nVidia GTX 1080 or 2x SLi GTX 980 Tis?

[MJD]

So I'm considering upgrading my video card now that the 1080 GTX is available.  I currently have a EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 06G-P4-1996-KR 6GB HYBRID GAMING, "All in One" No Hassle Water Cooling (http://goo.gl/NKz5Go). Would it be better to simply run two GTX 980 Tis or one 1080 GTX? I'm fairly certain going with the two GTX 980 Tis in SLi is the better option, but I have never actually ran any cards in SLi, plus my monitors support G-Sync and I deffinetly want to continue to make usre of the G-Sync capabilities.

 

My complete system specs:

CPU
    Intel Core i7 5930K @ 3.50GHz    40 °C
    Haswell-E/EP 22nm Technology
RAM
    32.0GB Unknown @ 1223MHz (15-15-15-35)
Motherboard
    ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. SABERTOOTH X99 (SOCKET 2011)    38 °C
Graphics
    Acer XB280HK (3840x2160@60Hz)
    Acer XB280HK (3840x2160@60Hz)
    4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (EVGA)    41 °C
Storage
    2794GB Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN166 (SATA)    42 °C
    2794GB Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN166 (SATA)    41 °C
    1117GB NVMe INTEL SSDPEDMW01 (SCSI)

[xendrome]

No brainer, Single 1080GTX.. not a lot of games take advantage of SLI and the gains can be minimal.

[Jim K Global Moderator]

Yep, I would agree with xendrome.  Though you can get your particular 980ti for around 520 bucks on Newegg (iirc).  Sooo...yea....you might be stuck with the whole SLI quirk (maybe it'll work...maybe it won't...maybe it won't be optimized).  I haven't seen any benchmarks comparing the 1080 to the 980ti in SLI ... though I'm assuming they will be around the same (but you do get 2GB more VRAM w/ the 1080).

 

Ooooor....you could wait (I guess a year or so) for the 1080ti.   The 980ti is no slouch ... so unless you have a specific need ... I would just hang on to it.

[MJD]

Kind of surprised with the vote for the 1080, thanks for the input!

[MJD]

Just did some quick research on SLi supported games and I'm jaw dropped amazed at how many games do not support SLi! So... who wants to buy a GTX 980 Ti EVGA Hybrid cooling video card? 

[Andre S. Veteran]

Not sure about SLI+GSync but it's probably supported. 2 GTX 980 Tis will definitely smoke the GTX 1080 in most games. Been running a SLI setup for the past 3 years and it's been very reliable. Keep in mind you get a bit more display latency, but I assume that with 60hz screens you're not that worried about that aspect. You can always disable SLI for those games where you do care about latency (e.g. CS:GO or the like), that's what I do anyway.

[Raa]

22 minutes ago, MJD said:

Just did some quick research on SLi supported games and I'm jaw dropped amazed at how many games do not support SLi! So... who wants to buy a GTX 980 Ti EVGA Hybrid cooling video card? 

LOL.

For the price of a 10x0 card, probably works out the better deal!

 

 

[Circaflex]

Single card FTW. I will always recommend a single card solution over two, I have done both XFire and SLI and they are hit or miss. Some games work great, some dont. I'd rather not spend time fiddling with settings/configs to get them to work properly. Not to mention, overclocking one card is easier than two.