GTX 1080 TI sli setup. Asking those still running sli.

[Deleted member 178884]

Sli is not even a niche i would say. Sli/crossfire is dead and will only be mpre and more dead as it goes now.

It is a niche, How else can you drive a 4k 144hz panel without dropping settings as of now? It's a ultra high end enthusiast choice and still is.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It is a niche, How else can you drive a 4k 144hz panel without dropping settings as of now? It's a ultra high end enthusiast choice and still is.

While that's true, the software support just isn't there.

 

[Deleted member 178884]

While that's true, the software support just isn't there.

And that's why sli should only ever be used if all the titles you play support it, or it'll be nothing but a waste of money, power and time.

 

[lexluthermiester]

And that's why sli should only ever be used if all the titles you play support it, or it'll be nothing but a waste of money, power and time.

In past generations of GPU's, I would say rubbish. With the current situation, you're absolutely right.

 

[cucker tarlson]

And that's why sli should only ever be used if all the titles you play support it, or it'll be nothing but a waste of money, power and time.

tbh it's not only scaling,there's the issue of frametimes and all.
but if you don't like it you can just sell the card.

 

[Tomgang]

It is a niche, How else can you drive a 4k 144hz panel without dropping settings as of now? It's a ultra high end enthusiast choice and still is.

Maybe for some still. But as it seems fewer and fewer game developer implement SLI/Crossfire in to games, it will over time die out completely.

In past generations of GPU's, I would say rubbish. With the current situation, you're absolutely right.

I agreed to that as well. Years back SLI whas pretty good as long you stay to 2 way sli. 3 and 4 way sli whas never really great accept for a very few games like crysis games. I whas happy with all the 4 sli setup i had over the years. I only rarely had problems and that whas usely fixed whit a new driver. But sadly after pascal SLI has become only a shadow of it´s former past. It´s really sad as 1080 TI sli cut have been a pretty protent setup even today if SLI worked properly.

 

[ToxicTaZ]

It is a niche, How else can you drive a 4k 144hz panel without dropping settings as of now? It's a ultra high end enthusiast choice and still is.

Lol 4K gaming? Without Ultra mode?

The only way to drive new games in 4K HDR@144Hz Ultra mode is "RTX Titan NVlink G-Sync HDR Ultimate" setup.

That's minamal if you want new games everything Ultra mode 4K HDR @140+ FPS just saying.

I'm running a RTX 2080 NVlink setup planing on driving an 1440p Ultra-Wide monitor, I would barely get 1440p HDR @140+ fps with Ultra mode in everything. If NVlink is not working would probably be more around 100 fps.

Only non HDR old games can run @1440p 180+ fps

The reality is that Ultra mode 4K HDR PC Gaming is basically not here yet. “If we are talking about 144Hz club gaming?“

Sure with my setup set all graphics to low settings I could...that's horrible.

US Ultra mode NVlink guys need this monitor built for Ultra mode 1440p fps.

ROG SWIFT PG35VQ | Above 34 Inches | Gaming Monitors｜ROG - Republic of Gamers｜ROG Global

ROG SWIFT PG35VQ 35” 21:9 (3840 X 1440) best Ultrawide HDR gaming monitor has 200Hz refresh rate, NVIDIA G-SYNC? Ultimate technology, FALD Backlight, Quantum Dot Technology, DisplayHDR1000 and Aura SYNC.

www.asus.com

 

[EarthDog]

Lol, hey! It's the nvlink guy!

 

[ToxicTaZ]

Lol, hey! It's the nvlink guy!

I feel like the only NVlink guy on earth?

 

[cucker tarlson]

2080Ti will cost you the same as 2080 sli,will perform much more consistently and should do 3440x1440 just fine.I mean it's better to hit fluid,smooth 90 fps than have 100 fps average with dips and stutters.

 

[ToxicTaZ]

2080Ti will cost you the same as 2080 sli,will perform much more consistently and should do 3440x1440 just fine.I mean it's better to hit fluid,smooth 90 fps than have 100 fps average with dips and stutters.

Question here is...

Is 90fps gaming the same as 144fps gaming? If you had a RTX 2080Ti NVlink setup??

I would say 2080Ti NVlink setup performance. And from what I read NVlink works faster on TU102 than TU104 GPUs.

The hole point of this SLI/NVlink technology is for high frames per second frame rate!

Some people say 30fps to 60fps gaming is acceptable? Non xx80Ti and SLI/NVlink people.

Basic TV and Monitors are caped @ negative 60Hz. I get it.. but once you played 120Hz+ you never look back.

Then the144Hz gaming standard was made, now we can have up to 144fps real buttery smooth gaming!

"G-SYNC HDR Ultimate" with 10-bit 4:4:4 color with no lag no shutters no screen tearing. The perfect gaming experience.

Take your pick...
TU102 NVlink
TU104 NVlink

The argument is what buttery smooth means to you. ((90fps)) or 144fps with NVlink??

Long live SLI/NVlink people with 144Hz setups lol

 

[EarthDog]

I wonder if Nvidia pays this dude...

 

[advanced3]

Good luck playing ANY game based off of UE4 engine, which are quite a few.

 

[ToxicTaZ]

I wonder if Nvidia pays this dude...

I wish!!....

Just trying to keep SLI/NVlink alive. The reason the technology for home gaming is dying is because nobody can afford it! Clearly plan and simple.

Ever since all this BS Mining industry it double the prices of video cards thus killing us guys with SLI/NVlink setups.

Now people can't afford two video cards nonsept there older cards means the industry is moving to singal card solution..... BS my opinion

The price of next generation NVlink is even worse! I seemed to be the only one on earth stupid enough to buy an NVlink setup. SLI was free basically even Motherboards came with them.... NVlink straight up $100.00 for that connection if you didn't know. And it's only on high-end cards only.

The technology is awesome but the industry supports is horrible.

Good luck playing ANY game based off of UE4 engine, which are quite a few.

My 2080 NVlink works with UR4 engine bye the way! Not sure what your trying to say?

Again SLI and NVlink needs to be profile setup properly, lots of manual setup. It's for people that like tweaking advanced settings to have what others don't have.

SLI /NVlink is not just PnP by no means.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Haah shaite. SLI?

I ran two 1080Ti few months ago. As few boxes of them from mining area went through me. It was such a shitstorm. Almost nothing ran normally, performance was worse than with single card in most titles especially the minimum FPS tanked. Problems, drawbacks, stutter. Screwing with nvidia inspector for each game, compatibility bits. I even tried it with DSR to eliminate CPU influence. It does not work. Kill the tech.

Here is Deus Ex MD. Tried it as it has DX12 multi GPU. So if you like problems, some sort of masochistic needs. Go for it.

 

[agent_x007]

Don't but Ryzen 3000 and get yourself a RTX 3800 Ti (7nm biggest 2-nd gen RTX) when it get's released
At least you can check it's compatibility with X58 before anyone else

 

[advanced3]

My 2080 NVlink works with UR4 engine bye the way! Not sure what your trying to say?

Again SLI and NVlink needs to be profile setup properly, lots of manual setup. It's for people that like tweaking advanced settings to have what others don't have.

SLI /NVlink is not just PnP by no means.

I have sli'd every generation of Nvidia cards since the 6800 Ultra on up, finally stopping at 980's because most times games ran better with SLI off. Besides the old days where you had to flip the contact on your motherboard SLI was always pretty much PnP. All you had to do was select SLI in the control panel and you were good to go on games that supported it. Now it seems most games make ZERO use or you have to jump thru hoops to get it somewhat working. Sure a few may run great, but not enough to invest in another GPU IMO. Its pretty depressing watching an expensive GPU @ 0% usage while gaming.

 

[ToxicTaZ]

I have sli'd every generation of Nvidia cards since the 6800 Ultra on up, finally stopping at 980's because most times games ran better with SLI off. SLI was always pretty much PNP, all you had to do was select SLI in the control panel and you were good to go on games that supported it. Now it seems most games make ZERO use or you have to jump thru hoops to get it somewhat working. Sure a few may run great, but not enough to invest in another GPU IMO. Its pretty depressing watching an expensive GPU @ 0% usage while gaming.

Sorry I don't have your problems! Again I never used stock SLI setups with most new drivers that support SLI are only 50/50 working at best thus you have to use Nvidia Inspector v350 and join SLI forums clubs to see what profiles work best. Yes it's a lot of work... AGAIN it's not PnP by no means if you want it really working, or you could just pray for Nvidia SLI drivers support.

 

[agent_x007]

Sorry I don't have your problems! Again I never used stock SLI setups with most new drivers that support SLI are only 50/50 working at best thus you have to use Nvidia Inspector v350 and join SLI forums clubs to see what profiles work best. Yes it's a lot of work... AGAIN it's not PnP by no means if you want it really working, or you could just pray for Nvidia SLI drivers support.

@EarthDog No "NVLink" word in whole POST, now that's progress !
Let's see how long it will last...

 

[Tomgang]

Don't but Ryzen 3000 and get yourself a RTX 3800 Ti (7nm biggest 2-nd gen RTX) when it get's released
At least you can check it's compatibility with X58 before anyone else

At the time RTX 3080 TI comes out, i shut be on Ryzen 9 3950X long before that and by that X58 will collect dust for a while until i am ready with second upgrade that include new case, fans among other things. So X58 will be put in the old case again and used as a combination of backup pc, retro gamer and for when friends comes over. So i dont think i will ever come to test RTX 3080 TI in X58 as that will make no sense at all. CPU will bottleneck and maybe also PCIe gen 2 will as well.

 

[lexluthermiester]

So i dont think i will ever come to test RTX 3080 TI in X58 as that will make no sense at all.

No, it wouldn't. I have a 2080 on X58(Xeon X5680 not OC'd) and the CPU is bottlenecking the 2080 slightly. A 2080ti would be bottlenecked even more so.

CPU will bottleneck and maybe also PCIe gen 2 will as well.

Likely a combination of both.

Socket 2011(X79/X99) is the bare minimum I would recommend pairing a 2080ti with.

 

[ToxicTaZ]

Yes sounds about right

TU102 should pard with Quad channels PCIe 3.0x16 setup.

TU104 should pard with Dual channel PCIe 3.0x16 setup.

A super fast TU104 setup for example would be "i9-9900KS & RTX 2080 Super" combination.

With the fastest TU102 setup for example would be i9-9980XE & RTX Titan combination.

With R9 3900X/3950X and RTX 2080Ti/RTX Titan or I would wait till January for Navi 20 (Radeon 8?) combination. If you're looking for extreme... Only problem is 2080Ti doesn't take advantage of PCIe 4.0 until next generation 3000 series.

Navi 10 (5700 XT) is lacking against 2070 Super in most games.

2080Ti on Quad channels setup I say 100%

Next summer we have second generation RTX Nvidia Ampere 6nm (3000 series) and don't forget Intel Xe coming.

 

[eidairaman1]

"Sli/Crossfire" died with Direct X 12, run it on DX11/10. Nvidia and AMD have abandoned it.

Game makers are too lazy now.

 

[lexluthermiester]

This was a thing!

Perfect use-case scenario for SLI/CF.

Trust me you want to watch this all the way through. Funny as hell...

"ZERO AA running right now.."

EDIT; FYI, multi-pun warning...

 

[brendonmc]

Generally as I understand it there isn't much (any?) support for DX12 games under SLI or Crossfire. Perhaps the DX12 requirement for unbranded compatibility for mulit gpu setups put Nvidia and AMD off. I don't know.
So don't go the SLI route, it will be disappointing. Sell your GTX 1080ti and buy the best card you can afford.
That's my advice, take it with a grain of salt. Hey, I'm happy with a teeny RTX 2060. What a great card that turned out to be. Cheers