GXT 980 Ti in SLI Compared to RTX 2080 Ti

Guest2 · 22 Apr 2020 at 12:32

I agree with BigBANGtheory. 1080Ti will be stronger but on benchmarks the 980Ti's might be a tiny faster

I also agree about knowing the background of the cards. If you buy a good enough brand though off eBay, you have good comeback if it's screwed. I've always bought off ebay and met the person to collect. Don't trust the London based sellers that do not allow local collection! (or any that dont allow collection for that matter)
One guy I bought off even invited me into his house and demos the 780Ti in games and benchmarks. I did the same when I sold my 980Ti's, nothing to hide if they are in perfect working order.
It also helped my EVGA cards had extended warranty, were still in warranty and it could easily be transferred to a new buyer

Jacky60 · 23 Apr 2020 at 09:33

Radox-0 said:
More then likely if anything benchmark was simply added in and ran without checking usage and confirming everything supports SLI as there is no numbers / usage showing, though I do agree those numbers for a single 980Ti do look higher then a what it should muster at 4k.

Though not sure why your posting to me though to keep the 980Ti until the 3080ti drops. That is a position I outlined in my post.

Yes my bad, but agreed keep 980ti SLI until 3080ti drops.

Jacky60 · 23 Apr 2020 at 09:34

Bomberh said:
I can see where your coming from, but I am always a bit hesitant when buying second hand (when it comes to selling my cards, I know how my cards have been treated and how they have been used)
if you know what I mean?

I am a bit of a ASUS ROG STRIX fan and tend to purchase from new. However, having looking on Fleabay, I can see a few 1080ti going for between £450 and £550, and some on auction at £450 with a few days to go.

So now that other question, is a 1080ti, better than two 980ti in SLI??? this just opens up more questions.....buy a 1080ti now......next year when the 3080ti come out, the 2080ti drop in price... then buy a 2080ti and so on etc.....????

or of course just wait for the 308ti to come out at some point????

No a 1080ti is not better unless game doesn't support SLI. I've compared the two and 1080ti was noticeably slower than 980ti SLI. I had to go 1080ti SLI to get the improvement I wanted from 980ti SLI.

Jacky60 · 23 Apr 2020 at 09:36

Guest2 said:
I agree with BigBANGtheory. 1080Ti will be stronger but on benchmarks the 980Ti's might be a tiny faster

I also agree about knowing the background of the cards. If you buy a good enough brand though off eBay, you have good comeback if it's screwed. I've always bought off ebay and met the person to collect. Don't trust the London based sellers that do not allow local collection! (or any that dont allow collection for that matter)
One guy I bought off even invited me into his house and demos the 780Ti in games and benchmarks. I did the same when I sold my 980Ti's, nothing to hide if they are in perfect working order.
It also helped my EVGA cards had extended warranty, were still in warranty and it could easily be transferred to a new buyer

980TI SLI is certainly noticeably faster than 1080ti.

Guest2 · 23 Apr 2020 at 10:09

Jacky60 said:
980TI SLI is very noticeably faster than 1080ti.

Proof? There was about a 5% increase on some benchmarks for me with 980Ti SLI over 1080Ti single.
SLI is not supported in the only game i'm playing at the moment (COD MW) so good job I sold up and got a single card

Jacky60 · 23 Apr 2020 at 12:54

Guest2 said:
Proof? There was about a 5% increase on some benchmarks for me with 980Ti SLI over 1080Ti single.
SLI is not supported in the only game i'm playing at the moment (COD MW) so good job I sold up and got a single card

Proof? I found a 20% increase with 980ti over single 1080ti. SLI isn't supported in COD MW but I've 1080ti SLI so good job I bought two 1080tis for when needed and one for one not!

Guest2 · 23 Apr 2020 at 14:38

Jacky60 said:
Proof? I found a 20% increase with 980ti over single 1080ti. SLI isn't supported in COD MW but I've 1080ti SLI so good job I bought two 1080tis for when needed and one for one not!

As in some game videos or benchmarks showing claims that "980TI SLI is certainly noticeably faster than 1080ti."

I had 980Ti SLI and the performance over a single 1080Ti was hardly noticable. Certainly not 20% for me, more like a few fps... hence me selling them both and sticking with the single 1080Ti

As to where I go next, i'll probably wait for the 3080Ti to be released and see how prices change

Back on topic though. GXT 980 Ti in SLI is no match at all against a single 2080 Ti. If SLI scaling was perfect then they would still fall short. 3d mark will give the best results for SLI cards

Something I quickly pulled from Reddit

Time Spy Extreme:

2x 980 Ti score: 5227
1x 2080 Ti score: 9312; 6858 w/the first i-7 CPU. Increase is still an increase.

Firestrike Extreme:

2x 980 Ti score: 16621 (EVGA)
1x 2080 Ti score: 21421; 18306 w/the first i-7 processor. Increase is still an increase.

Firestrike Ultra:

2x 980 Ti score: 9294
1x 2080 Ti score: 11081; 9506 w/the first i-7 CPU. Increase is still an increase.

Arcane · 23 Apr 2020 at 15:02

COD MW not supported? That surprises me, the previous ones always worked well.

Jacky60 · 23 Apr 2020 at 16:20

Guest2 said:
As in some game videos or benchmarks showing claims that "980TI SLI is certainly noticeably faster than 1080ti."

I had 980Ti SLI and the performance over a single 1080Ti was hardly noticable. Certainly not 20% for me, more like a few fps... hence me selling them both and sticking with the single 1080Ti

As to where I go next, i'll probably wait for the 3080Ti to be released and see how prices change

Back on topic though. GXT 980 Ti in SLI is no match at all against a single 2080 Ti. If SLI scaling was perfect then they would still fall short. 3d mark will give the best results for SLI cards

Something I quickly pulled from Reddit

Very probably different games! Scaling varies enormously. Games are what count not synthetic benchmarks BUT given a choice I'd have a 2080ti over 980ti SLI regardless but I certainly would agree re waiting for 3080ti. 2080ti is a bad choice if you have a viable GPU set up (e.g. 980ti SLI) right now.

Jacky60 · 23 Apr 2020 at 16:22

Arcane said:
COD MW not supported? That surprises me, the previous ones always worked well.

Its true but it's also a REALLY well optimised game. Even a single 1080ti gives very good 4K performance in campaign and good enough for multiplayer although I die a lot.

Guest2 · 23 Apr 2020 at 18:39

Jacky60 said:
Very probably different games! Scaling varies enormously. Games are what count not synthetic benchmarks BUT given a choice I'd have a 2080ti over 980ti SLI regardless but I certainly would agree re waiting for 3080ti. 2080ti is a bad choice if you have a viable GPU set up (e.g. 980ti SLI) right now.

Exactly. The amount of messing around I was going to to get certain games to work with 2 x 980Ti it was not worth it. Best option ever swapping them for a single 1080Ti
COD MW wise, yes very well optimised and play at 3440 x 1440 with everything turned up except RTX and plays great on a 1080Ti. I bet the same could not be said for attempting to play it with 2 x 980Ti

Here we go. ~45 fps difference between 980Ti > 1080Ti. ~45fps between 1080Ti > 2080Ti

Jacky60 · 23 Apr 2020 at 18:44

pugheaven said:
I've just in the last 2 weeks moved from Tri-Fire to a single card... so I had a a 295X2 with a 290x and it was emmense (although around 800W plus on full chat hahaha), however I'd found the same less and less games using it and cause more and more problems as time grew on, so just sold them both for £300 and picked up a 5700XT.

Like said earlier though, I hate not having a load of GPU power taking up slots in my case as it looks "normal" now... but I can't even pick up another 5700XT as they removed Xfire from them... there will be a point when they do that with nVidia and that'll be game over for any games.

However in answer to OP quesiton, personally I'd keep the 980's for now until the proper next gen unless you're really needing the upgrade and just hold fire a little longer...

I had 295x2 quadfire and wisely and foolishly let em go for 980ti SLI but AMD stopped doubling the RAM on the x2 cards after 4870x2. 295x2 with twice the VRAM would still be a player today.

Jimmy Weirdarms · 23 Apr 2020 at 18:52

FWIW, Vulkan is supposed to make multi-gpu gaming easier/hot again, at some point. But it will probably require games to support it.

Jacky60 · 23 Apr 2020 at 18:56

Guest2 said:
Exactly. The amount of messing around I was going to to get certain games to work with 2 x 980Ti it was not worth it. Best option ever swapping them for a single 1080Ti
COD MW wise, yes very well optimised and play at 3440 x 1440 with everything turned up except RTX and plays great on a 1080Ti. I bet the same could not be said for attempting to play it with 2 x 980Ti

Here we go. ~45 fps difference between 980Ti > 1080Ti. ~45fps between 1080Ti > 2080Ti

Multi GPU has been the best way of maximal eye candy per generation and like multi core CPU has to be the way forward but profit requires single GPU.

Jacky60 · 23 Apr 2020 at 18:57

Jimmy Weirdarms said:
FWIW, Vulkan is supposed to make multi-gpu gaming easier/hot again, at some point. But it will probably require games to support it.

Works well in RDR2

Bomberh · 23 Apr 2020 at 20:40

I've made my mind up, and I have talked myself into it.....I am going for it..... as I am an Asus ROG STRIX fan, I'm going to get these two beauties.....
Asus ROG STRIX XG32VQR 32" and Asus GEFORCE RTX 2080 TI ROG STRIX OC

Guest2 · 23 Apr 2020 at 22:54

Good choice. Might as well, not like we can spend our money in restaurants, bars or anything on anything else other than inside stuff

Jimmy Weirdarms · 23 Apr 2020 at 22:59

Nice, and that is a tasty sounding monitor

pugheaven · 24 Apr 2020 at 02:19

Jacky60 said:
I had 295x2 quadfire and wisely and foolishly let em go for 980ti SLI but AMD stopped doubling the RAM on the x2 cards after 4870x2. 295x2 with twice the VRAM would still be a player today.

Yep agreed, absolute weapon and if games worked properly with xfire, I'd have got another couple of years out of the setup without a doubt. Them three cards had more raw horse power probably than a 2080TI hahaha