How many users have SLI/Crossfire?

[Red Dragon-DK]

Originally Posted by BRIGGBOY

i voted for a single card as i only have 1 gtx 670 at the mo but i will be adding another at the end of the month. so maybe there should be a otion for those who do intend to sli/xfire

Mabye you should just have voted SLI?

[335th_GRDedalos]

Originally Posted by Red Dragon-DK

Mabye you should just have woted SLI?

+1

I think that most of the users are using a single card cause they know that a SLI or Xfire simple won't work.

[mazex]

But an important note is that this community is probably nerd heaven... A lot of engineers with to much money that love aircraft and hardware I guess (I know that the flying club I've been a member of for a long time has something like 50% engineers so I guess this group is rather similar).

So we are the "few" in regards of the whole target group that is 500.000 plus "medium high average" users... And looking at the Steam Hardware survey from August 2012 the percent of the "average" gamer that has a GTX 580 GPU is 1.16%, and the number of GTX 680 users is 0.51%. In the sigs here it looks more like 50% 580, 20% 680 and 30% other stuff with high end ATI and a bunch of 560:s.

Check it out yourself. Can't find the SLI/Crossfire usage there unfortunately:

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

[jimbop]

Would have been good to see 'How many would get SLI if it worked properly'. It is the cheapest way to upgrade GPU performance for older cards but only if the game correctly scales performance.

[Chivas]

The Poll should have added the option. "Would you add a second gpu if SLI/Xfire worked?" I have an SLI capable system, but just bought the best single gpu as I know from experience games don't always work that much better with two gpus. If people start seeing significant improvement in COD using SLI/Xfire , I would certainly add the second card. Although the sim runs fine on a single gpu, except for some stutters at treetop level over London. Again if the second gpu got rid of those stutters, and improved performance I couldn't buy the second gpu quick enough.

[icarus]

Originally Posted by Chivas

The Poll should have added the option. "Would you add a second gpu if SLI/Xfire worked?" I have an SLI capable system, but just bought the best single gpu as I know from experience games don't always work that much better with two gpus. If people start seeing significant improvement in COD using SLI/Xfire , I would certainly add the second card. Although the sim runs fine on a single gpu, except for some stutters at treetop level over London. Again if the second gpu got rid of those stutters, and improved performance I couldn't buy the second gpu quick enough.

+1

[JG52Krupi]

Xfire does work! Doesn't it?

[Forged]

Originally Posted by Chivas

The Poll should have added the option. "Would you add a second gpu if SLI/Xfire worked?" I have an SLI capable system, but just bought the best single gpu as I know from experience games don't always work that much better with two gpus. If people start seeing significant improvement in COD using SLI/Xfire , I would certainly add the second card. Although the sim runs fine on a single gpu, except for some stutters at treetop level over London. Again if the second gpu got rid of those stutters, and improved performance I couldn't buy the second gpu quick enough.

+1

[Tte. Costa]

+1

P.S: GTX590 Dont know if it works in SLI mode.

[Stublerone]

Originally Posted by jimbop

Would have been good to see 'How many would get SLI if it worked properly'. It is the cheapest way to upgrade GPU performance for older cards but only if the game correctly scales performance.

No!!!!! Not true. Nothing to do with the scaling in pruority. It could only be a cheap upgrade, if the game you are running is already performing well or at least have all feature supported or the game makes no problem on gpu clock speed and vram usage.

Otherwise using sli has not the wished effect.

And when you think, that in general sli only uses 50% or 70% from the second gpu in average, the costs are not that low. Add the power consumption and the problems, you usually have and a new single card will be the better upgrade.

Sli is a method for enthusiasts or for people with very high resolutions due to triple monitor, for example. To upgrade an insufficient card with an additional insufficient card is not a very genius idea. Sorry, but I always recommend buying a sufficient new card, preferrably a single gpu.

Let us see, what future techniques can change on that. I personally think, that no business related company would grant you a sufficient upgrade with a phased out and cheap card, where tjey do not earn money on! Think about that. Ati and nvidia have no priority to give you such an opportunity. They would like to make money and as long as games are also working closely together with them, they will also do not have this as priority. They recommend some support from the card producer and the give support on sales of new products.

I am going so far to say, that game devs know, how to program a game bad enough to let you buy a new card.