2080 sli for 4k

[Adab5]

i have a 4k screen and my main target is ultra 4k gaming im playing all the new games.

im willing to spend in the area of 1200-1300$ for gpu, and ofcurse the right thing is just order the new 2080 ti in 1250$ 

BUT in a less then 400$ more i can get a TWO 2080 (780$ EACH )

im willing to spend that money and my rig can take that sli or nvlink shit config 

 

but the games arent fuly nvlink support so im little bit cunfuse

 

if you was insted of me, and lets say money wasnt the issue 

and you had only two options  

2 2080 - and take the chanse of not good support in the futre (nevidia promised a very good nvlink support in games)

or just stick with one 2080 ti , and maybe lose a 20-30% in a games that do support (which can be the defrence betwen 40 to -70-80 fps)

 

my screen is 100hz 4k 

[NelizMastr]

By the time you can play any game at 4K 100Hz we've had at least one more GPU generation, so if you want to buy now, grab the 2080Ti. It's the closest you can get right now. 

 

SLI is generally a bad idea. DX12 doesn't really support it at all, and not every game that does support it can properly leverage the power.

[Guest]

Get the best single GPU. The 2080 is already a terrible value. More than doubling a terrible value (still need to buy a bridge) is a bad idea.

[FastRDust]

I would at least check out Linus his video on this

 

[Sauron]

If you have 1200$ and you must have all the speed right now, just get a 2080ti. It will perform more or less the same as the sli configuration would in games that support it and much better in games that don't.

 

I don't recommend you buy anything from the 20xx series though.

35 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

DX12 doesn't really support it at all

That's because it doesn't need to, developers could still allow you to use two cards in a dx12 game.

[NelizMastr]

27 minutes ago, Sauron said:

That's because it doesn't need to, developers could still allow you to use two cards in a dx12 game.

That's because could and would are two different things. The majority won't bother, so it's wasted money.

[Sauron]

1 minute ago, NelizMastr said:

That's because could and would are two different things. The majority won't bother, so it's wasted money.

I'm not debating that, I'm just saying that the lack of sli specific support from DX12 doesn't really mean anything in this context.

[NelizMastr]

2 minutes ago, Sauron said:

I'm not debating that, I'm just saying that the lack of sli specific support from DX12 doesn't really mean anything in this context.

Aight, fair enough 

[bowrilla]

SLI/NVLINK on the new 20 series seems to scale pretty well. Games that aren't optimized get a bump and games that are scale up for up to 60-70% as it seems. We have no idea though how well DLSS and Raytracing scales so we need to wait for results on this one. On the other hand, 4k 60fps on Ultra Extreme Plus bla bla is pretty real on a 2080Ti. A 2x 2080 won't bump your performanc to over 100fps so no real point in wasting the additional 400-500 bucks (remember, you need an NVLINK bridge).

 

Edit: 

See Jayz's and LTT's video on that topic:

 

[Frankenburger]

A 1080Ti is on par with a 2080. The 2080Ti is more of a novelty item as far as I'm concerned, and Ray Tracing is far too young to justify spending so much money IMHO. That said, what games do you primarily play?

 

SLI 1080Ti has the potential to beat out a 2080Ti depending on the games you're currently playing. It just depends on whether or not the games you play are SLI compatible, or can be patched with manual driver fixes. Just remember, not all games are compatible with SLI, and to get the most value out of SLI, you need to be willing to sit down to configure your games properly and edit your drivers with Nvidia Inspector every now and then.