Originally posted by: JAG87
Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
Originally posted by: Acanthus
Jag is just plain wrong in this case.
GT SLI slaughters a single GTX across the board.
Just thought this needed repeating, since he keeps changing his criteria to make the GT look not as good as 99% of the review sites say it is.
And even the last link he provided "wholeheartedly recommended" the GT.
Those Crysis figures....IT IS A DEMO. NOT A REAL GAME YET. And the game isn't playable on any hardware at 1920 res, so it's an irrelevant comparison at this point.
And besides, how many people play at those extremely high resolutions? Less than 1%, I'm willing to bet.
Bottom line, OP has been provided with links to GT's in SLI, and all of the legitimate reviews have dual GT's crushing a single anything else in the vast majority of games AND demos that are out there.
While there MAY be a very few select scenarios that the GT might come off second to a single GTX, these are few and far between, and the overwhelming amount of tests show the dual GT is a better performer than a single anything.
In another year, that probably won't be the case, but you could say the same thing about any current card right now, including dual GTX's.
and that was the sentence I started my original reply with. SLI is only good for that, and in those scenarios the 8800GT seems to struggle because of its limited frame buffer and bandwith.
Acanthus, what exactly were you saving for later about the 8800GTS? look at the benchmark again, at 1920x1200 the GTS gets 13.2 fps while the GT gets 12 fps. weird for card thats as good as a GTX no? s houldn't it be getting close to 20fps?
to Cookie Monster who said that bandwith doubles with SLI:
you are dead wrong, you have no idea how SLI works. SLI splits the load between the 2 cards, but the card you have your monitor plugged into has the duty of putting the split frame together, or the alternate frames together, and output the final full resolution. this happens in the frame buffer of ONE card, not both.
I think I am in the position to make these comments since I have the hardware, and I have decided to stick with my year old GTXs for the time being, despite loosing a lot of resale value, until nvidia releases new cards that will actually outperform the 8800GTXs in my scenario.
n7 seems the only one who understands what I am trying to say, I just hope that the OP got it too. bottom line is SLI is only worth it when running VERY HIGH resolutions with high anti aliasing, and at those settings, the 8800GT struggles. Put it through your head, 512MB and 256-bit is not enough to render high res + high AA, which beats the whole purpose of having SLI in the first place.
do you even have SLI by the way? or am I talking to a "dont worry, I read AT and I know it all" type of person?
EDIT
thought Id throw this into the mix
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2115260&enterthread=y