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stalinx20

gridironcpj
If you can wait until January, then you could get a 1080 Ti.  I would highly advise against a second 980 Ti at this time.  I have two and multi-GPU support hasn't been worse than it is now.  Of the recent games I've purchased:
 
- Gears of War 4: No multi-GPU support
- Forza Horizon 3: No multi-GPU support
- Civilization 6: Extremely poor multi-GPU support (although it doesn't really matter)
- Battlefield 1: Terrible SLI profile.  I used a custom profile with the open beta, which worked much better.  The same custom profile is no longer possible.
 
I purchased a handful of other games this year and multi-GPU support sucks for the most part.  These are dark times for enthusiasts.  I would also advise against a 1080, since it's not a large enough upgrade.  The other option is to go for a Titan XP if you absolutely need to upgrade now.

And all the people saying SLI is "relevant"? pfff... Looks like it's not when you see the latest game(s) have no SLI support.

Multi-GPU support has gotten much worse lately.  The irony of a PC gaming boom is that the share of multi-GPU systems has decreased, yielding less "poops given" from Nvidia and developers.  It was great a few years ago.  Now, it's as if I only have one 980 Ti instead of two.  I sort of NEED that extra horsepower at 3440x1440 for a lot of these games if I want to hit 100FPS.

Eidited that for poops given.
 
That's really why Gsync and Freesync is a thing, and it's changing the game. Do you find it odd that multi-GPU support is dying a slow, loud death because of a technology that makes it (mostly) irrelevant?
 
Granted, I find it inconvenient because I game on a 4K/60Hz 1080P/120Hz 65" TV, and prefer it to my spare PCs 27" 1080P/120Hz 3D vision monitor any day. And I don't expect Gsync or Freesync in a TV anytime in the next 5 years.

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gridironcpj

stalinx20

gridironcpj
If you can wait until January, then you could get a 1080 Ti.  I would highly advise against a second 980 Ti at this time.  I have two and multi-GPU support hasn't been worse than it is now.  Of the recent games I've purchased:
 
- Gears of War 4: No multi-GPU support
- Forza Horizon 3: No multi-GPU support
- Civilization 6: Extremely poor multi-GPU support (although it doesn't really matter)
- Battlefield 1: Terrible SLI profile.  I used a custom profile with the open beta, which worked much better.  The same custom profile is no longer possible.
 
I purchased a handful of other games this year and multi-GPU support sucks for the most part.  These are dark times for enthusiasts.  I would also advise against a 1080, since it's not a large enough upgrade.  The other option is to go for a Titan XP if you absolutely need to upgrade now.

And all the people saying SLI is "relevant"? pfff... Looks like it's not when you see the latest game(s) have no SLI support.

Multi-GPU support has gotten much worse lately.  The irony of a PC gaming boom is that the share of multi-GPU systems has decreased, yielding less "poops given" from Nvidia and developers.  It was great a few years ago.  Now, it's as if I only have one 980 Ti instead of two.  I sort of NEED that extra horsepower at 3440x1440 for a lot of these games if I want to hit 100FPS.

Eidited that for poops given.
 
That's really why Gsync and Freesync is a thing, and it's changing the game. Do you find it odd that multi-GPU support is dying a slow, loud death because of a technology that makes it (mostly) irrelevant?
 
Granted, I find it inconvenient because I game on a 4K/60Hz 1080P/120Hz 65" TV, and prefer it to my spare PCs 27" 1080P/120Hz 3D vision monitor any day. And I don't expect Gsync or Freesync in a TV anytime in the next 5 years.

I think it's more so because of the decreasing share in multi-GPU systems (due to the massive influx of new PC gamers over the last few years).  Less market share, less "bargaining power" with Nvidia.  Crossfire support is apparently superior at this point, which is a strange reversal.  I wouldn't say g-sync makes SLI irrelevant.  I've been using g-sync for over 2 years and I still want my FPS at 100 or more.  60FPS with g-sync feels sluggish for me.  It's all about perception.  For someone like me who plays most games at 100-144FPS (depending on which display I'm using), a drop to 60 due to a lack of multi-GPU support is highly noticeable and a pest.