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**Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review Thread**

N19h7m4r3 how has your experience of SLI been in terms of minimum frame rates? I guess its hard for you to say since you installed the cards together from the beginning. But what about SLI in general?

I made a thread thats not showing up for some reason asking about people's experience with SLI on minimum frame rates. From the review you linked there's on average a 40% increase to minimum frame rates when using a second 980 Ti. I checked out a few older games such as Hitman Absolution and Assassins Creed Unity with two 980s and they show a proportionally higher increase to minimum frame rates. The Assassins Creed games especially have made me want to go SLI in the first place so that I can actually play them at high/ultra on my 3440x1440 screen.
 
Mayh3M said:
N19h7m4r3 how has your experience of SLI been in terms of minimum frame rates? I guess its hard for you to say since you installed the cards together from the beginning. But what about SLI in general?

I made a thread thats not showing up for some reason asking about people's experience with SLI on minimum frame rates. From the review you linked there's on average a 40% increase to minimum frame rates when using a second 980 Ti. I checked out a few older games such as Hitman Absolution and Assassins Creed Unity with two 980s and they show a proportionally higher increase to minimum frame rates. The Assassins Creed games especially have made me want to go SLI in the first place so that I can actually play them at high/ultra on my 3440x1440 screen.
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So far in the Witcher 3, I've not seen any lower than 42. That's an extreme case to say the least, and only happened once in Novigrad when there was some witch burnings, and had a massive crowd.

Everywhere else, in combat and in the wilderness with the latest 1.05 patch I've not seen it dip below 55 in cases. My max seems to have upped into the 80's some some spikes to 90's as well.

Note, this is with Full Ultra settings, everything on but nasty Motion Blur. So hairworks and HBAO+, along with Ultra grass and foliage.

Even in the extreme case of mid 70's suddenly dropping to mid 40's, it wasn't even all that noticeable thanks to G-Sync. I was sure I'd see some microstutter, or some intermittent spikes, but so far it's been going extremely well.

I actually had an issue earlier today where only 1 GPU was being used ( NVIDIA Shadowplay effectively killed SLI until I did a clean driver install), and I must say SLI is a much better experience overall for me so far.
My average with 1 GPU used was only 45 fps, so with SLI my old average has effectively become my current minimum in extreme cases.
 
Anyone with a 980 TI + an RoG Swift know if the bios has finally been fixed yet for the issue of where graphics card would not properly downclock at 144Hz? It happens with my 970 and Swift, but not with my BenQ 144Hz G-Sync screen.
Last I heard this didn't happen to Titan X, so what about 980 TI?
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
So far in the Witcher 3, I've not seen any lower than 42. That's an extreme case to say the least, and only happened once in Novigrad when there was some witch burnings, and had a massive crowd.

Everywhere else, in combat and in the wilderness with the latest 1.05 patch I've not seen it dip below 55 in cases. My max seems to have upped into the 80's some some spikes to 90's as well.

Note, this is with Full Ultra settings, everything on but nasty Motion Blur. So hairworks and HBAO+, along with Ultra grass and foliage.

Even in the extreme case of mid 70's suddenly dropping to mid 40's, it wasn't even all that noticeable thanks to G-Sync. I was sure I'd see some microstutter, or some intermittent spikes, but so far it's been going extremely well.

I actually had an issue earlier today where only 1 GPU was being used ( NVIDIA Shadowplay effectively killed SLI until I did a clean driver install), and I must say SLI is a much better experience overall for me so far.
My average with 1 GPU used was only 45 fps, so with SLI my old average has effectively become my current minimum in extreme cases.
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Cool. I think its especially great to use SLI on a monitor like the Swift which has GSync and 144Hz.

I'll do an in-depth test using one and two cards at 3440x1440 60Hz once the cards arrive.
 
PullTheTricker said:
Anyone with a 980 TI + an RoG Swift know if the bios has finally been fixed yet for the issue of where graphics card would not properly downclock at 144Hz? It happens with my 970 and Swift, but not with my BenQ 144Hz G-Sync screen.
Last I heard this didn't happen to Titan X, so what about 980 TI?
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Hmm, it doesn't seem to be. Both my cards stay at normal clocks, not powering down. Although I also have my Windows power management set to Performance.

Mayh3M said:
Cool. I think its especially great to use SLI on a monitor like the Swift which has GSync and 144Hz.

I'll do an in-depth test using one and two cards at 3440x1440 60Hz once the cards arrive.
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It really has been great. After suffering through the Witcher 3 on Low settings, with some at Medium at 1920x1200 on a GTX 580, this feels like an entirely magical experience.

I just wish the SLI scaling is improved, along with Hairworks performance. I'd love to have my minimum fps be just a smidge over 60. :D
 
Have we heard anymore about the EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Superclocked ACX 2.0 being in stock anytime soon.

Its really irritating that a card that was supposed to be instock on the 3rd and is now over due with no ETA.
 
PullTheTricker said:
Anyone with a 980 TI + an RoG Swift know if the bios has finally been fixed yet for the issue of where graphics card would not properly downclock at 144Hz? It happens with my 970 and Swift, but not with my BenQ 144Hz G-Sync screen.
Last I heard this didn't happen to Titan X, so what about 980 TI?
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An easy fix is to set 120Hz in the desktop display. You still game at 144Hz but with it being 120hz on desktop, it downclocks to what it should. If I have 144Hz set on my TX, it doesn't downclock fully and sits quite high.
 
It seems the latest patch in the Witcher 3 is just what I needed! Just spend 2 hours playing at full Ultra 1440p, Hairworks, HBAO+, and Ultra Grass/Foliage and not a single dip below 60fps so far.

Averages of 75-85fps at the moment.

The cards peak and stay at 84 degrees with a Boost of 1290Mhz, fan never over 54% which in my NZXT H440 isn't all that audible. Within 2 minutes after exiting the game the cards idle at around 47 for top card, and 50 degrees bottom.

These reference coolers are doing a grand job keeping the hot air out.
 
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N19h7m4r3 said:
It seems the latest patch in the Witcher 3 is just what I needed! Just spend 2 hours playing at full Ultra 1440p, Hairworks, HBAO+, and Ultra Grass/Foliage and not a single dip be 60fps so far.

Averages of 75-85fps at the moment.
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Stop it! Making the itch to buy two 980ti's with blocks on stronger. I've had a hour on it tonight with the ROG Swift, had to turn some settings down with geforce experience and get anywhere between 45-55.
 
Giggz said:
Stop it! Making the itch to buy two 980ti's with blocks on stronger. I've had a hour on it tonight with the ROG Swift, had to turn some settings down with geforce experience and get anywhere between 45-55.
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Still using the 780's there? With a single 980ti on the previous patch I was averaging 45-50fps with the same settings as above.

G-Sync makes such a massive difference, I hated not being able to use it for 3 weeks.
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
Still using the 780's there? With a single 980ti on the previous patch I was averaging 45-50fps with the same settings as above.

G-Sync makes such a massive difference, I hated not being able to use it for 3 weeks.
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Yeah, 1080p not a problem had everything on ultra and hairworks on after the patch a few days ago I was running anywhere from 55-80.

1440p is a whole new experience, Most settings on medium and hairworks off to get the above fps. Gsync is showing it's active on the led and it runs smooth enough but I like my game settings maxed out and over 60fps.

Everything else I play currently (D3, CS:GO) does that just TW3 won't at 1440p.

Gregster said:
An easy fix is to set 120Hz in the desktop display. You still game at 144Hz but with it being 120hz on desktop, it downclocks to what it should. If I have 144Hz set on my TX, it doesn't downclock fully and sits quite high.
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Thanks for that wondered why my cards weren't dropping back to idle.
 
Gregster said:
An easy fix is to set 120Hz in the desktop display. You still game at 144Hz but with it being 120hz on desktop, it downclocks to what it should. If I have 144Hz set on my TX, it doesn't downclock fully and sits quite high.
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My 290X runs at full memory clock in 144Hz, core doesn't though, its daft tbh, as like you say, at 120Hz, the memory will run at idle as well :p
 
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Giggz said:
Yeah, 1080p not a problem had everything on ultra and hairworks on after the patch a few days ago I was running anywhere from 55-80.

1440p is a whole new experience, Most settings on medium and hairworks off to get the above fps. Gsync is showing it's active on the led and it runs smooth enough but I like my game settings maxed out and over 60fps.

Everything else I play currently (D3, CS:GO) does that just TW3 won't at 1440p.
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I hope the new Batman game doesn't have similar issues with Kepler based cards.
I'm surprised you need to drop some settings down to medium, that's harsh indeed.

The strangest is that at 1920x1200 my old 1.5GB GTX 580 easily played the game at medium settings, getting 45-55fps. Yet people on reddit with 770's had issues :(
 
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