I am planning a build for when the 1080 Ti comes out (planning on early April) and was originally going to go with the Z270 platform and the i7 7700k. I want to also do two 1080 Tis in SLI.
The problem is I have to run the cards in 8x8x on the 7700k and will have to go to X99 to run 16x16x SLI. There is a noticeable performance difference for GTX 1080s and Titan X Pascals, so I imagine there will be as well for the 1080 Tis.
See this article for Titan X Pascal results: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Titan-X-Performance-PCI-E-3-0-x8-vs-x16-851/
I also know the Intel X299 platform will be coming out possibly Q3 2017, but I do not want to wait that long.
My question is: should I be concerned running GTX 1080 Ti SLI at 8x8x with a 7700k on the Z270 platform instead of 16x16x on X99 or X299? I feel that GPUs have gotten to the point were PCIe 3.0 bandwidth matters..
Thanks in advance for the help.
The problem is I have to run the cards in 8x8x on the 7700k and will have to go to X99 to run 16x16x SLI. There is a noticeable performance difference for GTX 1080s and Titan X Pascals, so I imagine there will be as well for the 1080 Tis.
See this article for Titan X Pascal results: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Titan-X-Performance-PCI-E-3-0-x8-vs-x16-851/
I also know the Intel X299 platform will be coming out possibly Q3 2017, but I do not want to wait that long.
My question is: should I be concerned running GTX 1080 Ti SLI at 8x8x with a 7700k on the Z270 platform instead of 16x16x on X99 or X299? I feel that GPUs have gotten to the point were PCIe 3.0 bandwidth matters..
Thanks in advance for the help.