limiting in many modern situations.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

2 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

1. They don't support SLI. THey support Crossfire.

2. It only makes sense for testing purposes with old games as the last driver is 3 Years old (or something like that)

3. That setup is worse than a single HD7970 or RX480/R9-290(X). 

 

So no, it makes no sense because you can get a better card that's faster. And has more memory. As the Cards only have 2GiB, wich is limiting in many modern situations.

Unless he already has them

[The321]

I gone from 128 mb to 1gb vram with 2 I'm the king or something