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Dual GPU Battle: GTX 980 Ti SLI vs. Radeon R9 Fury X Crossfire

Posted by Soulskill on from the for-when-$1k-seems-like-a-reasonable-amount-to-spend-on-graphics dept.

jjslash writes: High-end GPU parts from Nvidia and AMD are plenty fast, these days. While top-end cards from both can provide playable performance at 4K, many games dip down to and below 30fps. Folks looking to achieve smooth 4K gameplay will undoubtedly be eyeing dual GTX 980 Ti or Fury X cards to realize their PC gaming machine's full potential. TechSpot puts both cards to the test in SLI and Crossfire modes, at stock and overclocked speeds in over 10 games to see who gets the bragging rights. As it turns out, AMD has a tiny advantage in average frame rates. The two split wins on frame time, but AMD won by bigger margins. When the cards get overclocked, Nvidia is the clear winner, and power consumption favors Nvidia as well.

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  1. Please enlighten me by whathappenedtomonday · · Score: 2

    4k is cool and all, I get it. Still, why would I want my PC to render 4k at suboptimal frame rates, when I can play at full HD and have the display present me those 1080px in a way no native HD display could do? Really, I want one of those things just for the real estate and the freedom to place more better looking windows where I want and need them, but for gaming at native resolution, I just don't get it.

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    1. Re:Please enlighten me by The+Real+Dr+John · · Score: 2

      I agree. When monitors are 40 or 50 inch, then 4K will make sense for gaming. I just don't see it now. You need a lot of screen real estate to take advantage of that many pixels.

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    2. Re:Please enlighten me by alvinrod · · Score: 2

      Someone always has to pay the cost so that the bleeding edge can become commonplace. Enthusiasts pay for the high cost, high margin products that help make up for selling the mid-range run of the mill parts at low margins to the rest of us. Yesterday's luxury is today's commodity.

    3. Re:Please enlighten me by FlyHelicopters · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I agree. When monitors are 40 or 50 inch, then 4K will make sense for gaming. I just don't see it now. You need a lot of screen real estate to take advantage of that many pixels.

      If that were true, then there would be no need for Anti Aliasing...

      Since there is, then your point is simply incorrect...

      Until there is no need for AA, then the resolution isn't high enough.

    4. Re:Please enlighten me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      You need a lot of screen real estate to take advantage of that many pixels.

      Not really. 28" at 2' occupies the same visual arc as 42" at 3'.

    5. Re:Please enlighten me by lordofthechia · · Score: 2

      When monitors are 40 or 50 inch, then 4K will make sense for gaming

      What do you mean, "when"?. 40+ inch UHD ("4K") gaming monitors are already here! Even comes with freesync.

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    6. Re:Please enlighten me by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

      More pixels per inch means better resolution with less detail-killing antialiasing. Back when resolutions over 1600x1200 were a lot I used to regularly get kills on people who couldn't even see me yet in FPSes because I had a big fancy .22 pitch monitor.

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  2. A smoking hot combo in the late 1990's... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3

    Nvidia TNT2 for Windows desktop and software-rendered games, and a pair of 3Dfx Voodoo 2 SLI boards for 3Dfx games. Got me through many rounds of Quake and Quake 2. Now get off my lawn!

  3. In over 10 games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can marketing majors everywhere please quit using this sentence?

    Just say how many. Quit with the "Over X" bullshit. Every time I read that, I hear DUR IM PADDING NUMBERS BC IM STUPID.