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this isn't technically executing over the scalable link interface or SLI as there's no SLI bridge here the GTX 1060 s do not have SLI fingers so that means we can't connect them via the Nvidia bridge instead we're using the PCIe bus which is exposed through MDA or LD a explicit accessible in ashes of the singularity with DirectX 12 this is not something that will work on every game but just as a bit of fun I decided to run it through the test before you get into this benchmark this video is brought to you by MSI and their new MSI GTX 1060 gaming X video card which is one of the two that we use in this video so let me be clear up front in no way when we recommend buying two gtx 1060 s for use in a single system so this is strictly for fun we're really just looking at how it performs in the one use case I know of where a form of SLI will work even though it's not SLI its MDA or LD a explicit and so this test is just looking at that it's a curiosity and it's within the realm of because we can it doesn't mean you should go buy this so with that out of the way let's get to the benchmarks you can find our our X 480 crossfire benchmark by the way in another video on the channel for more information on that specific setup for this benchmark will be showing the our X 480 the RX 418 crossfire you can find the full crossfire benchmark in a separate video on the channel we'll also be showing of course 1060 1060 in a form of multi-gpu explicit multi-gpu with ashes of the singularity we're running the founders Edition and MSI gaming X versions of the 1060 we'll also have the 1080 or a form of it and the 1070 just for a reference point so the testing methodology is the same as is defined in our GTX 10 sixth review that's already live if you want the full in-depth review and methodology you can hit the link below for that let's look at the benchmarks here atras supports explicit multi GPU which has been coded by the developers to take advantage of DirectX 12 functionality this would also allow cross brand of video cards to be paired which we already did at the 917 390 X and for this test we ran mostly at 1080p and 4k with high settings that we've done so tests as well with both gtx 1060 s we're hitting 70 5.9 1 FPS in explicit multi-gpu that's the average FPS at 1080p high as opposed to 40 6.9 8 FPS average on the founders edition gtx 1060 and 48 FPS on the msi variant from the msi number that's a scaling of roughly 1.5 X and it's not bad for a configuration that's never going to be used anywhere and certainly better than a lot of games have been for SLI in the past when their post FX intensive anyway but most interestingly as you've likely already noticed the multi-gpu set up actually outperforms the single GTX 10 70s and even the GTX 1080 gaming X also by MSI this is pre overclocked at 1847 megahertz and set atop our bench results until now at 4k we move from 35.4 FPS average on the msi card and 34.1 FPS average on the efi card 260 2.79 FPS average on the dual cards that's pretty massive scaling is 1.77 x here and that's enough to push us well into the range of pretty fluid gameplay again we're pushing past the 1080 game in X and the crossfire Rx for 80s with this setup frame times have also been reduced at 1080 high we saw a reduction from 21.3 milliseconds average frame time latency to 13.1 7 milliseconds for KC's a dip from 29.3 milliseconds average frame time latency to 15.9 3 milliseconds so I guess if you really wanted to GT x10 60s and you're the world's only ashes of the singularity player then you could go this route there's also theoretical advantages in some production applications that may support multi GPU without SLI I know some programs from Adobe will support that though again it becomes a question of is it better to just buy a higher-end card which we haven't tested that for that specific production use case and in terms of full testing this isn't as in-depth as our GTX 1060 review so do go there for more on how these cards perform individually this test does make me legitimately curious as to the potential performance of the GTX 10 60s had SLI been supported but I'll spoil things now and remind everyone that we've ever once at least in recent years recommended sli or crossfire setups for anyone playing a lot of different types of games as the support is all over the map for specific use cases and implementations where multi-gpu is well supported it looks like the 1060 s could have made a good choice that run cheaper than a 1080 even but again this is all theoretical at this point also we didn't find the crossfire rx for 80s or the sli gtx 1070 s to be appealing for the vast majority of gaming so this is pretty much in step with what we've seen before where there are a few specific use cases that really make good sense and then a lot of places where you'd actually better off disabling the second card so that puts us back to where we started this was a test mostly just for fun and curiosity don't read too far into the results as always pay channeling the postal video if you want helps out directly you can hit the link the description below for the full GTX 1060 review the video is already on the channel thanks for watching I'll see you all next time