which is better..2 GTX 1070 in SLI, or one GTX1080ti?

olblindman

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I am already running a 1070 card with 3 monitors in surround mode, and everything is fine. I do notice an occasional fps drop in some games at times, but other than that, it is good. I was considering obtaining a second 1070, OR going the route of a new 1080ti card. The second 1070 will be far more cost effective,but will I gain that much of an increase in performance? I have had other systems with SLI setups, and quite honestly never noticed much difference!
Thoughts gentlemen (and ladies)?
 
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Well in games that properly support SLI 2 1070s would likely outperform a single 1080 ti. The drawbacks are that few games especially more recent games support SLI properly or even at all. In those games having 2 cards in SLI could cause the game to not launch at all, have worse performance, run the same as it does with 1 card, or introduce various bugs and glitches.

I generally recommend single card setups over SLI nowadays

Dunlop0078

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Well in games that properly support SLI 2 1070s would likely outperform a single 1080 ti. The drawbacks are that few games especially more recent games support SLI properly or even at all. In those games having 2 cards in SLI could cause the game to not launch at all, have worse performance, run the same as it does with 1 card, or introduce various bugs and glitches.

I generally recommend single card setups over SLI nowadays
 
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