Does SLI/Crossfire scale well with indie / early access games?

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Recently I've been wanting to go 4k, i play a lot of games including games like GTA V, Farcry 4 etc.

However most of my time is spent playing indie games made by smaller companies. Also i play a lot of early access games.

I have the choice of either buying an R9 295x2 for £430 ($678) or the GTX 980ti / R9 Fury x (when released)

My worry is that these early access and indie games won't do well in an SLI or Crossfire setup. However the R9 295x2 is incredibly cheap right now. Whereas the 980ti is about £550 to £650 ($867 to $1025)
 
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Those games should run just fine if you crossfire 290x. They are not really the type of indie I had in mind.

In any case, my friend play cs go in 4K with one card. If you ever have the issue that performance is reduced because you crossfire, you can just disable one of the cards and try then. Though you shouldn't really face too many problems. Crossfire/SLI is required to run most titles in 4K, though there are some exceptions of course.
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I can't say for indie games, but I know for a fact it doesn't work well with CS: GO at least.

My friend is running SLI 970, and he have to disable it whenever he play less demanding games. He actually gets worse performance in CS: GO than with one card.

So I would guess that some titles might not be optimized for it and would not scale well with SLI.
 
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I would say most to all of them won't really offer any sort of SLI/Xfire support.
And even high budget games that do don't do it well.
Just get the single strongest card you can and you'll be better off.

I don't think getting 800 FPS in Game Dev Tycoon is gonna really make the game any better anyways.
 
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I disagree with this. The OP is talking about going to 4K and there aren't any single GPUs that are good for 4K. I also run SLI 970s and they work well with all the major releases. For the person who said they don't work well for CS:GO I get between 180-200FPS in that game. That's far more than my 60Hz monitor can display so I don't see the point in getting any more than that.

For indie and Early Access games SLI probably won't really add anything but running it doesn't hurt it either. The game just runs of one card instead of two if it doesn't support SLI. I play lots of indie games that barely require any power and I never have to turn of SLI to play them.

Like I said, many indie games might not have SLI profiles but most of them can also run on just about any hardware. You won't need SLI to play those games well so the fact that it won't have an SLI profile means nothing.
 
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Yeah my friend gets 200+ fps in CS: GO with SLI. That was never the issue. The issue is that it doesn't handle it very well, so even though it is 200 fps or whatever, it's very choppy for him. He has a 4K G-Sync monitor.

Of course it might just be his PC having the issue somehow, I really don't know what's causing it. Just giving some relevant information.
 
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The types of early access games i play are rust, ark survival, h1z1, savage lands etc

Most of them run well on my gtx 780 in 1080p. Rust gets around 120fps but savage lands for example gets around 40-60fps.

I am only worried that the single r9 290x will not be able to run these games at 60fps 4k
 
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Those games should run just fine if you crossfire 290x. They are not really the type of indie I had in mind.

In any case, my friend play cs go in 4K with one card. If you ever have the issue that performance is reduced because you crossfire, you can just disable one of the cards and try then. Though you shouldn't really face too many problems. Crossfire/SLI is required to run most titles in 4K, though there are some exceptions of course.
 
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