SLI , keep it or upgrade ?

[Thimsarpel]

Currently own x2 1080ti's.I was wondering if that 2080ti are best for SLI with new nvlink .

 

Pros / cons  between 1080tis SLI / 2080 tis SLI ?

 

 

 

For games mostly , I do not come to discuss whether it is this game supported or not, I can handle it .

 

Thanks.

[Spotty]

Wait for independent third party reviews and benchmarks.

[jj9987]

I am curious what kind of workload you are doing, that you actually need to spend 2400 2000 dollars to upgrade to the latest and greatest GPUs, because 1080 Tis are not enough.

[PineyCreek]

7 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

I am curious what kind of workload you are doing, that you actually need to spend 2400 2000 dollars to upgrade to the latest and greatest GPUs, because 1080 Tis are not enough.

What @jj9987 said.  Also, if you're getting rid of your 1080Ti cards can I buy them off you for a stupidly low price?

[Thimsarpel]

My biggest concern is that nvlink could change SLI completely.

[Xplo1t]

I'm going to replace my SLI 1080Ti setup with two 2080Ti's.  The pro is better potential performance and you have to decide if it's worth it.

[andrewmp6]

Why is the last 20 post are about the new gpus that we no nothing about tell they hit the market ?

[jasonvp]

14 hours ago, jj9987 said:

I am curious what kind of workload you are doing, that you actually need to spend 2400 2000 dollars to upgrade to the latest and greatest GPUs, because 1080 Tis are not enough.

It's actually pretty easy to kill a pair of 1080Tis.  Load up a game like, for instance, Rainbow Six: Siege and run it in 4K with a bunch of the deets set to their highest.  Since 4K/144 panels are the fastest, highest refresh currently available: watch and cry as your 1080Tis can't handle the load.  They won't do it.

 

Then make the mistake of throwing game recording into the mix.  As soon as you fire something like OBS up, that actively uses the GPU to just composite the video (this is before the actual encoding takes place), you'll quickly see your videos skipping, dropping video frames, etc.  Again: due to the load on the GPUs.

 

1080Tis are great GPUs, but they can be run to their limits.  I run a pair of OC'd Titan X Pascals to their limits every day that I play Siege (for instance).  Or any other game that uses the AnvilNext engine.