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welcome back to harbor unboxed now today's video is just a quick follow-up to the testing feature than yesterday's 50 GPU comparison in Far Cry 5 since completing the big benchmark video in video released their game ready driver I knew they'd drop that shortly after the video went live though they haven't noted any performance improvements and said they've just said this new driver delivers an optimal gaming experience far cry 5 since Nvidia is making no bold claims I wasn't really expecting much but there is at least some performance uplift and we'll look at that in a moment something else I wasn't expecting was so many of you requesting multi-gpu benchmarks have you learnt nothing just kidding guys that was just a joke but yeah I suppose when will I learn you just don't joke about these things during GPU wars anyway I decided to retest a few high-end NVIDIA GPUs with the new driver and then I tried that SLI with the gtx 1070 TI cards and found ok scaling performance frame time performance was also good and the experience of 4k was actually very nice that said I also decided to test out crossfire with Vega 56 and I found what I'd say was a bit better than ok ok so first things first the new Nvidia 390 1.35 driver and as expected the gains are minimal the GTX 1082 I was around 3% faster at most we saw about a 4% performance gain we're looking at a 1 to 3 FPS increase here so this is probably why Nvidia didn't make any performance claims still future drivers may improve things further but as I noted in my previous video the experience with the GeForce graphics cards are still very good it just seems like a Vega is being well utilized here the previous generation maxwell parts for example we're able to match and even beat the Radeon 300 series so in videos GPUs certainly aren't handicapped by any means he's a quick look at how the high-end model stack up after the new NVIDIA GeForce driver as you can see Vega 56 still roughly matches the GTX today at 14:40 P well Vega 64 is still noticeably faster the margin between Vega 64 liquid and the G x10 atti has grown slightly but in any case the gtx 1080 TI was the better value option here even in this title now for the multi-gpu results and I have to say I'm somewhat impressed at least when looking at the 4k results starting with 1440p though we only see a 42% increase for both the average and 1% low figures for the gtx 1070 TI cards when compared to the single card configuration the vega 56 models weren't much better the 1% low figure was improved by just 33% while we saw 47% more frames on average both crossfire and sli provided less than a 50% performance uplift here so that's pretty poor to be honest however at 4k the gtx 1070 TI sli cards improved to the 1% lower result by 44% and provided almost 60% more frames on average that's not great but it's not bad either like I said earlier I'd characterize this result as OK the Vega 56 crossfire cards those saw a 65 percent boost to the 1 percent low result and a whopping 80 percent uplift for the average frame rate and that's much better than ok it's obviously not perfect scaling but we are talking about SLI and crossfire here after all and I'll take 80% every day of the week beyond just numbers on a graph in game performance was excellent as well both SLI and crossfire proved to be very smooth the only issue I encountered with the Vega 56 cards was that the rivatuner statistics overlay that I often used to show you guys various statistics that would flicker like mad not the game itself just the statistics overlay but things like fraps did work ok here's a quick look at some 4k gameplay using the Vega 56 crossfire cards and please note I'm using re-live to record the footage so there is a small amount of overhead they're still the performance he reflects exactly what I saw with the built-in benchmark as the frame rates mostly hovered around the mid-70s despite the solid result here I still don't really like SLI or crossfire as game support is limited and it's often just more of a headache than it's worth but that's really just my opinion so take that as you will but as someone who has the option of running to 1080 TI's or to Vega 64 liquid cards in my own personal gaming rig I simply choose not to again in my opinion it's just a waste that said if by some miracle you only seem to play games that do have great multi-gpu support like far cry 5 and you must game at 4k with all the eye candy turned up then SLI and crossfire can be useful and that is going to do it for this one was just a quick little update video but I hope you enjoyed it all the same and if you did hit the like button for us of course subscribe for more content you've appreciate the work we do here at harbor unbox and consider supporting us on patreon thanks for watching I'm your host Steve see you next time