980 GTX or two 780 GTX in SLI
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I have two 780's. Everything it's maxed out except the usual omissions like ambient occlusion etc and is smooth everywhere including stations. The only time I get slow down is approaching some planets but that's a bug apparently. Only issue for me is I can't use DSR as I get bad flicker.
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2 780s in sli is certainly quicker........ but SLI has issues of its own.
if it was me, I would not buy a GTX780 now........ Personally if I were you I would be considering 2 970s in SLI or a GTX980
price wise the GTX980 is maybe 25% less than 2x970s, 2x970s will generally be faster..... but but with SLI YMMV
if it was me, I would not buy a GTX780 now........ Personally if I were you I would be considering 2 970s in SLI or a GTX980
price wise the GTX980 is maybe 25% less than 2x970s, 2x970s will generally be faster..... but but with SLI YMMV
I'm using 2 680 GTXs in SLI and the performance is okay - I most of the time have constant 75 FPS, but as of Beta 3, performance has decreased a little, so I get rare dips into the 60's in stations as well as the widely known hyperspace studders. I could get stable 75 FPS by decreasing graphics quality , but I can cope with the drops, so I play on high settings (doesn't affect the hyperspace studders anyway).
There is a little added latency, most nocticable in small, abrupt head movements, but I personally got used to it rather quickly and it didn't affect the feeling of presence for me.
It works well enough for me to not upgrade to 980s yet, so my plan is to wait until the CV1 is released and upgrade to the best possible SLI setup then.
I have 2 x 780 gtx in SLI and its still a flying machine at standard clock.
Power is more but thats the only downfall. Heat isnt an issue with anything past the 680's.
I run a large monitor at 2560 x 1440 and EVERY game I own fly's on max settings (and I do mean max).
However, as I am a tech freak, I will be getting 2 x 980's shortly.
The above poster talks about "SLI having problems of its own". I am interested to hear about this ? I have ran SLI in the past 3 computers that I have built, buy pretty much any worthwhile title on Steam and elsewhere and have never had ANY problems pertaining to SLI (or graphics generally).
SLI isn't like it was in the old voodoo days, its nothing to be afraid of and works out of the box with NO issues....
For me, its a NO brainer...get the 2 x 780's - future proof for ages and faster than a single 980 by a long way...
You dont need the 780 ti in SLI either, its overkill, so your upgrade can be done quite cheaply now.
Power is more but thats the only downfall. Heat isnt an issue with anything past the 680's.
I run a large monitor at 2560 x 1440 and EVERY game I own fly's on max settings (and I do mean max).
However, as I am a tech freak, I will be getting 2 x 980's shortly.
The above poster talks about "SLI having problems of its own". I am interested to hear about this ? I have ran SLI in the past 3 computers that I have built, buy pretty much any worthwhile title on Steam and elsewhere and have never had ANY problems pertaining to SLI (or graphics generally).
SLI isn't like it was in the old voodoo days, its nothing to be afraid of and works out of the box with NO issues....
For me, its a NO brainer...get the 2 x 780's - future proof for ages and faster than a single 980 by a long way...
You dont need the 780 ti in SLI either, its overkill, so your upgrade can be done quite cheaply now.
The problem is that with VR (we're in the VR subforum here) Oculus themselves have repeatedly stated that SLI offers a sub-par performance for the Rift, compared to a single card. That should/could change with the new 900 cards and/or nvidia drivers but I think that's still speculation rather than established fact.
Ahhh.....I see. Re-read and take that on board. Cheers.
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don't understand why anyone would purchase such high end cards for DK2, when it can fully suppor their max resolutions. Perhaps I'm missing something.
IME a single GTX980 cannot run ED at full bubble at a constant 75fps in VR, and that is WITHOUT supersampling.
Some people claim to have brilliant performance on fairly mid range hardware on full bubble, some even with supersampling...... I do not know what to say to that, my PC is no slouch but that is not my experience at all.
again, IME, DK2 is currently about as tough on a system as triple screen 1080P in terms of performance... but then add to that that DK2 needs to hit the magic 75fps on top of that, .
I hope performance enhancements in the VR drivers are found from somewhere!.
I am also running 2 gtx 780s and I still have no reason to go for anything better. Your topic is called 2 780s or single 980, but in your post you talk about 680s ? I am not sure about if 680s are enought, but in my opinion they will be and you can probably get the second one really cheap, but be careful about your PSU and cooling, having SLI needs very good air cooling as you sandwich the cards one on the other or watercooling (I am running one watercooled and one aircooled for this reason).
All the demo's that Oculus was showing @ CES on crescent bay (better than dk2) were running on 1 GTX 980 @ 90fps probably at a res higher than 1080p but lower than 1440p. Most likely they were using newer Nvidia drivers with VRDirect enabled (VR latency optimizer). I'd probably would go with 1 GTX 980, but you should wait. New AMD cards with be out in a few months and maybe a GTX 980TI