NVidia SLI - Is It Worth It? - 13 Games Tested

Detailed Look at 13 Games on NVidia SLI - How much boost do you get by adding a second card?
Should you add a second GPU or just buy a faster single card?
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0:00 - Intro / What This is About
1:59 - Specific Results / Links in Description
2:26 - Test Setup / Hardware Configuration
4:38 - Benchmark Setup / Resolution & Detail
6:47 - DISCLAIMER - Important!
8:46 - Crossfire - Same or Different Results?

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9:48 - Assassin's Creed Odyssey
11:23 - Assassin's Creed Origins
13:10 - Dawn of War III
14:38 - Deus Ex - Mankind Divided
16:45 - F1 2017
18:13 - Far Cry 5
19:33 - For Honor
20:32 - Forza Motorsport 7
21:27 - Ghost Recon Wildlands
22:52 - Rainbow Six Siege
24:05 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider
27:44 - Strange Brigade
30:01 - The Division
32:25 - Full Chart - All 13 Games

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33:07 - Thank You & Affiliate Link Callout (those links above!)
33:30 - History of SLI & Crossfire
36:05 - Microstutter / Frame Pacing
38:00 - Is SLI Worth It? - What Should You Buy? - Conclusion

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Detailed Look at 13 Games on NVidia SLI - How much boost do you get by adding a second card?
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--- Time Stamps (Intro) ---

0:00 - Intro / What This is About
1:59 - Specific Results / Links in Description
2:26 - Test Setup / Hardware Configuration
4:38 - Benchmark Setup / Resolution & Detail
6:47 - DISCLAIMER - Important!
8:46 - Crossfire - Same or Different Results?

--- Benchmarks Start ---

9:48 - Assassin's Creed Odyssey
11:23 - Assassin's Creed Origins
13:10 - Dawn of War III
14:38 - Deus Ex - Mankind Divided
16:45 - F1 2017
18:13 - Far Cry 5
19:33 - For Honor
20:32 - Forza Motorsport 7
21:27 - Ghost Recon Wildlands
22:52 - Rainbow Six Siege
24:05 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider
27:44 - Strange Brigade
30:01 - The Division
32:25 - Full Chart - All 13 Games

--- Time Stamps (Conclusions & Value Thoughts) ---

33:07 - Thank You & Affiliate Link Callout (those links above!)
33:30 - History of SLI & Crossfire
36:05 - Microstutter / Frame Pacing
38:00 - Is SLI Worth It? - What Should You Buy? - Conclusion

--- Live Game Play Benchmarks ---

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[Doobie]

Watched the whole thing! always loved the idea of SLI from the very start, It seemed a brilliant upgrade path, in principle, but never quite fulfilled its potential.Good overview and benches of the state of SLI, 2018.-Great work, much appreciated !

[dasauto]

Haha I bought my 1070 used for $220 about 3 months ago. The seller fired it up and let me test it on his rig. Wonderful card coming from a GTX 950.

[lerska]

and remember kids two 8gb cards do not make it 16gb

[MidnightBanshi]

Great sampling of games, and nice to see more than a handful actually support SLI. I may be tempted to just slot a second 1070 in my system rather than going all the way for a newer card at the moment.

[FloFloFlowable]

running 2 1080tis in SLI in my system - what am I playing these days? Dune 2 from 1992 xD

[ronniepaulinc]

anyone here in 2019 facepalming the price of video cards being higher now?

[clintk]

It appears from your testing that the game engine used by the developer is the biggest deciding factor if the game will support sli and its seeming to be supported still. I would like to see some more testing, especially in about 9 months or so with some rtx cards. I'm curious if developers are going to take advantage of the increased bandwidth of nvlink.

[deenycest]

Bet you'd test a hundred games in sli if this video gets a million views. Then you'd have to double it up to show the differences between sli and nv link though...Oh! Excellent video, watched from start to finish.

[DanteLovesPizza]

I watched the whole thing and I think it's good how you showed the performance of SLI, then gave your value comparison with the 1080 Ti and 2080 Ti. It gives insight into performance, value, etc for us to consider.
About similar videos, I think I'd like to see something like this, but with Crossfire. Just a few reasons why I think it'll be a good idea. One, it's a similar concept, but different technologies, so it'll be a good comparison, not saying it'll give a generic conclusion which technology is supported better or more by games in general, but at least for these games. And two, RX 580 is currently one of the better deals, and you've talked about this many times, so for people looking for a deal, Crossfire for two of these could be considered if the performance is great and they already own one.
I know it's a lot of work, since it'll take days to simply get the benchmarks, let alone having to analyse and voice over them, but it's just my opinion to bring some contrast in with SLI.

[GameZard]

With my GTX 1080 sli I play all my games at 4k at 60fps ultra.

[mark_delight]

Really appreciate the work that went into this video. Would love to see testing like this with more games (when you have the time, of course!).

[LaughingLION]

Very thorough with the description links and time stamps. Congratulations you just got yourself another sub.

[Lonestar]

This is by far the longest video review I have ever watched. Was it worth my time? Absolutely. Do I want to see you do a 2808Ti SLI review? You bet. I do my gaming on a 32-inch 4K monitor using two 2080Ti cards. The whole point of your video was to answer whether Nvidia SLI is worth it. More people need to see that when it does work, it is awesome. If more people feel it is worth it, more developers will support it. Keep up the great work Sir, you have a new subscriber.

[telezon]

Phenomenal video. Learned a ton. This is the most comprehensive and well-articulated content I've come across on the topic of SLI

[JustSomeGuyLV]

Nicely done video, well made test and review. Much appreciated.

[aznazguy]

7:27 "Inferment" sounded new to me, so I checked and found it's not a word. I wanted to see how it contrasted with "inference, " but I think it's a brand new word that means the same thing.

Love these videos. The longer the better, by the way. =)

[charlesbraun]

This was very helpful to me. I have an MSI 1070 TI titanium and I just installed a Evga 850 P2.
You can see where I'm going here. lol. Thank you for all of your hard work.

[mundieafterlife]

12:15 Denuvo saw a second card sitting there doing nothing and took the opportunity to stealthily mine on it...

[johnfletcher]

Incredibly well done and extensive video! Thanks for the info!