Tredripper 1950x - 1080Ti Sli Bottleneck?

[KHansen]

Hey Guys. A few days ago, I bought the new Ryzen Threadripper 1950X, so i can render faster because my job demand it. But it makes a bottleneck on my 1080Ti. In some games, will second card help me reduce the bottleneck. I have 1440p monitor, if that can help. know some games dont use two cards but the once that does.

 

[blockhead78]

a second GPU will only make a CPU bottleneck even worse

how do you know you've got a bottleneck?

 

[KHansen]

GPU usage jumps op and down and the framerate are terrible. Because i used a 6700K system before so i know the framerate are terrible.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

You don't need a second card if you are gaming at 1440p. The only reason to get a second 1080ti would be to game at 4k +60hz. Considering there is not a 4k monitor that goes beyond 60hz, the bottleneck will be your monitor and not your GPU. I know this because I run 2 1080ti's in sli.

Threadripper is a great CPU, but it is NOT a gaming CPU. Games scale well to very fast single threaded CPU performance and Threadripper is designed for high performing multi threaded applications.

What is the game you are having issues with? Some games are so poorly optimized that it does not matter what hardware you throw at it, there will still be framedrops.

 

[KHansen]

BF1, Elder Scroll Online, Star Wars Battlefront they are the once i play for the most time.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

ESO does not support SLI. What are your framerates for BF1? BF1 should give you some good fps. But remember, it wont be as good as your 6700k. The 6700k/7700k will beat threadripper in gaming in about 99% of titles.

 

[KHansen]

from 60-114 as i said, it jumps up an down

 

[feelinfroggy777]

What is the speed of your RAM? The new AMD CPUs respond very well to high speed RAM due to the infinity fabric, while Intel CPUs see very little increased performance. I would want RAM to run higher than 3000mhz. That may be an issue.

 

[blockhead78]

yeah, as above... most current titles will perform better on the 6700K

games simply aren't designed to utilise that many cores at the moment.

It's why intel has the current edge in gaming, as they have better IPC

 

[KHansen]

The RAM speed is 2133Mhz

 

[feelinfroggy777]

The RAM speed is 2133Mhz

There is a very high probability that this is your problem. I would look at getting a new RAM kit before I went and go another 1080ti. I would get a kit with rated speeds of 3200mhz.

 

[KHansen]

The RAM speed is 2133Mhz

There is a very high probability that this is your problem. I would look at getting a new RAM kit before I went and go another 1080ti. I would get a kit with rated speeds of 3200mhz.

How much performance difference do you think it will make?

 

[feelinfroggy777]

There is not as much data on threadripper as there is for Ryzen because Ryzen in the mainstream chip. Here is a review that shows a 10% performance increase from moving from 2400 to 3200. There may be even a bigger increase by moving from 2133. I would not be surprised if you would see a 15% increase or more in a lot of games.

You should also look UMA and NUMA settings. The PerPer article gives some good information and Tom's just released an article reviewing game mode on the 1950x. Some games work better in certain modes. I would look at some of the internal options of threadripper before I went and bought another 1080ti.

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/AMD-Ryzen-Threadripper-1950X-and-1920X-Review/Memory-Mode-UMANUMA-and-Memory-Spee

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-game-performance,5207.html

 

[KHansen]

There is not as much data on threadripper as there is for Ryzen because Ryzen in the mainstream chip. Here is a review that shows a 10% performance increase from moving from 2400 to 3200. There may be even a bigger increase by moving from 2133. I would not be surprised if you would see a 15% increase or more in a lot of games.

You should also look UMA and NUMA settings. The PerPer article gives some good information and Tom's just released an article reviewing game mode on the 1950x. Some games work better in certain modes. I would look at some of the internal options of threadripper before I went and bought another 1080ti.

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/AMD-Ryzen-Threadripper-1950X-and-1920X-Review/Memory-Mode-UMANUMA-and-Memory-Spee

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-game-performance,5207.html

Thx sir for the help, think i am going to use two systems. My old 6700K for gaming and the other one as renderfarm.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

There is not as much data on threadripper as there is for Ryzen because Ryzen in the mainstream chip. Here is a review that shows a 10% performance increase from moving from 2400 to 3200. There may be even a bigger increase by moving from 2133. I would not be surprised if you would see a 15% increase or more in a lot of games.

You should also look UMA and NUMA settings. The PerPer article gives some good information and Tom's just released an article reviewing game mode on the 1950x. Some games work better in certain modes. I would look at some of the internal options of threadripper before I went and bought another 1080ti.

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/AMD-Ryzen-Threadripper-1950X-and-1920X-Review/Memory-Mode-UMANUMA-and-Memory-Spee

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-game-performance,5207.html

Thx sir for the help, think i am going to use two systems. My old 6700K for gaming and the other one as renderfarm.

That is your best option!

 

[KHansen]

There is not as much data on threadripper as there is for Ryzen because Ryzen in the mainstream chip. Here is a review that shows a 10% performance increase from moving from 2400 to 3200. There may be even a bigger increase by moving from 2133. I would not be surprised if you would see a 15% increase or more in a lot of games.

You should also look UMA and NUMA settings. The PerPer article gives some good information and Tom's just released an article reviewing game mode on the 1950x. Some games work better in certain modes. I would look at some of the internal options of threadripper before I went and bought another 1080ti.

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/AMD-Ryzen-Threadripper-1950X-and-1920X-Review/Memory-Mode-UMANUMA-and-Memory-Spee

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-game-performance,5207.html

Thx sir for the help, think i am going to use two systems. My old 6700K for gaming and the other one as renderfarm.

That is your best option!

One of the expensive ones, but f... it i only live once... hahah thx for the help