Will a GTX 980 ti sli setup run a tripple monitor setup?

HardwareLemon

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Hello everybody I was thinking about upgrading my gpu to 2 980 ti's. I have recently upgraded to a r9 295x2 and it is giving me too much trouble with crossfire in prety much every game with micro shuddering and so on i am not trying to max gta v out on this card because i know it cant handle it. I am running it along with 3 1920x1080 monitors which is 5760x1080 total resolution. So I was wondering if I upgraded to 980 ti sli setup would I get much better performance or would it be roughly the same. I know the 6gb frame buffer will be a bit better than the 4 on the 295x2. I play gta v just cause 2 and 3 soon, also minecraft so mostly hard core games if you consider minecraft a hard core game. Anyway I would like to run my games high to max settings with a playable fps of around 60 however I am willing to make a compromise in gta v because it seems like that is a very hardware intensive game. Idk if this is possible with these two cards in sli I have never had an nvidia card before and from what I hear and the benchmarks I've seen they seem to have a slight edge over amd in most catagories they also seem like they are more optimized for most games. And if i did decide to go this route i could take advantage of physX in batman arkham city and just cause 2 and so on .
My pc specs
I7 4770 (stock speeds)
16gb gddr3 corsair vengeance
R9 295x2
Evga supernova 1300 g2
Cooler master cosmos se full tower ATX case

Any answers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
-thanks
 
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A single GTX980Ti is already faster than a single R9 295x2 most of the times (games dependent).
2xGTX980Tis will be one hell lot faster than a single R9 295x2.
3x 1920x1080 has still around 20-30% less pixel/load than 4k. 2xGTX980Ti is highly recommended for 4k. This means, it should serve you well today on 3x 1080p for the most or all currently available demanding games.


BTW: the VRAM stacking on DX12 or any DX12 topics...just leave this topic in the closet for now and leave it there until DX12 became mainstream, it will take quite a while (several years).

Alexx2208

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Essentially, yes. I'm not aware if Just Cause 3 will be in dx12, but if it is, the VRAM stack(If it happens!!) will be helpful. Don't expect ridiculous FPS out of them though.

I'm actually receiving my Ti's tomorrow to essentially do exactly what you're doing, and ive been researching for about 2 months now.

Here's the link to the system requirements: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/surround/system-requirements
 

migronesien

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Yes, it will easily. SLI 980tis even run 4k most of the time totally fine, so 5760x1080 should be no problem at all.

5760 x 1080 = 6220800
3840 x 2160 = 8294400

So it should be no problem for SLI 980tis. :)

And you're right about the optimization. Especially SLI works a lot better than CF.
 
A single GTX980Ti is already faster than a single R9 295x2 most of the times (games dependent).
2xGTX980Tis will be one hell lot faster than a single R9 295x2.
3x 1920x1080 has still around 20-30% less pixel/load than 4k. 2xGTX980Ti is highly recommended for 4k. This means, it should serve you well today on 3x 1080p for the most or all currently available demanding games.


BTW: the VRAM stacking on DX12 or any DX12 topics...just leave this topic in the closet for now and leave it there until DX12 became mainstream, it will take quite a while (several years).
 
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