NVLink RTX 2080 Ti Benchmark: x16/x16 vs. x8 & GTX 1080 Ti SLI
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- This two-way NVLink RTX 2080 Ti benchmark tests vs. a single RTX 2080 Ti (vs. SLI 1080 Tis), alongside PCIe bandwidth at x16/x16 vs x16/x8 or x8/x8.
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These benchmarks test Sniper Elite, Far Cry 5, GTA V, F1 2018, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and more for the RTX 2080 & 2080 Ti vs. NVLinked 2080 Tis and SLI 1080 Tis. Test methodology is defined in the article above, for additional information, and expands testing for PCIe limitation testing when removing the NVLink bridge. This replaces SLI and the SLI HB bridges, but an HB bridge was used for the GTX 1080 Ti test in SLI.
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Updated the article with a correction to the Z370 PCIe lane configuration (x8/x8). Also, publishing some extra data on the website later with the 7980XE platform for games. Will put it in HW News at end of week also.
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Article: www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3366-nvlink-benchmark-rtx-2080-ti-pcie-bandwidth-x16-vs-x8
Sweet!
The link to the article in the video description is broken and the link in your post is incorrect as well (it's for a 2080 vs 1080 review and not a 2080Ti NVLink vs 1080Ti SLI review) Edit: This is fixed now.
@@Nicholas_Steel article link actually was wrong, but now fixed!
Jeeze la wheez guys! You guys answer questions I didn't know I would have about things. Keep it up!
Cool, thanks for the quick fix.
GN is now overclocking humans. That's the happiest I've ever seen Paul.
Breh this comment killed me lmfao
Adderall is a human overclock :)
AI confirmed L😂L
Kaido sky Overcocked*
I love everything about this. I was reading all this on twitter as it played out. This is hilarious and I love you guys for doing this. In the wake of a rather disappointing GPU launch you guys are still finding a way to make it fun. Thanks for that.
Same here! And you're right. It's a great way to alleviate our crushed hopes and dreams!
At least the people who don't have to pay for them get to have fun! I'm serious, if price was not a problem, these would be great gpus!
Indeed thanks for keeping it fun
Appreciate you guys turning a damp squib into something actually Intresting/fun,sure I’m not alone.
I thought it was a damp squid
I read damp squid too 😅
Tecks - nah - The GTX series cards have often been magic. With RTX, the magic is gone... ba-dum-bump- tssss
lol tim gets it
I just don't put the RTX 2080 TI on a pettle stool ..
*99 Problems but a chip aint one*
I f you think you'll stay in first I feel bad for you son
We've got 3 chips now.
only liked the comment because it was on 299 and now is 300! Have a nice 2020!
I just started following all of you guys on twitter like two days ago, clutch!
Yay! Senpai noticed me!!
He has a custom 2080TI Hybrid version! Awesome. VIDEO!!! :)
The sniper elite scaling makes me feel warm around the heart and in my pants there still is hope that we get somewhat of a 2x consistent scaling someday o.o
Ultimate dream is nearly 4x perfect scaling eventually.
Troy Bantz Uhhff dude don´t play with my feelings xD
blitzwing1 they really are amazing at their jobs runs good on my fx 4300 oc´d even xD
Troy Bantz Yeah, I get extremely good scaling with 2x Fury, I'll be trying out 4x scaling later when Threadripper gets here. 2x costs $400, and beats a Titan Xp (which is selling used for $800), hence I'll be testing 4x since its the same price.
I'm hoping for 60k Firestrike graphics score (higher when overclocked), and should be around 100 fps in Crysis 3 at 4k Ultra (2x is already at "60 fps", which is way over 60 fps avg, but I'm talking minimums here, by comparison my Titan makes "45-50 fps" and choppy with inconsistent input lag making it terrible experience. Actual avg should be over 120 fps.
The key to 2x scaling is to have a very low CPU load. If they did the same benchmarks at 150% render scale you would see better gains.
Well at least someone is having fun with the new gpus.
all of my high gpu tax games play well now. Having a great time.
@@Henryplant and ?
That’s some serious Eminem vs Diddy beef right there
Wanting to play a PC game immediately after release has become something of the past for me personally even with one card. I wait for around 6 months to a year before playing the "new releases" because you almost have to wait that long for all bugs to be squashed and experience the game to its full potential....
I've learned to never buy a game after its launch, I wait 1 year, if the game runs nice and has players after 1 year then it means its a good game, many games are very bad on launch this days and many lose all player base after 1 year...
best intro yet, dont change GN
OMFG I've been waiting for NVLINK benchmarks since these things dropped. Thank you for the great work!
Gamers Nexus line of haircare products when?
He should review haicare products also.
Don't be mad because you're bald and he isn't.
GN endorsed conditioner, for the best airflow
I would def wear a GN wig
Dick.
love how you have the countdown bars on the sides synced to your voice. its awesome.
I appreciate the fact that you took your time to make the blue lines on left and right side, that act as timers, telling you when the slide will switch. It's the little things that matter :)
You folks do great work. I'm a 1080 ti early adopter and definitely feel like I made the right decision picking up a used second one after watching this video.
This is the first vid I have watched of yours after being an avid watcher of J, Kyle and Paul for years.. Your so underrated and now I have the 4 musketeers to keep me updated on everything in the world of PC tech I love so much.. Kudos bro.. Subscribed and awaiting your next offering
Thanks for doing this particular test, been worrying about it regarding a new build so really appreciate this!
How does this channel only have 328k subs? This is awesome info, just what I have been looking for. Enjoying going through the back catalog of videos.
nothing better than a good old beef between RUclipsrs! Very entertaining ;)
What a great time to be in the techtuber space. I get to watch my favorite content creators battle it out in benchmarks with new gpu's just cause it's fun. Lol honestly I love content like that. Can't wait for the stream!
How does NVLink 2080 (non-Ti) look when compared to SLI 1080 Ti ?
Asking the real question
Very good question considering 2080 is supposed to have 1080ti performance in classic aplications.
Hopefully somebody test that soon. Can't find any benchmarks on it yet. 2 ti's are a little Overkill think 2 2080's would be just perfect
I have my second 2080 card sitting wrapped- do I send it back? No idea.
Henry Plant do the tests and let us know? :D
Starting off Saturday the right way
You know nvidia is screwing us over with the price when Steve's recommending 1080 TI sli as a potentially more reasonable alternative.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out though. If I can get 2 used 1080Ti's plus watercooling setup for both for $1200 that is by far the better alternative. I think I'm just going to get one 1080Ti and wait to see if new cards come out next year. You're right though, a maybe works technology being better than new is pretty sad.
Sli is a "far better alternative"?
To what? Eating a wasp's nest?
Buy one 1080ti or buy one 2080ti. Or better yet, buy neither.
I can't help but feel like all these people saying sli is a better choice, haven't actually owned an sli setup.
You obviously never had an SLI setup before or you would not say that. Getting a 2080ti in mono GPU is much better than getting 2 x 1080Ti because SLI always has rendering and scaling issues compared to a mono GPU setup. Plus it doubles the power consumption, which turns your PC into a heater.
I just watched Jay's video and now your intro. Really looking forward to it! It's actually a lot of fun when you
tech youtubers have some fun with each other and battle it out!
Let's see how you do Steve, don't disappoint me :D
I used multi GPU for a few years, including HD7950, R9 290x, and GTX780ti... and I don't know exactly how it is right now, but when I switched to a single GTX1080, I was suddenly blown away by the smoothness, even when running at similar average framerates. I decided then and there that I was done with multi GPU until some major changes occur in how the effect is achieved.
I've been training my eyes for years to look for dropped frames, artifacts, and stuttering, and I've become quite good at it. This is both my blessing and my curse.
SLI only for my part but yes it has stutter and artifacts in most cases ran 780TI Titans and 1080's in SLI and my one single reason for being done is the poor support for which i blame nvidia they should have made sure their tech worked not off loaded it on game devs
I was same as you in terms of SLI back in day Crossfired Gigabyte HD 6870 back in 2011 then some other cards and last time I SLIed was the EVGA GTX 680 FTW cards then could not get Battlefield 4 to stop microstuttering after one of their updates never had issue and it popped up. Ended up going to Single EVGA 980 SC and was shocked how smooth and trouble free a single card was. Ever since the 980 upgrade the last 5 cards after that have been single no more SLI/Crossfire. It sucks since they have option to do dual cards on Mobos and it is just so poorly supported in the last few years. Seeing how SniperElite 4 is one in thousands of games it works as it should just sucks to see honestly. I was tempted to buy another 1080Ti vs upgrading to RTX cards for performance to price but after researching I didn't realize how bad they have dropped the ball on games supported and issues still within the Dual card arena.
I remember pairing my R9-290 with a friends and the horrible scaling. The only game that ran well was Alien isolation. Metro 2033 ran much slower. SLI-Crossfire's always been a bit of a joke but the promise of more performance is always alluring.
That's why I looked to grab another 1080Ti at Microcenter but then after researching made me remember how bad it had gotten and sounds like it is even worse now. Why even make NVlink and HB bridges if it is so horribly supported and just overall garbage?
This review and the corresponding article go quite beyond just new hardware benchmarking by identifying quite a lot of stuff in the current PC gaming space, even the quality of specific game developers and optimizations. Great job!
Nice video. I agree 100% iv had gtx970 sli and moved to gtx1080sli. Over the years sli has gotten better but it is rather frustrating at time. When it scales it amazing but most of the time it dosnt. Thats why I moved on to a single 2080ti to fit my needs. Im confident with recent benchmarks a single 2080ti will push my 21:9 1440p and my 240hz 1080p just perfect.
I love it when you techtubers all have fun like this. You could all be enemies and hate each other, but you're not!
I love these friendly clowning competitions,,, you jay and paul,,, they are funny as hell and fun to watch...
This channel and your presentation skills are fantastic. Love it all.
Gamers Nexus never disappoints! Have been waiting for a video on this exact topic. Awesome.
first vid I saw of you, but what a dope delivery. thank you for all the useful frank input. subbed!
When a card launch is so unimpressive it makes sli look good by comparison...
Also if they've already got a 2080ti they're used to paying 2x for 30% uplift, it's practically a bargain to spend another 2x for 50% uplift in sli!
Jensen was right, the more you buy, the more you save!
This comment has me dying. 😂😂
BTW poor sli scaling is because of crap optimisation not due to bad hardware... and enthusiasts have always been paying a premium 😂🖕
Loving the friendly competition between all you guys more of it Please!!!
Man you are an absolute life saver!. I've been waiting to replace my 2600k + 1080ti. I'll just be getting the 9(9/7)00K and an additional 1080ti and then convert them to water cooled cards and add them to the loop. Looking forward to it. Keep up the good work. I'm watching your videos often! #yougotafaninbelgium :D
Not many communities on RUclips can have literall rap battles on twitter about beating eachothers GPU overclocks....... Tech is one of them
Thank you for this review, the first I have found for the new NVLink. I have already received my NVLink from Nvidia, still waiting for Asus to release the 2080 Ti Turbo Edition cards on 27/09/2018.
Very informative review, you now have a new subscriber for this channel, and a new follower on Twitter.
Love the way you overlay the respectiv API and Engine
Been watching all of you tech guys for years now and wonder why you guys never competed in gaining the best over clocks. This is late in coming but just as welcomed.
I love seeing this freindly competition.
Would be great to see buildzoid there too :D.
I Love it when you tech tubers go up agaisnt each other in good spirit and fun for the benefit of us all. It really make for truely GOOD and entertaining content to watch!!!
Please do more in the future!
I loved that clip of Paul in the beginning. Looked like a kid laughing because somebody got kicked in the balls.
My man back at it again asking the real questions!
I love the amount of work/effort you put on these videos!!
I love my Asus 1080 Ti s in sli. No way I'm spending $2400 on two 2080 Ti when I paid about $1500 for my two 1080 Ti s. Especially when I'm only getting about a 30 fps boost over my current setup. If I was getting a 50-100% increase in frame rates I'd understand the price but with performance the way it is now it doesn't make sense to me to buy two 2080 Ti s.
I couldn’t agree more at the moment. We will see how games progress over the next 12 months. The only thing that will slow down 1080Ti SLI will be SLI support.
How are the microstutters in sli?
Most people complaining about problems with sli have never actually used it day to day. It works fine probably 80% of the time, and when it doesn't then you can just use the one card. Sure it's kind of lame, but without the second card you'd be in that situation 100% of the time.
personally i don't really get em that much
What power supply you are using for 2 x 1080 in SLI? I have one asus 1080ti, and i thinking for uprade to SLI. Thans.
I love this friendly rivalry. Some great content is coming up.
Glad you mentioned Doom. I was wondering while watching the video if you were going to test it. Not sure how I get 75 to 90 fps on Doom in 4K with a Asus 1080. But I see a lot of techtubers that can't achieve what I put no effort into.
Nice tests! So NVlink can perform good even on maisntream, glad to hear. Soon i will make tests with 2x 2080Ti on X299 with i9 7980XE@4.5 Ghz in 13 games.
When I get on to youtube I always watch the GN videos first :)
You should run a couple benchmarks with the 2080 SLI vs. 1080Ti SLI since their baseline performance is essentially the same, to get a better idea of the benefits of NV Link, if there really is any.
2x1080 ti have 90 %2 cards. 2x 2080ti have only 70 %2 cards. Becouse you must buy titan for 5 000€
You guys should really test NV-Link in 8K resolution. 2X RTX 2080 Ti is overkill for 4K.
would be around 20 to 60FPS depending on the game possibly around 30FPS average.
No it isn't....if you want ray tracing at 60+ fps at 1440p/4K resolutions.
@@Patrick73787
Don't forget upcoming DLSS support.
Steve: I gotta agree with so many others here: you guys made this soooo fun, and I really could'nt give less of a crap about 2080. Can't afford one anyway, lol. Just seeing Jayz slap-dash (but effective) "cooler", and Paul basically freak out (for him, anyway,hehe) was worth it! Bravo!!!
Great video, thank you for the testing
a great video, thanks for benchmarking !
Looks like I'll be buying 2 2080TI cards because how much of my life do I not want ray traced?
ray trace your ass with is LOL
$2500 for 4k 60 fps ray tracing OMEGALUL
GenericWeeb That’s if you can find a card for $1200...
Do it! you wont regret it
Thanks for the vid. Great coverage.
You guys gotta keep the "beef" stew'n, it's rather entertaining and it shows us valuable information ( like how the cards can vary and by how much). Thumbs up if you agree!
I'm a long time SLI user. I have 2 RTX 2080s Founders Edition (non Ti) coming with NVLink bridge. I just wanted to sell and replace my 2 GTX 1080s. The 40% performance boost with same power consumption as my current setup is worth it to me. My current monitor is a 1440p G-Sync 165Hz panel. I don't recommend most folks to do like me but I know that ray tracing at 60 fps will require NVLink anyway.
Patrick D. Fuck you.
why would u get the same cards just with rtx coulda just got 2 1080tis or 1 20ti
It will be nice to see how NVLink performs in VRay Benchmark, cuz the software gives an extra VRAM capacity boost by recognizing it as combined memory pool. It's a nice feature for 3D designers in Maya, 3Ds Max, Blender, C4D, etc. , especially when the production quality scenes are so memory hungry.
Damn Scarface and Hov references right off the bat? Steve going in for the kill
i like this little battles between diferent tech youtubers
Thank you for the F1 sli bench! I've been thinking of doing 2080ti in sli even though, it's something like $3k after water blocks.
Dear Nvidia, this is how you make a launch.
These videos are so fun 😂😂. I got pulled to this channel from an LTX video this year and had been reluctant to subscribe. In my opinion you guys tend to have the most scientific approach for content and experiments and that's something I really value. Somehow you guys manage to have good quality long videos. I really love what you guys are doing.
A little friendly fun rivalry keeps all the channels busy and all the viewers happy...
ERB Battle Royale - Techtubers edition
Now I would even pay money for seeing this! xD
At 3:10 you mention that explicit multi-gpu is a unique DX12 feature, I was under the impression that this was also supported in Vulkan 1.1?
Uniquely implemented in this title.
Ah, okay thanks it makes sense in that context.
WAIT. Just HOW You got x16 + x16 on i7 8086 that cpu have only 16 pcie lanes? You have Skylake-E with more than 32 pcie lanes. That is a huge impact on SLI performance.
just wanted to say i love this channel and this man his hair rocks :P keep it up mah dudes
Awesome Video, is there a chance that you will test if there is any benefit for content creators rendering videos with the 2080 Ti in single and SLI config.
Holy shit, Steve just dropped a Geto Boys reference. Welp, if I wasnt a Patreon backer already, that definitely would make me become one.
You guys rock! Love your videos!
I got 99 problems and a chip ain't one - Tech Jesus
Hey, great testing video. Do you think you could do that but with two RTX 2080's in NVLink and compare it to RTX 2080 Ti single card and GTX 1080 TI's in SLI?
Thanks for reviewing this. Was in hope of improvement with nvlink over the hbsli. As is I will hold on to the sli 1080ti's in the current rig.
I really hope they all follow up with videos, this is going to be great!! /grabs popcorn...
thanks! a more interesting (perhaps more comprable) test would have been NVlink 2080 vs. SLI 1080ti... I mean, the question really is "does the added bandwidth improve SLI performance? have we been bottlenecked all along??" where as all we are really seeing from this video is that "yes, SLI works on the 2080ti"
these inter-channel banter are great
Awesome video! As a supporter of SLI on 2 systems over 4 years, I can say it’s a gamble. Yeah, the user created SLI profiles help, but the frustration of SLI issues is not worth it for me anymore. Buy the highest end GPU you can and enjoy. This is coming from an IT professional who loves everything hardware and software and loves to tinker with getting the best results possible.
Up next, benchmarks in the back of an Ice Cream Truck!
Thats the content i was waiting for! :)
Love the jayz ref. Can you do a more in depth look at the sli overall in more games.
Thanks for the NVlink testing
Steve, you promised to address the vram pooling function of nvlink? From a technology perspective nvlink is way more than just an sli interface. Too bad that you didn't get into it deeper. I am not sure to what extent the geforce line supports it, and I think this would have been a good point to clear up.
this is the best beef on youtube right now
So the reason you were getting blue screens on Tomb Raider is most likely due to TAA requiring frame data from previous frames. In a mGPU set up if you are alternating the frame rendering then the current frame won't have the data the previous frame was rendering. Hence the name - "Temporal" as in Time. It's generally not needed when pixel densities have gotten so high though. Also, UE4 engine does not support any kind of mGPU (though UE3 works perfectly fine). Disney needed it however for a 8-Quadro set up and rewrote code to make it work and donated that code to Epic earlier this year. I believe it's slated in a point update to UE4.
that jay problem pun deserves everything good
@Gamers Nexus
Thank you for all the hard work, long nights, and unbiased reporting. Having said that I wanted to know your thoughts on the Final Fantasy XV demo using DLSS and Tensor cores with the Turing launch. I understand that it is not apples to apples comparison with architecture differences, however wanted to know the thermals and power draw on the Turing chip when the Tensor cores are utilized. Is there a difference?
Steve are you going to release any videos comparing 8700k and 2700x with the 2080ti? Would be interesting to see how much the performance difference increases (compared to using a 1080ti) at 1080p, 1440p and 4k (maybe 4k with SLI?).
This techtuber beef is so much fun :D
Does the VRAM doubles ? or it's still the amount of one card.
If yes will you ever test 8k gaming ?
Still only 1 card worth of memory if you use SLI/NVLINK.
No, they read 11GB.
Since it still seems to act like SLI, its probably not doing proper NUMA like the Quadros do.
All hail "Tech Jesus", we know you will crush Paul and Jay.
I would love to see some workstation testing with Nvlink
@Gamers Nexus,
For the test during the Sniper Elite game, which mode were you running the sli in? Dual x8 or x16? I am having a hell of a time finding motherboards with dual x16 mode capabilities. I would go with dual RTX 2080s in x8 but my concern is being able to run games in that mode that come out in the future.
Great video! How about a single RTX 2080 Ti at x8? Will this be slower than a single card at x16? I'd like to know because due to my motherboard/cooling solution, I can only access the x8 slot on my 3.0 chipset (which has been fine for my GTX 1080).
I love it Jay said where are you Steve? Now I watch your vid. I think having good fun is what it all about. Wheres Linus? LOL.
Vulkan didn't support SLI at all when Doom was written. Not sure how Wolfenstein scales though, Vulkan fully supports SLI now.
let's go bby! can't wait to see the OC battle!
I have a pretty interesting setup now. I got a 2080 Ti for games that don't support SLI and VR games. I kept my SLI 1080 Ti's as well. My board has a PLX chip, z270x Aurus Gaming 9. So I can run 2 way SLI at x16/x16 in slots 1 & 3 even with a 7700K. Slots 2 & 4 are x8 and share bandwidth with slots 1 & 3 respectively. So if 1 & 2 or 3 & 4 are populated they default to x8 speed. So I can run 3 way SLI at x16/x8/x8 or 4 way at x8/x8/x8/x8. So what I did was, I put the 2080 Ti in slot 1 so it would run at x16 and put the 1080 Ti's in slots 3 & 4 which are running at x8/x8. And it works! The 2080 Ti runs perfect in single GPU mode with the primary display connected to it and when I want to run SLI compatible games I switch the primary display by simply plugging the cable into the back of the 1080 Ti in slot 3 and enabling SLI. This way I don't have to invest another $1200 in another 2080 Ti. I have Hydrocopper 1080 Ti's, even selling them both it wouldn't come close to paying for a 2080 Ti and water block unless I sell them privately, which I don't have a buyer.