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Titan black sli v 980 ti sc
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Currently have titan blacks in sli, and I think they are great. Runs games at max settings on a 3440x1440 resolution. Witcher 3 plays great with only a mild choppiness in a couple villages, and that's with hairworks on.
I will be looking to replace them when pascal titans come out next year.
Edit: if your looking to get another 980ti later on, then I would keep your 980ti just because its newer technology and its Maxwell.
I will be looking to replace them when pascal titans come out next year.
Edit: if your looking to get another 980ti later on, then I would keep your 980ti just because its newer technology and its Maxwell.
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Stick with your 980Ti. If you have a good clocker there's not much in it power wise. And you'd just be opening yourself up to SLI issues.
780ti SLI owner here, which are 'basically' 3gb Titan blacks. They are brilliant and powerful but occasional SLI issues, and stutter with gsync in some games frustrates me. I'm pondering swapping to one 980ti.
780ti SLI owner here, which are 'basically' 3gb Titan blacks. They are brilliant and powerful but occasional SLI issues, and stutter with gsync in some games frustrates me. I'm pondering swapping to one 980ti.
Good point about sli issues but personally ive never been affected by them.
Do it
Everybody that has done it is quite happy (from 970s here). You don't realize micro stuttering until you leave it behind (either that or the Vram bump, night and day difference in GTAV).
Yeah. People who say they've never had stutter must have some portion of their brain missing, or are just not receptive to it. For me its THE worst most distracting thing in any game.
Not saying SLI is terrible, far from it. When it works I love it! And Most games are fine, it's just when there are problems its very annoying.
Some 'stutter' is also so minor you probably think it's fine and wouldn't call it stutter. Until you play with one card only. Far cry 3 is the best example for me. In SLI you load it up and think, hey this is ok, it's running well. But play on one card only and it so smooth in comparison. It's subtle, but a massive difference to me.
Not saying SLI is terrible, far from it. When it works I love it! And Most games are fine, it's just when there are problems its very annoying.
Some 'stutter' is also so minor you probably think it's fine and wouldn't call it stutter. Until you play with one card only. Far cry 3 is the best example for me. In SLI you load it up and think, hey this is ok, it's running well. But play on one card only and it so smooth in comparison. It's subtle, but a massive difference to me.
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I don't have any portion of my brain missing so ill go with the latter
Unless you don't have a big resolution and don't need to play games at max then we haven't got much choice in having more than one card
Titan blacks were the first time I went sli, and I honestly don't remember noticing and difference except for the huge fps increase.
Keep the 980ti. Yea, you will get lower peak frame rates, but you will have a smoother experience (this is from my going from Titan BE sli to a Titan X). Also your card is Maxwell v2 which has a number of big advantages in DX12 over Kepler.
In addition, you will have an easy upgrade path for better performance by just adding another 980ti, getting the BE's means scrapping both (with the lower resale those cards now bring).
In addition, you will have an easy upgrade path for better performance by just adding another 980ti, getting the BE's means scrapping both (with the lower resale those cards now bring).
I don't have any portion of my brain missing so ill go with the latter
Unless you don't have a big resolution and don't need to play games at max then we haven't got much choice in having more than one card
Titan blacks were the first time I went sli, and I honestly don't remember noticing and difference except for the huge fps increase.
The extra VRAM can help with stutter in some scenarios so that may be helping you.
Really, didn't know that.
Also surely better fps is more important than micro stutter, but I guess it depends how bad you get it.
I don't have any portion of my brain missing so ill go with the latter
Unless you don't have a big resolution and don't need to play games at max then we haven't got much choice in having more than one card
Titan blacks were the first time I went sli, and I honestly don't remember noticing and difference except for the huge fps increase.
Hey not having a pop at you/ your brain fella
It's just a turn of phrase I think I'm doomed to keep going SLI anyway. If I swap to one 980Ti, I will go 4k sooner than later, and then get another 980Ti. I know it will happen already.
Hey not having a pop at you/ your brain fella
I think I'm doomed to keep going SLI anyway. If I swap to one 980Ti, I will go 4k sooner than later, and then get another 980Ti. I know it will happen already.
I have an expensive plan of getting 2 titan pascal next year along with a 4k, maybe even a 5k monitor. But ill see how expensive these cards will be.
Quite a few people are getting confused with the ops situation. The op has a new 980Ti and some bright fella is tempting him to swap it for two Titan blacks.
980Ti is a perfect match for the ROG Swift, if you swap a new 980Ti for two TBs I would feel you've been had. TBs use older tech which NVIDIA support less and they will prioritise improving performance on their newest cards, especially if AMD make a magic driver to put the Fury X ahead like with the 7970.
You could also possibly get SLI niggles and if you find a game without proper SLI support your 980Ti would have decimated one working TB. Not to mention Maxwell has better GSYNC support.
980Ti is a perfect match for the ROG Swift, if you swap a new 980Ti for two TBs I would feel you've been had. TBs use older tech which NVIDIA support less and they will prioritise improving performance on their newest cards, especially if AMD make a magic driver to put the Fury X ahead like with the 7970.
You could also possibly get SLI niggles and if you find a game without proper SLI support your 980Ti would have decimated one working TB. Not to mention Maxwell has better GSYNC support.
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Where'd you pull that one from???