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Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080?

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2021/05/18 04:57:19 (permalink)
With the Great Graphpression (tM) ongoing I am looking at alternatives - while 20 series cards are still crazy I have noticed some 2080 TI's at close to MSRP and just want to get my hands on a good RTX card experience (I refuse to fire up RE:Village until I do so!) and wondering if anyone tried running 2 2080 TI's in SLI vs a 3080?
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    WhiteWolf92
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    Re: Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080? 2021/05/18 05:02:35 (permalink)
    Nope... but I know that 2080ti in SLI gets FPS somewhere between a 3080 and 3090 - depending on the game. Problem with SLI now is that not every game supports it... It's a dead technology.
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    Re: Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080? 2021/05/18 05:56:23 (permalink)
    I went from 2x 2080tis to a 3090. The 2x 2080tis scored slightly higher in 3d mark than a single 3090 but the reality is now i can use the full power of the 3090 in all games more easily without making custom SLI profiles for games. Since i have to push a 4k 144 hz monitor this was worth it to me.

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    Re: Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080? 2021/05/18 06:04:22 (permalink)
    SLI is only dead to the knobs on reddit.  It's still fairly popular on overclock.net and for serious OC benching.  One 2080 Ti with good cooling and 2,100+ mhz OC is about equivalent to a stock setting 3080 reference card.  Major drawback of 2080 Ti is that it's only HDMI 2.0, so if you want 4K 120Hz 4:4:4 you need to do it over display port, but HDMI 2.0 4:2:0 chroma for gaming isn't bad.
     
    Properly set up and OC'd 2080 Ti should be about 25% stronger than a GOOD 3090 overclocked.
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    Re: Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080? 2021/05/18 10:52:36 (permalink)
    SLI has a place in Overclocking, AI, Neural Nets, and Deep Learning as well
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    Re: Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080? 2021/05/18 11:00:00 (permalink)
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    SLI is only dead to the knobs on reddit.  It's still fairly popular on overclock.net and for serious OC benching.  One 2080 Ti with good cooling and 2,100+ mhz OC is about equivalent to a stock setting 3080 reference card.  Major drawback of 2080 Ti is that it's only HDMI 2.0, so if you want 4K 120Hz 4:4:4 you need to do it over display port, but HDMI 2.0 4:2:0 chroma for gaming isn't bad.
     
    Properly set up and OC'd 2080 Ti should be about 25% stronger than a GOOD 3090 overclocked.




    right, for benchmarking.  For modern gaming not so much.  the last game I played that was actually well optimized for SLI was overwatch.  We ran a pair of 2080tis in SLI and it was very disappointing to say the least.  I come from the era of tri and quad SLI and i kind o miss it but then i kind of don't.  We moved onto 3090s and will never look back.  SLI is actually dead on modern gaming and has been for years.  
     
    https://www.gamingscan.com/best-games-that-support-sli/
     
     


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    Re: Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080? 2021/05/18 12:03:37 (permalink)
    right i used inspector as well.....  even with inspector the benefit of the 2nd card was less and less profound.  It was a lot of fuss for a minor gain.  I was initially shocked at the $2000 price on the 3090 kingpin, then i remembered having four 8800Ultras all watercooled in quad SLI and.....  well... like I said never looking back.


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    Re: Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080? 2021/05/18 12:18:40 (permalink)
    haha 2x2080ti's VS 3080.     may as well wait for a used 3080 or the new 3080ti !     single powerful card makes everything so much easier.
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    Re: Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080? 2021/05/18 12:57:33 (permalink)
    Dyezak
    SLI has a place in Overclocking, AI, Neural Nets, and Deep Learning as well


    Rendering as well, I presume.
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    Re: Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080? 2021/05/18 13:09:33 (permalink)
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    SLI has a place in Overclocking, AI, Neural Nets, and Deep Learning as well


    Rendering as well, I presume.



    Rendering usually uses something like OpenCL. NVLINK with the titans that allowed you to share the memory space between cards effectively doubling your memory space... which was a benefit. But most OpenCL workloads that I know of don't care about the SLI connection, since it's just compute and the cards don't need to be able to communicate to each other.  I know in some other OpenCL compute workloads, SLI is discouraged.
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    Re: Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080? 2021/05/18 14:07:56 (permalink)
    q5sys
    Rendering usually uses something like OpenCL. NVLINK with the titans that allowed you to share the memory space between cards effectively doubling your memory space... which was a benefit. But most OpenCL workloads that I know of don't care about the SLI connection, since it's just compute and the cards don't need to be able to communicate to each other.  I know in some other OpenCL compute workloads, SLI is discouraged.


     
    I see. But you can still use them 'separately' at the same time to cut the workload in half, essentially?
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    Re: Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080? 2021/05/18 14:11:43 (permalink)
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    Rendering usually uses something like OpenCL. NVLINK with the titans that allowed you to share the memory space between cards effectively doubling your memory space... which was a benefit. But most OpenCL workloads that I know of don't care about the SLI connection, since it's just compute and the cards don't need to be able to communicate to each other.  I know in some other OpenCL compute workloads, SLI is discouraged.


     
    I see. But you can still use them 'separately' at the same time to cut the workload in half, essentially?



    Yes, as long as the program is properly written to take advantage of multiple GPUs, it will scale excellently, and it wont run into diminishing returns that gaming with SLI does.  Because each card will be assigned work that's not dependent on what the other cards are doing at the moment.  My Photo RAW editor (Capture One) can utilize multiple cards, and what it'll do is if there's 100 images to be processed, during the final render it'll task out one image to each card as they need work.  So if you have 2 cards, it'll be twice as fast... if you have four cards, it'll be close to 4x as fast... etc.
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    Re: Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080? 2021/05/18 14:21:26 (permalink)
    Blender apparently can use two GPUs now, which made me happy, though I'm not sure why lol, as I realized I probably won't be buying two graphic cards. Then again, it would be interesting to compare how a double 2080ti fares against the new generation of cards in different use cases.
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    Re: Anyone with experience comparing 2x 2080TI vs a 3080? 2021/05/30 14:43:38 (permalink)
    SLI is dead. Most games don't support it, so I'd advise to hold off on SLI.
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