Wednesday, July 11th 2018

An Anthem for SLI: Bioware's New Universe in 60 FPS 4K Run on Two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti GPUs

Lo and Behold: SLI working properly. This was my first reaction whilst reading up on this potential news piece (which, somewhat breaking the fourth wall, actually did end up as one). My thought likely isn't alone; it's been a while since we heard of any relevant dual graphics card configuration and performance improvement now, as developers seem to be throwing dreams of any "Explicit Multi-GPU" tech out of the water. This slight deviation from the news story aside, though: Anthem needed two of the world's fastest GPUs running in tandem to deliver a 4K, 60 FPS experience.

Naturally, this doesn't mean that much by now: performance will improve, optimizations will happen - perhaps a watering of the graphics will happen (to be fair, we have seen that before, so the precedent is there). We know that. Still, it does speak volumes that that kind of graphics power was needed. Still, SLI'd GTX 1080Ti graphics cards for 4K and 60 FPS really isn't that extravagant: remember that the Cyberpunk 2077 demo from E3 ran at 1080p on a single such graphics card. Anthem used double the graphics power to push through a fourfold resolution increase - not too shabby. Anthem is just 7 months away (February 22nd) from release, though, while the bets are still off for Cyberpunk 2077. Still, both games look glorious, and Bioware's Anthem really does showcase the Frostbite engine as never seen before. Digital Foundry even seems to think that the showcased demo wasn't running with the full effects galore they observed on their playthroug at E3 - screen-space reflections were absent, for one. It seems the PC version of the game could look even better than what it does right now. Here's to that.

Sources: TechRadar, Digital Foundry
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81 Comments on An Anthem for SLI: Bioware's New Universe in 60 FPS 4K Run on Two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti GPUs

#76
hyp36rmax
RealNeilOk, all of my SLI setups are using exact same model number cards. (1070, 1070Ti, 1080FE)
They use the same clocks.
Maybe that's why I'm not seeing the stuttering that you are?
This is correct. I'm in the same situation using the exact card and core clocks. Pretty sure if he was to tune one of the cards to match the other T for T, he would remedy his situation.
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#77
cadaveca
My name is Dave
hyp36rmaxThis is correct. I'm in the same situation using the exact card and core clocks. Pretty sure if he was to tune one of the cards to match the other T for T, he would remedy his situation.
Absolutely. However, I review PC hardware, and have been for a decade. A "normal" user that isn't aware of such things like I am would simply think it's broken, and again, this leads to people not being happy with SLI. I mean, it was impossible for me to buy a second identical card... I had the "plain" gaming card first. When I got the GamingX card, the "plain" ones were sold out completely.

To me, this is a quality control issue. I mean, it completely objectified why brands having several versions of the same card, but with different clocks, is actually a good thing, but then again, it's something that is caused by Boost, not the default clocks. The only solution is for me to run 3rd-party software all the time to force the cards to the same clocks, which then tends to affect idle clocks. It's stupid, and really the fault of boost.
RealNeilOk, all of my SLI setups are using exact same model number cards. (1070, 1070Ti, 1080FE)
They use the same clocks.
Maybe that's why I'm not seeing the stuttering that you are?
The thing is, it's not exactly stuttering. It's a completely perfect frame, but the lighting flickers when it shouldn't, or fog flickers, or similar post-processing effects. Like, I even understand where in the graphical pipeline this clock difference is causing an issue, but others may simply think it's a bad card, and end up in some weird RMA circle that does nobody any good.

SLI not working right, but nothing wrong with a card, causing RMAs... that's a significant problem.

Now maybe you understand why I take the position I do.
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#78
RealNeil
cadavecaThe thing is, it's not exactly stuttering.
And my usage isn't exactly normal. I play shooters and they're not really all that taxing for my hardware. So what I'm seeing may be due to hardware overkill and blind luck.
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#79
Keicho2
You all talk so bullshit. I have 1080ti sli for 1 year and im super satisfied. The witcher 3 on my 4k 144hz monitor at 90 fps max settings. Ffxv Max settings around 75 fps. Ffxiv online at 130fps. I see an increase of up to 90% in the fps. Without sli run the witcher 3 only with 50fps 4k.
also i Never hat Micro stutter Not One Time.

Whenu Never used sli Stop speaking Bad qbout it. Micro stutter was a Problem 3 Year ago and isnt a Problem anymore
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#80
Soilworker2112
UpgrayeddDo you have SLI? Cause there's some people here saying its fine, over multiple generations.
Seems to be a lot of inexperienced, word of mouth, SLI haters, but I'm an idiot for wanting to try


Mid range sli was eating into Nvidia's high end sales so they stopped that. It really is that simple.
1070ti SLI, 3440X1440 21:9 ultrawide FTW
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#81
trog100
sli works fine for me there is only one snag.. the scaling on some games is crap making it not that good value for money.. i have just swapped from pair of 1070 cards in sli mode to a single 2080ti.. which does show how well i think sli works... its taken a pretty powerful (and expensive) single card for me to stop using it.. he he

trog
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