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4k, GSync, 3x980ti or 2xTX?

rtho782

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Which would be the preferred 4k GSync solution, 3x980ti or 2xTX?

I feel like 980ti would be the faster choice in most situations, but not sure on futureproofing...

Both setups are a similar price.
 
rtho782 said:
Which would be the preferred 4k GSync solution, 3x980ti or 2xTX?

I feel like 980ti would be the faster choice in most situations, but not sure on futureproofing...

Both setups are a similar price.
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From a possible future proofing, it would have to be the TXs. The Ti's are super fast and for the money, buying 3 against 2 TXs is appealing but from a VRAM POV, 6GB is hitting the mark I imagine and who knows what will happen in a years time. i would rather have too much VRAM than not enough and you could possibly add a third at a later date.
 
africanos23 said:
Are you looking to crank up the settings to Ultra with maxed MSAA ?
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Will I need MSAA @4k?

I'm coming from a RoG Swift which I'll be keeping as a 2nd monitor (meaning I can play games at 144hz or 4k depending on the games)

4k seems so high I won't be able to see the pixels anyway...
 
3x 980 Ti. From a realistic point of view I can see you upgrading to Pascal before 2 Titan x outpace 3 x 980Tis because of a vram bottleneck. I find it hard to believe you will skip Pascal. You have had the first high end 980 Maxwell cards in SLI and now want the enthusiast grade cards. If you want to keep this setup for four years then sure get the TX x 2.
 
You're probably right. But the 980s will go in my other half's machine, she gets all my hand-me-downs.

I then justify it as effectively replacing a 7990 with 980ti SLi ;)
 
For the last two months I've been running a titan X on the Acer 4k2k Gsync monitor. I'm really impressed with 4k generally, desktop space is incredible, everything is legible at 125% scaling (what I use) and gaming is really nice.

What I would say though is that I found 1 Titan X to be enough. You'll only really notice low FPS in games that are poorly optimised GSync really does take care of stuff in the 25 to 40 FPS range making the game feel 60FPS smooth. With 2 TX's or 3 980 Ti's you'll be skidooshing FPS at 60 easily, which might mean its pointless going for Gsync in the first place. I'd shop about for monitors.

For info I run pretty much all games maxed out with No AA at all. I've tried some games with it on, GTA5 is a fine example, where I literally could not see a blind bit of difference between having AA on or off. The performance hike was crippling on FPS though. Easily 40 to 60 FPs with AA off, 15 - 20 with it on.

Gregster makes a good point about VRAM, particularly for future proofing, however I've just jacked in the TX and decided to go 2xSLI 980Ti. Unless you really want everything totally totally maxed out I'd say the Gsync and multiple SLI set up is unnecessary for todays games.

Lastly, some older games - skyrim for example - are just broken on Gsync monitors at 4K. Much to my disappointment. I pretty much built my rig for a heavily modded skyrim, and its pants.

annnnddddd (phew this is getting tiring) I am not aware of anything 4K, Gsync and over 60Hz on the market, so effectively, regardless of whatever high-end multi GPU set up you throw at it, you're still pretty much capped at 60FPS.

Imagine a 4K ROG swift. That'd be immense, and suit a 3 way 980TI / TX set up perfectly.
 
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If Dx12 does effectively stack the memory this could point the way for 3 x 980ti. I am hoping this gets widespread implementation so that its easier to add a 2nd or 3rd card rather than sell up and buy a new high end card when you need more power. I am happy with my 970 but going sli with an effective 7GB would sway me over selling and getting a 980ti when I feel my system is no longer up to it.
 
6gb is plenty for 4k. The titan x's VRAM was meant for workstation use as 12gb is overkill for 4k. You wouldnt really even need 3 980ti's. 2 would be more than enough. BF4 online maxed out with 4x AA gets me 90fps (off they do 120) and thats with 2 980s and on 4k. I can just about manage a constant 60fps on the witcher 3 with high settings on 4k so 980 ti's wont have a problem. For a similar reason Im swapping my 980s for Ti's when they finally arrive :). As they wont have a problem doing 60fps on 4k for another year or so.

Lets not forget in the coming years pascal and other architectures will be out and will be many times more powerful so 6gb is enough for now until you decide to upgrade. Which will most likely be less than 3 years ;).

I have never run into a VRAM issue even with 4gb VRAM on my 980s. The majority of games even on 4k use just over 3gb with maxed settings minus AA. The witcher 3 uses 2.5gb on 4k with high settings, no AA, no hairworks. So 6gb will be fine even with 4 980ti's. Even GTA V ultra settings with 2x MSAA was fine and doesnt run into an issue with 4gb.
 
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In your situation I would go 2 980tis now, then swap when the die shrink happens.

With 3 980Tis you get into the territory of being able to crank settings up to a point where 6GB vram becomes an issue.
 
Poneros said:
If you're looking to max 4K for the next 3 years with ANY combination of currently available cards, you're dreaming.
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I wouldn't quite agree with that but I know what you mean. The combination that would is 3-4 Titan Xs, they have the grunt and the vram to be able to handle it, see Kaaps results in the owners thread.
 
tyler_jrb said:
I have never run into a VRAM issue even with 4gb VRAM on my 980s. The majority of games even on 4k use just over 3gb with maxed settings minus AA. The witcher 3 uses 2.5gb on 4k with high settings, no AA, no hairworks. So 6gb will be fine even with 4 980ti's. Even GTA V ultra settings with 2x MSAA was fine and doesnt run into an issue with 4gb.
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I bounce along 4gb in BF4, Dying eats 4gb for breakfast and TW3 is a poor example. Think you need to double check, 4gb is not enough for 4K end of....
 
straxusii said:
I wouldn't quite agree with that but I know what you mean. The combination that would is 3-4 Titan Xs, they have the grunt and the vram to be able to handle it, see Kaaps results in the owners thread.
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He's doing all right now, yeah, but 3 years from now? I doubt it. In fact, I suspect even a tweaked Witcher 3 would overpower the 4 Titan Xs at 4K.
 
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