Info on sli please

skinneyb1979 · 13 Apr 2017 at 12:23

I i posted this week about looking at a new gpu and got lots of help do thanks i have a question at sli

To of my mates have said they have a spair gpu i could have the cards are as follows

1x asus strix gtx 1050ti
1 x gefoce gtx 1050 ti

My pc is a asrock extream 6 z77
I7 3770k
16g dominater ram
500w psu

So my question is can i run the above cards in sli as they are the same card just made by diffrent company's and how much difference would i get running to instead of 1

Kind regards and thanks in advance for any help

mattyfez · 13 Apr 2017 at 12:39

Don't think 1050 supports SLI?

IRSHunter · 13 Apr 2017 at 12:46

Anything under a 1070 in the 10 series cards is unable to be in SLI with another card, they simply don't have the connectors available to do so, so you can put both cards in your system and run both, but only if you're using duel monitors or if the cards are CUDA or OpenCL compatable, otherwise you'd only see performance from one card.

skinneyb1979 · 13 Apr 2017 at 12:48

Ok thanks from the above cards witch one is best

Kind regards

andicole0 · 13 Apr 2017 at 12:50

Do the 1050/1060 support multi gpu in DX12. Similarly will they be supported in this Vulkan api I hear about.
Andi.

mattyfez · 13 Apr 2017 at 12:58

They'll both be very similar, if you Google them and look at the core speed and memory speed one maybe slightly higher clocked than the other one.

mickyflinn · 13 Apr 2017 at 13:03

andicole0 said:
Do the 1050/1060 support multi gpu in DX12. Similarly will they be supported in this Vulkan api I hear about.
Andi.

Nope they dont support sli you need at least a 1070 for that.

IRSHunter · 13 Apr 2017 at 13:05

Following on from what Mattyfez said, one may also be more efficient with cooling so it may be a good idea to check benchmarks and see what temps people have got with both cards.

andicole0 · 13 Apr 2017 at 13:38

mickyflinn said:
Nope they dont support sli you need at least a 1070 for that.

But dx12 doesn't support sli, it does however support multi gpu. I switch off sli for dx12 and still get both my cards being used.
Andi.

Smffy · 13 Apr 2017 at 14:10

I'd say this is going to be a bit pointless for almost everything you do... Are you paying for the second card??

mickyflinn · 13 Apr 2017 at 19:01

andicole0 said:
But dx12 doesn't support sli, it does however support multi gpu. I switch off sli for dx12 and still get both my cards being used.
Andi.

So what is the diffrence ? if your using 2 gpu's is it Sli/xfire with a diffrent name.

ED209 · 13 Apr 2017 at 21:17

My general rule is don't bother with SLI\crossfire.

SLI\Crossfire always seem to have issues when games first come out or sometimes even for months after they are released before they work properly.

always see people in the AMD drivers thread posting about crossfire not working or having to disable one card to play new games. For me I would always prefer to get one decent card than two cards to run in SLI as I cant be bothered with the hassle and issues that come along with it.

I like to turn my PC on play some games and that's it not research fixes and issues or wait for new drivers to come out before a problem is sorted.

Rroff · 13 Apr 2017 at 21:19

andicole0 said:
Do the 1050/1060 support multi gpu in DX12. Similarly will they be supported in this Vulkan api I hear about.
Andi.

If a developer makes full use of explicit multi adapter then they should unless nVidia has done something arbitrary to lock it out. Same with Vulkan but it will probably be awhile til anything utilises those capabilities by which time the 1060 and under will likely be less than useful anyhow.

mattyfez · 13 Apr 2017 at 21:45

One decent card is always always better.
Always has been, less messing about, more gaming without constantly questioning configuration /settings.

andicole0 · 13 Apr 2017 at 22:17

mickyflinn said:
So what is the diffrence ? if your using 2 gpu's is it Sli/xfire with a diffrent name.

Sli and crossfire are Nvidias and AMDs interpretation of using multiple GPUs. The are specific to each manufacturer.

DX12 is supposed to support any combination of 2 cards and benefit from them. I believe a thing called Vulkan is also arounf that allows programmers access multiple GPUs.

@mattyfez 1 980ti is not better than 2 980tis ;-)

Andi.