How many users have SLI/Crossfire?

[335th_GRDedalos]

Originally Posted by Red Dragon-DK

Mabye you should just have woted SLI?

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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.

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[JG52Krupi]

Xfire does work! Doesn't it?

[6BL Bird-Dog]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

Xfire does work! Doesn't it?

When the first X-Fire patch came out I was running two Saphfire 5870`S and it was incredible how fast it was,the only thing that was evident was the micro studder low down.There was a problem with graffics anomolies for a vast majority useing other card set-ups and from the time a small patch was introduced a few hours later it went back to the poor performance of before .Now running two 7950`s but still no noticable improvement on a single card and a lot worse than the first X-Fire patch on the two 5870`s I had .
So I gues I would say at present X-Fire does not function.
If the jump in performance could be available as was with the first X-Fire patch I am pretty sure once the figures were seen many more game users would concider X-Fire or Sli if they were concidering the quickest and for some may-bee the cheapest way of seeing a notable performance boost .

[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.

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[Tte. Costa]

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

[jimbop]

So does this from Luthier's post mean that SLI is fixed for the next patch or not? Doesn't specifically say SLI, just NVIDIA:

"2) Will the next patch be fully NVidia certified, and will it have Crossfire support?
NVidia – definitely. CF – still TBD."