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hey guys welcome to harbor unboxed i'm your host Matt and today we have in hand a pair of fury exes and a pair of 980 t is for some crossfire this SLI action game is keen to enjoy that ultrasharp 4k image quality are going to require Lisa fury acts or 980 TI however to ensure smooth playable performance you're probably going to need two of these monster GPUs because both SLI and crossfire performance is entirely dependent on driver support testing with just a few games wouldn't really paint an overall picture of the performance therefore we've cracked out over 20 of the latest titles to see which pair of cards really delivers the best 4k experience for a full list of the test system specs please check the video description below first up ARMA 3 benefited slightly from multiple GPUs and performance was pretty even from both teams in terms of frame time those the 980 TI was slightly better as a single cards in the fury axe even in crossfire Assassin's Creed unity was a lot faster in both multi-gpu setups with the fury axe in crossfire taking the scalp the 980 TI in sli did have slightly better frame times although the difference was pretty negligible in battlefield 4 performance is pretty even across the board and multi-gpu technologies scaled well for both camps for frame time the fury axe in crossfire was the clear winner at just 13.5 milliseconds cod advanced warfare coupled with the 980 TI SLR setup had a much higher minimum frame rate compared to the fury action crossfire although it both were very high frame time scores were all pretty similar within a couple of milliseconds of each other save for the 980 TI single card set up the 980 TI is in sli with clear winners in civilization particularly in terms of minimum frame rate yes a liar configuration also got the not in terms of frame time taking just sixteen point six milliseconds between frames crysis 3 it was another even fight with virtually identical results across the board in average frames and minimum frames the fury axe in crossfire however was the best performer in terms of frame rate at just 27 point 9mm both multi-gpu technologies scout at well in dragon age inquisition with the 980 TI is getting the slight edge crossfire led the pack again in terms of frame time at just 16 point nine milliseconds the 980 TI seemed to suit down lights demands with a decent advantage in both single and multi GPU configurations this advantage continued in the frame time realm but the fury ax is much more consistent in crossfire mode performance is quite even across the board in f1 2015 with multi-gpu technology even though neither aimed in Noren video support their multi-gpu technologies in F 1 2015 yet we still included it as it is a good example of what happens in games that don't yet have driver support as you can see due to the lack of driver support single card configurations of it's slightly better performance these results would provide a purely out of interest and we won't factor them into our overall results far cry 4 prefers the fury ex both in single card and multi-gpu configurations this was consistent with our frame time results too with the fury a crossfire configuration delivering the best results just 14.2 milliseconds GTA 5 benefits from the multi card configs with pretty healthy framerate boosts in both instances and the SLI 980 TI was six to seven frames faster than the fury axe and cross fire again these results were pretty consistent in terms of frame time but there wasn't a significant difference with any configuration grid Autosport loves the 980 TI it was able to edge out the fury x in crossfire mode with just a single card that said sli wasn't a heap better than the single card performance either again these results were consistent in the frame time scores too with the single 980 TI beating out our crossfire configuration crossfire produced awesome results in hitman edging out the 980 TI and sli by quite a few frames in terms of frame time whether the SLR compu produce the best results of 19.6 milliseconds metro redux benefits from multi-gpu setups the 980 TI edge data crossfire in terms of average frames but the minimum frame rate was lower crossfire produced the lowest frame time score as well so you best playing experience will probably be with this setup middle-earth was significantly faster with multi-gpu and both camps are quite evenly matched with the 980 TI is offering a higher minimum frame rate the SLI setup also offered much lower frame time at 26.6 milliseconds compared to 46.1 it's well known that AMD has performance problems of project cars and as you can see one of those problems is crossfire scaling single card performance is pretty weak as well frame times are also poor from the fury acts in both crossfire and single card configuration multi-gpu set up significantly boosted Sleeping Dogs performance with crossfire fury axe is edging out the 980 TI and sli on average although the Nvidia set up had a higher minimum frame rate frame times were very even apart from the single fury apps config which suffered a little both teams are pretty even in the witcher 3 a multi-gpu setups made to gave a lot more playable crossfire was the clear winner in terms of frame time a thirty eight milliseconds compared to 57.8 from the single card 980 TI and 58.9 in sli thief loves crossfire and crossfire love steve it wiped the floor with sli and delivered 69 frames per second on average although the minimums were quite close friend times told the same story with much better scores from the fury acts in crossfire performance was pretty similar in Tomb Raider between both teams with the 980 TI is coming out just on top this was repeated in terms of frame time with the ethyl I set up coming in at 19 point nine milliseconds crossfire was a big winner in total war 11 frames better on average and an 11 frame better minimum frame rate crossfire was also much better in terms of frame time with 28.4 millisecond score compared to 44.6 from the sli set up crossfire one is gaining watchdogs with 77 points for second on average and a minimum frame rate of 65 the 980 TI is in sli had better frame home so ever at 19.6 milliseconds performance would be great regardless of whether you choose the fury axe or the 980 TI out of the 21 games we tested which excludes f 1 2015 we found on average that those the crossfire and SLR configurations delivered the same average frame rate performance when looking at the minimum frame rates on average the fury X cards of six percent slower and four percent slower comparing frame times so even though performance as much the same if we had to pick a winner it would be the gtx 980 TI the 980 TI wasn't just faster when comparing minimum frame rates and frame times but also consumed up to 100 watts less power whilst doing it and also don't forget you can get a little over 10 percentage of performance through overclocking still whichever way you go it's great to see both AMD and NVIDIA doing a great job of supporting latest titles allowing for some truly impressive 4k performance this has been Matt for Hardware I'm box let me know what you think in the comments don't forget to hit like hit subscribe and we'll see you next time