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TheJimbo1234 on 02 March 2014
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lucidium said:
TheJimbo1234 said:
lucidium said:
TheJimbo1234 said:

Dual chip gpus tend to always have better performance than native SLI. As for your work, it is still diminishing returns as you are buying top  end gpus.

The cuda cores expontentially increase rendering speeds and allow for much more complex computation in a short amount of time, a large part of what my work entails, iray stacks sli cores beautifully and makes every bit of use of them as it possibly can.

Besides, I can pay for all three titan blacks with one weeks salary, so telling me buying these things for work will give me "diminishing returns" is absolutely laughable.


So why the heck don't you have Nvidias actual professional line which come with far more cuda cores than? From how it looks, you merely have a horrible hybrid which is an overkill gaming PC and a poor work station combined. I smell a rat here.

Because I already own a substantially more expensive tesla K20X (as i have mentioned many times before on these forums), the K20X however is piss poor for gaming, so right now the configuration is the dual xeon server with the K20X networked as a render slave, then the two more versitile systems for myself and my wife to use for games, while assisting with gpu rendering when needed.

It's not rocket science, but it seems more like you want to push your agenda of "no matter what you say or what you use it for your gpus are a waste", which as i've illustrated, is quite stupid.

TheJimbo1234 said:

Dual chip gpus tend to always have better performance than native SLI. As for your work, it is still diminishing returns as you are buying top  end gpus.

And yet, they don't.

the RRP of two GTX680 was $1 cheaper than the RRP of the 690, but in reality going SLI 680 panned out at being anywhere from $50 to $150 cheaper, yet consistantly performed better, and only used around 30W more power at maximum load, the same outcome is reflected in every dual GPU version compared to SLI of two cards of the same family, so you're just plain wrong.

NotStan said:
Jeez wtf has this thread turned into.

I ended up picking up GTX 750ti with ACIV for £120 on the bay, even if it does drop sub 100, it's not really that much of an effect on me atm.

Tbh i think hes just raging because theres people on this forum that know what theyre talking about.

Nice choice btw, should last you quite well for the price.


So they are overpowered gaming rigs as I said because what game maxes out a single 780ti?

 http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/asus-mars-760,review-32876-4.html

Everyone knows the Titan was an overpriced marketting gimmick from Nvidia. Buying one for any reason is a complete waste of money. You either go Quadro for work, or SLI much cheaper cards for better gains.