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Is SLI/Crossfire Worth it? Can you run different Graphics Cards in SLI?

2017-03-27
you know what's up guys Lew here back with another video and today we're going to be taking a look at dual graphics cars and its benefits and disadvantages some benchmarks and some facts so let's get into it so I got this question when I built my new computer because I have a GTX 1076 from Asus but I also got this case a to relax 1074 review and the question that came up in my mind was can you put in two different GPUs and I mean different in as different GPU vendors and can you run them in SLI without any special disadvantages so I did some research and it turns out that you can actually run two GPUs or more of the same core but you cannot run two different GPUs that have different core although you can actually do that if you want crossfire with AMD cards in that case you have to run cars within the same series so for example if you have an RX 480 and you get maybe a 470 you can run both of those in crossfire so at least when it comes to NVIDIA GPUs both cards of which you are running is to have different bass and boost clocks they will both run at the slower card boost and bass frequency but if you happen to have two cards with ample cooling like these two it's not an issue because both of the cars will boost pretty high on their own but do keep in mind that if you maybe have one card with a blower style cooler and one with the fans instead the blower style cooler is probably going to run a lot hotter and therefore the boost frequency will be lower on both cards so these two cards which I have and they both got up to about 1967 megahertz frequencies in SLI mode but on their own they both got around 50 megahertz above 2000 and below so they are still very fast so with it basic information out of the way let's first take a look at the individual benchmarks of these two cards so when comparing firestrike between these two there were just a 10-point difference which is like nothing so in that case they both have basically the same performance in time 5d x12 it's just a thirty point difference which still is not noticeable in performance so we'll just leave that up in skydiver however the case a two special acts got one thousand more points but the total score is fifty six thousand so that's one thousand in fifty six which is still not a lot in csgo though however the benchmarks were running on two different maps at the strict 1070 was running on nuke while the ka2 was running on dust2 which explains the pretty drastically difference in performance in terms of temperatures and noise and booth speeds the ka2 was not very loud at all and got up to 70 degrees while gaming and it boosted up to 2035 members districts 1070 was not loud either but did actually run three degrees hotter and therefore it also boosted a small bit lower than the cafe to but I do think these temperature differences come out because I did do the benchmark on two different days and the day of testing the sticks 1070 the ambient temperature was a lot higher because the Sun was out and we don't see that much Sun in freedom so with the individual benchmarks out of the way let's take a look at the sli benchmarks so in fire strike we got a pretty much double performance boost which is great but it's still a benchmarking test which is designed to take advantage of SLI but not many games actually do that so the actual gaming performance is the more important factors in battlefield 4 we did see a pretty big boost from 147 average FPS to 183 which is pretty decent but still not double the speed don't know if you can see that but it's a video notification from kc night at the vlog is back yes anyway let's get back into the day benchmark so in overwatch we did not see a very big boost whatsoever just a couple FPS is here and there so this time after life not really worth it in see a school we did not see a boost either we actually saw a decline in performance on the same map as well yook so that was weird in borderlands the pre-sequel we also did not see a boost whatsoever we actually saw a decrease in performance so yeah these numbers are quite interesting and in my opinion SLI is not worth it if you want to spend so much money on two graphics cards you do have a better bet of jet spending more for the better graphics card at 2/10 70s caused almost the same as one Titan X so in my opinion just get the Titan X here but yes to answer my individual question yes you can run two different graphics cards in the same system as long as we have the same kpu core so yeah that's the video I hope you guys got some kind of useful information and if you did please click that like button down below and also comment down below what you guys think of us-ally and I'll see you guys in the next video peace
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