Cyber Akuma
Gawd
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Normally, when building or upgrading a gaming rig, I try to get the best single card I can afford, than about a year or so later buy a second one used cheap to SLI/Crossfire it so I can keep the system going for a few years more until the next single card can outperform that SLI setup.
Currently I have two GTX 670s in SLI, and am looking to upgrade. The 900 series cards were close, but barely beat out my SLI setup, unless you were looking at TITAN cards or (at the time) $800 Ti versions.
Needless to say, the 1080 obliterates it, and I am considering an upgrade.
Thing is, my monitor is 1080p, and I am not really interested in upgrading to 4k, namely because it is a 144hz monitor that supports Nvidia 3D Vision (Yes, I actually use the 3D feature), and pushing 4k at 120FPS would be a challenge even for two 1080 cards..... not to mention I don't think any monitors even supports 120+hz and 3d Vision at 4k... and if they do they would cost a fortune right now.
However..... I looked at benchmarks of GTS 1080 cards in SLI and the results were..... disheartening.
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080_SLI/
They performed well for 4K, practically all the games they tested saw a clear FPS in SLI at 4K.... but it's the 1080p results that worry me. The majority of the games saw practically no boost at all, or worse, a few of them actually ran SLOWER than a single card would!
Granted, this benchmark was made a while ago, so that's why I am asking here. Has this situation improved at all? Was it some driver or lack of support issue? Or do two GTX1080s still barely bring any performance increase at 1080p?
Admittedly, I didn't realize games needed to have an SLI profile otherwise they would run on a single card. This wasn't really an issue back when the 670 were new as SLI profiles were being updated for pretty much all major games all the time in Nvidia's drivers, but lately they seem to be putting far far less efforts into the whole SLI thing and support. (Strange, you would think Nvidia would WANT people to buy more of their hardware).
As I said though, I am not going to just buy two 1080s right off the bat, I am going to replace my dual670s with a single 1080, and if it's not a pointless waste to get a second 1080, add one in later, and stick with that setup for a few years instead of upgrading to the 1180 when it comes out. I don't upgrade my cards every time a new one is out.
Currently I have two GTX 670s in SLI, and am looking to upgrade. The 900 series cards were close, but barely beat out my SLI setup, unless you were looking at TITAN cards or (at the time) $800 Ti versions.
Needless to say, the 1080 obliterates it, and I am considering an upgrade.
Thing is, my monitor is 1080p, and I am not really interested in upgrading to 4k, namely because it is a 144hz monitor that supports Nvidia 3D Vision (Yes, I actually use the 3D feature), and pushing 4k at 120FPS would be a challenge even for two 1080 cards..... not to mention I don't think any monitors even supports 120+hz and 3d Vision at 4k... and if they do they would cost a fortune right now.
However..... I looked at benchmarks of GTS 1080 cards in SLI and the results were..... disheartening.
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080_SLI/
They performed well for 4K, practically all the games they tested saw a clear FPS in SLI at 4K.... but it's the 1080p results that worry me. The majority of the games saw practically no boost at all, or worse, a few of them actually ran SLOWER than a single card would!
Granted, this benchmark was made a while ago, so that's why I am asking here. Has this situation improved at all? Was it some driver or lack of support issue? Or do two GTX1080s still barely bring any performance increase at 1080p?
Admittedly, I didn't realize games needed to have an SLI profile otherwise they would run on a single card. This wasn't really an issue back when the 670 were new as SLI profiles were being updated for pretty much all major games all the time in Nvidia's drivers, but lately they seem to be putting far far less efforts into the whole SLI thing and support. (Strange, you would think Nvidia would WANT people to buy more of their hardware).
As I said though, I am not going to just buy two 1080s right off the bat, I am going to replace my dual670s with a single 1080, and if it's not a pointless waste to get a second 1080, add one in later, and stick with that setup for a few years instead of upgrading to the 1180 when it comes out. I don't upgrade my cards every time a new one is out.