Is SLI worth it?

A new graphics card is the only thing that i have not upgraded yet. I have a MSI GTX 970 4G, and i was thinking about getting another one so i can SLI them. Is it worth it? It would set me back by only 150USD. Some might argue that the 970 is good on it's own and i kinda argree, i get stable 50-60 FPS on max settings in most games, but i want something more stable.

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no
SLI is a gimmick

actually this

This, but unironically.
SLI/Crossfire is dead.
Performance is inconsistent, power usage is huge.
You're better off buying a more powerful single GPU.
Also, reminder that the VRAM isn't additive on such a configuration. With 2 970 you're still stuck with 4GB (3.5GB?) VRAM.

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No

This. As much as it pains me to say, because SLI/X-fire setups look so fulfillingly complete, it's a dead end tech.

Everything is starting to use deferred rendering which doesn't work with SLI so no its fucking dead.

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just sell your 3,5 gb trash for 150 and get a 590 or 1060

>or
Both the 590 and 580 are objectively better than the 1060, there is no choice to be had.

Sadly made the mistake of thinking buying a 2nd gtx 780ti would be better than buying a 1080. It wasn't the case and the game i wanted fps boost on was still dipping below 144fps. No performance gain whatsoever. League of Legends btw. I have quit since then and my life has been better than ever though.

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Overclock it.

Maybe when proper DX12 or Vulkan implementations start becoming the norm. While crappy DX11-to-12 ports keep getting released, SLI/Crossfire is dead in the water and never gonna be worth it.

sli? yes
dual gpu? no

Unless you have the best single gpu out there, no. Even if you have a 2080ti it probably wouldn't be worth it.

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sli is ghey, sell your card and save the 150, then buy a 1070 or 980.

BASED

No it's not. It has no support and will actually run worse on some games unless you turn it off. You will see a much bigger performance increase if you just sell the 970 and upgrade.
t. Former owner of 2 gtx 970's

imo its worth buying a card that supports it like buying a 980 instead of a 1060 because they same speed but 980 supports SLI

or buying a 1080 or 1080ti rather than a 2070 because the 2070 doesn't support SLI

im it might be useful to have in the future and considering you are paying the same for both you should really get the card with the option to have it because it might improve etc and could considerably prelong life and resale value of card

No point in buying a 1080ti if you want sli, soon you will have trouble finding them.

Also SLI is dead for all intents and purposes, maybe if they replace SLI with NVLink one day, dual gpu setups will have non-workstation uses, but not right now or in the foreseeable future.

NVlink on 2xxx series is a dif connector but it still is just a SLI link. just uses the dif connector at SLI speeds prob because making nv bridge cables was cheaper or some thing or maybe they will update it shrugs.


I disagree buying a card with out SLI is a bad idea. considering you can buy one with it with same power for same price. the only exception is 2070 really as it has raytracing.