780ti Sli to 1080?

[Supa Koopa]

Just wondering if anyone has gone from a 780ti sli setup to a new 1080. I'm curious about the relative performance difference and if I might see slightly more going from the dual cards (when working properly) to a single 1080 or if it'll be about the same. I know single card performance will be much improved, but I'm trying to justify the ludicrous prices at the moment to myself. If I buy it now it will be a stop gap to the next big change (Volta). I'd rather wait for a 1080ti but there's no confirmation this will happen, when if it does or how much it will be.

Performance benchmark would be 'The Division' as this is the first game that's made me feel like they are really holding me back. I play at 1440p and would much rather have all the bells and whistles turned on if possible.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Supa Koopa]

Well after running a few benchmarks and comparing to the 1080, it shows that the synthetic stuff needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. My 2 780 ti's score over 6700 points in the graphics part of Time Spy, which is only 800 points lower than the lowest scoring 1080 on the results thread. My score in Heaven seems to be on par or higher than a 1080. But in games I'm sure there would be a much bigger difference.

Struggling to convince myself to spend £600 on a new card when I really want one.

 

[Griffildur]

Well after running a few benchmarks and comparing to the 1080, it shows that the synthetic stuff needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. My 2 780 ti's score over 6700 points in the graphics part of Time Spy, which is only 800 points lower than the lowest scoring 1080 on the results thread. My score in Heaven seems to be on par or higher than a 1080. But in games I'm sure there would be a much bigger difference.

Struggling to convince myself to spend £600 on a new card when I really want one.

the forums are full of people stating that SLI only works occasionally.

The benchmark scores are not the only thing that matters.

If you want great performance all the time without any of the worries of SLI then one great single GPU makes a lot of sense.

 

[Tommy_Here]

The 780 Ti even on its own is a very good gpu today and when sli works I could imagine they're brilliant save for the 3gb vram can you not dual a few settings back? Save the money and wait for a GEFORCE gp102 card as the titan isn't a GEFORCE card and I expect it won't be around for long so sooner or later we should see a consumer grade big Pascal my advice keep the cards wait for big Pascal you never know if you decided you could grab a 1080 for less

 

[ToTheMax]

My SLI 780's are still doing fine at 1440P games and drive a 3 X 1440P desktop surround. Only thing that would make me upgrade would be a gsync 4K 40" 120Hz monitor coming to market

 

[Supa Koopa]

Cheers guys for the response.

Most of the time I'm quite happy with my 780's but it was playing the division that really made me think twice about them. I've probably played that game for longer than any other one I own (apart from C&C and Starcraft 2) but at times it really naffed me off. It made no difference what settings I had, I would still get horendous slow down in places and during one mission where the whole place sets on fire I could count the frames in certain sections. Lowering res made no difference and putting on low settings didn't have much effect. I'm a graphics whore and want all the settings on, I get annoyed if there's a setting I can't have.

I keep telling myself to wait for the 1080TI but as it's not been confirmed yet I keep thinking shall I get a 1080 as the cards I have are still worth a little bit of money which would help towards the cost. With Nvidia's new pricing I can see a ti being £800 at least.

I really should wait as they are working okay and are under water so it was quite a sizeable investment.

 

[Supa Koopa]

To be honest I just want 75fps constant at 1440p with all the settings on, is that really too much to ask. lol

 

[Griffildur]

To be honest I just want 75fps constant at 1440p with all the settings on, is that really too much to ask. lol

we don't know how long it will be before we see the TI. I have a feeling it will be towards Christmas but it's just a wild guess based on how fast Nvidia churns out new cards this year. For 1440p you will not need more than a 1080 so if that's all you want, then I'd get the 1080. if you want 4k however then that's where a TI will truly shine, again just a wild guess and my own expectation so take that for what it really is.

Up to you what you want and how long you want to wait.

The prices are quite high now as well, so that is usually a sign to not rush into any high value purchases. Might be worth to wait a bit and see how things evolve, maybe there will be a one day price reduction on a 1080 and if that's the case you could just buy one then.

 

[Supa Koopa]

Yeah at the moment I'm not in a rush to change the monitor and I can only drive it to 75hz so that's where I'm basing the requirements. To be honest I can't see Nvidia rushing a card for Christmas when demand is higher than supply on a lot of the 1080 cards and AMD are a while away with any competition, but I've certainly been wrong before.

I've just seen someone post their Heaven score with the same settings I use and it was 3,000. 117 points lower than mine. This is where I'm confused, how can I struggle in the Division where a 1080 will run over the magic 75fps for me with all the bells and whistles turned on. Makes me think something is wrong somewhere. Both cards show as being 100% (or near as damn it anyway) usage so sli is working. My benching head will shout at me for getting a slower card but my gaming head will rejoice.

 

[chaparral]

Just wondering if anyone has gone from a 780ti sli setup to a new 1080.

Yes I have .....

What the benchmark scores doesn't show is how much smoother the games run with the gtx 1080....

Just finished a few more benchmarks

Rise of tomb raider (3440x1440 with ultra settings)
SLI 780ti = 16fps
Single 1080gtx = 32fps

Alien Isolataion (3440x1440)
SLI 780ti = Average 93fps
Single 1080gtx =Average 119fps

Dirt Rally (3440x1440 )
SLI 780ti = min 72fps, Average 82fps, max 93fps
Single 1080gtx =min 83fps, Average 95fps, max 113fps

Batman Arkham Knight (3440x1440 )
SLI 780ti = min 15fps, Average 26fps, max 42fps
Single 1080gtx =min 32fps, Average 65fps, max 92fps

Grid Auto Sport (3440x1440 )
SLI 780ti = min 71fps, Average 87fps, max 104fps
Single 1080gtx =min 104fps, Average 121fps, max 146fps

Crysis 1 (tested at 2650x1600 as the benchmark didn't give me a 3440x1440 option )
SLI 780ti = min 54fps, Average 83fps, max 99fps
Single 1080gtx =min 58fps, Average 88fps, max 111fps

Bioshock infinite (3440x1440 )
SLI 780ti = Average 119fps
Single 1080gtx = Average 138fps

 

[Rroff]

I've just changed from a 780GHz that was running 780ti performance out the box (and usually about 10% over that with my overclock) to a 1070 and largely seeing atleast +70% and in a lot of cases double the performance which is more than the gains in SLI would be and that isn't even a 1080.