Introduction
Just one GeForce GTX 980 Ti is already blazingly fast. So what to expect when you combine two, three or even four of these top of the line graphics cards? We tested just that, so you wouldn't have to!
At the start of June Nvidia introduced the Geforce GTX 980 Ti as a "cheaper" alternative for the GeForce GTX Titan X. Although a price of over 781 dollars is still a heavy price - many people would buy a complete PC for that... or even two - it's notably less than the Titan X, which is only a little bit faster according to our tests and thanks to its double amount of memory (12GB and 6 GB) would at the very most have any added value in very specific (GPGPU) situations. This results in the GTX 980 Ti being the best choice if you're looking for a card primarily meant for gaming.
The GTX 980 Ti might be overkill for many gamers, but for those with Ultra HD screens and wanting to play on the highest possible settings, a single GTX 980 Ti might not even suffice. Never mind edge cases combining several Ultra HD screens...
For the lucky few who have the money, it would be interesting to see what kind of performance you can expect from two, three or even four GTX 980s. But also if you are not in the microscopically small target group of 980 Ti SLI configurations, it's interesting to see what three or four of those monster cards can do. So, we got to it...
In what can by now be called a tradition, we received four ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti cards from our Belgian friends of Tones.be. We mounted these on our standard graphics card test platform, consisting of:
- Intel Core i7 5960X @ 4.0 GHz
- MSI X99S Gaming 9 AC motherboard
- 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 memory @ 2133 MHz 13-13-13-36-2T
- Samsung 840 Evo 1TB SSD
- Seasonic Platinum Series 1200W PSU
- NZXT Kraken X60 CPU-cooler
- Cooler Master Test Bench
After that, we ran our standard set 3D benchmarks, in SLI, 2-way SLI and even 3-way SLI. We used Nividia driver version 353.62 for this test.
In this review we won't discuss the technology underlying the Geforce GTX 980 Ti nor its stand alone capabilities. For that, we refer you to our initial review (in Dutch). On the next page there will be just benchmarks, benchmarks, and more benchmarks.
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