Best Nvidia card for SLI @1920x1080???

[HardwareFanatic]

Been reading a lot of reviews lately about all the new cards (770, 780 etc) and they all seen to improve in performance when played at high resolutions.
I personally don't like Multi screen gaming and I only play on a BenQ 120Hz monitor. (I do have another monitor but that's for easier multi-tasking)
I'm wanting a bit more umph with my next build so I was wondering what the best GPU from Nvidea is to have in SLI (2 or 3 way doesn't matter)

Money is not an object here guys

Any help would be great ^_^

Thanks in advance

- Kyle

 

[Seirrah]

If you have only a single screen I would imagine getting a single card is enough.

 

[Phixsator]

3 way seems like a bit of a waste at 1080p. Sli Titans will give you what you want since money is not an object or sli 780 even which i would pick personally. If you want excuse for tri-sli you might want to consider a Qnix QX2710LED 1440p monitor and OC that bad boy to 100hz+ which should be very easy. Click here for an unboxing of it

May i ask why you are only considering nvidia? just the prefered brand or some other reason?

 

[James J]

Budget? I use a BenQ 144hz monitor at the same res and you need some real gpu grunt in a few titles if you want ultra settings and well over 100fps! If you can live without maxing out AA in everything, go for the budget option of 2x 660 sli. The best price/performance ratio atm is in favour of AMD, with the 7950 xfire being really good value, but obviously not nvidia. If money isn't too much of an issue, look at getting 2x 670s whilst the price has dropped due to the 770 launch. Really capable cards and now at a far better price than before.

You could do a "me" and get 2x titan sli, but at the moment they dont really stretch their legs as only a handful of titles have issues playing at around or over 120fps constant, namely crysis 3 when using anything more than 4xMSAA and tomb raider using tressFX hair with higher than ultra preset settings (4xSOAA also). Metro last light pretty much sits on 144fps without 2xSOAA, but with is sits at just over 100, which isn't noticable either way lol.

What cpu and mobo combo do you have, as that can influence what you can actually buy in terms of cpu scaling.

 

[James J]

3 way seems like a bit of a waste at 1080p. Sli Titans will give you what you want since money is not an object or sli 780 even which i would pick personally. If you want excuse for tri-sli you might want to consider a Qnix QX2710LED 1440p monitor and OC that bad boy to 100hz+ which should be very easy. Click here for an unboxing of it

May i ask why you are only considering nvidia? just the prefered brand or some other reason?

Yeah I'd also pick 2x 780s over 2 titans now as the price difference doesn't justify the performance gap at all.

 

[Tonester0011]

Two 770s would be my call, no real point going for the faster 780. You wont really see the benefit playing @1080 120hz.

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[whyscotty]

Two 770s would be my call, no real point going for the faster 780. You wont really see the benefit playing @1080 120hz.
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^^^
This

 

[HardwareFanatic]

3 way seems like a bit of a waste at 1080p. Sli Titans will give you what you want since money is not an object or sli 780 even which i would pick personally. If you want excuse for tri-sli you might want to consider a Qnix QX2710LED 1440p monitor and OC that bad boy to 100hz+ which should be very easy. Click here for an unboxing of it

May i ask why you are only considering nvidia? just the prefered brand or some other reason?

Yeh preferred brand ^_^

 

[HardwareFanatic]

Seems 770 SLI would be great but I've read a few reviews on SLI performance and they say in the conclusion that if you have a 1920x1080 setup then you should stick to 1 :/
Hmm time to do some thinking

 

[Phixsator]

Two 770s would be my call, no real point going for the faster 780. You wont really see the benefit playing @1080 120hz.

Actually since money isnt an issue i would stick to the 780. If we have had this convo back when the 600 series released i would been 100% with you but considering that the 770 is just a glorified 680 all the way down to the chip, where the 780 is a sized down titan which should lead to much better minimums is those extremely heavy rendering scenarios(even at 1080p). Just take a look at Metro last light for one. It also helps to have the extra grunt in games that arnt to good a port to begin with. There is also PhysX performance where the 600 series(and therefor also the 770) is known to be "not that great", that should go away with a 780 under the hood due to the much better compute performance. Second graph here shows an example of that

Yeh preferred brand ^_^

Fair enough

 

[HardwareFanatic]

Actually since money isnt an issue i would stick to the 780. If we have had this convo back when the 600 series released i would been 100% with you but considering that the 770 is just a glorified 680 all the way down to the chip, where the 780 is a sized down titan which should lead to much better minimums is those extremely heavy rendering scenarios(even at 1080p). Just take a look at Metro last light for one. It also helps to have the extra grunt in games that arnt to good a port to begin with. There is also PhysX performance where the 600 series(and therefor also the 770) is known to be "not that great", that should go away with a 780 under the hood due to the much better compute performance. Second graph here shows an example of that


Fair enough

Thanks for advice

 

[opethdisciple]

You could even go 670 SLI at this res and save a heap of cash.

2 of these for instance.

The reason why I think this is more cost effective than 770's in SLI is the 770 still only has 2Gb of Vram. Meaning the 670 in SLI will have the same performance untill they both reach vram limitations.

At least thats what my limited knowledge tells me.

 

[Phixsator]

You could even go 670 SLI at this res and save a heap of cash.

2 of these for instance.

The reason why I think this is more cost effective than 770's in SLI is the 770 still only has 2Gb of Vram. Meaning the 670 in SLI will have the same performance untill they both reach vram limitations.

At least thats what my limited knowledge tells me.

Dont forget situations where sli doesnt work at all. You want raw grunt power there. Since this isnt a request to find the best performance/dollar card but just the best performance the 780 would still be the best bet IMHO

 

[opethdisciple]

Dont forget situations where sli doesnt work at all. You want raw grunt power there. Since this isnt a request to find the best performance/dollar card but just the best performance the 780 would still be the best bet IMHO

I suppose so, but the 770 isnt miles ahead of the 680 and those cards are close to 680 speeds.

 

[Reality|Bites]

Just buy one GTX 780 for now and see how it performs, if you want more just buy another a month or 2 later on?

 

[Arcane]

I've got 2 x 670's and whilst they're great at 1080p 144hz for most games, Crysis 3, Tomb Raider and Far Cry 3 hardly fly at 1080p so I'd get the best you can personally, they're also fairly weak in 3D (which I think is excellent) so i'm upgrading to 780s. Don't get Crossfire, save yourself the grief and go SLI if you want Multi-GPU.

 

[James J]

I've got 2 x 670's and whilst they're great at 1080p 144hz for most games, Crysis 3, Tomb Raider and Far Cry 3 hardly fly at 1080p so I'd get the best you can personally, they're also fairly weak in 3D (which I think is excellent) so i'm upgrading to 780s. Don't get Crossfire, save yourself the grief and go SLI if you want Multi-GPU.

This is why i went for tiyans when they launched. 780s are better value though.

 

[Deceptor]

I run 2x670's in SLI for 1080p 120Hz which do a fantastic job, but If I was buying now I'd go with 770's (that said you'd save money on 670's).

Could go with 2x780 but it's a big jump in cost