Question about SLI and power consumption

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Tachikoma said:

ran 850w on my sli 580s, i would recommend 800 or higher, two 570s on that psu will strain it to death, though for the price you could go with a single card that would outperform 570sli and not need a new psu (and get money from selling your 570)

vivster said:

I'd love to see someone bragging about getting a second 570 today^^

To be fair, if you were into 3d modelling and used vray, the 5xx series kicks the 6xx and 7xx series ass in terms of vray compute versus cost.

A 580 is faster at vray rendering than a 780ti, for example.

The difference is higher for v-ray rendering too, but sadly v-ray rendering speed is pretty much ignored by virtualy all review sites.

Interesting why you think this is? Also what cuda programms are effected?