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Any dual RTX benchmarks using the new NVLink?

I have one, don’t have my cards yet though :).

NV fabric hopefully lead to good improvements in the long term but we shall see! Bridge came as planned by NV on the 20th, I’ve also seen EVGA confirmed they will be making and selling their own.
 
Smffy said:
NV fabric hopefully lead to good improvements in the long term but we shall see!
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No - until there are significant architecture changes or developers start programming efficiently for explicit multi-adaptor there aren't going to be major changes. No amount of fabric type interconnects, etc. will change that alone.

I really want to put it a bit stronger like no - period, never, etc. but then someone will come along and find some crazy technique or something to prove me wrong LOL. But realistically you can't just tie current tech cores together to appear like one to the software for gaming purposes no matter what kind of link or even memory integration you might use.
 
Rroff said:
No - until there are significant architecture changes or developers start programming efficiently for explicit multi-adaptor there aren't going to be major changes. No amount of fabric type interconnects, etc. will change that alone.

I really want to put it a bit stronger like no - period, never, etc. but then someone will come along and find some crazy technique or something to prove me wrong LOL. But realistically you can't just tie current tech cores together to appear like one to the software for gaming purposes no matter what kind of link or even memory integration you might use.
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Nobody said treating it like one, that’s not the only thing it would allow you to do with more bandwidth and memory to memory integrations. You should probably agree this is a fairly large change in the technology, there is no reason why people would not develop more interesting ways of using it.

Never say never.
 
its frustrating that SLI is still not a big deal 20 years on, fondly remember lashing 3 gpus into a rig back in the 90s (those not old enough to remember Voodoo2 cards they were dedicated 3d cards and you had to run a seperate 2d card. you could run a brace of voodoo2 cards together to run at a whopping 1024x768 and boy did they run well.


they were a huge technological jump over what came previously and in a way maybe a similar move from the norm as we're seeing now with RTX????

stonking cards back in their day 12meg of SDR ram and a proper audible clunk off the card when they kicked in.
 
233 said:
its frustrating that SLI is still not a big deal 20 years on, fondly remember lashing 3 gpus into a rig back in the 90s (those not old enough to remember Voodoo2 cards they were dedicated 3d cards and you had to run a seperate 2d card. you could run a brace of voodoo2 cards together to run at a whopping 1024x768 and boy did they run well.


they were a huge technological jump over what came previously and in a way maybe a similar move from the norm as we're seeing now with RTX????

stonking cards back in their day 12meg of SDR ram and a proper audible clunk off the card when they kicked in.
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If I remember right I could only afford to buy one of the cheaper 8mb voodoo2 cards back then...:(
It still cost around £1000 to build a gaming pc back then in the late 90's and wages were peanuts compared to wages these days...
 
that said the price of a voodoo 2 12meg adjusted for inflation is £350 a piece at todays prices. granted the new cards are a whole magnitude more impressive but back in 1998 a pair of voodoo 2s were bleeding edge of the performance stakes and a pair could be had for £700 adjusted for inflation. compare that to the price for cards now and you'll see the cost of a gaming pc is somewhat dearer now.

granted we have a level of performance and tech that is beyond the wildest dreams of any gamer in the 90s. just look at gpu stats, 1000 times more ram and i cant imagine the difference in performance figures, there not even comparable.
 
233 said:
that said the price of a voodoo 2 12meg adjusted for inflation is £350 a piece at todays prices. granted the new cards are a whole magnitude more impressive but back in 1998 a pair of voodoo 2s were bleeding edge of the performance stakes and a pair could be had for £700 adjusted for inflation. compare that to the price for cards now and you'll see the cost of a gaming pc is somewhat dearer now.

granted we have a level of performance and tech that is beyond the wildest dreams of any gamer in the 90s. just look at gpu stats, 1000 times more ram and i cant imagine the difference in performance figures, there not even comparable.
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A Voodoo 2 was approx £250 per GPU when it launched around March/April 1998.

That's £500 for both, and when you adjust that for inflation from 19 years ago, the price is more like £836

Bank of England calculator doesn't include 2018 sadly.

Compared again a 2080 SLI that still seems 'cheap' but remember they were add-on boards and the cost of other PC components at the time was pretty astronomical. A cutting edge pentium 2 system was really pricey.
 
i'm positive they were £220 or so at launch but even so adjusted to £420 a card and the performance of the time was utterly stonking.
 
I remember the original Voodoo cards. I had a pair of 6 MB Pure3D (I think) cards - the normal Voodoo cards had 4 MB - and a big problem was signal degradation. I had to get heavy gauge cables. But the results were worth it.
 
Which Z370 or X470 (if any) motherboards currently on sale would even be able to host dual 2080Ti's with them being 2.5 to 3 slots each, allowing for a reasonable gap between the two for temperatures?

Not many I bet.
 
SupraWez said:
I want to see dual 2080 vs a single
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The scaling on 2080ti and 1080ti is very similar so you can infer the 2080 results - the major problem being the min fps results of SLI are very similar or even slightly worse than single card, so SLI would be a massive nope from me as the situations where you really need SLI to be kicking in and working well it is still dipping off to 40fps which would be a very noticeable stutter, so you are still going to be dropping settings to avoid low minimums and then the single card would be faster on the averages as well.
 
VincentHanna said:
A Voodoo 2 was approx £250 per GPU when it launched around March/April 1998.

That's £500 for both, and when you adjust that for inflation from 19 years ago, the price is more like £836

Bank of England calculator doesn't include 2018 sadly.

Compared again a 2080 SLI that still seems 'cheap' but remember they were add-on boards and the cost of other PC components at the time was pretty astronomical. A cutting edge pentium 2 system was really pricey.
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You also have to add the exchange rate difference.Sadly can't find forex charts back to 1998 but I believe USD->GBP was around 1.8, making that £836 closer to £1160. VAT has also increased form 17.5-20%, so now that makes £1190.
 
Although that's fairly exhaustive, I would have thought 2080 NV Link vs 1080ti SLI would have the best case to test? They're so close to each other performance wise I would have thought that'd have been the obvious choice.
 
Its a shame that the NVLink on the GTX cards is also a cut down version, so a halfway stop between SLI and full NVLink :(

For the price of the cards I am sure they could have supported the full NVLink bandwidth.
 
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