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NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a single 3090?
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/23 15:22:32
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NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a single 3090?
It would be a terrific idea if others knew what your use case is. Otherwise, it is just random guesses.
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/23 16:21:20
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SLI and dual GPU is must be supported by game developer (nvidia gived up already), so it is kind of dead...
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/23 17:17:19
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If the games you want to play support sli = 2080 ti’s
If the games don’t support sli = 3090.
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/23 18:22:23
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What about the benefit of NVLINK stacking VRAM for games @4K or 5120x1400? No need for SLI support if both cards utilize combined VRAM and GPU.
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/23 18:48:31
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There are no games that support the vram stacking feature.
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/23 19:46:14
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If the games you want to play support sli = 2080 ti’s
If the games don’t support sli = 3090.
Are you sure that SLI scaling with 2080 ti's will beat a 3090 consistently? Its not common to get 200% the FPS of a single 2080 ti in most games that support SLI. Depending on the game, I've seen 30% to 65% increase in FPS in other people's benchmarks with SLI 2080 ti cards.
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/23 19:53:06
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If the games you want to play support sli = 2080 ti’s
If the games don’t support sli = 3090.
Are you sure that SLI scaling with 2080 ti's will beat a 3090 consistently? Its not common to get 200% the FPS of a single 2080 ti in most games that support SLI. Depending on the game, I've seen 30% to 65% increase in FPS in other people's benchmarks with SLI 2080 ti cards.
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/23 21:22:18
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If the games you want to play support sli = 2080 ti’s
If the games don’t support sli = 3090.
Are you sure that SLI scaling with 2080 ti's will beat a 3090 consistently? Its not common to get 200% the FPS of a single 2080 ti in most games that support SLI. Depending on the game, I've seen 30% to 65% increase in FPS in other people's benchmarks with SLI 2080 ti cards.
I've seen leaked 3090 3DMark Timespy scores, they are lower than my 2x2080Ti scores by 2000-4000 points.
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/23 21:30:26
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I'm really thinking about moving up to the 2080 Ti FTW3 NVLINK/SLI and skipping on the 30 series completely. It seem even with the GDDR6X with the 30 series. It can't beat two 2080 Ti's in SLI. It would be an affordable solution for me. If I can get 200 fps or 250 fps. That is more then playable for my needs.
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/23 21:46:28
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a213m
I've seen leaked 3090 3DMark Timespy scores, they are lower than my 2x2080Ti scores by 2000-4000 points.
Timespy scales better in SLI than most games scale in SLI.
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/24 09:40:38
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if the games you play actually support sli...
Take it from a guy who had a top 20 firestrike ultra score in Feb 2019 when i ran the tests..
It's very powerful but the support is so limited
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/24 19:35:17
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don't forget that SLI is very bad with frame times. that's why most devs won't support SLI anymore, and nvidia just announced the death of SLI anyway.
NVLINK on 3090 is basically only there for the memory sharing in workstation applications, to show it is in the Titan line, even if nvidia insists on making it a gaming card. they should just unlock the workstation drivers already.
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/25 07:38:31
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SLI 3090s. Also doubles as a good weightlifting rig
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Re: NVLINK Dual 2080 Ti's or go for a 3090?
2020/09/26 01:49:24
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Fewer and fewer games will properly support SLI going forward.
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