Should I buy a 2nd 1080 Ti?

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I picked up a modified 1080 Ti FE a few weeks ago (went from 3x 980 Ti setup). I game @ 4k, so I'm seriously thinking about getting a 2nd. A single card does OK for the most part @ 4k, but for newer games I can't run higher settings anymore.

I'm just wondering if it's actually worth buying a 2nd card anymore? SLI support seems to be less supported than it once was, but I do game @ 4k so that's an issue.

Is it worth it just to wait for Volta rather than just buying a 2nd card?
 
For Witcher 3, going from one 1070 to 1070 SLI, wasn't a huge jump. @ 3440 x 1440. (got them for mining primarily). Ended up getting a 1080 instead for my Ryzen gaming rig. If you get two 1080 SLI, let me know how you like it.

I should of tried more games with SLI to be fair but addicted to W3 atm.
 
For Witcher 3, going from one 1070 to 1070 SLI, wasn't a huge jump. @ 3440 x 1440. (got them for mining primarily). Ended up getting a 1080 instead for my Ryzen gaming rig. If you get two 1080 SLI, let me know how you like it.

I should of tried more games with SLI to be fair but addicted to W3 atm.

Well, I guess nobody ever said you have to read the post you're responding to. :LOL:
 
SLI and Crossfire are pretty dead anymore, they still get support but almost always takes a bit to get it working right. Unless Vulkan takes off I dont think multi gpu is a good way to go at all anymore.
 
I wouldn't bother. As others have said, fewer and fewer titles have solid SLI scaling these days. Save up and sell the 1080Ti for the next big release, whenever that hits.
 
currently running a 1080ti Fe under water, 2560x1440, 100hz with a Dell 27" g-sync monitor (S2716DGR) that I got on sale and I'm extremely pleased, everything runs so well that SLI is a thing of the past for me.
 
currently running a 1080ti Fe under water, 2560x1440, 100hz with a Dell 27" g-sync monitor (S2716DGR) that I got on sale and I'm extremely pleased, everything runs so well that SLI is a thing of the past for me.

Foe 1440 you wont nees sli..

If one is playing bf1 in 4k id possably say yes for sli.
 
I recently upgraded to a 1080 Ti because I run 3x 1080p surround. I had considered SLI but it seems that scaling is pretty poor for many games these days (and also the fact that mining had driven up the prices of 1070's). I normally wouldn't consider SLI but there might be an argument for it currently.

If you are willing to mine on your cards and there are specific games that you play and know scale well it might be worth it. Let say you buy another 1080 Ti and mine about $100/month on it (conservative estimate). By the time Navi comes out, you can still sell your card and likely break even. I wouldn't buy another 1080 Ti right now just for mining since I feel like the profitability has peaked but if you have specific games that would do better with 2x1080 Ti's it might be something to consider.
 
I recently upgraded to a 1080 Ti because I run 3x 1080p surround. I had considered SLI but it seems that scaling is pretty poor for many games these days (and also the fact that mining had driven up the prices of 1070's). I normally wouldn't consider SLI but there might be an argument for it currently.

If you are willing to mine on your cards and there are specific games that you play and know scale well it might be worth it. Let say you buy another 1080 Ti and mine about $100/month on it (conservative estimate). By the time Navi comes out, you can still sell your card and likely break even. I wouldn't buy another 1080 Ti right now just for mining since I feel like the profitability has peaked but if you have specific games that would do better with 2x1080 Ti's it might be something to consider.
I recently upgraded to a 1080 Ti because I run 3x 1080p surround. I had considered SLI but it seems that scaling is pretty poor for many games these days (and also the fact that mining had driven up the prices of 1070's). I normally wouldn't consider SLI but there might be an argument for it currently.

If you are willing to mine on your cards and there are specific games that you play and know scale well it might be worth it. Let say you buy another 1080 Ti and mine about $100/month on it (conservative estimate). By the time Navi comes out, you can still sell your card and likely break even. I wouldn't buy another 1080 Ti right now just for mining since I feel like the profitability has peaked but if you have specific games that would do better with 2x1080 Ti's it might be something to consider.


I would wait 4 weeks sell off your 1080Ti and buy the high end Vega RX card. It will be cheaper than 1080 TI and will exceed 1080 Ti in performance. If you have a Ryzen cpuu you will wind up at 4K with fps about 70 fps. If you want higher buy a second card and AMD crossfire scales FAR better than SLI especially in combination with a Ryzen cpu. Even with my OLS AMD Radeon Nitro Fury I average 39 FPS in 4K games. Vega will just about double that in FPS. Upcoming reviews based on RX Vega, not Frontier Edition will validate what I am saying. RX Vega has a a design that is slightly tweaked over Frontier Edition and also has better drivers.
 
I would wait 4 weeks sell off your 1080Ti and buy the high end Vega RX card. It will be cheaper than 1080 TI and will exceed 1080 Ti in performance.

Newsflash, Vega cant even reach the 13 months old GTX 1080 FE performance. And Vega FE is AMDs "Titan". RX Vega will only be slower, but cheaper.

Lets not keep giving people the same constant bad advice of waiting for another fairy tale.

I am sure we soon see the #waitfornavi with fictional performance and release dates that never materializes.
 
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OP, you strike me as an odd person to go around asking others if SLI is worth it when you were running a niche setup that most people won't ever use (3+GPUs). Did you feel like that was worth it? Whatever the answer to that is will surely be the answer to the question you're asking now.
 
OP, you strike me as an odd person to go around asking others if SLI is worth it when you were running a niche setup that most people won't ever use (3+GPUs). Did you feel like that was worth it? Whatever the answer to that is will surely be the answer to the question you're asking now.

3x 980Ti wasn't really supported so it was hard to know whether it made much difference. When it worked, for games like The Witcher 3, it was great, but most of the time it was just a headache. I was just curious if 2x 1080 Ti made all that much of a difference, especially for 4k gaming.
 
3x 980Ti wasn't really supported so it was hard to know whether it made much difference. When it worked, for games like The Witcher 3, it was great, but most of the time it was just a headache. I was just curious if 2x 1080 Ti made all that much of a difference, especially for 4k gaming.
It should be a very nice upgrade. I think people are overblowing the sli support problems. Most games that could benefit from it have it. Some titles like overwatch don't support it, but that is so easy to run it doesn't matter much. Someone had posted a really nice list of 2016 releases and their sli support status in another sli thread and that seemed to be the trend.
 
i've had a 1080 Ti for some time now and finally got a 4k display and already see that a 2nd Ti is in my future. i can get by for now though sense mine is watercooled in a custom loop and will hold high boost clocks indefinitely but I definitely have to scale back some settings in games so far of course AA being the main one but at the same time at 4k even on a 43" display i dont need much AA for games to look excellent so for the moment at least i think i'm ok with just one 1080 Ti
 
It should be a very nice upgrade. I think people are overblowing the sli support problems. Most games that could benefit from it have it. Some titles like overwatch don't support it, but that is so easy to run it doesn't matter much. Someone had posted a really nice list of 2016 releases and their sli support status in another sli thread and that seemed to be the trend.

I agree that SLI problems are overblown today. Running 970 SLI myself.

However, where I see SLI (and Crossfire) support potentially falling off of a cliff would be with DX12 and Vulkan games where developers have to make that much more effort to support it. Right now, support for multi-GPU in games that make use of the low-overhead APIs is quite thin, and unless engine developers get in and push more and their work is implemented by game developers, we might see multi-GPU support fall off in the next year or so.

This would make recommending SLI today a bit questionable. It would really be up to what games the OP expects to play before their next upgrade. Better advice would be to deal with lower settings until something faster is released, and get that instead.
 
I picked up a modified 1080 Ti FE a few weeks ago (went from 3x 980 Ti setup). I game @ 4k, so I'm seriously thinking about getting a 2nd. A single card does OK for the most part @ 4k, but for newer games I can't run higher settings anymore.

I'm just wondering if it's actually worth buying a 2nd card anymore? SLI support seems to be less supported than it once was, but I do game @ 4k so that's an issue.

Is it worth it just to wait for Volta rather than just buying a 2nd card?

I agree, SLI seems to be less supported than it once was. Perhaps because GFX Cards are crazy today and not needed or just way too overpriced for regular consumers to do. I don't think you need a second card to be honest.
 
I had a 980Ti mid 2015 when I bought a 4k TV.
One 980Ti was not enough so I bought a second one and I was rather happy.
While SLI worked ok, the stuttering was quite annoying, especially in Mass Effect Andromeda.

I bought a single 1080Ti (Gaming X) and while it had about the same performance as 980Ti SLI, the stuttering was gone! Low fps was much higher and the overall gameplay was more enjoyable.

There are games that don't work well maxed out at 4k on a single 1080Ti.
For example Ghost Recon: Wildlands. I get only about 30-35 fps on it. Most notable Ubisoft games run crap at 4k.
But then again, The Division had horrible SLI support. It was better just running one card on it. I don't know the situation with Wildlands but I can imagine it's not much better. Ubisoft games have lazy programmers/optimizers.

What games are you playing that have problems running 4k@60hz? You can't hold 6-8 months and buy Volta Titan?
It should be a way better choice than going 1080Ti SLI.
 
Wait for Volta. SLI hassles just aren't worth it. That's what I am doing. I can live with things dialed down just a little for 6 more months.
 
Newsflash, Vega cant even reach the 13 months old GTX 1080 FE performance. And Vega FE is AMDs "Titan". RX Vega will only be slower, but cheaper.

Lets not keep giving people the same constant bad advice of waiting for another fairy tale.

I am sure we soon see the #waitfornavi with fictional performance and release dates that never materializes.

Here Shintai is at it again.... Shintai you worried about your employer Intel losing money from your contracted henchman company nVidia??

I love how you bash the piss out of EVERYTHING AMD and are relentless even towards GPUs that are not even released for review.

You literally give no open mind towards any other entity outside Intel and nVidia.
 
Here Shintai is at it again.... Shintai you worried about your employer Intel losing money from your contracted henchman company nVidia??

I love how you bash the piss out of EVERYTHING AMD and are relentless even towards GPUs that are not even released for review.

You literally give no open mind towards any other entity outside Intel and nVidia.
He is right however.
 
I would wait 4 weeks sell off your 1080Ti and buy the high end Vega RX card. It will be cheaper than 1080 TI and will exceed 1080 Ti in performance.

Why are you giving him misinformation you know is untrue, unproven, and incredibly unlikely. Either that was a troll joke post, or you are exceptionally deluded in your comprehension of current year graphics occurrences.
 
3x 980Ti wasn't really supported so it was hard to know whether it made much difference. When it worked, for games like The Witcher 3, it was great, but most of the time it was just a headache. I was just curious if 2x 1080 Ti made all that much of a difference, especially for 4k gaming.

2 won't be any different than 3 in terms of headaches or support.
 
Why are you giving him misinformation you know is untrue, unproven, and incredibly unlikely. Either that was a troll joke post, or you are exceptionally deluded in your comprehension of current year graphics occurrences.
Beats me. We already have the cards reviewed by some sites, and it comes in at a scorching high temp with massive throttling and noise while performing barely better to only a little better than the 1070. Price is unknown for the non FE version, but it matters not unless it is something like $300 and that may be too much.
 
For Witcher 3, going from one 1070 to 1070 SLI, wasn't a huge jump. @ 3440 x 1440. (got them for mining primarily). Ended up getting a 1080 instead for my Ryzen gaming rig. If you get two 1080 SLI, let me know how you like it.

I should of tried more games with SLI to be fair but addicted to W3 atm.

With Witcher 3 in particular the devs only bothered to make sure SLI worked at launch, which it did, and scaled about 60-70%. But as they rolled out later patches they broke something with SLI and didn't bother to fix it. By patch 1.07 SLI was down to something like 30% scaling.
 
With Witcher 3 in particular the devs only bothered to make sure SLI worked at launch, which it did, and scaled about 60-70%. But as they rolled out later patches they broke something with SLI and didn't bother to fix it. By patch 1.07 SLI was down to something like 30% scaling.

Wouldn't fixing it cater to a large portion of their users though? Why wouldn't this be a priority to fix?
 
Beats me. We already have the cards reviewed by some sites, and it comes in at a scorching high temp with massive throttling and noise while performing barely better to only a little better than the 1070. Price is unknown for the non FE version, but it matters not unless it is something like $300 and that may be too much.

These kinds of arguments are void of anything resembling an informed opinion. There's no discussion of technology, in place of which are exaggerated opinions. If it's not asking too much could you take the time to put together an informed thought out argument that may cite actual real world grounded figures? Or is having a real discussion that could offer insight and information to sway one side or the other out of your league?

Is it the size of the die that you think causes all the heat? Do you think that $300, roughly half the current price of a 1070fe on newegg at this moment is a realistic price? You are comparing apples to oranges in making assumptions that their Vega card build for gaming, and not doing workstation loads, with the ability for it's owners to review their work in a gaming scenarior, is going to perform identical. Make no mistake RTG will leverage this card for gaming, we've already seen demos showing it roughly equal to a 1080 6 months ago. Prices in the real world are dictated by supply and demand and mining is really screwing everything up for us hardcore gamers right now. I've always seen this card as a success at $499 and below, but if it could come in at $449 for an aircooled version, I think the would be successful converting all the new Ryzen adopters to stay the course with their brand, creating an entire NEW generation of RED loyal customers. There is no way they are going to out price this like FURY cards again. AMD employees have recently (as in the last month) stated that Vega is going to be a value conscious proposition which leads me to believe they are going to come in under $500 regardless of their costs. Remember that HALO products have the highest profit margins and the most wiggle room for discounting.

Let me know what your thoughts are sir.
 
Cards are all marked high due to mining. I'm talking about normal pricing where gtx 1080s could be had for 450 to 400 even on deals, and the gtx 1070 for around 300. Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I didn't make a fact based argument. . If you're behind on the news, check out the other threads about Vega. They'll help you understand my post and opinion.
 
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Wouldn't fixing it cater to a large portion of their users though? Why wouldn't this be a priority to fix?

A single GTX 1080 can run Witcher 3 at 60fps at 4K. It's not really something that needs SLI to run well. On my 1080 Ti it averages like 85-90fps at 4K.
 
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I would wait 4 weeks sell off your 1080Ti and buy the high end Vega RX card. It will be cheaper than 1080 TI and will exceed 1080 Ti in performance. If you have a Ryzen cpuu you will wind up at 4K with fps about 70 fps. If you want higher buy a second card and AMD crossfire scales FAR better than SLI especially in combination with a Ryzen cpu. Even with my OLS AMD Radeon Nitro Fury I average 39 FPS in 4K games. Vega will just about double that in FPS. Upcoming reviews based on RX Vega, not Frontier Edition will validate what I am saying. RX Vega has a a design that is slightly tweaked over Frontier Edition and also has better drivers.

You heard it here first folks.
 
Newsflash, Vega cant even reach the 13 months old GTX 1080 FE performance. And Vega FE is AMDs "Titan". RX Vega will only be slower, but cheaper.

Lets not keep giving people the same constant bad advice of waiting for another fairy tale.

I am sure we soon see the #waitfornavi with fictional performance and release dates that never materializes.
Why are you giving him misinformation you know is untrue, unproven, and incredibly unlikely. Either that was a troll joke post, or you are exceptionally deluded in your comprehension of current year graphics occurrences.

Actually it ifs very likely, not very unlikely. The drivers used in Vega F.E. are fiji based drivers and thus do Not take advantage of any of Vegas new advanced improvements. That alone will accouny for a 20% or greater improvement in performance. RX Vega will be clocked 100 to 200mhz higher than Founders edition, that also will count for about another 10 % performance improvement. The video bios on FE also limits functionality of card. A conservative estimate is that fully functional RX Vefa drivers and higher gpu frequency and mremory speed will boost RX Vega some 30% over Vega FE as currently constituted. Laugh all you want you guys will have the egg on your faces, especially Shintai, when all is said and done.
 
Actually it ifs very likely, not very unlikely. The drivers used in Vega F.E. are fiji based drivers and thus do Not take advantage of any of Vegas new advanced improvements. That alone will accouny for a 20% or greater improvement in performance. RX Vega will be clocked 100 to 200mhz higher than Founders edition, that also will count for about another 10 % performance improvement. The video bios on FE also limits functionality of card. A conservative estimate is that fully functional RX Vefa drivers and higher gpu frequency and mremory speed will boost RX Vega some 30% over Vega FE as currently constituted. Laugh all you want you guys will have the egg on your faces, especially Shintai, when all is said and done.

Cant wait for this to happen, but its going to be a forever wait ;)
 
There's no point in waiting for Vega. It's already a failure.
It doesn't matter if it's 1080Ti speed at $500. It's waaaaaay too late to the party.
It's a competitive product, it's a late product.
To me, success is releasing a product to complete so it drives the prices down and creates faster progress. It's not going to compete if it's 6 months late. It just gives Nvidia enough time to make a bunch of money.
 
I picked up a modified 1080 Ti FE a few weeks ago (went from 3x 980 Ti setup). I game @ 4k, so I'm seriously thinking about getting a 2nd. A single card does OK for the most part @ 4k, but for newer games I can't run higher settings anymore.

I'm just wondering if it's actually worth buying a 2nd card anymore? SLI support seems to be less supported than it once was, but I do game @ 4k so that's an issue.

Is it worth it just to wait for Volta rather than just buying a 2nd card?


In one word. Yes. I went from 3 980's to two 1080ti's and I wouldn't have done it any other way. How could I have gone from from an older gen to brand new and have lower fps in games that need it? I run 4k as well. No way I would have stayed at 4k if I was going to run just one card. Fps isn't high enough for me. SLI is what it is. Most of the stuff I play has SLI support. I enjoy it.

Everyone says alot of things but take it from those actually running two cards at your res. 4k is to much for one card.
 
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