Re: GTX 780ti SC ACX SLI Load Question
2015/05/25 07:05:05
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What you're seeing is perfectly normal.
Because the Kepler/Maxwell GPU's boost to varying clock speeds, one card (in your case GPU 1), doesn't have to run as hard to keep up with GPU 2. So when GPU 2 is running at 99%, GPU 1 on has to run at say 94% to keep pace as an example.
I see this with my two 970's in every benchmark and game I run. My GPU 1 has a little higher boost clock than my GPU 2, so I see GPU 2 hitting 99% a lot and GPU 1 anywhere from 1 to 4% percent lower depending on the load.
It's possible that someone could "just happen" to get two GPU's that had identical max boost clock speeds. In that case, you would most likely see both cards running at 99% if the load was demanding enough.
That's been what I've seen running SLI setups since the Kepler cards came out.