[SOLVED] What do i gain with SLI?

[Macgyver25]

i am thinking about getting (2 )2080 Ti . i was thinking about doing 4k and ray tracing for my games and photo editing.

Thanks Guys!

 

[Metal Messiah.]

For GAMING SLI is not worth the hassle. For other tasks, okay, but when it comes to games, it would be a wise decision to get a SINGLE powerful GPU instead.

Games don't scale well on an SLI setup. It might help with some future Ray tracing games, but ONLY if the game's Engine supports SLI/NVLINK, and the game developers implement this feature in games.

ELSE, you would be just wasting the potential of one of the GPUs, and it will draw extra power as well.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

What do you gain?
Headaches and little performance gain in games.

Unlike older games, modern or even semi-modern games are not designed with SLI or Crossfire setups in mind. Usually, you will see no performance benefit over 1 2080ti in modern games. A lot of modern games will also have headache-inducing issues on SLI or crossfire setups such as stutter or visual artifacts.

Some other applications can benefit from SLI, but I would imagine your performance in photo editing is already enough that you would see little gain over 1 GPU from another 2080ti, assuming your application supports multi gpu scaling.

 

[Phaaze88]

WHEN it actually works, the gains are SUBJECTIVE TO THE USER'S PERSONAL INVESTMENT in such a setup.
It can also pigeonhole you into playing only the well-supported titles, because when it doesn't work... you now have a $1000+ card sitting there doing a whole lot of nothing(not taking into account the other little 'intricacies')

If I had blown $2000+ on 2x 2080Tis, I could see myself only playing games that SLI worked well on...
So I could further enforce the self-denial that I wasted $1000+.